Helena Marie Fahnrich

9/12/2014 Just finished an interview with Michael Vickerman. Using the rhetorical process as a tool was helpful in creating a structure for discussion. It allowed expression of relevant and informative talking points on the We Energies rate case. Go to http://www.renewwisconsin.org  to help inform yourself about the issue that will be addressed in a formal hearing by the Public Service Commission.  There are two weeks left to make a public comment on this issue that will be "accepted in leu of testimony" at the hearing before the Public Service Commission. Please follow this link to do so: http://psc.wi.gov/apps40/ERF_public/comment/fileComment.aspx?util=5&case=UR&num=107

keeping in mind the focus on practicing ethical clarity persuasion is any means of language used with the intention to connect or establish its set of presuppositions propoganda is a word with negative connotation to be moved by a thing is to be affected in the gut...or to experience a feeling in the chest of strong recognition or familiarity with said thing

To view the image I chose, see sidebar to your right.  The lung-forest illustrates the issue of humanity as an extension of the earth. We live on it and there is an integration of our lives in the life of the planet. This image stimulates pathos in the viewer because the lungs are an essential aspect of a person's body....we require air to live more immediately than something like food or water. As an audience member, I immediately thought "that's what happens when I smoke" (I am not a smoker now but I have experienced the negative effects of smoking). The issue of degraded air quality of the planet comes up with the image. Trees are inherently liked to carbon dioxide and oxygen. They have a vascular system. They breathe carbon dioxide and we breathe oxygen and we are inherently linked together in our biological composition with the common ingredient of the earths atmosphere. It is rhetorically powerful and acts on the level of pathos because the WWF relates t...

The first piece of reading is from chapter 2 of  RHETORICAL ANALYSIS: A BRIEF GUIDE FOR WRITERS  by Mark Garret Longaker and Jeffery Walker.  ". . .the rhetorical perspective views discourse - any meaningful use of signs and symbols (words, images, etc.) - as always and inherently situated" (p. 7). The issue of a relationship between the speaker or writer and whomever is listening is presented initially in the piece. They discuss the field in which rhetoric plays out...it is an experience that happens between people. What is appropriate to the situation regarding how to use words rhetorically in a deliberate manner, with meaning, with purpose? Furthermore the piece delineates the language of rhetoric with  rhetor , or practitioner of rhetoric,  rhetorician meaning "analyst, theorist, or teacher of rhetoric." Through the use of the word discourse meaning any form of "persuasive effort." Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham Jail given as ex...

This blog will provide a forum for writing and discussion of the role of rhetoric within activist communities as encountered online; to explore this subject matter is to understand how a person may enact the activist impulse within their community. In what ways do I employ activism in my daily life and what is the range of activist actions ( from overt to subdued) when looking to understand a better society? The aim of exploring this topic of digital activism in conjunction with rhetoricalanddigitalactivism.blogspot.com is to understand the practicality of activism through voice.