Onion

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. In the mock press release published by The Onion, the author explains how consumer’s are lured into products too easily by…

The first article, “The Onion's Tips for Applying to College”, makes fun of the college application process and how college can be very selective, making them more likely to accept those with higher grades or interesting activities participated in. Such as, having “Boring last names will put your application on the bottom of the pile.” (Bolton). In reality, colleges would not be selective based on names but the article exaggerates the application process. The article contains verbal irony…

and wrath. Each of these seven deadly sins were briefly demonstrated in the article titled, The Onion. The first of the deadliest sins that were described in The Onion article was pride. The definition of pride can be referred to as “the engine of achievement”, meaning that it is the great feeling of power you get when you achieve a goal (The Seven Deadly Sins). An example of pride provided in The Onion states “My cookies, cakes, and brownies are always the highlight of our church bake sales,…

The Onion One day I was at my house. When my mom said that Mikki is coming over. So I asked “ Is Emily and Marleigh coming to “and she said “yes”. When they finally arrived we played for awhile. When we were done, we made some s'mores. After that we went inside and my sister Katelynn had music on. Our parents were outside and I was doing my homework. When I was doing my homework Marleigh came up to. When she came up to me she asked me “is that a onion” so I said “yes”. After me telling her…

stressors emerged from, financial adversity, racism, and absent fathers (Usha George, Mary S. Thomson, Ferzan Chaze, and Sepali Guruge, 2015). The Onion peeling theory provides a rich source of complex ideas for exploring client's inner lives, emphasizing insight and change. Most of these stressors have psychological effects which can be analyzed by the Onion peeling…

talk on it, to let the whole world know about it. The dark net roughly started in 2004. Mike discovered it was originally made for the Military in the 1990’s. The router the dark net used is the TOR router. TOR stands for “The Onion Router”. They name it this because like an onion the dark net has many hidden layer. Mike had a hard time getting on the dark net at first, but he eventually figured out a way to get in. Now he was in, he wanted to try to…

the newly developed Deep Web, a secret, little-known easily accessible resource in purchasing illegal drugs and pharmaceuticals. This backdoor allows for users to purchase illicit products without being caught through a shroud of encryption. “The Onion Router” (TOR), is used as the primary source of camouflage for users, concealing an individual’s IP address. TOR makes finding the identity of users almost untraceable. Having to work around online surveillance measures, TOR reroutes IP addresses…

In the story Buried Onions, Gary Soto uses the end of the story to reveal his purpose for writing his story. On the final page of the story Soto writes “‘Hey, man I seen you before.’” One of them grinned, the one from Cuca’s restaurant. My god, I thought. My wounds hurt, my lungs were on fire.I was overwhelmed with sorrow. I realized I had trudged over onions, acrs of buried onions.” This is said when our main character Eddie decides to join the military to get away from his impoverished life in…

How did the onion travel in the past? The title of this poem The Traveling Onion captivated me at the first sight and left me questioning. Naomi, the author of the poem, quotes the history of the onion from Better Living Cookbook as a prologue to open the following discussion. It first originated in India, then crossing Egypt, Greece, and Italy and finally spreading to the world. Apart from such a rich historical experience, what is so special about the onion? Metaphorically, the onions stand…

The Onion in Me People have a tendency to look remarkably like their pets. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t look much like Onion; her round blue eyes, stubby legs, and short squished snout are all but alien to my own features. On the outside, I bear practically no resemblance to my feline friend. Yet on the inside I hope that I look even remotely as beautiful as she does. Onion was only 2 months old, a furry ball of snow, vulnerable and fragile in the arms of a giant. She didn’t eat,…