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[Last Name] 1 “John Lennon, Michael Jackson: Do celebrities die anymore?” By Katrina Onstad.

Catorina-Amanda Ryan Student ID# 3532976 Dale Lindskog Philosophy 152 Athabasca University November 12, 2021

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Map or outline the essay you are reviewing. If you choose mapping, use Word's Insert function with text. Be sure to provide references for all specifically paraphrased and quoted material that you use directly from the essay. Note the topic, purpose, and main idea for the essay you have chosen. Using these notes and the map or outline you produced for Question 1, write a summary of the essay. The paragraph should be no more than 200 words, and any paraphrased material or direct quotations must be properly referenced (refer to essay documentation in the MLA Documentation Skills Module). Be sure to use MLA documentation throughout. Identify the primary rhetorical mode the writer uses to develop the essay. Using the appropriate course outline log entries for guidance, discuss in paragraph form how you determined this mode to be dominant, and use examples from the essay to illustrate the mode. Briefly discuss how the mode is appropriate to the topic at hand. Find examples in the essay of two other rhetorical modes used in conjunction with the central one. For each, identify which mode it demonstrates, and quote the relevant example. Explain how you determined which mode is demonstrated by each example. Explain how the use of this mode helps to develop and support the ideas presented in the essay and how it helps to further the author’s purpose. Demonstrate your understanding of the strategies used to generate ideas by doing the following:

Write a reaction you had to the essay you read. . .

Beginning with the reaction statement or question you wrote for part “a”, use one of the strategies for generating ideas (refer to Log Entry 16) as a pre-writing step. Let this beginning idea lead you in as many directions as possible. Follow tangents and make associations. Raise questions. Write out memories. Whichever of the five methods you use, you should strive here to generate a lot of material without worrying about where it is taking you.

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Reread your answer to “b” and look for something that is of interest to you. Formulate a main idea statement that could serve as the focus of an essay. Now, pretend that you are indeed going to write an essay on the main idea you stated in “c”. Use an idea generating method but, this time, stay with this main idea, and come up with as many developmental points, examples, and details as you can that might be used in writing an essay with this main idea. You do not have to actually write the essay nor organize the material you generate at this time. Just pursue this idea and come up with as much material as you can.

1. Do celebrities die anymore?

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George Lucas was collecting dead people. Mel Smith worked with Lucas's years ago said “[Lucus has] been buying up the film rights to dead movie stars in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together in a movie, so you’d have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck appear alongside today’s stars.” Michael Jackson died in 2009 yet was this year's top earning dead celebrity at $275 million. Luxury chain of Dorchester hotels released an ad campaign showing celebrities like Kristin Scott Thomas (Living) dining with Albert Einstein, Grace Kelly, and Orson Welles (dead, dead and dead). The question being thought “Do celebrities die anymore.” Technology has reshaped celebrity death. Dirt devil released an ad showing Fred Astaire dancing with a vacuum cleaner. The press and public were appalled, and sales of the vacuum declined. “A dead person can be summed up or dismissed.” Three decades later, dead celebrities are not just reduced, but regurgitated, remixed, and reissued, making a silk- screened T-shirt seem like a folksy slight problem. The Dorchester campaign did not seem to generate any disgust at all. And so, dead celebrities have become big business. 2005, stock photo agency Corbis acquired a roster of “Classic personalities,” including Einstein and Mae West. The arm where they now reside at Corbis is called green light which earned $50 million in 2009 by renting dead stars for endorsements. The older the celebrity brand, the better. Lucas has always privileged technology above story. We nest in our niches, listening to music recommended by our social networks and swooning over stars carefully cultivated for our own demographic. Freud wrote about human death instinct, an inborn fascination with death that pushes and pulls against the lust for life.

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2 Topic: Celebrities Purpose: persuade and explain Main idea: How we used dead celebrities to still make profit. Summary: Today’s world we still see things like magazines with celebrities who have passed away on them. We see people in movies with stars of today, and ones that have long gone. People still use dead celebrities to make a dollar, the living celebrities share their earnings with that. Creating movies or commercials with people who have passed away is wrong, you can dismiss them or even degrade them, and they have no way to stand up for themselves, I do not think that is right.

