Simon Jenkins

Should Obama apologize for Hiroshima? This question has been roaming around remaining unanswered for a while until a man named Simon Jenkins arrived. In the article “Obama should not apologise for Hiroshima. He should heed its lessons”, Simon Jenkins persuades his intended audience through his powerful pleas to pathos, ethos, and logos. Throughout his article, Jenkins effectively uses every rhetorical element in order to convey his ideas to the target audience which in this case is Obama, who is…

The smoking ban First article “Benefits of smoke ban will be felt at once” is from The Observer and written by Robin McKie. The writer is obviously in favor of the smoking ban, he claims that it is necessary to act against smoking in public legally. McKie supports his opinion about the prohibition on smoking in public with investigations from Scotland, Ireland and America. These studies show that people’s health has improved substantially in different places and countries over a short stretch of…

inequalities (Jenkins, 1992, p.284; Gines, 2011, p.275). This belief led to a verbal argument with another user, Helen, who strongly disagrees with NicoleAlexis’ views (Our Shared Shelf, 2016). Helen seems to be influenced by the emotional proximity that she feels towards Watson, which leads her insult those who do not support her views (Jenkins, 1992, p.284). This is linked to another feature, which Jenkins discusses: fandoms have notable critical and interpretive practices (Jenkins, 1992,…

esteemed American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was originally published in 1925 but only became popular during World War ll. Since then the book has reached critical acclaim and is widely considered a fundamental literary classic. Adapted to the stage by Simon Levy, “The Great Gatsby” follows the story of an enigmatic millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and his epic pursuance of his true love Daisy Buchanan. With controlling husbands, lavish parties, and luxurious cars, Gatsby contests to win Daisy’s…

He invented units of pleasure and pain, hedons, and dolors, to work out "the greatest happiness of the greatest number”.” (Jenkins) The also knows as the utility calculus, the hedonistic calculus, and the hedonic calculus, is in a certain way, an algorithm to weight the amount of happiness that a decision might bring to your life. In this case, abortion might bring a relief to…

Imagine someone in your family is diagnosed with a terminal disease. There is no chance of them surviving and they constantly suffer with chronic pain. Now imagine you can do something to end their pain. Wouldn’t you do it? This is one of the many positive aspects of physician assisted suicide; the administration of lethal drugs to end someone’s life. The opposition claims that this method is sacrilegious and does not comply with God’s will. However, the option of assisted suicide allows…

Would you enjoy seeing a thirteen year old receiving a life sentence on your TV as breaking news? Stating reasons like, children do not know between right and wrong, they live in such a different mindset or argue that these children are not yet considered adults under the law. Though, those who oppose can lay out the case that kids do know the differences between right and wrong. The opposing side may not be very much open to the idea that children would be able to have not as strong of a…

The concept of race in society refers to a group of people who have identical innate biological traits, then which society associates and compiles genetic similarities together into ‘races’. How and who you are raised by influences your thoughts and opinions on race, throughout your childhood, one might have overheard comments about an inferior race. Which would impact the ideologies of the race and culture, generation after generation. In the three coming to age films that I have reviewed, I…

Video Games: Who is The Real Killer? On April 20 1999, a terrible event took place. Two young men, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, went into their high school with deadly weapons, and killed 15 people including themselves. Both of the killers had something in common: they enjoyed playing the video game Doom (Vail). Was it video games that turned them into killers, or was there another underlying problem? Is society too quick to blame violent video games for this attack and many others like it?…

Biblical Criticism is forming a judgement to find the meaning, significance and to look for the hidden meaning. Through the process of Bible criticism you are lead to evaluate, identify, analyse, explain, compare and understanding connections between ideas. Biblical Criticism assists the reader in understanding the bible as it helps them to explore the biblical text in its historical, cultural, literacy and religious context in an attempt to discover the authors meaning for the audience.…