Reading Analysis 5 In the last chapter City of Rhetoric, Fleming concludes his argument by serving the readers with a summary of the existing enviable problems that lie, and forever will lie, In our cities today. Fleming states that these physical entities, which we call cities, act too much like a private space. Cities, weather intentionally or unintentionally, […]
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A Look Towards the Future: Fleming’s Commonplace
Rhetorical Analysis #5 By Kwesi Billups In Chapter 8 of his City of Rhetoric, David Fleming defines the terms by which he believes the reductive societal pictures of suburbia, home, and ghetto can be discarded and replaced by doctrines that seek to erase discrimination, violence, and isolation from the subtext of housing planning and, thus, public […]
Sociospatial Dialect: The Future of Discourse
Reading Analysis #4 By Kwesi Billups In Chapter 3 of his City of Rhetoric, David Fleming makes use of theories of proxemics, linguistics, and chronemics to present a framework by which a revitalization of public discourse can come forth. Fleming’s proposal of the urban sphere as the tool by which groups can better communicate and restructure the public […]
Final Mapping Commonplaces Project: Lincoln Theatre and UStreet
For my semester research on a site in Washington DC, I chose to research the Lincoln Theatre on U Street. I chose this as the built environment I was going to analyze because of a few reasons. One reason I chose the Lincoln Theatre is because I love music and I love going to […]
Introduction: Mapping Commonplaces
My name is Marguerite J Tucker and I am a Sophomore transfer student at American University in Washington DC. I am a Sociology major on the pre-med track; as a course requirement this semester I took college writing 101. Throughout the semester I researched a specific site in DC as a built environment. The site […]
Mapping Commonplaces: Replanting The Mayflower
By Kwesi Billups Introduction Throughout the course of the semester, students in my College Writing Seminar have embarked on a semester-long journey to investigate the rhetorical situations of various locations around the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. Some students chose to work with street intersections, while others chose more historically documented and culturally relevant locations such as […]
Lincoln Theatre: Public Relations and Social Media Reviews
“The Lincoln Theatre.” Facebook, www.facebook.com/pg/TheLincolnDC/reviews/. Accessed 30 Mar. 2017. The Lincoln Theatre has an average of 4.4 out of 5 stars on its Facebook page out of a total of 165 reviews. The majority of people (105 out of 165 people) gave the theatre 5 stars and described their experience at the Lincoln Theatre as […]
VoL Part IV. Old Age
Kwesi Billups PART IV. OLD AGE My initial reaction notes to the piece while I was in the gallery: The Stream of Life has reached a vast ocean of infinite scope. Man’s Guardian, who accompanied him unseen throughout his journey has shown herself to the tattered and tired man. His interest in the barren rocks […]
VoL Part III. Manhood
By Kwesi Billups PART III. MANHOOD My initial reaction notes to the piece while I was in the gallery: Man knew nothing of the evils of his world. How could he have known? He casted off his Guardian in preparation for his own domination of his surroundings. In the foreground, a dying tree, poisoned and […]
VoL Part II. Youth
By Kwesi Billups PART II. YOUTH My initial reaction notes to the piece while I was in the gallery: Man has become his own god in the wake of his awakening. Gone are the days of his infancy, and he has demonstrated through his piloting of his own destiny. His Guardian bids him a safe journey […]