Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Hippie Movement Outline

 Final Project Outline

  • Attention Getter- Peace, love, music and weed was the foundation for the Hippies in the 60’s. And believe it or not about 50% of hippies were teachers! 

  • Thesis how the movement was a big staple in American History but didn’t actually do anything 

  • *First slide* Hippies were brought to light in the 60’s during the Vietnam War Protests, however they rarely protested political things. Manly just peace and love.

  •  Repetition of No on the poster in the middle 

  • Specific choices are inferred of love or war on the Poster 

  • Superlative of comparing love & war to be similar 

  • The unsustained loss to avoid war= avoid loss

  • Scesis onomaton when synonymous statements are made on each poster

  • geometric spacing with the illusion of depth and space within the picture 

  • full frame with focalizers of posters at an eye level shot 

  • Black or White with the assumption of "Love or War"

  • *Next Slide* The hippie movement falls under Burke’s Grotesque frame. Hippies are outsiders and out of place to normal people. As you can see their styles did not match 

  • *Next slide* This picture itself falls under the grotesque frame as that is not what you normally do with a gun at your face. Hippies approached war with love and peace.

  • Anti-model of what you normally do with a gun pointed at your face

  • Metaphor used by putting a symbol of peace into a symbol of death 

  • Black and white with steady shadows 

  • With a illusion of depth and at a high angle to where we are looking down on them

  • Appeal to consequence as flowers in the guns won’t allow them to shoot 

  • Wishful thinking that they won’t still shoot the guns 


  • Face talk about the article and what I learned from it  

  • Carlson- This theory connects to the hippie movement by providing answers of why it died off so quickly. In his paper he states that movements must have some kind of religious conviction within its roots to maintain a strong foundation. The hippy movement has no religious affiliation whatsoever. He also states that they must sacrifice something to make a big public awareness of their movement. Not everyone but someone must do this. In the hippie movement they relied off of peace and good vibes which does not constitute a strong foundation. 

  • Karshner- In his writings he writes about adequately thinking out their actions before preforming them. Which allows me to connect this as another critique of the hippy movement because no one really knew their plan or their end goal. And after researching I am not sure if the hippies knew either. They started as "Make love not war" and ended into a spiral of LSD and other various drugs. If they had an end goal then they just did not publicize it enough. But from what I have gathered their leaders would benefit from reading this article as it proved, that even over time, developing and strategizing will help you get to where you want to go. 

  • Conclude really cool about hippies and how their style is coming back

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