The Indian Woman in Movies

Miss India America begins with what seems like what would be a show about an ambitious Indian girl, Lily, who has her whole life planned out, and never lost until she loses her boyfriend, a supposed petroleum engineer. She does puts herself in the only situation that makes logical sense. She enters a beauty pageant so she can win Miss India California and then go on to win Miss India National, which just so happens to be the title that Reshma, her ex- boyfriend's current girlfriend, holds. 

Lily is presented as not only the stereotypical smart Indian but also as the stereotypical female that is presented in rom-coms, high achieving, wants to be a brain surgeon (like her father) and incredibly needing her boyfriend. Almost every single parent has a strong accent and high scholarly jobs: doctors, engineers, physicists. Most of the parents also play the typical indian parents that culture makes them out to be, pushes ideas forward, family is everything and so is tradition

In the pageant; however, Lily meets a variety of people who challenge the traditional Indian stereotypes. Sonia, who appears will be the antagonist, is actually friendly and kind to Lily, Lily actually becomes the one who sabotages Sonia and despite sabotaging her Lily still wins the pageant. One of the competitors is really perky and also really into tennis One of the judges is a famous Indian actor who is a drunk who distraught over an ex girlfriend. The dancer who teaches Lily who is presented as the “perfect Indian daughter” has a secret white boyfriend, and does not get along with most of the female characters. And one of the judges is a famous Indian actor who is a drunk who distraught over an ex girlfriend.

After the pageant Lily acknowledges her mom as a writer, she writes poems and while she is successful, her job is more free and artistic than the other parents. And. while competing nationally instead of trying to appeal to “Traditional Indian Beauty” she presents herself as who she actually is instead of that Idea. Lily never gets back with her boyfriend or finds a new guy.

The Future for America

America does not have the ability to govern itself, the citizens of the united stated have never even chosen a president. So how can there be a future. When one of the most qualified candidates lost the election to someone who has no political knowledge what so ever.

Rural America felt forgotten, Clinton spent most of her time campaigning in the big cities. Trump's speeches played on the emotions of the people in rural areas. Ethos and tearing down an opponent is what is left of the American Rhetoric, not a government pushing issues on facts and current events.

People will say get over it, that we chose him as our president. But that is far from the truth, he did not win the popular vote, and up until last night people were hopeful that there would be a big number of faithless electors.

Rhetoric on the 2016 Campaign Trail

American political rhetoric has quickly turned into bashing candidates, steering away from the real purpose of political campaigning, which is to promote candidates beliefs. The 2016 election was a perfect example of how candidates have drifted away from the focus of self-promotion and moved toward insulting the opposing candidate and their bad character. In previous elections, the goal for campaigning was for the candidates to state their views and why they think it would be the best option for the country. Candidates would use different types of rhetoric that appealed to their own character. Candidates would act in a logical manner and respect the opposing candidate, despite their different ideas on how to run the country. 

However, this election season was different. Instead of persuading the audience that they were the best candidate for the country, they would take the negative approach and try to convince the audience why the opposing candidate was bad. Not only did political ads attack their ideas, but they would attack the opposing candidate's character. For example, calling Hillary Clinton corrupt and a liar, make the phrase "crooked Hillary." Clinton made a video of kids watching Donald Trump make negative comments on tv, asking if they want their kids to have him as a leader. These ads attacked the candidates as people, which is different from campaigns in the past. It's not necessarily good rhetoric because it takes away from the goal campaigning, which is to state candidates views on important topics.

Tacos Trump Hate

Today, a Trump protest was not your typical protest. Protesters built a "wall" made out of taco trucks around Trump's Las Vegas hotel. 

The wall was a pretty strong wall- made out of about 40 taco trucks, signs/posters, and many protesters. The protest was held in Las Vegas; where the population is about one third Hispanic.

The idea was inspired by Trump's call for a wall to be built between the U.S. and Mexico, as well as the Latinos For Trump founder, Marco Gutierrez, saying that taco trucks would be "on every corner," if Trump lost this election.

This rally was organized by the Culinary Union, along with Latino Victory Project, United Here, American Bridge, Center for Community Change Action, For Our Future, PLAN Action and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

Get Used to Hillary

Hillary’s growing popularity continue to escalates as the election moves on. In a campaign shirt, as pictured above, she illustrates how her campaign appeals and is supporting women’s rights and feminism. The shirt is making a point not only is Hillary going to be president, but  America needs to get used to a woman being in charge. This campaign uses ethos and pathos to send a powerful message to her supporters.

