What's the Purpose of the Blog Project?

What's the Purpose of the Blog Project?
English 110 hones analytical habits of mind that are meant to be naturalized and used outside of the classroom. Therefore, the Blog Project takes the analysis you use throughout the ARP and Commonplace, and gives you the chance to practice applying it to the public writing you already interact with in your everyday life. As you become accustomed to making this analytical move on your own, you will develop into a more aware, critically thinking citizen of the world.



Thursday, September 1, 2011

My Legs Gave Me Super Powers



Aimee Mullins is a perfect example of how the rhetoric of the body depends on the conversation we choose to have about it. Not only does Aimee exemplify all four categories we are looking at - shape shifter, cyborg, super hero AND femme fatale (if by femme fatale we mean dangerously beautiful and powerful), she also raises questions that challenge the way we think and talk about the body: What does a beautiful woman have to look like? What is a sexy body? What does it mean to be disabled? What is a prosthetic? I invite you to share your thoughts about any of these and/or other topics she raises. Also, to consider this - as much as Mullins does to advance the discussion about the body, are there limitations she leaves un-addressed?
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