The President and the Lunatic is an article featured in American Heritage magazine in the spring of 2011 by Bruce Watson. Watson writes about the assassination of President James Garfield and the ensuing trial of his murderer, Charles Guiteau. At around 10:00 a.m. on July 2, 1881, Garfield was shot twice in the arm and back by a disillusioned federal office seeker. Guiteau attempted the assassination in an act of “divine inspiration” in order to force Vice President Chester Arthur into presidency. He believed that once he would be acquitted, he would be elected president. With a particularly unusual hereditary and adulthood, including the abandonment of his father, death of his mother, participation in the Oneida community, and Guiteau’s believed thought that pleading insanity would be a plausible option. However, after several days of arguing between the prosecution and the defendants, Guiteau was ruled guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The author explains both sides of the debate and presents sufficient reasons for believing he was guilty and for believing he was not guilty for insanity.…
In Charles Blow’s “Failing All Tests of the Presidency” (2017) he asserts his opinion that Trump is not acting as a true president and he is merely holding a place for an actual president to arrive and replace him. Blow communicates this by saying “Donald Trump is a man of flawed character and a moral cavity,” and “His interests center on the self; country be damned.” He exaggerates all of Trump’s flaws without regard to the truth that, maybe he has done something good while in office. He does this in attempts to force his hatred of Donald Trump onto others that might already not support him. Charles Blow employs his hatred of Trump and writes very controversial articles to everyone who is indifferent or not in support of Donald Trump.…
The feelings Richard Hickock’s parents have toward his life style are revealed as Capote incorporates jaded and disenchanted tones into the scene of their interrogation. Mr. and Mrs. Hickock spent years and years struggling to provide for Dick, their troubled son. In spite of their unwavering efforts to guide Dick along what they see as the right path, Dick’s parents are rewarded with nothing more than a heart wrenching feeling of shame and disappointment.…
Catherine Opie’s Joanne, Betsy, & Olivia best represents “quoting” documentation. Catherine specializes in documentary photography and explores aspects such as domestic everyday activities. Her methods of documenting certain moments in real life situations directly reflect quoting. In this photograph, it is almost like the audience is catching a glimpse of this families day to day lives. The house is messy with the toddlers toys everywhere and it looks as if they just finished a meal. These people are not posing or being staged, they are simply doing what they would normally be doing. Catherine also is very involved in the Lesbian and Gay communities so much of her work involves identity, challenging gender roles and social and political themes.…
On June 16th at his very own Trump Tower in New York City, Donald Trump announced that he would be running for president. It was only thirty seconds into his speech when Trump committed his first fallacy. In an attempt to insult the intelligence of his fellow GOP candidates, he compared their incompetence toward air conditioners to their supposed inability to beat ISIS. “They didn’t know the air-conditioner didn’t work,” “How are they going to beat ISIS?” This is a bad example fallacy due to his use of an example that fails to prove the conclusion and has little connection to it. Despite the complete lack of relation between Trump’s example and his conclusion, he was still able to provoke the audience into feelings of contempt toward the other…
‘The Lord of the Flies.’ -Mrs Colbeck’s useful quote collection. (Please feel free to add more!)…
Suszan-Lori Parks’ In The Blood criticizes Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter because she dismisses religion as the only source of slut-shaming and brings the warning into modern times by demonstrating the downward spiral that Parks’ Hester cannot climb out of. By showing the audience how each aspect of Hester’s life holds her down, Parks’ reminds the reader that women are still demeaned for being sluts and that society is what drives the shaming, not just the religion in society. Hawthorne’s Hester is demonized in the eyes of her society but is able to stay above water with her skills and what she has. Parks’ Hester shows how someone who is low can get taken advantage of and can be drug down to an even lower place. When those who…
We are able to see pathos, logos, and ethos throughout Mr. Fox’s entire testimony. He begins by using pathos, establishing that he is well known and reflects on the first time he admitted that he suffers from Parkinson’s; he states, “When I first spoke publicly about my eight years of experience as a person with Parkinson’s many were surprised, in part because of my age […]” (Page 1 Paragraph 3) and right away he uses ethos to explain why “many were surprised”. We continuously see logos in the first couple of paragraphs. Mr. Fox addresses the “profound and progressive” changes in his life and makes clear why he kept them secret from the public. He felt that he had a task, as a public figure, to “soldier on” (Page 1 Paragraph 4). When he was…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spews fervent rhetoric that aggrandizes his political agenda without providing any actual content.…
Facebook isn’t just a place to see pictures of friends and family’s latest vacation, or to see what your sister-in-law cooked for dinner that night. It’s a place where news, messages, ideas, and funny cat videos can spread at the click of a button. Given that, on average, over 628 million people log on to facebook each day, it is a great website for advertisement. With these statistics, anyone trying to relay some type of message would be “stupid” to not use Facebook as a resource. With this in mind, the Facebook page of GOP front runner Donald Trump takes advantage of the use of Facebook to express his personal values, gain media exposure, and to acquire voter support for his presidential campaign through a use of image and text post strategies…
The Crucible is not only a recounting of the Salem witch trials. Behind this story, Arthor Miller most wants to say is the essentiality of humanity. The most representative thing is what people do is mostly to satisfy their own interests, so mush as willing to believe outrageous lies when those lies serve their interests. Arthur Miller develops the characters to present this theme. His depiction of Putnam couple, Reverend Parris and Judge Danforth, which could effectively prove this theme.…
In Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom there are three main quotes/aphorisms that got to me in way and reminded me that this is a real story. Anyhow these brought out my inner self in way and made me think about more things more carefully. I’m not really the type of person that really thinks about this stuff, but after reading the book it did make me think about it.…
As a young child i learned early on how info can be corrupted and distorted through a classroom game i use to play called telephone. In the game you would start off with a message and try to make it around the room with the same message, surprisingly we barely ever got through without messing up at least something. And if you think about it that game represents society and how it can corrupt your message. I think that information can easily be corrupted and that it happens in our everyday life.…
“You’re a liar” said one of Trump’s supporter. Since after Donald J. Trump sworn into the office, many of his supporter are outraged because Trump did not his promises during the campaign. During the 2016 election, Donald Trump’s campaign fought fiercely against Hilary Clinton’s campaign. To win the election Donald Trump promised “to build a great, great wall on our southern border” and “have Mexico pay for that wall.” Because of his strong promise, he gets people in electoral college to vote for him, but soon after he got in the office he disappointed them by making us (the taxpayer) pay for the wall. The second promise that Donald Trump made during his campaign is bring the coal mining jobs back; he said “I’m going to be the greatest jobs…
When you say that he wanted “to spare himself the humiliation of further corporate desertions” the readers can visualise a helpless man, swayed by his advisors. This makes the viewers think that Trump does not have enough skill to confidently instruct those around him. In addition, you make him look violent and illogical by saying that “he crashed ahead,” attacking others with “bursts of anti-historical nonsense.” Such diction used create a sardonic tone overall - it appears as if Trump has done nothing right since the start of his regime. The truth is that he has made supreme court nominations, improved national security, and reduced the number of illegal immigrants entering the country. By not providing examples of such achievements and putting emphasis on his “sheer incompetence” people are determined, at this stage, that Trump is a poor leader. By listing out such weaknesses you have persuaded the viewers to think that Trump is both morally and politically unfit for the position of president. However, I think that by providing them with a neutral, information-based writing it would be more effective, since they would be able to know the whole context and develop their own…