Johnathon Bennett
Rhetorical Analysis
Disability and the Media: Prescription for Change In today’s media people who have disabilities are often defined by their disability and not by who they are. They are glamorized, objectified and put on a pedal stool to a fault based solely on their disability. Charles A Riley II’s article “Disability and the Media: Prescription for Change” challenges the current state of how disabilities are portrayed in the media using a persuasive argument. Mr. Riley II uses ethical and emotional appeals as well as several logic based exerts to make the audience face this shocking revelation. This arguments word choice and frustration filled tone calls for people to understand the forced narrative thrown into …show more content…
This phrase is also common place to describe the equipment to help people with disabilities compete in competition such as the “Cheetahs” used by Aimee Mullin. Obliviously her success is based on these bionic legs and not her dedication to the sport and effort she’s put into training. Mr. Riley is using this logical argument to help the audience understand and question why we contribute her success to these and not able-bodied athletes. Usain Bolt wears Puma’s NETFIT running shoes to compete in yet there are little to no media attention attributing his success to the shoes which are as state of the art and advanced as …show more content…
Riley II inserts the historical impact on current media and minds of how disabilities were portrayed in the past has affected the present. “We have had millennia of fiction and nonfiction depicting angry people with disabilities as villains, from Oedipus to Ahab to Dr. Strangelove.” This is an emotional as it makes you feel sad for how people with disabilities were demonized in the past and how thinking of works you read as a kid portrayed people with disabilities unfairly. It raises ethical dilemmas too as we allow our youth to continue to read these stories at a young age and be influenced. “It is impossible to know the full degree of damage wreaked by the demanding and wildly inaccurate portrayal of people with disabilities.” This entices the reader to fell an emotional connection in a persuasive tone to help lead them to wanting to make a
Rhetorical Analysis
Disability and the Media: Prescription for Change In today’s media people who have disabilities are often defined by their disability and not by who they are. They are glamorized, objectified and put on a pedal stool to a fault based solely on their disability. Charles A Riley II’s article “Disability and the Media: Prescription for Change” challenges the current state of how disabilities are portrayed in the media using a persuasive argument. Mr. Riley II uses ethical and emotional appeals as well as several logic based exerts to make the audience face this shocking revelation. This arguments word choice and frustration filled tone calls for people to understand the forced narrative thrown into …show more content…
This phrase is also common place to describe the equipment to help people with disabilities compete in competition such as the “Cheetahs” used by Aimee Mullin. Obliviously her success is based on these bionic legs and not her dedication to the sport and effort she’s put into training. Mr. Riley is using this logical argument to help the audience understand and question why we contribute her success to these and not able-bodied athletes. Usain Bolt wears Puma’s NETFIT running shoes to compete in yet there are little to no media attention attributing his success to the shoes which are as state of the art and advanced as …show more content…
Riley II inserts the historical impact on current media and minds of how disabilities were portrayed in the past has affected the present. “We have had millennia of fiction and nonfiction depicting angry people with disabilities as villains, from Oedipus to Ahab to Dr. Strangelove.” This is an emotional as it makes you feel sad for how people with disabilities were demonized in the past and how thinking of works you read as a kid portrayed people with disabilities unfairly. It raises ethical dilemmas too as we allow our youth to continue to read these stories at a young age and be influenced. “It is impossible to know the full degree of damage wreaked by the demanding and wildly inaccurate portrayal of people with disabilities.” This entices the reader to fell an emotional connection in a persuasive tone to help lead them to wanting to make a