• Fiction Analysis: Literature Summary Subject The Literature summary is the first major assignment in the course. Choose one of the assigned short stories and write an essay that explains the historical context, summarizes the story, identifies the major theme(s), and illustrates how the author uses literary devices to develop the theme(s). Audience Write this paper for an academic audience.…
Rhetorical Analysis Draft The MD, DC, And Virginia’s Public Safety Campaign is about being a safe driver, reducing injuries and death around the region, increasing awareness about safety enforcement, and being street smart. I feel that the intended audience is all of the MD, DC, and Virginia’s area. This campaign is trying to convince drivers to promote better safety while driving. This ad wants to decrease the average number of 8 people being struck by moving vehicles a day in the metropolitan area, because they want to promote better safety and save lives.…
Analysis of Rhetorical Project For this assignment, I decided to work off a subject that truly “strums” a string in my heart, which is racism, particularly the “Stop and Frisk” law which has arised in New York. This unfair law has been in my subconscious, as it strikes me as both illogical, and quite offensive to minorities. While the law aims to create “safety”, as well as eliminate criminal activity, it truly offends those who are suspected of crime, especially when a large sum of those people randomly happen to be POC. And, according to NYPD’s reports, 9 out of 10 of the chosen suspects are innocent. These people are pulled simply because they have a certain “look”, and I find it to be not only offensive, but…
Since 1969, America has seen an extensive range of presidents in terms of style, personality, rhetoric and overall demeanor towards the American people. A good deal of these qualities overlap in candidates who have won the election. For example most president-elects have said they have strong family values, support a strong American military, and promise to be tough on crime. While these stances have been pitched differently over the years, they all share the same basic ethos; reassurance. It seems that the American electorate respond best to candidates who continually reassure the American people of the inevitability of America thriving under that particular leader’s guidance.…
While I began looking for an article that may interest me, I decided to look for an article that negative eye towards technology. That way I ensure myself that I had enough rhetorical ground to analyze. During peer review, I realized that I didn't have a clear on how to do a Rhetorical Analysis. In that essay I wrote whether I agreed or disagreed with the writer's main idea, in fact, one of my sentences was: “Nonetheless, he didn't manage to convince to agree with his point of view.”. I then learned that my opinion doesn't matter in a rhetorical analysis.…
Good Morning Jeff, I hope you're having a wonderful week. Just in case it matters for my case, I should let you know that I officially started a career development and coaching business: A Career Pro, LLC. I haven't made any money yet and I've done career advisement as a non-paid hobby for the last 10-12 years, but with all of the adversity I have had to overcome, I decided to take a chance on myself and strive for something that might make me feel more confident in myself again. Let me know if this might be an issue for my case or if you need anything from me.…
Strategies: Argumentation: “The more often older adults were told that a given claim was false, the more likely they were to accept it as true after several days have passed.” Questions: Argumentation: The author of this article uses this technique to refer back to social experiments done in the past to prove his point about why many Trump supporters don’t see why some of Trump’s ideas are necessarily good nor beneficial to the country.…
Detaching myself from the world around me to look in as a third party exposed the culture I have been raised into. To complete this assignments I went to Mirror Lake on campus to observe and document the social behaviors I witnessed. I recorded over a two day span. I first sat by the northern side of the lake on the stone fence, to be aloof from what was transpiring in front of me. The second day I sat on the western side on the grass under the trees to get right in the middle of what was happening.…
The Divine Dramatist, written by Harry S. Stout contains an overview of the life of George Whitefield and accounts the rise of modern evangelism. The claim that the author makes is that George Whitefield is rightly labeled Anglo-America’s first modern celebrity. Throughout his book, Stout explains how the genius and passion of Whitefield helped the church. Specifically, in the eighteenth century, as there was a growing desire to see the inherited ideas of sermons come alive in ways that would compel the rapidly changing landscape of America. The book is comprised of an introduction as well as fifteen chapters outlining the life, work, and impact George Whitefield had on evangelicalism.…
Rhetorical Analysis In AP Language and Composition I had to write a variety of different essays. One of the assignments was to write a narrative. This is the first essay I chose to wrote and it was my best one. I later used the narrative as my best piece of writing for my senior project. I chose to use this narrative because I struggle with writing “normal essays”.…
Hello James! I really enjoyed reading your post and liked the way you have systematically summarized the article about managing emotions in medical school. I found this article a very interesting read, mainly because it gives us an insight to the way things work in a medical school and the hardships medical students go through in their course of study. Moreover, your example of dramaturgy in professions involving customer service is very relatable for me, since I also come from a profession that demands to place your customer/client first, at least in the front region to remain in face. I feel it is very natural for people in such professions to vent with their co-workers in the back region and laugh it off.…
Dramatic play is when children engage in activities that allows them to copy situations and actions of other people in their lives or use their imaginations to use common objects for exciting experiences of play or role play. I believe that assimilation, accommodation, the learning environment, cognitive development, and spatial sense play a large role in dramatic play. Assimilation is Piaget’s theory in which the children can physically touch, see, or experience something. While doing that, the children add the new information to their schemata. Assimilation plays a role in dramatic play, because when a child sees, touches, or experiences something new then they place that information into their schemata where they can refer back to it.…
Amanda Parks ENGL 102 Professor Kambic 2 November 2017 Hamlet-BBC Production 1. They looked at dozen different kinds of spaces around London. They wanted to find an environment which wouldn’t call attention to itself which wouldn’t seem like that we were all on location that would provide for the play what we described as vivid neutrality. We looked at a number of disused factories, we looked at a couple of big sellers, we looked at an old school, and wed then went to this place in Mill Hill called San Joseph’s college which being a seminary for a catholic missionaries, we wanted a location which was theatrical, we need a space that 23 people would be able to populate and it still look costly. As soon as Greg walked in to the main place it…
One convention of melodrama is the traditional melodramatic plot, best known as the 3p’s, is the provocation, pang and penalty. This is used to convey the plot of the melodrama’s. The provocation is the initial cause for setting the action in motion, often the jealousy or greed of a wicked character. The pang is the sufferings of the good and innocent characters who are in conflict with the evil. And the penalty is suffered by the wicked character in his or her evil ways in a last-minute reversal of fortune.…
Overcoming Tragedy “It’s part of life to have obstacles. It’s about overcoming obstacles, that’s the key to happiness”- Herbie Hancock. Tragedy is an event causing great suffering, depression, and distress. Lot’s of people in our world suffer tragedies. These tragedies can either be small and non-harmful or big and very harmful.…