home analysis
To set the scene, we used a black-and-white image to represent the concept of life-or-death. When prostitutes often go into the occupation, it's because of their financial situation that could be life-or-death for them. Moreover, black and white pictures are associated with formality, seriousness, and the 20th century, the time when East of Eden was written and when the story itself took place. We used a picture of somebody in handcuffs to force the reader to pay attention to the harmful consequences of illegal prostitution. The prostitutes are practically slaves to pimps and madams, giving them all or most of the money earned and subjected to violence if they disobey, much like the person in the handcuffs. We then chose to include a small story to strongly tie into pathos, or feelings, of the reader, and we highlighted negative words red to represent the "blood on our hands" that we have because of the ongoing issue of illegal prostitution. Furthermore, all highlighted words force the reader to mentally focus on that word and explore the meaning of it, as well as how it relates to prostitution. Finally, we repeated the phrase, "Are you going to [x] or do something" in order to inspire to the reader to not only understand the problem, but have the desire to fix it. The black coloring of the words is meant to draw attention to the message of "do something," so that it's urging the reader to choose that option and not the other.
ABout analysis
On this page, we continued the trend of black-and-white as well as the red highlighted text for words with a negative connotation. We included a softer, colored image to depict a typical situation dealing with prostitution, a woman against a pole waiting for a customer. The woman is also in red, continuing our trend of the color to represent blood, and she's holding a cigarette; a destructive habit associated with prostitutes. We chose to isolate the beginning sentence to emphasize the importance of it. The solitary sentence calls attention to the message, which is that everybody must unite to legalize prostitution, because it cannot be done alone.
facing the facts analysis
Here we kept most of same elements from the Home page, including the black-and-white photo, the photo itself, the red text, the black and white background, and the page layout. We chose to italicize and underline the word face in order to include a bit of humor and use a play on words. The coloring of the word also brings attention to the humanity of the issue by bringing to mind a face, a physical characteristic unique to everybody.
JUSTIFICATION ANALYSIS
,The main image on this image differs from the other ones, as it's much more bright and less gritty. This is to personifies that freedom is real and within the grasp of these sex workers. The change needed to make this a reality is entirely possible, and thus there's a light at the end of the tunnel. The italicizing of the word "Change" portrays a greater image too when put in contrast with the image in the back. It's as if it's telling the reader that the change will happen and such changes would be generative for the person.
This page was important as it contained the bulk of the logos when dealing with the topic of actually legalizing prostitution. Therefore, it was appropriate to split up each argument into its own individual sectors so that the reader can read through, knowing exactly what the topic at hand is talking about and maintaining a flow. Talking about flow, the arguments are also purposefully set up like a hill, where the more important and controversial problems lay at the middle and end in order to slowly incite our readers with information they should know first before getting into the context of the bigger ones; almost like how supermarkets would put the necessities at the back of their market so the customers has to work through the aisles of other products to get there.
This page was important as it contained the bulk of the logos when dealing with the topic of actually legalizing prostitution. Therefore, it was appropriate to split up each argument into its own individual sectors so that the reader can read through, knowing exactly what the topic at hand is talking about and maintaining a flow. Talking about flow, the arguments are also purposefully set up like a hill, where the more important and controversial problems lay at the middle and end in order to slowly incite our readers with information they should know first before getting into the context of the bigger ones; almost like how supermarkets would put the necessities at the back of their market so the customers has to work through the aisles of other products to get there.
how to help analysis
Again we kept most of the original elements from the first two pages, but here Bailey chose include a bullet-point list as it makes the page more concise and easier to read. The words bolded and colored red are the main things she wanted to call attention to, because they have the strongest message. The first quote uses logos to make the reader not feel guilty and instead try harder to do something about the issue, while the second sentence bolded inspires the reader to just spread the word if that's all they're able to do. Finally,
east of eden analysis
This page is the least important, but is still important nevertheless which is why it stands as its own page. The page contains almost all the same elements as the initial two pages, strengthening the message of them. However, the only exception is that no words are highlighted red because here we were making connections between the author and the story and not so much the issue and the story.
cathy ames & Prostitution analysis
Cathy Ames' character played a big role in the layout of this page. The color red is used on the whole page to symbolize her femininity and seductiveness. Red is usually a color that represents love and sexiness, and Cathy has experience in both of these characteristics. Many prostitutes are also familiar with having to be seductive and sexy, and Christina wanted to create a connection between Cathy and real-world prostitutes. The layout of the page is arranged with the textboxes and titles being centered on the page in order to remind the reader that Cathy is the main focus of the page and that prostitution is the core, or center, issue being discussed on the website.
visual rhetoric analysis
Conclusively, we included a visual rhetoric page to include pathos, logos, and ethos to summarize the entire issue and teach the reader about it in a new way. Although we've been using visual rhetoric throughout the website with images, coloring, and fonts, we wanted to dedicate a whole page to such in order to say that we reached out to the reader in multiple instances. The page continues the original layout, but doesn't include red words because this is the end of the website and, like our end goal, we want there to be no more blood.
PAGE AUTHOR
Bailey, Long, Christina