Analysis

 

       For my final artifact I chose the last speech that I gave for my Communications 101 class, Public Speaking. This speech was presented in front of around thirty give or take a few people, and was considered my final for the class in the same way that this portfolio for English 101 is the final. The goal of the assignment was to persuade my listeners to see my way of thinking, or at the very least persuade them to see my reasoning. For my topic I chose to speak about the current habit of our society to rate video games and movies with content ratings, and how those ratings are used as a modern form of censorship in our culture. I chose this speech due to how it exemplifies my use of claims, evidence, and warrants. In the speech I state that content ratings are ineffective in their original goal and in the end only censor certain forms of expression and free speech. I first begin each subsection by stating my current claim, and then I use evidence like news reports or scientific research papers to quote facts and statistics. From there I explain what these quotes or number mean, and how they prove my original claim. 

 

In some cases, movies cut content so that they can hit a specific rating in order to reach more children

about their important message:

1. As reported by the LA Times in 2012 in their article 'Bully' rating: Some, 

but not all, profanity cut to get PG-13. A documentary about childhood 

bullying cuts some of the language used by the subjects in order to achieve a 

PG-13 ranking.

2. If a documentary about bullying edited out some of the language being 

used, would that change the overall message and impact of the movie, 

even if by a little?”