Ashton kutcher shows the most effort into being heroic, this speaker shows the qualities of a hero being sincere and solemn his showing that he cares for the children. His program,tool called spotlight has proven that it can find children from the deep web and human trafficking , but the program is not complete so that's why he is asking the government for money so he can complete it . one day the government had asked him for help to find this 15 year old child he had to say no it had devastated him for the next 3 months, so now if they ask him for help again he will say yes because now he will have the completed program to find them. His tool can be used for law enforcement his tool will get smarter over time so that means more…
Have you ever fallen for strategies to a producer that is trying to make you buy his product? Usually, consumers are obvious to the strategies that are used to persuade them into products. In this article, the author of The Onion mocks rhetorical strategies that consumer’s often fall for when buying an item. By using different strategies to the audience, the author hopes to expand consumer’s knowledge so they won't be fooled. Using these strategies help marketers to sell their product easier without questions.…
This video effectively conveys its message. It is clear what the argument is and an assortment of evidence and techniques that successfully supports the points made and expands on them. There is no shadow thesis to read between. The message is given in a satirical video but is still clear and simple if you understand satire and if not, it’s clear what Pendleton is trying to express - give people homes and you end homelessness. Lloyd Pendleton delivers this message factually with information to back up his claims (evidence throughout the video not just him talking) and is a seemingly trustworthy man as he is the director of the homeless task force.…
On Slate’s online blog, Outward, Izzy Rode’s article titled No More Women’s Rooms: Why Bathrooms Should All Be Gender-Neutral has an ineffectively crafted argument for the audience due to the lack of argumentative strength because Rode does not commit to their opinion enough to convince the reader. Their argument could have been more powerful if they had argued against their rebuttal better; the opposing perspectives have almost more strength than their own. In order to appeal to their audience, Rode uses a series of rhetorical devices and appeals such as logos, ethos, and pathos to convey their argument. Izzy Rode is a professional writer for Slate’s online blog, Outward. They have previously written multiple articles for Outward as well.…
I will be analyzing The Dangers of Digital Distractedness by Lauren Shinozuka on page 145 of Writing Arguments. This article claims that technology is harming society because it promotes an unproductive habit of multitasking, dehumanizes our relationships, and encourages a distorted self-image. I will be examining the various types of rhetorical strategies and evidence the author uses and how effective they are at persuading the reader in this article. This article uses not so much ethos, but plenty of pathos and logos.…
In today’s day and age, authors strategically utilize different rhetorical strategies to support their viewpoints and draw in their target audience. In the articles, “Is Google Making Students Stupid?” by well renowned journalist and cultural critic Nick Romeo, “Is The Internet Making Us Dumber, Smarter, Or Just Different?” by journalist Luke O’Neil, “Addiction” by Principal Researcher at Microsoft danah boyd, and “Addicted to Distraction” by CEO and founder of The Energy Project Tony Schwartz, the authors share their views on the correlation between technology and teens of the 21st century. All four articles present their target audience with convincing arguments through Rhetorical strategies such as process analysis, exemplification,…
Complexity of Emotion: Why Violence in the Media Must Remain Unregulated Media enables humans to express emotions and experiences unique to the species. No other creature thinks, understands, or feels at nearly the same level, and as such, they show what feelings they do have impulsively and without dignity. Writing and filmmaking allows humans to rise above all this, supporting a nonaggressive approach to conveying intense emotion. A writer recreates these emotions in a work by inventing an act of violence. Humans psychologically must be able to freely express whatever emotions they have, even violent ones, but some believe that fictitious violence in the media is insincere and should be more explicitly related to its potential consequences.…
In my case, the topic of visual rhetoric about environmental issues was the most interesting and loving section so far. It is the unavoidable and indispensable fact that we live in visual and image-based society and the world and we get accustomed to things have significant meanings and visual images. I think that seeing with materials with images will be much easier way to understand and this could be easier way to make attention from diverse people. People break complicated or unfamiliar things about environmental issues down and they can have imagination and prediction in their mind and brain. Political scientist Murray Edelman (1964) stressed that “Such symbols are able to “condense into one symbolic event or sign” powerful emotions, memories,…
Is Ghostbusters (2016) a racist, sexist movie? While researching the topic of social responsibilities of popular culture creators, I found the ongoing backlash against the rebooted movie Ghostbusters (2016) a vivid example. Long before the official Ghostbusters trailers were released, controversies against its casting, storytelling and production had already been heated on social media. Bringing together two sources in this essay, an review article by John Nolte and the official poster of Ghostbusters (2016), I will present one example of society’s concerns about the movie’s sexism and racism through analyzing rhetorical strategies used in the two sources and how the images presented in the poster was interpreted and responded by Nolte.…
The Four Resource model was created by Freebody and Luke in the 1990s as previous literacy models were essential, but not sufficient. Previous approaches include the skills approach, whole language approach and genre approach (Anstey, 2002). The Four Resource model assists with the development of the ability to analyse tasks, solve problems, identify resources and self monitor which are essential to being a competent reader (Anstey, 2002). This model aims for balanced content for the development of resources used in reading practices (code breaker, meaning maker, text user and text analyst) (Anstey, 2002).…
Konnikova: Do You Wanna Build a Blockbuster? When persuading an audience, it is important to establish credibility, exercise the ability to connect to an audience emotionally, and to establish logical reasoning by providing substance to an argument. In “How Frozen Took Over the World”, Maria Konnikova utilizes pathos and logos, to explain how Frozen was able to encapture our culture through various factors. Konnikova uses pathos by creating a casual tone while comparing and relating situations to connect with her audience and provides statistical and anecdotal evidence for the various factors that influenced the popularity of Frozen to establish her authority while providing a logical appeal.…
Trighton Warren Mrs. Grilli AP Lang Period 3 3 August 2015 “Amusing Ourselves to Death” Summer Assignment When writing any novel, the first chapter is extremely important because it must be written in such a way that it gives the reader a reason to read the book. In “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business” by Neil Postman, Postman effectively uses different rhetorical devices to get his message across. In Postman’s first chapter, “The Medium is the Metaphor”, Postman identifies the “discourse” of generations and compares our country’s ambitions to the city of Las Vegas.…
“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.…
Social media has many negative effects on teen’s self-esteem. I support the ideas of the researchers who show that social media gives off negative connotations. In this selfie culture we have today many teens has two different lifestyles such as the internet persona and their physical human body. "We have a culture that conflates celebrity kinds of attention with being important and being heard," said Aimée Morrison, an associate professor of English specializing in new media studies at the University of Waterloo. ”(Clarke).…
In a time when society is more egocentric than ever, people must resist or conform to a form of life that revolves strongly around knowing what everybody is doing all the time through social media platforms. Ms. Ham and Mr. Standage focus on how trends draw people out of their normal social interactions and into a world that seemingly revolves around themselves (We Shall Overshare, Mary Ham 280). Their focus upon the false sense of attention that people get from sharing about themselves shows how the audience in each article should be able to relate to this kind of situation. The world that people live in today is full of self-centered beings that seek only to grab attention for themselves and distancing themselves from their friends and family…