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VISUAL RHETORIC IN THE EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY: A VISUAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF JOHN LENNON VS. BILL O' REILLY Prepared by Johansen Quijano as a partial requirement for Dr. Yuejiao Zhang’s Visual Rhetoric course.

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Visual Rhetoric in the Epic Rap Battles of History: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of John Lennon vs. Bill O' Reilly. Prepared by Johansen Quijano as a partial requirement for Dr. Yuejiao Zhang’s Visual Rhetoric course. A Bit of Background Information. September 26th, 2010 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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VISUAL RHETORIC IN THE EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY: A VISUAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF JOHN LENNON VS. BILL O' REILLY

Prepared by Johansen Quijano as a partial requirement for Dr. Yuejiao Zhang’s Visual Rhetoric course.

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A Bit of Background Information September 26th, 2010 Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist Peter Alexander Shukoff Audience is of utmost importance

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Questioning the Official Story Is it really just about the audience? Do the Epic Rap Battles have any

meaning to them? Do the Epic Rap Battles make any

political, social, or religious claim? If so, what is it? How do the episodes make a claim and support it?

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Why This Episode? First in the series Each character clearly represents an

ideology It set the tone for the rest of the series

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Segmenting the Video Section 1 – Intro

Section 2 – Lennon 1

Section 3 – O’ Reilly 1

Section 4 – Lennon 2

Section 5 – O’ Reilly 2

Section 6 – Closing

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Light and the Lennon-Space

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The Darkness of the O’ Reilly Void

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Facial Features

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Proximity to the Viewer

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Frames to Keep Them Separate

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The Coming Together

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So Who Won?

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