Sirota Shortly before the controversial billboard was taken down just a couple of days later, an article written by David Sirota, titled “ Kenneth Cole Gets Schooled” appeared in the liberal political and current affairs website, Salon. In this writing, he criticizes the fashion designer Kenneth Cole and his company’s use of adopting a slogan that dealt with a national debate over unions, particularly teachers, in hopes of capitalizing off of the public’s reaction and response. By exploring the factors that explains the formation of the union such as the education system and accountability, Sirota’s article displays a firm but biased and partial argument in the importance of unions and their role in the education system. A strength within the essay lies in his varied choice of rhetorical strategies.…
David Lazarus, of Los Angeles Times, argues for more gun regulations in response to the Las Vegas shooting by quoting reliable sources, asking forwarding questions, and focusing on other industries. Quoting provides decent evidence by giving direct support to the argument from other sources. Rhetorical questions work as an effective forwarding strategy, acting as transitions between one aspect of the argument and the next. Overall, Lazarus's argument was fairly effective, but focusing on different industries in the middle was not highly advantageous. A distinct difference exists between death caused by tobacco and death by guns.…
Mrs. Price believes it is Rachel’s sweater because Sylvia Saldivar said that it belongs to Rachel. Sylvia noticed that Rachel was quite skinny and thought she would fit the sweater. However, she also may not have liked Rachel so much so she decided to embarrass her. In Eleven, in lines 33-36 it says, “An ugly sweater like that, all raggedy and old, but Mrs. Price believes her.…
Bill Perry is terrified but the millennials aren't. Perry explains how millennials, mentioned to be the largest upcoming population, are “blissfully unaware” of a nuclear war that can possibly come our way. First of all, I think that millennials are unaware about the situation because it's brought up in a context of history. For example, we learned about the nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and can't believe a catastrophic event such as that would happen again. But as Perry directs his position, history repeats itself and with a greater effect, “Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War.”…
Wilson points out that Cory has put all his mind to playing football that he got permission papers to play. He shows that he stopped working to fulfill his dreams and what he is ambitious about. His father, Troy, gets mad at him for not working everyday. He also doesn’t want him to play football, which brings conflicts later on the play.…
I hope this email finds you well. This is Patrick Riley, assistant for Pastor Brooks this year for the Sociology and the bible class. First off, I want to thank all of you for your participation and bright minds this week. I'm checking with each of you to see if you had any questions about anything that we have learned thus far you'd like to ask Pastor Brooks. Or anything you would like further explanation about…
When you travel to another country you are usually subject to touring the foreign land from a particular point of view. The world is made up of a thousand voices all trying to melt together to find an accurate description of their respective homes and tourists’ getaways. While there are people who can argue with tourists back and forth about how their country is not what they think it is, you have people who go and travel to another country and write about the same place in another point of view. That’s what Evan Osnos, an American teacher who teaches in China did. He traveled with of group of Chinese tourists, after acclimating to the Chinese Culture, to Europe in order to try and form another view of a foreigners’ destination.…
Nike was founded in late 1960s and since it has been the leading sport selling product in America with its slogan “just do it”. Nike has thousands of advertisement, but this one stands out to me. To me it represent that Nike does not only make one pair of shoes for specific sport,but for all of them. The advertisement is trying to show consumers how yes, their product maybe expensive, but you will not only be using it for one sport or hobby. Sports is a big thing in the american culture, but to play a sport you need the equipment.…
In asserting that he has not written his book to extract revenge on his coworkers, Goldberg declares: "Anyone who writes a book to be vindictive is almost certainly insane.... my guess is it would be easier to give birth to triplets than write a book, especially if you've never written one before." (By this logic, perhaps Goldberg should have given birth to triplets and really made the network brass squirm.) This statement is unconvincing, though, since literary action was probably the best--if not only--avenue of retribution open to him. It is unclear to what extent anger steered Goldberg's pen (if he indeed wrote Bias for retaliation, he would certainly have had rationale) but even if he is sincere in his protestations of neutrality, could…
Why is unplanned pregnancy a thing? Why is abortion so wrong in this world or country today? These are unexplainable questions, split on the issue of abortion, some believe in abortion and see nothing wrong with it ,but others hate abortion and see it as taking away from God’s power and basing their campaigns against it as an “act of God” to bring life within you and give you the chance to be a mother but what if they aren’t financially stable enough? Or it just isn’t the right time for a child or another mouth to feed? There are many pros and cons that support both sides.…
My Heroes: Challenging Gender Stereotypes For centuries our world has been plagued by “old fashioned” ideals. Individuals everywhere have been isolated and criticized just for being themselves. The Public Service Announcement (PSA), “My Heroes” shadows two content kids throughout their excursions on Halloween night, while simultaneously challenging gender stereotypes. This particular PSA allows the viewer to observe the children through the parents eyes.…
In the essay titled “Ways of Seeing,” by John Berger, it is apparent that the author speaks to a higher class of academics that there is a subjective way people of today’s culture view things, including art. He contends that the socially accepted normality’s skew the perspective of the current generation and it is believed that there should be multiple ways of thinking instead of one. Though subtle at first glance, Mr. Berger uses the three key rhetorical strategies; logos, ethos, and pathos to develop a persuasive argument towards changing subjective observations. By tying in logical reason to support his claim, showing trustworthiness, and giving emotional persuasion, the Author uses all three rhetorical strategies to try and change certain subjective thinking.…
“A man who has given away a small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch, and map, and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the wilderness” (71). The national best selling book, “Into the Wild” written by Jon Krakauer tells the story about a man name Chris McCandless. The story takes place in 1990’s and tells the adventures of the a man who changes his name to Alex Supertramp. The story tells the readers of the book:all the different people he met on his journey, where he want and how he died. As the author writees about Chris’s life and his connections with the story he includes many different types of writting styles including rhetoricstragides.…
During my first week of WRD 103 we discussed what the basics of writing a Rhetoric Analysis. We learned to pay close attentions to the author’s tone, diction and use of rhetorical appeal ,(logos. ethos, pathos) and how the use of these literary devices worked to convey the authors message to the reader. After an introduction on how to analyze an authors work we were assigned our own Rhetorical analysis paper. For this assignment we picked an optioned article and had to analyze it’s rhetoric appeal.…
"Pride and prejudice" by Jane Austen Jane Austen’s valuable treatise Pride and Prejudice exemplifies various kinds of marriages; however, leaves the readers with the impression that marriages of suitability and love are the ones to be wished for. Pride and Prejudice falls in the genre of romantic and sentimental novels of the eighteenth century. In the first three chapters of the novel, every situation and incident of the plot advances the progress of the story. The chapters contain gentle and subtle irony and satire. While the style employed by Jane Austen is transparent and simple, the language used by the characters of the story often reveals their personalities.…