Note: This is only one of my slides. It will be a lot more extsive once I'm done. My plan for my slide show is to go with the same format as my Bigfoot presentation. I know it's not a lot as of right now. But I wanted to post something to at least show that I am thinking about as to how I would like to construct this slide show.
Introduction
Attention getter
32.7 million people. That is how many people lost their lives to AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic in June of 1981.
Thesis
*Still debating my options*
Preview
Protest advertisement, protest signs, Larry Kramer speech
Credibility
Communications major
*Connective*
Body
Primary Source #1
Schemes and tropes
O&T
*Connective*
Primary Source #2
Schemes and tropes
O&T
*Connective*
Primary Source #3
Schemes and tropes
O&T
Theory
*connects all*
*Connective*
Conclusion
*still debating based on what thesis I choose*
Trevor Nealeigh- Social Movements Presentation Outline Blog Post
Introduction: "The Vietnam War was a period of great turmoil in American history. Thousands of young men were sent off into battle only to be killed soon afterwards. The United States's goal of preventing the spread of communism would slowly give way to many long years of war and suffering. Yet, many Americans disagreed with the involvement of their nation in the Vietnam War and enacted a movement for social change to end the United States's involvement in the Vietnam War."
Thesis: "The leaders of this movement against the Vietnam War utilized rhetorical concepts of various schemes, fallacies, and the notion of identification in their work to make their disapproval of their government's decisions clear while unknowingly experiencing the three phases of a social movement which are described by Leland M. Griffin in his essay, "The Rhetoric Of Historical Movements"."
Preview: "Today we are going to be analyzing some of the protest signs, propaganda posters, and songs that were utilized by the movement's leaders and see how each takes advantage of the rhetorical concepts that we have discussed in this course to work towards the goal of turning Americans against their government and decreasing American support for the Vietnam War."
Credibility: "As someone who has dedicated the past several months to studying rhetorical schemes, fallacies, and various concepts related to the growth of social movements, I have credibility for providing this analysis of this social movement."
Transition: "First, let's look at a selection of protest signs and "identify" how their creators utilize the "Toolbox" concept of identification in producing the protest signs.
Identification ("Toolbox" Concept) Analysis:
Attention getter: George Flyod. The name that reignited protests to end police brutality against the black community.
Credibility: I have been studying the fallacy schemes and tropes, as well as the tool box tools for rhetorical analysis.
Thesis: The BLM protests is one that shocked the whole world. With millions of people protesting this movement had one of the largest turnouts of protests in the country.
Preview: Today we are going to look at what the blm protests goals were, how it affected the world, how it changed the future for social movements, and the use of ideographs, diachronic, synchronic to look into the rhetoric of this movement.
Transition:
Overview:
Social movement theory/Toolbox analysis:
Ideograph:
Diachronic:
Synchronic:
Conclusion: The BLM social moment stands out from others because it has been continued even months after the riots and street protests stopped. This is what sets it apart from other movements because of its transferability.
Trevor Nealeigh- Social Movements Presentation Slides Blog Post
Outline
attention getter: the black panther movement, a change in history which was controversial to all but made an impact. which now brought more attention and positive action regarding the movements we have now, but whats the difference of the previous movements and what are the toolboxes used in this movement.
thesis; by using all the toolboxes provided to me by vrooman i was able to analyze this movement.
body
talk about manifesto and history behind black panther movement.
analyze signs and primary sources from resources
conclusion: results from the movement what had occurred and what happened in the end/ who did it affect.
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
Primary Source #1
Background- The Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. This is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to end white supremacy and build local power to stop the violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. This movement was created to end racism among all black communities.
Background- The hippie movement was brought to light when the Vietnam protests arose in the 1960's. Although this was not directly related to the political protests they did participate in some. Striving for peace and love they took the streets turning the heads of many with their bright colored clothing, long hair and "dirty" appearances. They stood for rebellion of the typical modern American lifestyle and lived openly and freely.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html
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“The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States.”
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““I’ve never seen self-reports of protest participation that high for a specific issue over such a short period,” said Neal Caren,”
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“Half of those who said they protested said that this was their first time getting involved with a form of activism or demonstration. A majority said that they watched a video of police violence toward protesters or the Black community within the last year.”
The reporter was surprised that this was alot of peoples first time protesting, the reference group is the group that watch police violence toward the black community.
