Closing

In To Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Finch uses all three rhetorical devices to power his closing argument. These three devices are known as Logos, Ethos, and Pathos. Logos is an appeal to logic. Logical things are facts that are not arguable. Ethos works with credibility. Quoting a famous person can catch people's attention and falls in the ethos category. Lastly there is Pathos. Pathos is an appeal to the emotions. People using this can make you feel sad or happy depending on what they say, do,…

The Closing of the Bethlehem Steel The early 1980’s was a hard time for the working class of the city of Allentown. The closing of the Bethlehem Steel and other factories left a variety of individuals jobless and depressed. Residents knew that they had to leave the town, but they were still holding on to the glory that their parents were able to achieve there. The singer Billy Joel, in his song “Allentown” describes the struggle of the high unemployment rate, useless diplomas in the competitive…

Furthermore, Latino media in America also has a strong influence over how populations are perceived in a society. In “Closing the Telenovela’s Borders: Vivo por Elena’s Tidy Nation,” scholar Adriana Estill analyses Latino telenovelas as a platform where “nationality, nationalism, and Nation are produced and reproduced” (Estill 75). Through government involvement and censorship, telenovelas can create “an ideal space where the ideal citizen is constructed and disseminated” (Estill 85). Racial…

Proctor’s Closing Argument I, John Proctor, present myself to you as an innocent man. Yes, I have committed adultery, but that should not subject me to death. I have felt the guilt of my affair for many months since, yet never confessed for fear of losing my good name. I now stand before you, town of Salem, to right the wrongs that have been made and to put a stop to the witchcraft allegations made by none other than Abigail Williams and Mary Warren. My wife Elizabeth has done nothing but…

In this passage, Zadie Smith conveys a strong stance against the closing of libraries. She believes that libraries shouldn't be closed because they provide people with more than just books. To support her argument, she acknowledges counterclaims, uses logic, and uses emotion. To begin with, Smith addresses counterarguments to her claim. She acknowledges that, "... money is tight... and that libraries are not hospital beds and classroom size. But they are still a significant part of our…

Closing Mount Everest: Would you do it? Many people have argued about this topic for years. The debates are strong; with one side wanting to shut it down for people’s safety, while others want it to remain open to the public, for entertainment purposes. This argument leads to the question; Is participating in extreme sports such as mountaineering worth risking one’s life? The answer is yes. In the first place, many people want a sense of adventure in their lives, and sometimes can only get it…

In his 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom makes the case for what he describes as higher education failing democracy through an emphasis on historicism and relativism. This academic emphasis, for Bloom, creates a paradoxical restrictive freedom in the minds and hearts of students, leaving them without a moral compass, and creating a void that can easily be filled with demagoguery. Along the way, Bloom staunchly defends elitism and ethnocentrism, attacks feminism, and lays…

Case Study Paper In the book “Management” by Robert Krietchner and Carlene Cassidy they include a case study on General Electric’s John F. Welch Leadership Center of Crotonville in Ossining, New York. The case study titled, “Closing Case: Leadership Development GE-Style,” examines how GE veterans train internal and external business leaders to enhance their management skills. Executives and other organizational managers nominated to attend General Electric’s leadership center are treated to…

Diane Ravitch, wrote “The Facts about the Achievement Gap”, an excerpt from her book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools, published in 2013. Ravitch’s purpose is to convey the idea that closing the achievement gap doesn’t solely rely upon the schooling system. She explains how her argument stems from our unwillingness to improve the conditions of communities and how unconcerned we are about poverty. Ravitch uses enthralling…

In the essay “The Closing Of The American Mind” by George F. Will explains several universities banning students censorship of people’s certain viewpoints that they may have. Also by wasting students tuition money and wasting their time as well for them to get a better education for themselves by not being able to express their own valid opinions or ideas. Will mentions that administrators are making students mind their manners with good manners understood as conformity to liberal politics. He…