Musab Alrakhis
COMM 603
Dr. Hundley
WSCA Assignment
The paper I selected to this assignment is “The Survivalist “Imprint” of Obama’s Rhetoric: Post-9/11, Post-Zombie Apocalypse and Foreign Policy Apologia”, written by Olivia Miller from Colorado State University. The paper was an attempt to identify and explain the relationship between Post-zombie apocalypse narrative structure found in zombie media text like The Walking Dead, and president Obama’s foreign policy apologia speeches. The reason that post-zombie apocalypse was chosen over the zombie apocalypse is because post-zombie apocalypse is concern more with survival, rebuilding society, reinstituting morality and learning how to live with the devil while trying to restore normal life again. This relationship is justified by the fact that zombies, who are a pure fiction, and terrorists, who are real people, have a lot in common, such as, they both have unexplainable powers, both attack unexpected places and both do not recognize logic as …show more content…
This intelligent linking of two highly non-linkable topics is fascinating and could open the door for bolder ideas to explain why humans do what they do. Moreover, while the purpose of integrating two rhetorical methods is clear and obvious, the basis of which this integration of two methods are unclear. For example, in this paper, the author integrated rhetorical imprint and Dramatistic pentad and both of them were helpful in answering the research question, however, I do not understand the ground of integrating those methods, or any other two methods. Are some methods more fixable than others? Is there any method that cannot stand alone and need to be integrated to make sense? Or can I integrate any two rhetorical methods as long as it is
COMM 603
Dr. Hundley
WSCA Assignment
The paper I selected to this assignment is “The Survivalist “Imprint” of Obama’s Rhetoric: Post-9/11, Post-Zombie Apocalypse and Foreign Policy Apologia”, written by Olivia Miller from Colorado State University. The paper was an attempt to identify and explain the relationship between Post-zombie apocalypse narrative structure found in zombie media text like The Walking Dead, and president Obama’s foreign policy apologia speeches. The reason that post-zombie apocalypse was chosen over the zombie apocalypse is because post-zombie apocalypse is concern more with survival, rebuilding society, reinstituting morality and learning how to live with the devil while trying to restore normal life again. This relationship is justified by the fact that zombies, who are a pure fiction, and terrorists, who are real people, have a lot in common, such as, they both have unexplainable powers, both attack unexpected places and both do not recognize logic as …show more content…
This intelligent linking of two highly non-linkable topics is fascinating and could open the door for bolder ideas to explain why humans do what they do. Moreover, while the purpose of integrating two rhetorical methods is clear and obvious, the basis of which this integration of two methods are unclear. For example, in this paper, the author integrated rhetorical imprint and Dramatistic pentad and both of them were helpful in answering the research question, however, I do not understand the ground of integrating those methods, or any other two methods. Are some methods more fixable than others? Is there any method that cannot stand alone and need to be integrated to make sense? Or can I integrate any two rhetorical methods as long as it is