Rhetoric

How often do we think about death or the process of death? I know, kind of a morbid subject, right? Death is just another part of life, and yet as a society we fear it. I never thought much about death or my own morality until I watched Six Feet Under. I chose to analyze Six Feet Under because I was impressed by how the show dealt with homophobia and grief in such realistic ways. I’ve decided to analyze the show using narrative criticism and rhetorical analysis. Narrative criticism deals with…

A professional is an individual who is engaged or qualified in a profession that normally requires extensive training and a formal qualification. Similarly, a discourse community is a group of people who are engaged in a skill or profession that requires several qualifications to enter. Per John Swales, a discourse community requires six characteristics to become a community. These six attributes are related to the ones that make up a profession. These six characteristics are for the…

The Mercedes Benz’ “Close to Our Hearts” advertisement utilizes professional rhetoric to alter it’s audience’s mood with auditory and visual cues in order to evoke emotions and thoughts that tie the company and audience together in hopes that the audience may be persuaded to purchase a new vehicle. Because this is a marketing strategy by Mercedes Benz to connect with consumers, it is fairly obvious that the speaker in this commercial is the brand themselves. With Mercedes propagation of this…

Motivating, that’s a word that describes Bernard Roth very well. Dr. Bernard Roth has touched the lives of many people. He is a longtime faculty member of Stanford University’s Design school. The PhD holder has educated young college students to professionals in the workforce. In his first chapter of The Achievement Habit, Roth clearly states that “Nothing is what you think it is" (Roth 13). does an impeccable job at convincing readers about this key point in the chapter one of his book.…

More than once a day in the Unites States there is a shooting that wounds or kills at least four people (LaFraniere, Cohen, Oppel, 2015, para. 1). In response to the Orlando shooting that killed 49 people and wounded another 53 actor and writer Aziz Ansari wrote and published an article to the New York Times on June 24, 2016 titled “Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family.” In this article Ansari writes about the Orlando shooting the response of presidential candidate Donald Trump. Ansari also…

German supermarket chain EDKEKA’s Christmas advertisement sends its viewers on an emotional rollercoaster. The ad begins with an elderly man receiving a voicemail from his daughter informing that she and her family will not be able to make in town for Christmas. While listening to this voicemail, hearing his daughter and granddaughters voices, he is watching his neighbor greets his family for the holiday through the window. As the ad continues, scenes of the man cooking and eating a Christmas…

King’s speech was so successful because of the tense social mood at the time. It gave black activists hope and a vision of the future while it made whites humiliated of their actions causing them to turn over a new leaf by helping the movement become successful. King’s speech lasted just 17 minutes, but in that 17 minutes he was able to influence the actions of generations to come. King carefully structures his speech to appeal to the different types of audience, supporting it with the three…

The purpose of my writing project was to educate my audience on what rhetorical analysis is, how it is used in our daily lives, and how having a greater understanding of it makes for better writing. My audience for the project consisted of undergraduate college students like myself, specifically first-years, who use the website Writingspaces.org, to enhance their writing ability. I felt that the best part of my paper was my rhetorical analysis of Apple. It acts as a great example of how to…

American icon. He helped create a society filled with technological advances no person could have ever imagined. In 2005, Jobs presented a commencement speech at Stanford University that captured the hearts of many people through his use of emotion and rhetoric. By breaking down his speech into three parts he was able to develop one overlying theme, never give up until you find something you love. The three stories he decided to share included connecting the dots, love and loss, and death. His…

William Davies, author of "The Age of Post-Truth Politics", writes in the public discourse on account of the current sociopolitical ambiance for the general populace. The intention of this piece is to discuss the trend once again breaking out of spinning the truth to create advantages on behalf of the proponent or disadvantage for the opponent. It is a professional piece critiquing, specifically, political parties for their twisting of the truth instead of relying on data to convince the…