Kipland Kinkel was a fifteen years old boy who was convicted for the possession of fire-arms, twenty- six attempted murders, and four murders, which included his mother, father, and fellow classmates. The defendant was sentenced to 111 years and eight months in jail. The Court of Appeals’ denied the appeal of the first sentence because the sentence was proven fair. The court document is successful in justifying the decisions to deny the appeal with use of persuasive rhetorical appeals.…
Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. In his 2012 “State of the Union Address,” Obama announces a clearly defined for government to take conveys in repairing an economy that works for all Americans and to renew the engagement of many united politics that performed him to the White House in 2008. Many of the particular measured he requested are liable to resound with the community, it remains to be apprised whether he can convince the plurality of Americans to set nearby their decay distrust of government and offer him decree to follow an active rule.…
Music is a medium in which people can express their feelings, as well as get many strong messages across efficiently. This is seen frequently in the music industry along with many bands. take this as an initiative to spread a message they find important. The Black Eyed Peas are a band notorious for this type of social communication. This is a band that believes in social change as well as equality in the world. Many of their songs portray similar core values and express many reoccurring themes. The targeted audience of their songs is the youth. Their music promotes action for change. The Black Eyed Peas specifically call to action on certain issues such as believe the young being corrupt by society and we all must start the movement. One specific song, paired with its music video inspires many of these common threads. The song, “Where is the Love?” does an excellent job tying together many serious issues into a fluid musical piece paired with symbolic images. This music video is getting the message out that change in the world starts with the individual. With these images and sounds, The Black Eyed Peas are able to tackle and reflect on large social conflicts in a relaxing and inspiring way. “Where is the Love?” effectively touches upon may themes including, faith and hopelessness, hypocrisy and corrupted youth through images, poetic words, as well as the rhythm mood and tempo they play the music and these can be interpreted through ethos, logos and pathos. Through the Rhetorical Triangle analysis style, I will investigate what has been mentioned and how the combination of images and sounds effectively communicate many powerful messages, especially for the short amount of time. This artifact is being shared to promote a world with less racism, terrorism, war and most of all hypocrisy.…
The human language is not only a way to communicate, but a way to heal ourselves from the inside out. Dr. Pennebaker explains the ways that words are mirrors as well as tools into one 's mind in his essay through his extensive word and writing studies. As a social psychologist, he studies the health benefits of writing one 's secrets or problems on paper instead of keeping them to one 's self. Pennebaker performed all-encompassing research about the connotations of commonly used words in a large computer program called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC); after completing LIWC, he could analyze any text to find the emotion and feeling within the writing.…
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.…
The Article, Supplements are a Shame by Mike Tanier, argues one big factor that is influenced by many athletes, gym rats, and regular Americans who take supplements on a daily basis. The main argument that this article stresses is how most of the supplements that people take is just a big waste of money. Mike Tanier also argues that there is a lot more we don’t know about supplements than what we actually do know. For instance, even though we do not know how big the supplement industry is, we have a good estimate but do not know how many athletes use them, we do not know who is in charge, we do not know what these products actually do to our body, we don’t know what is contained in the bottles.…
The purpose of Queen Elizabeth’s speech at the Tilbury was to persuade her troops to believe in her and to be loyal to her. At the beginning of the speech, she addresses her troops as “my loving people”, already showing her credibility as a loving ruler. She then goes on stating that she would never dishonor her troops and that she has always done the best she could for them. In the middle of her speech she states she would “live or die, lay down for my God and for my kingdom and my people”. By using parallelism and the appeal of pathos to make her troops feel love, she shows how loyal she is and she would do absolutely anything and everything for them. Queen Elizabeth also states how mentally strong and capable she is of ruling her kingdom and people by comparing her weakness as a woman to her “heart of a king”. Towards the end of her speech, she talks about how her kingdom is so brave and vigorous, that she dares anyone to invade her “realm”, and for anyone who is idiotic enough to try she herself “will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder”. She again uses the appeal of pathos by calling her troops “noble” and “worthy”, buy saying this she makes them feel important valued. She then assures her troops that they will soon have a victory over their enemies if they obey the general, concord in the camp, and have courage in the field. She ends her speech by saying “we shall have victory if we honor my God, of my kingdom, and of my people”…
