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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Commonplace 14: That Swamp Thing
“I could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from Washington’s swamp, spending my evening with all of you with a much, much larger crowd and much, much better people.” -Donald Trump, Remarks in Pennsylvania on the 29th of April in 2017 While the fact that Trump would purposefully […]
All the Good Men in Jail
“If a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, there are good men in jail.” –Daniel P. Moynihan, U.S. Senator The quote above has been pulled from the top of a display in Washington’s famous Newseum. The Newseum undertakes the mission of relaying how important information, and […]
Annotated Bibliography 9 and 10
Background Ledbetter, Danielle. “Is D.C. Still the Chocolate City?” Truth Be Told, 10 Nov. 2015, http://truthbetold.news/2015/11/is-d-c-still-the-chocolate-city/. In their article Is D.C. Still The Chocolate City authors Danielle Ledbetter and Kaylah Waite give the history of Washington D.C. being one of the “blackest” cities in the United States since the 1970s this reiterating the fact that was is […]
Digital Archive Interior and Cultural 5
I also found the picture below in Google Images just like in my fourth digital archive, which was taken the day when the famous shooting occurred where a child was killed. I like how this picture shows how the employees were ready to work and it also shows kind of how it was every day […]
Digital Archives Interior and Cultural 4
I found this picture in Google Images and it is across the street from the market several years ago I assume because of the quality and also the architecture of the building behind them. I find this to be a very interesting picture because when I went to 7th and O street I didn’t see […]
Digital Archives Interior and Cultural 3
This picture is similar to my second digital archive, but I chose to include this picture as part of my digital archives because it is day time, one could better appreciate the details on the ceiling, the columns, and also the workers in their environment. I find this picture to be interesting because it could […]
Digital Archives Interior and Cultural 2
In the picture one can see how the O street market is right now. If one looks closely, one could observe how the ceiling is not new, therefore, meaning that this building has restored and preserved making it more important in our history. Also to the left some of the columns are made out brick, […]