In an excerpt from his book, Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town (2005), Dale Maharidge utilizes numerous rhetorical appeals including ethos, pathos, mythos, and kairos to persuade the reader that the survival of small towns in Iowa depend on their capacity to accept immigrants. This book covers the history of a small town in western Iowa, Denison, and its unflattering historic past of hostility towards immigrants. He begins the book by…
Bailee: Good Morning Mrs. Lott, How are you? Sis. Lott: I’m pretty good, Bailee. Come in.…
At this point you’re feeling pretty desperate right? Well you should be since we have your beloved son. The man we have in our possession is just a pesky nuisance and we wouldn’t bat an eye if something terrible were to happen to him. However, seeing as he is a son and the father of two boys that’s not something you would like. Just imagine how sad and comfortless the children’s youth would be without a father figure, tragic isn’t it?…
English Diagnostic Essay Adam B. Summers wrote a persuasive editorial, “Bag Ban Bad for freedom and Environment,” using many persuasive details to make his argument. Summers is able to appeal and relate to his audience. The different tactics that Summers uses is rallying pronouns, hard, cold facts, and extensive support and diction. The author writes about how banning plastic bags is hurtful to the world and economy in many ways. With deliberate thought, Summers chooses words like “us” or “our”, in the first paragraph.…
JOINING THE FRAY: GARRET KEIZER’S LOADED LIBERAL WAKE UP CALL Published in Harper’s Magazine, Garret Keizer’s “Loaded” uses race as a way of demanding that, as citizens of the United States, we wake up from our progressive indifference. The brilliant author flips his intended audience’s liberal beliefs and uses it against them to successfully prove his point. The majority of Keizer’s essay is seemingly about the gun debate. The lefty audience is likely to have strong anti-gun opinion, whereas Keizer subtly shares that he is pro-gun and owns a shotgun.…
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.…
Bernie Sander's political ad fits the Aristotle's model of rhetoric and all three constituents are present. He used logic to explain why affordable education is vital for the betterment of our country. The problem(exigence) is the lack of affordable education for the poor who don't have the opportunity to attend college. Sanders used Aristotles artistic proof in order to talk about the issue and persuade the audience. The audience will be the one to help change by voting for Bernie Sanders so that free public colleges and universities can become a possibility.…
There are many ways that people in positions of power influence society. Whether it’s someone who is a preacher like Jonathan Edwards that influence the behavior of their congregation, or sSomeone like Patrick Henry who used his position of wealth in Virginia to preach the idea of liberty from Britain in Colonial America. They all seem to have one thing in common, they all use rhetoric in some shape or form in their orations to their audiences. How Jonathan Edwards used rhetoric used was he heavily relied on pathos to influence the people in his church to stop sinning and start repenting. He said things like “You hang by a slender thread with flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to burn it asunder.”…
Ben Wiseman incorporated a great use of rhetorical and literary devices which made his essay very effective. Informal essays must have a distinct tone and voice which was seen clearly throughout the whole essay. Wiseman’s position on teenagers and technology was illustrated through the many rhetorical devices he used such as quotes, rhetorical questions and anecdotes and was portrayed in an easy to follow format and diction that hooked the audience. The structure of his essay was very logical.…
Time is a “social process of coordinating two or more human activities by reference to an external marker.” What we think of time is in reference to the qualities of these markers. There is evidence that suggests that time is socially constructed, it has changed over history, it differs among societies, and it seems to have become a reality. Time has changed over history. There was a period in which everyone had different…
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.…
Procrastination affects many people, I even procrastinated writing this paper. The ways that it affects us can be different, sometimes procrastination doesn’t affect us too much, but other time it can cause major health risks such as, stress or depression. Recognizing this, Tim Urban presented a Ted Talk on procrastination and the dangers it can have. In his Ted Talk “Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator”, Urban used pathos with a minimal amount of logos and ethos to express his message to his to the audience. Urban also used pictures to support his use of pathos.…
“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.…
Procrastination Have you ever waited until last minute to write a paper, then realized you weren't going to be able to turn it in on time? What is it about procrastinating that is so addictive? “The Science Behind Our Urge to Procrastinate,” is an article written by Alena Hall, that talks about what causes us to procrastinate, and how we can overcome it. Procrastination is something that I personally struggle with, and I thought this article brought up some good points, and did a thorough job explaining the scientific reasoning behind it. Procrastinating is a universal problem, as many as 20 percent of people consider themselves chronic procrastinators (Jaffe, 2013).…
Time is in motion. On the digital clock, time is static. A number. A now.” (Time Ain’t Money, Douglas Rushkoff, pg. 114).…