There have been countless speeches made throughout the course of time; some that have managed to change laws and mindsets, and others who have simply expressed a logical opinion or proposed a vengeful disputation. However, amongst these varying disquisitions, only a few have managed to remain memorable. By using various literary devices, one particular man was able to remain in the memories of many, and deliver one of the most famous patriotic speeches in our country’s history. In his eloquent speech to the Virginia Convention of 1775, Patrick Henry persuasively argues that the American people have simply no choice than to engage in war against Britain by reminding them that it is inevitable, and by making it apparent that we can either choose to live a life in pure liberty or perpetual captivity.…
Growing up and still to this day I am told how to uphold an image, a reputation, the same as Lynn Peril wrote about in her essay “Pink Think”. Femininity suggests that women and girls will never be looked at as someone who will ever reach an expectation of anything higher than being the wife at home raising a family and loving their husband. Being seen as that gentle, soft, delicate, nurturing being as Peril notes, pink think is a set of ideas and attitudes about what constitutes proper female behavior. She opposes this narrow view of women from the beginning stating how she felt from the moment she knew what was happening. “I formed an early aversion to all things pink and girly.”…
In South Central, Los Angeles, there is a food epidemic taking place among the population. For miles and miles, the only easily attainable food source is fast food; causing the overconsumption of un-nutritious, greasy, and fattening food. This is the problem brought to the public’s attention by speaker Ron Finley in his Ted Talks speech, “A Guerilla Gardener in South Central L.A.” Finley explains how everywhere he looks in his native South Central, all he sees are fast food chains and Dialysis clinics opened due to the lack of nutritious food. Finley views the lack of a healthy food source as a serious problem, and brings up his point; there are miles of vacant lots throughout Los Angeles, all of which could be used for the cultivation of healthy fruits and vegetables to better the urban community’s diet and health.…
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.…
Thesis: Technology, such as texting, while driving is unsafe and can be a hazard to teen drivers and others.…
“Cheating is taking work done by somebody else […] and saying it is yours.” (Colleen Wenke 532). Through the use of contrast, surveys, credibility, and emotions, Wenke is able to successfully make her claim that cheating will decline only when the need for a grade without the work diminishes and the desire for knowledge is resurrected in a student’s mind.…
During the recent decades, there has been a growing debate over what role that businesses should play when it comes to the increasing obesity levels in the United States of America. The prevalence of obesity has been on the rise in America for several decades now. Most people have attributed the increase of obesity to two reasons: people are consuming high-fat and high-calories foods, and people are consuming a greater number of calories than they are burning off. Kathleen Seiders and Leonard Berry are business professors at Boston College and Texas A&M University, respectively. In December 2007, they published the article in the MIT Sloan Management Review titled, “Should Business Care About Obesity?”. The intended audience of this article includes business leaders, company executives, and entrepreneurs, all of whom the authors are attempting to persuade. In the article, Seiders and Berry argue that business leaders should seek to lessen obesity rates in America. Businesses should be…
Sometimes life gets tough and gives us obstacles and challenges just to see how we overcome them. It only takes one mistake for someone’s life to be turned upside down. Watching people go through hardships and life challenges helps us get on the right path and succeed. The book The Other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore himself, is based on real life challenges that two boys ironically with the same name and hometown were faced with and how their decisions on overcoming them lead them to two completely different places. One living free and being able to experience things and the other living unfortunately behind bars. Wes Moore uses the rhetorical appeals ethos, logos, and pathos to engage the readers attention on how two boys with so many similarities can grow up and live two completely opposite lives.…