As part of a book project, I read "The Red Badge of Courage." It is about a soldier named Henry who wants to earn his mark as a soldier. Initially he strays away from the battlefield because he is afraid of death and wants to live among the living and not the dead. Later, he becomes desperate to get shot and earn his "Red Badge of Courage" to prove to the other soldier that he is not only a man but a true hero. The purpose of this project was to write a journal entry for a series of chapters and note rhetorical strategies used by the author. A author's purpose is then written in MLA format to compare the author to the book and learn more about the author in general. At the end of the book, we were to conduct a presentation about the book and…
Chapter 4, we learned the various aspects of an audience, when preparing a written or electrical document. How did I consider my audience needs and interests as I developed the presentation about Great Calls marketing strategy? I put myself in their shoes and considered the expectations that a manager of a large cellular company would expect. I recognized their time is valuable and I would need to be quick and direct. I also thought that I would have to put together a presentation that was professional and eye catching and brought valuable information to helping them direct the company to a new solution to increase customer attention. Who was my audience? The people I am presenting to are five managers of Genuine Cellular, who I assume are…
In the 1957’s movie 12 Angry Men, it is about twelve jurors who have to come to a verdict whether or not the young boy is guilty for murdering his father. All but one juror said guilty. In the movie we see that jurors are using the arguments made by the witnesses and evidence found which were presented in court to help justify their decision and come to a conclusion on whether he is or isn’t guilty for killing his father. During this deliberation we can see emotion, reason and sense of perception being used by each juror to decide upon their verdict. Some questions that were raised during the movie were, do we make decisions based on our emotion? To what extent does the juror show to be rational or irrational? And In what ways are the eyewitness…
Listen and identify the tone of the speaker. Write the tone of voice in the table below.…
There are seven common mistakes people make when preforming job-searches. The first mistake people make is to tell a potential employer you left your last position of employment due to personal differences with you and your boss. The next mistake someone makes is not bragging about what you can do and why this company needs you as an employee. Another common mistake is focusing on your personal needs rather than the needs of your potential employer. Yet another mistake job-searchers make is speaking too fast when leaving a voicemail. The next mistake is not making sure that you and your potential employer are compatible. Another important mistake is to make…
Hitler was an undoubtedly deranged man with the desire to concur a nation, who used inhumane methods to achieve his goal of a ‘perfect’ society. The proud words of Assef about him were, “Now, there was a leader. A great leader. A man with a vision.” (39-40) In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Assef is characterized as a cruel sociopath; his character is created through Hosseini’s use of figurative language and connotative diction.…
In his essay, When We Can’t Wait on Truth: The Nature of Rhetoric in the Rhetoric of Science, Nathan Crick explores the question, what is the relationship between rhetoric and truth? Crick’s purpose is to inform all readers that rhetoric has a crucial validating role in science. The author references Alan Gross’s published work, The Rhetoric of Science, in which he contributed to the initiation of a controversy concerning the place of rhetoric in science studies, while also arguing for the continued significance of the classical rhetorical tradition. Gross’s main idea of the text was “rhetorically, the creation of knowledge is a task beginning with self-persuasion and ending with the persuasion of others” (Gross, 1996, 3). However, in…
Throughout the tragic novel Into the Wild, author Jon Krakauer provides an in depth analysis of the life and lonely death of Christopher McCandless. McCandless was a young man straight out of college, looking to find himself while hitchhiking alone in the bush of Alaska. Unfortunately for Chris his well anticipated venture turned fatal after a hundred some days alone in the wilderness. Jon Krakauer uses rhetorical methods for the duration of the book, which allows him to speak of Chris’s life with a sense of certainty. The reader thus trusts Krakauer’s narrative and somewhat understands why a man like Chris could head into unknown territory without a second thought. The author shows his qualification for writing about Chris by making comparisons with his own life and interviewing those close to Chris…
Ernest Hemingway wrote the work “Hills Like White Elephants”. His story is about abortion although within the text, the word abortion is nowhere to be found. The reason why Ernest Hemingway portrayed abortion the way he did was because in 1927, abortion was something that nobody really talked about. It was a something that would be looked down upon. So he writes “Hills Like White Elephants” with multiple metaphors to mask the idea of abortion. Not one time does the man or the woman say the word “abortion.” The man goes through everything that the girl says in his mind and takes the literal meaning of her words. On the other hand, the girl says almost everything metaphorically. Also the actions of the man and the girl have metaphoric meanings as well.…
In this particular Skittles commercial, that I may add has been banned from being broadcasted in the United States depicts two “lovers” on their honey moon. It depicts them in a bedroom having sex. It is very confusing top the audience in the beginning, due to the fact that the audience can be anyone from children to adults; in all homes throughout the nation. It is now a comical and very popular video that is now flooding the World Wide Web. Many people have seen this video, yet it has very controversial content within it.…
Plato was one of Socrates’ greatest admirers, and our knowledge of Socrates stems mostly from Plato’s dialogues. Plato wrote his dialogues so that his students could read them out to each other and from a phrase discuss what it is about.…
This is because each parent defines success differently. The question of how to raise a child…
Dave Chappelle returns to his hometown of Washington D.C. in the year 2000, during his tour around the country, to perform for the people of D.C. During his show “Killin’ Him Softly” Chappelle effectively uses rhetorical strategies by engaging his audience, understanding the culture he is addressing, as well as exemplifying the problem with racial stereotypes and the disparity of police brutality between the African American community and the white community.…
In An Inconvenient Truth, Albert Gore presents us with a thought-provoking speech by employing three persuasive appeals. He make use of the elements of ethos, logos, and pathos in order to better achieve the goal of notifying the severity of global warming as well as awakening people’s environmental consciousness. As a reminder from our text book Pathos is an emotional appeal. Ethos is an ethical appeal. Logos is a logical appeal. An example of pathos is simply someone appealing to you through emotions (sadness, happiness, etc.). Ethos is basically showing your character or qualification on whatever. During the last two decades Al Gore had shown his tendency to be more sophist than Gadfly even if his comparing himself to one of the most credited and privileged philosopher of our Era.…
I believe that the rhetorical strategy of narration is both seen differently in the article, “Unnatural Killers”, by John Grisham and the article, “The Case Against College Athletic Recruiting” by Ben Adler. Both appeal emotionally to the reader but one is a lot more logical in its approach then the other.…