3 Primary rhetorical mode the writer uses to develop the essay is Persuasion. This essay uses persuasion to get us to understand how using a dead celebrity to create profit is wrong, degrading and can belittle someone. Everyone has their own opinion on how they can feel about this, however the person who wrote the essay used persuasion to get everyone to try to feel like they are on their side about the fact that what these people are doing is wrong. Not everyone has the same thoughts on this some people may think that it is a good selling point, whereas other people may believe same as I do as this is degrading and wrong. The artists being used should have a choice of what they are being used for commercials, movies. The author tells us many things about how Mr. George Lucas collects dead people. “[Lucas has] been buying up film rights to dead movie stars in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together in a movie, so you’d have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck appear alongside

[Last Name] 5 today’s stars.” (152) The author gives an example of when Dirt devil made a commercial showing Fred Astaire dancing with the vacuum cleaner. (153) And so dead celebrities have become big business. In 2005 stock photo agency Corbis acquired a roster of “Classic personalities,” including Einstein's and Mae West (Psst- Classic means dead) (153). Corbis now resides at Greenlights which reportedly earned $50 million in 2009 by renting dead stars for endorsements. “The nice thing about a dead celebrity is [that] scandal is behind them,” a Greenlight VP told the Puget Sound Business Journal. (155) The way the author shows through examples and way she makes us think about this for me at least makes me think that how they are doing this wrong, I believe that is the author's purpose of this essay.

4. The two additional modes I have chosen are Cause/Effect, as well as Example. Cause/Effect: cause/effect essays offer an explanation about why that sequence matters. The cause and effect of this essay in my opinion is that there are things she was giving examples for like; Technology has reshaped celebrity death. In 1997, Dirt Devil released an ad showing Fred Astaire dancing with a vacuum cleaner. The press and public were so appalled, and the sales of the vacuum cleaner actually declined. (153) She is very good with her examples making you think about why each of these examples are happening. She talks about things like; Three decades later, dead celebrities aren’t just reduced, but regurgitated, revived, remixed and reissued, making a silk-screened T-shirt seem like a folksy little problem. (153) The comment makes me think about why people would degrade someone who has passed and has no way to say yes or no to what they want to be in. She shows the cause of what people are doing to a dead celebrity that can play a major effect on how people are looking at this world for celebrities now.

[Last Name] 6 Example: an idea can be considered too general or abstract until we see it in action with examples. Here is a list of a few of the examples I find that she put it in that give a good view to see her perspective on this situation; Last year, the luxury chain of Dorchester Hotels released an ad campaign showing celebrities like Kristin Scott Thomas (living) dining with Albert Einstein, Grace Kelly and Orson Welles (dead, dead, dead). (153) She makes you wonder what the point of Einstein was having dinner with Kristin Scott, really why where they are having dinner, what was the point to bring a dead celebrity into a commercial of having dinner with a live person, please tell me how that is a selling point. ‘And so, dead celebrities have become a bigger business. In 2005, stock photo agency Corbis acquired a roster of “classic personalities,” including Einstein and Mae West (Psst-classic means dead). (153) The examples she has given make you see her perspective on why she views those dead celebrities are not meant for money making purposes.

5a My opinion on the topic of this essay is “frustration”. I am angry almost with what they are doing to celebrities who have passed away, no matter who you are; celebrity officer, civilian or child you have every right to have a say in what you are a participant in or are not in. When you have passed away that choice is taken away from you and people get to take that choice away. My opinion on the author and her work on this essay is great, educational, graphic and entertaining. She did good at keeping me entertained enough to keep reading, enough knowledge to make me feel like what she is saying is true. She was great at making her flow of the story follow, I did not feel like I was going all over the place, it was an easy and enjoyable read.

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5c Thinking back to my web for question “b” I think I will go off of the emotions on this as it seemed to be the part that made me either the happiest or angry. The way my emotions feel when I read this are very different, yet I feel could be relatable.

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References

Flachmann, Kim, Michael Flachmann, Alexandra MacLennan, and Jamie Zeppa. Reader’s Choice: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing. 7th Canadian ed. Toronto: Pearson, 2013 Onstad, Kristina. John Lennon, Michael Jackson: Do Celebrities Die Anymore? (2011)

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