Hillary is boosting her popularity and previously known reputation. Being a woman, she is especially subjected to sexist ideals as scrutinization. Being “bossy” and “annoying” is a common insult towards her. Instead of trying to combat this statement, she simply embraces it in a positive way. “Get used to it” as stated on the shirt appeals to emotions of the viewer. The viewer is automatically demanded attention as well as given a shock value. It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with her, you are still emotionally awakened.

Hillary is going into this election with a fury that will not be easily dulled. She stands strong and continues to use her “disadvantages” to her own strength. She continues to empower women throughout the election and will hopefully further her push to break bounds and stereotypes in America. Her powerful campaigns continue to generate a stir and reactions throughout the nation.

Bernie Burning Across America

This campaign ad, while has no words displays a very clear message to the American public. Bernie doesn't attack any other runners in the video which almost makes him seem higher up in a way.  Like Michelle Obama says, Hillary Clinton these days too, "When they go low, we go high." Which I thought was very interesting because all that both current candidates seem to be doing is attack the other on basically everything.

Bernie uses a very strong ethos approach in the ad. The scenes of all the citizens is very reminiscent to the scenes of an Obama ad. Displaying farmers, some sort of industrial workers, people in the suburbs, and crowds of supporters shouting Bernie's name with signs waiting to hear him speak. Bernie is greeting his supporters and speaking on his beliefs. Which really shows how much of a true person he is.

Donald Trump's New TV Ad: Corruption

 
This ad does exactly what it states, it attacks the Clinton family on the idea that they are corrupt. From rags to riches, broke to hundreds of millions due to money being pouring into their account by criminals, foreign enemies, and dictators. It does not stop there, it continues with accusations of her selling out american workers and handing over american uranium rights to the Russians. By using this ad to attack Hillary Donald Trump is appealing to pathos. As he often does, Donald Trump tries to "expose" Hillary and her character to take heat off of his wrongs and it is no different with this ad. The ad makes Hillary look like a terrible person by including accusations but we can see what type of person Donald is with recordings of his locker room talk.

Not only does this heavily focus on pathos but it also shows hints on logos by stating all of the ways that she is possibly corrupt. If you state a list of accusations like these, the logical thing to do would be not vote for her but only to the citizens who do not heavily follow politics or know the wrongs of the other candidate.

The music in the ad switches from mysterious to more down which also goes along with the depiction of Hillary they want to present. In my opinion this ad is full of accusations to make Hillary look worse than she is and take heat off of Donald Trump.

Clinton Determined to Show Only One Candidate is Ready to be President

This recent CNN article about the 2016 Presidential Debate says "Clinton poked, prodded and quoted Trump's own words, goading the famously thin-skinned Republican nominee. Trump took the bait, repeatedly interrupting angrily or dismissively throughout the night. He couldn't resist attacks, even when it was obvious they would backfire." 

I don't know how well this article did at being unbiased, but I agree with what it is saying for the most part. I think Hillary won this debate over Trump. 

Like the article says, most of Trump's remarks were attacks towards Hillary, or arguing with her. He looked much more visibly upset than Hillary did. This is magnified on TV, and can really hurt a candidate, and I think it did just that for Trump. Everyone saw him as irrational and acting on emotion, unlike Hillary, who stayed calm and collected and took Trump's attacks in stride. 

I think Trump's biggest strategy going into the debate was to attack and criticize Hillary, which backfired a lot, and just made Trump look childish, and not in control of his temper.

Hillary has the Stamina

In the first Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton came off as well prepared and a good sport, while Donald Trump was rude and impatient. 

Some of the best things that Hillary Clinton did in this debate, and the things that left her head and shoulders above Donald Trump, were her facial expressions and body language. While Donald Trump interrupted her over and over again, leaning into the microphone and saying “wrong” like a cranky two-year-old, Hillary maintained composure and always managed to get her point across, even when you could barely hear her over Trump’s whining. While Trump was speaking, instead of sighing or making faces as he did while she was speaking, she would angle her body towards him to demonstrate her engagement and smile when he said something ridiculous. Her smile not only showed the audience that she does have stamina and can handle ignorance and stupidity with grace for one and half hours, but it also let viewers know that she had something to say, even when she didn’t get the chance to respond. 