Primary Source #1
Background: Took place on December 10, 1989. STOP THE CHURCH was a demonstration that was organized by members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in response to Cardinal John O'Connor and his negligence to teach safe sex in the pulic school system as well as not promoting condom use inorder to lower the rates of AIDS infections. ACT UP was joined by WHAM! (Women’s Health Action and Mobilization), who opposed the Catholic’s position on abortions rights. Many of the members of these organizations disrupted mass by chanting that O’Connor was “killing them” and soon descended into “pandemonium.” 111 protestors were arrested.
ACT UP, Fight Back, Fight AIDS (usreligion.blogspot.com)
Primary Source #2
Background: A speech that was given by Larry Kramer in 1991 to a room full of apathetic AIDS activists. Larry Kramer was the founder of GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP. Kramer, who was tired of the momentous amount of apathy that had invaded these activist groups, gave this speech to voice his frustration, anger, disappointment, and sense of being lost as to where to go from then. He stated that unless everyone stops pulling each other down instead of working together, “We are as good as dead.”
Activist Larry Kramer's 1991 Remarks on the AIDS Epidemic | NowThis - YouTube
Primary Source #3
Background: In this photo, ACT UP members and Broadway performer Mark Fotopoulos and his mother protested on Broadway on March 24, 1988. (Photo taken by Clay Walker) On March 24, 1987, ACT UP held their first ever demonstration. On the busy intersection of Broadway and Wall Street, protestors gathered to call for corporate and government action to end the AIDS crisis, which by this point had gone on for over 5 years. The demonstration caused for there to be much disruption during rush hour. The flyers announcing the protest had a list of demands that consisted of the release of life-saving drugs by the FDA, the availability of affordable drugs., educating the public to combat the spread of AIDS, and enacting policies to end AIDS-related disccrimination in the workplace, housing, insurance, and medical treatment. These demonstrations continued on throughout the following years.
ACT UP Demonstrations on Wall Street – NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project (nyclgbtsites.org)
Applying 3 Theoretical Ideas
(Madeleine de Scudéry: Rhetorical Conversation) Scudéry insists that in order to have a conversation, the participants involved should at least have the decency to be “agreeable.” This allows for more dialogue to build upon previous dialogue until eventually a conclusion is met that involves the similar inputs of many. With this movement and these sources, this can be applied since the members and followers of the ACT UP movement all have similar foundational views that eventually led to the formation of these demonstrations and protests. For example, members of ACT UP and WHAM! simultaneously came together at St. Patrick’s Cathedral because they agreed that the Catholic Church had voiced views that were destructive to the lives of others. This is how that protest was formed. For Kramer’s speech, it was the shared view that people need to work together in order to end the AIDS crisis that led to the delivery of this speech. For the Wall Street protests, it was the shared views of wanted affordable and effective medication to be released to the public and to end the discrimination held against those living with AIDS. All of these events were formed due to the fact that people were able to agree on certain foundational ideas in order to meet a common goal/end result.
(Kenneth Burke: Identification) Burke’s concept of identification can be applied here by allowing for others to see that one party, the ACT UP movement, is similar to another party. Those in the ACT UP movement were likely to be individuals living with AIDS or those who knew others suffering with AIDS. Their movement allowed for AIDS victims to be put in the public eye. These victims include parents, children, relatives, friends, doctors, teachers, lovers, bakers, church members, etc. Everyday people who were a part of society and who were loved by others were those who were suffering with AIDS. These demonstrations allowed for the public to make the identification/connection that those living with AIDS were also everyday people that they interacted with everyday in the simplest or even in the most significant ways.
(Synchronic Analysis) In the picture of the protest on Wall Street, they underline and highlight the word “living” in their protest signs. By using the word “living” they weren’t just acknowledging that they were still breathing beings, but more so that their means of living was more difficult than most people’s definition of living. “Living” to AIDS patients was more aligned with the definition of “surviving.” They were surviving a virus, discrimination, dehumization, pain, etc. Sure, they were still breathing and going about their lives, but for them their days were numbered (especially when corporations and the government brush off your existence and situation). “Living” for them was a game of dodging a multitude of pain. Those with AIDS wanted to get back to a time when “living” actually felt like they could live their lives, instead of surviving each day until they could potentially die.
