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Hey! My name is Katie, I was born and have lived my whole life in Greenville, South Carolina. I attended Riverside high school where I played softball and volleyball. I played volleyball for Clemson my first two years here. My father and grandfather both played football here and my older sister Emily also graduated from here. My mom went to USC..ugh! :p I have three sisters all together, Emily, Allison, and Julia. I have two cats. I'm majoring in Early Childhood Education and want to teach Kindergarden. I am a christian and I love my church, NewSpring! This semester, I am extremely excited about learning how to teach mathematics to children in EDEC 430!

Monday, January 19, 2009

Visual Rhetoric Image

I believe that this image does attempt to persuade the audience.  It's obviously trying to persuade the audience that children are watching too much television these days. 
There are sufficient elements to analyze in this image.  You could talk about why it is a little child and not a teenager or adult.  You could also talk about how she has a television as her eye and what that is supposed to symbolize.  You can then talk about what the phrase "She's got your eyes" means.
I believe that the intended audience is supposed to be parents of children.  This image is trying to persuade parents to be a better influence and to not let their children watch so much television.
My interpretation is that this image is trying to get across the point that parents are allowing their children to watch too much television these days.  The girl in the image has a television as her eye.  This may symbolize that watching television is part of her daily routine and obviously she's glued to it.  The quote "She's got your eyes," I think, symbolizes that the parents are watching too much television as well and not being a good influence on their children as far as how much they watch and more importantly, what they watch.  Children learn a lot from television and the shows and movies they watch.  If parents are allowing their children to watch violence, sexual behaviors, profanity, drug and alcohol use, etc., then their child is more likely going to grow up being more violent, sexually active, more likely to use profanity, and more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol than a child who didn't grow up watching such behavior.  I also think that they chose a child for this particular image for a reason.  I believe that just like dogs are more easily trained when they are puppies, children are more likely going to learn habits when they are young.  It's like "monkey see, monkey do."  What a child sees and learns as a child, will have an impact on everything they do when they grow up and later on in their life.

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