Helena Marie Fahnrich

Which to pick? The analysis of this section is challenging because I responded to The Tiziano project and Voiceless Eyes in different ways with strength. Even though I had a stronger overall reaction to the entire Voiceless Eyes, the initial page was not enough. The black background of The Tiziano Project's website drew my attention to the content. It created a relaxing effect. The short vertical size of the website creates a limit for the amount of information. This sort of limitation focuses the attention on what is already in front of the eye. The initial scan is not too long. The bar across the top of the screen with sans-serif typeface gives off a streamlined image of the word. It is direct and possesses space in between the letters and the edge of the box. This spatial representation is echoed in the upper right hand corner which holds space for a viewer to enter an email address...to "join." The icons of Facebook, Twitter, etc. are conveniently located just below t...

What stood out for me about the "fetish" page was the spatial relationship of the images. The floating quality conveyed by the chosen angles and varied sizes of the actual objects provided an open quality, mentally. The lack of structured organization was freeing, relaxing and three-dimensional. The writing style drew me in the more I read it. By that I mean after a few paragraphs I was used to the continued return to the image's description. In this way, the writing directive is circular, which I was not expecting. What is useful about this style is its effect to continually reveal something about a subject matter. Re-checking, re-reading points changes perspective. When considering Eve, the analysis is helpful in practicing questioning. Getting caught up in finding a specific answer has the potential to become a distraction from something more meaningful (or perhaps relevant is a better word) to the questioner. Using a method of questioning and describing is helpful...

Del Gandio states in chapter 1, page 2, “Basically, there is a communicative gap between our efforts and the public’s reception of those efforts. This gap is a rhetorical issue needing attention and redress. If we are to change the world, we must remedy this situation. This remedy can begin by rigorously attending to the communicative aspects of our twenty-first century radicalism.” This issue brought forth by Del Gandio is an issue I encountered in the piece I wrote on the We Energies rate case for Urban Milwaukee.com. A lack of specification in the law regulating public policy as applied to solar is a chance to create a structure in public policy that progresses renewable energy distribution. When first reviewing the information I was confused over a lack of specification in public policy. There was a grey area. I worked through the matter in the interview with the director of RENEW Wisconsin. It is appropriate that this lack of clear language in publi...

Thank you for taking the time to speak with me. I am an undergraduate in UWM’s English department studying writing and rhetoric and am very interested in activism and how rhetorical analysis, public discourse and writing can effect change. As a writer and member of the community, as a person interested in activism and how to enact ethical change, my aim with the article is to enumerate enaction of policy, and promote consumer empowerment. -         I saw on your August 28 th testimony you developed and negotiated renewable energy policy recommendations that were signed into law. What was successful about that proposal? I think you’re referring to the renewable energy standards which is now has been law in this state for eight years. How did that happen? It started out really as a policy goal enunciated by the governor at the time jim doyle and he convened a task force composed of a very broad cross section of the electricity world. All the stakeholders wh...