Tuesday, March 4, 2014


Visual Rhetoric- When I first opened the No Seconds website, the first thing that popped up was a picture of an olive on a plate.  When you pressed the arrow, more pictures of food dishes came.  Next to the pictures was information about the people who had those meals as their last meal before being executed.  The pictures of the food were a nice way to show what an inmates idea of a perfect meal for their last meal.  Some of the inmates choose their favorite meals and some did not get to choose any meal.  No Seconds was more about the pictures of the food and why Henry Hargreaves wanted to take pictures of a person’s last meal.  In the Last Meal Project, the website starts on a paragraph explaining the death penalty.  Then when you press the arrow a picture of an inmate with food and information about the inmate.  In between every few pictures is information about last meals and the death penalty.  I like the Last Meal Project website more than the No Seconds website.  It was a more powerful message showing not just food, like in No Seconds, but also the picture of the inmate in Last Meal Project.  I also liked that there was written information in between the pictures.  It was interesting to read about the last meal and death penalty rather than just see pictures of food.  I did not know that your last meal has a budget of only $40 and has to be bought locally.  When looking at the pictures, it made me wonder what I would want my last meal to be.  Hopefully I would never have to deal with that, but I would want; diet Dr. Pepper, Chicken vinaigrette salad, a dozen Ocharley’s rolls, a Big Mac, and strawberry shortcake.  Both websites used a bold, white colored background.  I did not feel I really learned anything from the No Seconds website aside from what inmates could eat for their last meal.  However I learned about the last meal establishing in jails and death penalty statistics in the Last Meal Project.

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