Do your words portray or betray your values? The rhetorical choices we make every time we speak

Dr. Beth Patrick-Trippel presents the theoretical constructs used by all four students as well as a brief explanation of the nature of the research being done. Rachel Schramm: Picturing Race and Sports on the Big Screen. What can we learn from “Remember the Titans” and “Glory Road” using Richard Weaver’s Ideas of the Ideal? Jazmin Rangle: Instagram, social media and the Rhetoric of Kim Kardashian-West. Can the rhetoric of Richard Weaver keep up with the Kardashians? Becca Williams: What value messages cause us to laugh at Dwight’s awkwardness in “The Office?” Can we understand our own rhetorical choices by examining the choices in one of America’s most loved sit-coms? Kaitlyn Altmann: Richard Weaver’s Metaphysical Dream as seen through Dystopian Movie Characters in The Hunger Games and Mockingjay

Do your words portray or betray your values? The rhetorical choices we make every time we speak

Dr. Beth Patrick-Trippel presents the theoretical constructs used by all four students as well as a brief explanation of the nature of the research being done. Rachel Schramm: Picturing Race and Sports on the Big Screen. What can we learn from “Remember the Titans” and “Glory Road” using Richard Weaver’s Ideas of the Ideal? Jazmin Rangle: Instagram, social media and the Rhetoric of Kim Kardashian-West. Can the rhetoric of Richard Weaver keep up with the Kardashians? Becca Williams: What value messages cause us to laugh at Dwight’s awkwardness in “The Office?” Can we understand our own rhetorical choices by examining the choices in one of America’s most loved sit-coms? Kaitlyn Altmann: Richard Weaver’s Metaphysical Dream as seen through Dystopian Movie Characters in The Hunger Games and Mockingjay