Rhetoric on the town

The presentations today were definitely an experience. First of all, the concepts that I myself had in mind for my project were also thought of by many other students: Daniel Hellman, Marta Hamilton, and others all used the concept of Carmel trying to be classy and upscale, trying to look quaint when much of it is new. Steve talked specifically about neighborhoods in Carmel making specific rules that limit personal choices among its residents in order to provide a unified and "beautiful" neighborhood. However, what I truly found amazing is the diversity of places people found rhetoric. From Matt Faller's One Shot button to Elise Lockwood's picture of Tina Taliercio, there  was rhetoric everywhere one looked. I understand that everything is rhetoric, but it seems to me like the obvious ones that people normally look for are more blatant and more easily seen than the ones found by my classmates. I have different ideas about why this phenomenon occurred. The first is noble: that my classmates simply have different perceptions of the world than I do and think of different kinds of rhetoric that they experience in their lives. The other reason, less noble, is that many of my classmates were rushed and careless and made longer stretches than they should have in finding their rhetoric.