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Noah Cabalona

Cluster Criticism on Sabac’s As Children Cry

Suffering is a common theme in every person’s life. The rapper Sabac explains how children suffer and gives advice regarding how humanity can change the cycle of suffering. Sabac’s song As Children Cry, tries to explain why children suffer and calls for a change. Cluster Criticism can help interpret Sabac’s ideas written in his song. Cluster criticism examines the artifact through identification, terministic screen, as well as a few key terms. In Sabac’s, As Children Cry, he incorporates frequently used terms children and suffering. He uses multiple terms that can be interpreted as God and Devil Terms. The terms include stability as a God term and suffering as a devil term. The issues that Sabac addresses look like there is no fix for them. He describes problems, but he doesn’t place blame on one specific group of people. He places blame on all of humanity, even the victims. This song is both very depressing and it also shows a bit of future promise to humanity.

COMM 441, Rhetorical Criticism

Doyle Srader

Banquet Room

1:00 – 3:00 PM

Noah Cabalona

Narrative Criticism on Three K-Rino Songs About the Media

A rapper named K-Rino focused on how many people are mentally poisoned from listening to a lot of mainstream media, mainly radio songs. Three songs were used in this narrative criticism. The narrative analysis of these songs made it clear that they had a unified objective in them. This project is a criticism of each of these songs, as singles, as well as a group. Understanding each of the features of these songs was also a goal in this criticism. I assessed each of the features and compared them to each other to see if each of them had a unified topic. Each element had common strategies to help persuade his message to the listeners. After understanding these songs, I realized that K-Rino wanted to persuade his beliefs to his listeners by the art of storytelling. His beliefs consist of how humanity shouldn’t mindlessly believe what they hear just because it was taught to them. He used imaginative narrative to get a clear message to his viewers about how they need personal change in their lives.

COMM 499, Capstone

Doyle Srader

PFB 003

Noon – 12:30 PM

Noah Cabalona & Edward Fryrear

Nonverbals of T.V. Courtroom Verdicts

This poster shows our predictions on how the t.v. courtroom cases verdict would be based on nonverbal cues displayed. Our assumptions will be based on deception cues learned from the book Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Communications by Virginia P. Richmond. 

COMM 430, Nonverbal Communication

Doyle Srader