There is no question that the NBA has been making many changes in the last few years but one that caught the attention of Wesley Morris, is the style of the players on the team when they go out to press conferences. His article, The Rise of the NBA Nerd, focused on how they changed from the typical stereo-typed black man to a man that is “presentable.” He used a television show as an example from the 90’s to express this point. He talked about The Fresh Prince of Bell-Air and how the main characters in this television show went from being the boy right out of Philadelphia, Will Smith, to becoming his well-rounded respectable cousin, Carlton. He used this analogy to show the style change. He also implied that this change came from having the first African- American President and seeing how success dresses and the rappers that went “geek,” than this style change just came from inside.
The principle of rhetoric as it applies to images I think is different and hard to actually achieve than when it applies to writing, because at least in writing you can use descriptive words to get your point across but in a picture that one picture will either make your argument or break it.
The article focused on style and seemed it, wanted the reader to see that what someone wears, who is in the public eye, maters to the culture we are in or what culture we see that person in. But personally I do not feel that what you wear is an argument, I think clothing were meant for self-expression and it made a U-turn and became something that defines us as a people. What you put on your body shouldn't matter because if you wear a nice suit but you are the biggest moron on the face of the planet that doesn't make you any smarter, you are now just is a well-dressed person. We focus as a society on what a person is wearing and how that can change the outcome of their success when we should be focusing on what is actually coming out of their mouth and how that will affect us in the long term.
But this isn't just something that stops at the way someone dresses but it is also on the color of their skin, the accent they have, and many other superficial things that doesn't get to what is actually coming out of their mouth. This can be the biggest boost for anyone who is trying to impress the public. Politically, the way you dress is a big advantage, because as a nation we are wired to know a person should dress like this and like that to do this job and the fact is clothing changes the way a person will act which is something everyone deep down knows and no one wants to face.
The principle of rhetoric as it applies to images I think is different and hard to actually achieve than when it applies to writing, because at least in writing you can use descriptive words to get your point across but in a picture that one picture will either make your argument or break it.
The article focused on style and seemed it, wanted the reader to see that what someone wears, who is in the public eye, maters to the culture we are in or what culture we see that person in. But personally I do not feel that what you wear is an argument, I think clothing were meant for self-expression and it made a U-turn and became something that defines us as a people. What you put on your body shouldn't matter because if you wear a nice suit but you are the biggest moron on the face of the planet that doesn't make you any smarter, you are now just is a well-dressed person. We focus as a society on what a person is wearing and how that can change the outcome of their success when we should be focusing on what is actually coming out of their mouth and how that will affect us in the long term.
But this isn't just something that stops at the way someone dresses but it is also on the color of their skin, the accent they have, and many other superficial things that doesn't get to what is actually coming out of their mouth. This can be the biggest boost for anyone who is trying to impress the public. Politically, the way you dress is a big advantage, because as a nation we are wired to know a person should dress like this and like that to do this job and the fact is clothing changes the way a person will act which is something everyone deep down knows and no one wants to face.
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