Throughout the story of Maus, it can be argued that the character of Vladek survived Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen because of his ability to be persuasive. Describe one specific incidence where Vladek uses rhetoric to survive in the concentration camp (Book 2, Chapters 1-3)? Please supply the page number (and panel if necessary). If, as we’ve learned, rhetoric is the art of persuasion (or the art of argument), how then would you describe visual rhetoric? Brian Kennedy, in his TEDx video, advocating for a curriculum that supports visual literacy, says, “We need to train our ability to construct meaning from images.” How does Brian Kennedy’s quote function in relation to visual rhetoric and the digital age, where the internet has become our main form of communication? In the video “Visual Rhetoric and Critical Thinking”, Philip Yenawine says: “In contemporary culture, it’s become all too endemic to take things on face value, to not think, to not probe, to not ask for evidence, and to be manipulated as a result of that and we see this all around us in the decisions that people make.” What does this quote mean to you? How does it relate to the Crash Course video “The Fact of FactChecking”? What does it mean to use visual rhetoric “unethically”?