Hi! My name is Emma and I am currently a freshman at SUNY New Paltz University! My intended major is English Creative Writing and there is nothing I cherish more than poetry and a cup of coffee!

In this class, (English 206-Advanced writing and Rhetoric) my position as a student was to sit, listen, and learn. I did not know much about visual rhetoric and frankly, I didn’t realize this was a visual based class until the first day of classes. Still as a poet, I do believe it is very important to have a grasp on different genres of English, even if they don’t appeal to my own liking. Plus, my professor was extremely kind, enthusiastic, (even at eight a.m. on a Monday) and understanding. I wouldn’t have had it ay other way.

My body of work consists of a multimodal analysis, a contextual analysis, an oral presentation, and an illustrated essay and catalogue.

My multimodal analysis explores propaganda in the short film, “Boys Beware”, a movie deeming homosexuals pedophiles in a blatantly homophobic and fear filled society.

My contextual analysis focuses on Life Magazine‘s edition about Germaine Greer, a 1970’s “radical feminist.” I shed a light on how magazines such as Life aim to suit their own agendas of profit and attention gain rather than make a true difference in the world.

The oral presentation I created with my classmates Alexa and Maddy sews a connection between Darwinism and evangelicalism. We took four images give to us and added onto them, making connections left and right to discover the true meaning of how Darwinism and religion can coexist.

Lastly, my illustrated essay and catalogue painted a contrast between how we perceive the LGBTQ+ community to contain versus how it actually operates in the real world. Using the National Stonewall Monument as my foundation, I stirred together comparisons between members of the religious, families, pride, and more!

In all, it has been a joy to explore myself in the realm of visual rhetoric. Though I may never return to this humble land, I will carry worth the lessons so expertly taught.

Until never!

~Emma Brooke Zwickel