Spokane’s mission/vision statement states that very thing. Theirs starts by saying “In the year 2000…” which clearly sets the stage for what it is they want to accomplish, how they plan to do it, and ultimately commits them to revisit their document again for revision and reflection. Did they do what they say they were going to? If not, why? And how do they change that?…
Joe Edwards, Senior Accountant at Estep Doctor & Company, presented to the Beta Alpha Psi fraternity on Monday, September 19th. Edwards provided the audience with valuable information about CPA exam. Edwards began with talking about the four different sections and what they entailed. He discussed the upcoming changes that will be made to the exam during 2017, influencing the majority of our members. Edwards also contributed helpful tips on how to best prepare for the CPA exam, along with techniques that he found to be successful and others that were not as successful.…
In the year 1971,a group of people from Media, Pennsylvania did something that no one thought anyone would dare do. A group of activists broke into a FBI office stole all the files and then released all of the FBI's illegal activities shown in the files to the public. They were never caught or convicted of their crime and because of their crime the general populace were told the truth about what the FBI was planning to do.1 Even though they committed a crime, was their crime morally acceptable, or even necessary? There is no doubt that the robbers of Media, Pennsylvania(RMP) committed a crime. The question at hand is, is it morally justified?…
Everyone who owns a television has seen the “Somewhere in America” commercial, which was published by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at least once. This commercial is full of emotions and most people, “Always change the channel because they can’t take it anymore,” (McLachlan). Most of the depressing aspects of this commercial is the pictures because the dogs and cats are all beaten up and suffering from something. As a matter of fact, they are trying to make the audience feel sympathetic so they can join the ASPCA. The ASPCA tries to encourage audience monetary donation by using ethos by their tone, logos and pathos from the pictures and the statistics.…
Richard & Lockhart (1994) point out that to distinguish a lesson from other speech events, the lesson should have a recognizable structure, which starts with an evident open activity that engages the students; it moves on a series of teaching and learning activities until it reaches a conclusion. Richard & Lockhart (1994) suggests that the teacher should do something to engage the students what was evidenced in the observed class. The Educator opened the lesson asking two questions in Spanish “¿a quién le gustan los animales?” and “¿quién tiene animales en la casa?” what allow the students to activate their prior knowledge regarding the animals.…
Irony is everywhere. We use it in our everyday speech as sarcasm. We see it in the shows and movies we watch. It is even in the books we read. In ""the Future of Luxury," "There Will Come Soft Rains," and "Harrison Bergeron" there is lots of irony to be found In "The Future of Luxury", the very things that we now take for granted, are what the author claims will become luxuries in the future.…
In the video, Linda Hammond, stated students, “…need opportunities that are well-structured to allow them to learn those skills and to try different aspects of it.” This was very accurate. Data collected from the formative assessment showed several areas that students did not have critical background knowledge. Students need opportunities in which they will be able to practice the skills they are lacking. Warm up class activities will focus on the skills students are lacking on a daily basis maximizing student learning opportunities.…
Throughout The Crucible, there were a plethora of rhetorical elements used in order to convey the multiple themes that could be interpreted from the storyline. John Proctor, a character in The Crucible, shows common rhetorical tools through his dialogue in the story. The most notable examples are ethos and pathos. The way he uses both of these tools play on each other in the storyline. While contemplating the storyline, ethos and pathos stood out to me the most compared to other rhetorical tools used in The Crucible.…
He highlights the vast unfairness by telling tales of grief from stoic immigrant families, examples being, “no fair-minded person with a knowledge of the facts can say the Jews or Detroit are a menace to the city’s or the country’s well being” (Clancy, 2), as well as “they bear up under the terrific strain of life and work in busy Detroit.” (Clancy, 2) He discusses this hard to swallow topic in order to bring together Americans of all kinds as a single entity with a single voice. This sharing of tragedy brings forth a feeling of guilt from those who are used to taking the hard working immigrants for…
Rhetorical Analysis: The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a novel written in 2009 by Kathryn Stockett that has been featured on the New York Time’s best-sellers list. The story is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s and tells the story of black maids working in white households. The story addresses issues such as racism and gender equality roles.…
Go into paragraph and talk about how before white males were in power blah blah and how Lincoln wanted to abolish south leaders altogether and how at first American society was not really a democracy at all and how this info in the whole paragraph is America moving one step closer to democracy. In McPherson’s book, he refers to the economic environment of the South as being a slave reliant one in which it greatly depended on its predominantly agriculture and plantation systems, while the North focused more on equality and the rights of the people. African Americans began demonstrating political resistance and acting out against their white slave owners during the Civil War. When Lincoln came into office, the Freedmen’s Bureau surfaced which…
In the House of the Lord, a man appears to be walking down the aisle to arrive at the pulpit to serve as the connoisseur of the Bible. He wears a long black trench coat and sets down his notes on the podium. He stares out onto his followers and beings reading in a monotone voice. Although people should be uninterested in this man, he captures their attention. He entrances his audience.…
The documentary starts off with the testing of the first Atomic Bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico on July 14th, 1945. The weapon was originally intended for use against the Germans but since there surrender in early June the bomb has been reassigned for use against Japan as a way to avoided island hopping a full-scale invasion. The bomb was a part of the famous Manhattan project and cost 3 years and 2 million dollars to build. At the test in Los Alamos, it vaporized the tower it was dropped from, and turn the sand into the glass as the equivalent of 67 pounds of TNT exploded with very intense heat. The test became a success and was ready to be used in the war against japan.…
“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.…
When analyzing Chesterton’s humor, the question must be asked, ‘Is this just flippancy?’ Chesterton himself said that he despised flippancy, so we can deduce that he certainly did not intend his humor to be flippant. But to form a balanced opinion, it is necessary to also consult other sources. C. S. Lewis also despised flippancy, and in his discussion of Chesterton’s humor, he maintains that it was neither flippancy, nor “’jokes’ inbedded in the page like currants in a cake… but the humor which is not in any way separable from the argument but is rather (as Aristotle would say) the ‘bloom’ on dialectic itself.” Chesterton did not add humor to his writing purely for the sake of being funny or for any other reason except that he considered it the best vehicle for the truths he was presenting.…