George Lewis Hughes
English 103: Accelerated Composition – At a Glance (Alfano 112)
Daniel Richards
October 1, 2008
Using the Research Log: Visual Rhetoric Thesis Two: Shellshock as a Bridge Between Nihilism and Society
I came up with my first idea for the thesis – all of which revolving around an artifact of visual rhetoric, a photograph – to no surprise, on Google Images, after which having browsed for visual representations of and inspirations for my extremely broad and generalized topic of interest – shellshock – I finally and definitively stumbled across a hauntingly compelling photograph which best symbolically exemplified the stance I was wishing to take on the matter, that the gaze in the eyes of the shellshock victim is the gaze of a resounding end to mankind’s old faith in the fortunes of war. My tediously ornamented record is currently restricted to the labyrinthine, written paraphernalia on paper comprising my scrambled thoughts and key points of exposure to the thesis, as well as an unorthodox grouping of rhetorically composed items which shall eventually meld together into my overall thesis paragraph, therein containing my precious thesis statement.
My search terms to be utilized in the near future will fall under the categorical media of online, scholarly-approved, search engines in order for me to get a jumpstart on the more critical, hard-copy material housed in the library which, in my case, will most likely reside on the computer screen as book forms, such as various publications ranging from psychology textbooks to doctorate theses to medical texts to intensive historical documents. My only citable source for the moment is derived from a link to my primary image source – that is, my primary source incarnate, which is currently displayed on the complete URL of: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=shellshocked+soldiers&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
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