Visual rhetoric

Successful speeches have the inherent ability to empower audiences to recognise contextual issues and deepen their acknowledgement of shared challenges and consequently influencing profound change. In light of this, speeches further achieve success when this recognition of contextual issues extends beyond the contemporary audience. Such empowerment to recognise contextual issues resonates powerfully within J.K Rowling’s notable Harvard commencement address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure and…

The gate was only open for a few seconds. How could this happen. My mind was racing and my heart was pounding. I endlessly searched the yard and the house, with no luck. I couldn’t imagine what had happened to her. My dog, Tressie, had darted out of my Aunts backyard. I had fought so hard for this dog, and all the responsibility I have persuaded my family I had was gone. To my knowledge, she had died; I felt her blood on my hands. Though she was fine, this moment was heavy on my heart. I had…

Next and slightly more important criteria is appearance. Overall, the most important points within the appearance criteria were met, if not exceeded. Appearance is defined by the use of the front and back cover of the Navigator News, cited sources, columns or organizational ways of presenting information within the articles, and by the specific material used for the printing of the Navigator News. In terms of an organized way of presenting the information within any given article, it was…

Brantley keeps his message consistent and keeps it real with his fans and himself, he has a big fan base and many people love to go and see him in concert and follow and comment back on his posts on social medias. Brantley also does a good job at promoting himself and keeping himself up to date on his websites for his fans; keeping fans and BG nation up to date with what he does off stage as well. Also when his concerts are just around the corner or when he is gonna be in a certain state and…

There are many ways of writing an article: some are more fact heavy than others, emotion, false information, or the flow. Nonetheless, the topic does not change, only the style changes. In this case the topic is Memes. Limor Shifman written article titled “Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker”. Another author that wrote “Making Sense of Memes: Where They Came From and Why We Keep Clicking Them” is Marion Provencher Langlois. Both Marion and Limor wrote about Memes…

Manuel Lima, “A Visual History of Human Knowledge,” and Fabian Oefner, “Psychedelic Science,” are completely different on their topics. “An image is worth more than a thousand words.” (Oefner 0:10) An image can be interpreted different ways, it just depends on the perspective of the person. Sometimes images can leave people speechless. Although Lima and Oefner had completely different TED Talks, both Lima and Oefner managed to use visual aids in their presentations. Both men used visual aids to…

Let Our Battle Cry be Heard Whenever death may surprise us, let our battle cry be heard. This sentence perfectly relates to Franklin Roosevelt’s Day in Infamy speech given December 8, 1941 and a Sauk Tribe warrior chief Black Hawk’s Surrender speech given by Black Hawk in 1863. Although they were written in different centuries, the speeches have many similarities in tone, audience, and motivation. They also share differences including position and perspective. Starting with the similarities,…

On April 15, 1880, Darrow and Jesse Ohl, a girl he had grown up with in Kinsman, were married. They immediately moved to Andover where they expected he could set up a law practice and make a living. He quickly realized that was not an easy thing to do and that he needed to make contacts and get his name known. One way to do this was to offer his services as a public speaker and another way was to become involved in politics. By 1883, he was a speaker in the Andover area and he joined the…

A powerful yet very emotional speech in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. The main character in this movie is John Nash. Nash is at the Nobel prize awards, giving a speech. The lady he stares at towards the end of his speech is his wife, Alicia Nash. The award was for one of his theory’s he had done about math. Even though he have won the award for his intelligence, he gave credit to his wife. First, the audience in the speech from the movie are all sitting in front of him. Everyone in the…

In “Should Texts, E-Mail, Tweets and Facebook Posts Be the New Fingerprints in Court?,” Frances Stead Seller’s main goal for the essay is to break down both sides of the argument of whether our language style should be used to determine the authorship of the text. The side that is against the use of findings from this field as a form of evidence emphasize that the findings do not include credible statistics and uses too much computer (which can be prone to error) for determining their research.…