John Phillips

Ted Talks’ speaker and journalist Stephanie Busria is able to capture the audience’s attention in “How Fake News Does Real Harm” by delivering a true cautionary tale on the effects of fake news has society. The speaker’s strategic rhetoric allows the audience to be taken up enough to listen to her story. This then leads to believing the story and acting on it. Busria’s rhetoric follows the same script. She uses certain phrases in her statement to established credibility with the audience, which…

John Locke was a philosopher from England. His beliefs included that people are naturally unselfish and have natural rights. He also believed that all men are created equally and no man has more power than another man. Locke also thought that men give up their power to a government, or an appointed organization, which have political power over them. The point of a government is to protect its people. Locke believed that if a government acts out of line and in their own self-interest, the people…

The opportunity of having a friend in such hard times is a privilege and something to be valued. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, George, a migrant worker, and Lennie, a migrant worker, have been given the privilege of traveling around together and having somebody to talk to. Based on the 1930s during the Great Depression migrant workers were caught in an era of extreme loneliness, but George and Lennie were not. They were friends with dreams of becoming partners in owning a farm together…

that went against normality at this time. Almost all men traveled alone, suspicious of anyone and everyone--but George and Lennie had a strong bond and a close friendship, one of which many other men could not understand. This is why the two men in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men represent the beauty of friendship. Set on a small ranch in the countryside where George and Lennie begin their new jobs, there are many conflicts and problems right off the bat. Curley, the…

Paulina 1 The Crucible Essay Assignment Me. Moorhouse English 11 Period 1 Imagine being accused of something in which you are innocent and that it is also something adulterated. This happened to a group of people who were accused of witchcraft in Salem around the year 1632. The people of this group were Puritans, who were people whose lives were devoted to the laws of God, so the Seven Deadly Sins were present to them. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, he speaks of this subject, he…

Name Yogesh Niroula Professor Abshire ENGL 1301-71048 27 September 2017 Compare and Contrast between Singing and Painting Considering the art scene globally, music and painting come across as the most visible arts that most people can relate. “Singing, the production of musical tones by means of the human voice. In its physical aspect, singing has a well-defined technique that depends on the use of the lungs, which act as an air supply, or bellows; on the…

To end a life is to end a person’s essence. John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men to characterize the struggle of migrant workers in the 1930s. George and Lennie are friends who travel to make a living to create a dream that George fostered in his mind. Lennie is an individual who has a mind that is very childlike and innocent. They work in a farm where they buck barley to make a living. They have a couple of problems which puts them in an jam. The major problem is when Lennie kills a woman.…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter portrays a profoundly psychologically encompassing tale of heartache and struggle in a Puritan society during the mid-nineteenth century. The characters in the novel exhibit an array of emotional and physical responses caused by the guilt, the public and self-condemnation, and the retribution of their sins. The adulterous act committed by Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale became the catalyst for the resulting grief felt by all in the small…

as a metaphorical statement against the spread of McCarthyism during the 1950s in America. In order to appeal to similar feelings and experience in his audience, a critical tone is adopted. Miller begins his allegorical play by acknowledging that John Proctor tries to obtain an understanding among parties in a discussion by pointing out simple facts. In Act 1 with Reverend Parris and further in the text with Putnam Miller displays this. A logical…

Peter Singer begins his argument on Famine, Affluence, and Morality with heart wrenching facts and statements about disasters happening all over the world but more specifically, East Bengal. He claims people are dying in East Bengal from lack of food, shelter, and medical care. The relentless poverty, a cyclone, and a civil war turned at least nine million people into refugees. Singer further explains that the richer nations have enough money to completely fix this issue and still have a…