Final Reflection

The theme of culture, identity, and society was displayed throughout this course in our many different assignments.  Visual rhetoric was our first assignment.  We are so blind to all of the rhetoric around us.  We have adapted to the culture of today's society and this has made us incapable of recognizing the rhetoric all around us.  In our second assignment, we did a research paper.  My paper was on lowering the drinking age to 18.  Culture and society today have influenced teenagers and young adults today to make them believe that your "identity" needs to be a certain way.  You need to dress a certain way, look a certain way, act a certain way.  Well in my paper, I talked about the drinking age and how it would actually help society to lower the age because less people would be proned to wanting to break the law.  Society has taught teenagers that drinking is a fun and good thing and that if you want your "identity" to be a "somebody," you must do it.  In our third big assignment, we did a multimedia project on the cafeteria foods at Clemson University.  The foods here today are not very appetizing.  Being in the south, we love to eat.  We love some good old southern cooking.  This is our culture.  When we are fed unsatisfying, fake food over and over, our stomachs can't seem to continue taking much more of it.  Culture, identity, and society make each and every person exactly who they are today and through the many assignments in this class, I have been able to see how they are connected to our everyday lives.