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MEET THE AUTHOR
Hi I am Amy Schneider. I study in the heart of Downtown Detroit at Wayne State University. I was born in Detroit but grew up in Sterling Heights,MI, a suburb of Detroit. I work at the Bonstelle theater on the electrics crew and as a lighting designer. I was in fourth grade when I acted in my first musical, Children of Eden. Ever since then I wanted to be involved in theater. When I went to high school, I could actually be a part of the theater program and that is where I decided I wanted to be a lighting designer. With all of the rehearsals and all of the time spent in the auditorium, I still managed to take honors and AP English. In my 9th grade regular english class I stood out above the rest and my english teacher, Ms. Pitel, encouraged me to take honors English and challenge myself. I felt that writing was very important and that is why I still made time to write in high school. When the time came to choose a college it really wasn't a hard decission. I knew I was going into theater and the level of professionalism on Broadway was seen in Detroit way before it made it's way over to New York. Thus the best decision for me was Wayne State University. Since the theater department at Wayne is lot more time consuming than it was in high school, I tended to stray away from writing and didn't take my first English class until my sophomore year. The English class and my fellow light crew members encouraged me to start a blog about Detroit. Most of the conversations at work that aren't related to the field often have to do with Detroit and the amount of development in the city. I hope that when people read this blog, they feel the same love for the city as I do and feel a need to help it become the great city it once was.
The one thing I love about designing is incorporating my own personality into the design. For example, I did two sound designs this year and both contained at least one song that I love. The first design was music from the jazz era and I incorporated a song called "Smile" by Nat King Cole. For my second design, which consisted of blues music, I incorporated a song called "It Had To Be You" by Billie Holiday. That song is from my favorite movie, "A League of Their Own." I tend do the same with my writing. I often tend to put a quote as the introduction. The section "other works" at the top of this page, will give you a chance to read some of my other papers that I have written. I wrote a paper about the Apple commercials through time and the rhetoric that is in them. My introduction to that paper talked about the first Mad commercial made in 1984. Since the commercial was refrencing the book "1984," I decided I would use a quote from it. "The past was dead, the future was unimaginable." It set the idea that Macs are different and that it didn't matter what IBM or HP had come up with in the past, this computer would change the future. In another paper, which was about cults, I used this quote for my introduction: “To me, death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed. This quote is from the infamous Jim Jones and I feel it really sets the mood for cults and the stereotype we think of when we hear that word. When I start writing a paper, I always go through this phase where the writing doesn't make sense to anyone but me. Because of this, I tend to rewrite and re-arrange the paper. This specific example is to long to show, but I rearranged my paper on Mac computers quite a bit. The paragraph structure originally showed every product that was ever advertised on an Apple commercial and showed the ethos, pathos, and logos in them. But I then realized that my paper was on how the rhetoric never changed. It was easier to just have three paragraphs and explain many different products at once. The ethos paragraph mentioned how they used ethos in a certain way for the Mac book and then the same way for the iPhone. When I first started to write my cult paper, I had the same problem. Often when I write, it makes sense in my head but when my peers read it, confused looks are usually the results
In my high school AP English class, my two best friends sat right next to me, which was awesome but it also made my grade suffer pretty bad. The one thing that I vaguely remember from that class was learing about rhetoric. I was so grateful to pay attention in my college English class because I was reminded about the greatest argument tool: rhetoric. Rhetoric is an amazing tool that is used to persuade truth. I loved using it in my papers and my debates. My favorite activity in English was debating which is where using rhetoric came easy to me. In the first debate I was on the side that, well, I did not agree with, but with using rhetoric I was able to be named MVP of the debate. I even used rhetoric in my first paper when I described the rhetoric used by the Apple company in their commercials.
I'm happy to have learned so much in just one English class and be able to start this awesome blog about a city that I love.
The one thing I love about designing is incorporating my own personality into the design. For example, I did two sound designs this year and both contained at least one song that I love. The first design was music from the jazz era and I incorporated a song called "Smile" by Nat King Cole. For my second design, which consisted of blues music, I incorporated a song called "It Had To Be You" by Billie Holiday. That song is from my favorite movie, "A League of Their Own." I tend do the same with my writing. I often tend to put a quote as the introduction. The section "other works" at the top of this page, will give you a chance to read some of my other papers that I have written. I wrote a paper about the Apple commercials through time and the rhetoric that is in them. My introduction to that paper talked about the first Mad commercial made in 1984. Since the commercial was refrencing the book "1984," I decided I would use a quote from it. "The past was dead, the future was unimaginable." It set the idea that Macs are different and that it didn't matter what IBM or HP had come up with in the past, this computer would change the future. In another paper, which was about cults, I used this quote for my introduction: “To me, death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed. This quote is from the infamous Jim Jones and I feel it really sets the mood for cults and the stereotype we think of when we hear that word. When I start writing a paper, I always go through this phase where the writing doesn't make sense to anyone but me. Because of this, I tend to rewrite and re-arrange the paper. This specific example is to long to show, but I rearranged my paper on Mac computers quite a bit. The paragraph structure originally showed every product that was ever advertised on an Apple commercial and showed the ethos, pathos, and logos in them. But I then realized that my paper was on how the rhetoric never changed. It was easier to just have three paragraphs and explain many different products at once. The ethos paragraph mentioned how they used ethos in a certain way for the Mac book and then the same way for the iPhone. When I first started to write my cult paper, I had the same problem. Often when I write, it makes sense in my head but when my peers read it, confused looks are usually the results
In my high school AP English class, my two best friends sat right next to me, which was awesome but it also made my grade suffer pretty bad. The one thing that I vaguely remember from that class was learing about rhetoric. I was so grateful to pay attention in my college English class because I was reminded about the greatest argument tool: rhetoric. Rhetoric is an amazing tool that is used to persuade truth. I loved using it in my papers and my debates. My favorite activity in English was debating which is where using rhetoric came easy to me. In the first debate I was on the side that, well, I did not agree with, but with using rhetoric I was able to be named MVP of the debate. I even used rhetoric in my first paper when I described the rhetoric used by the Apple company in their commercials.
I'm happy to have learned so much in just one English class and be able to start this awesome blog about a city that I love.