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Words can be very manipulative and persuasive, if used right, they can be used to get people to feel different emotions and make people do things. But also, they can be used to make people do things that they might not have ever done without hearing that speaker say what they said to them. Rhetorical and literary devices are included when people are trying to persuade and manipulate people to more effectively change peoples minds. In certain situations, this can lead to really bad endings and…

Summary and Analysis Assignment Summary of Lutz and Birk’s Essays In William Lutz’s “Weasel Words: The Art of Saying Nothing at All,” he describes to the reader the different kinds of “weasel” words that are often used by advertisers. Weasel words are words that seem to be making a claim, but can be interpreted in several ways by people. One of the weasel words the author discusses is the word “help.” William Lutz informs the reader that the word “help” in advertisements doesn’t necessarily…

From a narratological point of view, a text may have certain stylistic indications of unreliable narration. According to Nünning, some of the most evident stylistic clues to narrative unreliability are “frequent occurrences of speaker-oriented and addressee-oriented expressions” (97). A narrator’s reliability is doubted if he/she is an obvious monologist, talking mostly about him/herself and ignoring the views of other characters. Stylistically, then, Tambu’s narrative reliability is challenged.…

What do we know? Philosophers, for many years, have try to define what "knowledge" is or how can someone be sure to know something. After many discussions, they have come up with a concept where in order for someone to know something, three components must be present at all times, but also have enough support when standing individually. This theory is known as the JTB Theory or Justified True Belief Theory. This concept has been challenged by Edmund Gettier's paper in 1963: ''Is Justified True…

If some Duffs are Puffs and no Puffs are Cuffs, the statement, “Therefore, some Duffs are not Cuffs” would be a correct statement. There is one way a person can solve this style of problem. That is the concept of syllogistic reasoning. Syllogistic reasoning is used when problems have an answer that is based off of relationships among the categories within the question (286). When first looking at this problem, one must first identify the wording in the sentences talking about the relationships…

The authors speculated that the painting ‘Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet’ was not a painting of Rembrandt’s by mentioning that it missed or deviated from his style – inconsistent dress, inappropriate mix of light and shadow, and glued wood. The professor, on the other hand asserts that it Rembrandt’s painting except that some people had worked on it to improve the grandeur of the painting. Firstly, the reading mentions that the woman (looked like servant as per the reading) in…

Logical fallacies are part of everyday life, whether we notice them or not. Fallacies are the mistakes in our reasoning. One common fallacy is false analogy. In a false analogy, two objects, events or people that aren’t typically related, are shown to be similar. An example of this would be comparing object A to object B. If object A has property C, and object B has property C, objects A and B must be the same thing. An analogy fails when the two objects are different in a way which affects…

Bones is a television show based on solving murder mysteries by identifying out of place markings on the human skeleton. The episode “The Bump in the Road” is about body found in the middle of the highway and the efforts that are gone through to find the murderer. By watching an episode of Bones, “The Bump in the Road”, I was able to recognize the bones talked about in the episode, and even the anatomical landmarks on those bones. During this episode of Bones, the team of experts was trying…

The twelve year old girl should get the liver because her liver damage was caused by someone else's mistakes and not by her own doing. She is an innocent child who has been poisoned by accident by her father who had misidentified a certain form of mushrooms and fed them to her. The former basketball star drank himself into this situation. If the former basketball star was given the liver who would be ridiculed for the rest of his life and be known only as the man who took a liver from a little…

In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar Mark Antony’s speech is more persuasive than the one Brutus gives because he uses better tactics and more powerful rhetoric. In his speech Brutus uses gravitas and ethos which in the end backfires because it makes his speech less relatable and portrays him as better than the plebeians. Mark Antony gives his speech after Brutus and he uses this to his advantage by using verbal irony and more specially sarcasm. Mark Antony uses pathos and exaggeration to…