Plagiarism is the act of taking someone else’s work and claiming them as your own and there are many different ways to plagiarize, One common way of plagiarizing is not citing where you get your sources from or citing the wrong way. Another way can be reusing your own work for a different assignment, which is known as “Self-Plagiarism”. Academic Honesty is the act of showing the highest integrity in any and all academic work you complete. Plagiarism is apart of academic honesty because it relates to your academic character. By properly citing your work and avoiding plagiarism, you are showing the highest aspect of academic honesty.

In class this week we discussed rhetoric in the music video ” Immigrants (We get the job done)”. In the music video that class analyzed how the message was perceived and what elements such as lighting and words help the message be displayed to the audience. For instance, throughout some scenes of the video, the lighting would change from dark to light and vice versa. This helped establish emotion to the audience because of the setting. My point of view of the music video noticed how things that are familiar to many people also help establish an emotional appeal.

This week I noticed rhetoric in my everyday life through watching the documentary about Aaron Hernandez. Throughout the documentary, many different people were speaking on the situation involving Hernandez. An emotional appeal was given to the audience by speakers that were defending Aaron and wanted to show the audience that he was innocent. However, lawyers and investigators used facts and evidence to persuade the audience that Aaron was guilty which was an appeal that worked more than the emotional appeals.

In this cartoon you can see a homeless person that has a sign asking for food and a person that has money asking for an iPhone 5 which is displayed on a laptop. By analyzing this rhetorical cartoon, I noticed that the message given is showing how people that do not need things such as a new phone are taking away from people that need essential necessities such as food. It is also showing how people take these necessities for granted and don’t appreciate them.