Aside from her body language, Hillary was prepared and padded her answers with logos and just enough pathos, while Donald Trump spewed ethos to cover up the fact that he didn’t have any facts prepared. At one point when asked a question, Trump rambled for over two minutes and topped it off by saying, “I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.” Not only is that not an answer to any kind of question about his policies, but it isn’t even a good use of ethos. What does “having a winning temperament” even entail? One of the debate moments that showed Hillary’s use of logos and pathos was when she brought up Trump’s mistreatment of his lower class workers (which was barely even logos until he literally OWNED UP TO IT like it wasn’t a big deal in his response) and then adding some pathos by mentioning that her late father was a worker so she had even less tolerance for that kind of behavior. 

Overall, this debate had an unusual amount of casualness compared to how seriously Presidential debates have been taken in the past. People saying that Hillary came off as stiff and robotic should consider that she just looked this way compared to Trump, who was under-prepared and rude. If you compare Hillary’s more reserved approach to candidates in past debates, it becomes clear that she is just following regular debate procedure. Being respectful and reserved, and trying to maintain the integrity of the debate should not be seen as being self-important or distant. ...And being rude, racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, having an incredibly frightening amount of aggression, etc. shouldn’t be considered being “authentic” or “real” because it is disgusting.

Trump's Views on Veterans

This ad, Trump's Claims on War made by Hillary Clinton and her supporters, uses rhetoric strategies to show why the candidate that she is running against, in 2016, is not fit to be the president. The sound of Trump's words are overpowered by the facial expressions and concern multiple war veterans. The main rhetoric strategy is the use of pathos. The emotions expressed in this ad, are appealing to the emotional side of people.

Not going to lie, when I watched this for the first time I got a little emotional. What the ad is doing is drawing in an audience that will see this and know that Trump is a bad vote for president due to his lack of heart and uncensored speaking. Along with the emotions of the veterans comes the slow piano music in the background.

Between the overpowering voice of Trump and the visuals of the veterans, the music is kind of hard to notice the first time watching the add. The music adds even more emotion to the advertisement, which all appeals to the sentiment of the viewers.

By approving this message, Hillary Clinton is trying to put Donald Trumps beliefs and reputation on the spot. Picking and choosing specific lines from speeches such as, "Donald Trump compared his sacrifices to the sacrifices of two parents who lost their son in war", Hillary is showing how Trump is not sentimental with the people of America. This method of trying to ruin his reputation is a form of ethos. Hilary is simply using Trump's own words against him to show that he is not fit to be the president of our country. 

At the end of this ad, it is displaying how Hillary Clinton is a more suitable decision for president, because she is running for the people of America, not for herself. She uses Trump against Trump to further push her campaign in the direction that she wants to be going in, which is towards the White House. 

"These Hands" Typed This Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ZiFJ5LLAg

The potential presidential candidates were weeded out spectacularly quickly, leaving only two real contenders: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. People have their (strong) opinions on the duo, but it seems that despite it only being a few months since the original dozen or so candidates dropped out, they have been entirely forgotten. If they are remembered, it is because of how Bernie would have given free college to everyone in the universe and that Ted Cruz is almost definitely the Zodiac Killer. What we shouldn't have forgotten, however, is this commercial from Dr. Ben Carson who was one of the many Republican hopefuls in the 2016 election.

The commercial that Ben Carson released in early December or 2015 is 3 things: Powerful, genuine, and simple. "THESE HANDS", written across the palms of every type of American. All ages, all races, all classes, and people of all different backgrounds, people we can relate to. Carson pretty expertly uses pathos in this commercial, making us feel inspired and hopeful for the future of the United States. Carson uses this lasting effect of pathos and lets it naturally transform slightly into ethos. The viewer knows that Carson probably had nothing to do with the past success of the United States, especially in relation to the folks shown in the ad. The viewer also puts together that Carson is implying that, towards the end, he will be the one to lead the process of healing America.

After watching this commercial a few times, I really have nothing but positive things to say about this commercial. It doesn't attack anyone, it doesn't desperately rely on anyone's fallacies to make itself look better, just simply focuses on the positives of this country. Ben Carson may have been a quick dropout in the race, but this set the bar for political ads astoundingly high.