Visual rhetoric

Bradley Hammer writes an argument focused on the question of what writing medium should be used nowadays to teach effectively composition classes. His aim is to prove that classes of composition should use the mediums available today, rather than maintaining the same old format that does not favor students’ expression. Hammer supports that with our world that is constantly evolving, it is imperative for composition classes to embrace the new ways of communication that technology brought to our…

In William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” Mark Antony unleashes a powerful speech during Caesar’s funeral, aiming to persuade the people of Rome that Brutus was fallacious to kill Caesar and that they should avenge his death. In Antony’s oration, he argues his case against Brutus by using the rhetorical strategies of Ethos, Pathos and Logos to manipulate his audience to be on his side, rather than Brutus’s side. These three persuasion tools allow his audience to connect with him and he is…

Speeches given from Great heroes are renowned for rallying the people to act for or against a cause, speeches such as I Have a Dream, to movies such as Brave Heart, in his War speech. Yet, a speech that shouldn’t be forgotten in time is Charley Chaplin’s speech in his movie The Dictator. In the concluding scene where he gives his final speech to explain persuade the people of Germania, that they are deceived by a tyrant who is leading them down a terrible path. There will only be negative…

“Black and Blue or White and Gold?” Sometimes our perception of things is affected by what we choose to see. For my rhetorical analysis, I will be focusing on is the advertisement above by CareHaven and The Salvation Army. This advertisement is depicting a woman that has supposedly been in an abusive relationship or been recently abused, and she is wearing the illusive “dress”, that swept the internet, with the dress’ true colors being an illusion; sometimes appearing black-and-blue, or…

Everyone has their strengths and everyone has their weaknesses. In the sport of soccer for example, everyone on the team can spend the same amount of time practicing the same skill or move but this does not mean each player does not complete the move as successfully as the other. Similarly, this is also the case when it comes to authors and their use of rhetorical strategies, diction, and the Aristotelian appeals. Some authors use these writing strategies more successfully than others. In the…

The Progress On the first day of class, the nerves were undoubtedly there. I was finally taking an AP class, which I was placed in by my counselor, not having to write a paper to join because of me getting sick. My thoughts were swarming with thoughts of not being ready or that I was not good enough to be with the other students who had to participate in the admissions and were actually accepted. My nerves have calmed down since I have been in this class, me thinking I was not good enough…

Frederick Douglass wrote the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ten years before the publication of his later work, My Bondage and My Freedom. Between the writing of the two books, Douglass changed his perspective on slavery entirely in that he decided that the nature of the United States Constitution was a primarily anti-slavery document rather than pro-slavery. His writing adapted to his new view on slavery and how it should be handled in that he began to take on a more forceful,…

I chose to watch Super-Size Me, which is a film about McDonalds and how a fast food diet can affect the health of consumers worldwide. In this documentary Morgan Spurlock puts himself at risk by placing himself on a 30-day McDonalds only diet. He was required to follow three rules. The first was that he could only consume products that were sold by McDonalds; the second that if they asked him if he wanted to super-size his meal he had to say yes, and finally he had to eat everything on the menu…

The basis of Michelle Cullington’s article, "Does Texting Affect Writing" has been viewed as a hot topic throughout the academic community. Cullington’s article pieces together inquiries from professionals in the academic sector, opinions from individuals in which her topic applies, and conducts detailed analysis of collegiate papers - searching for signs of "textspeak" to generate the research basis for her claim (361). Though her works ' effort was published in numerous journals, the structure…

School is an essay he wrote expressing his hate for it. Against School shows what the school systems of late are about and how, as he says, it “cripples our kids” (Gatto). He used rhetoric, a form of persuasive communication, in order to support his argument and appeal to his audience. The most prominent forms of rhetoric that play a structural role in his essay include; ethos, pathos and logos. One of the rhetorical strategies that Gatto used in Against School is known as ethos. The word ethos…