On this rhetorical critique, I will be talking about the driving community of the state of Florida. As we all know, Florida is infamous for it's terrible accidents. John Couwels and Vivian Kuo, journalists for CNN, prepared an article about the multi-car crash that occurred on January 29th,2012, where 11 people were killed and 46 others were injured. I chose this article because car accidents are a daily event in the state of Florida. However, the roads are spacious and for the most part, well designed. Florida drivers are being held accountable for the wreck due to their lack of safety precautions used while driving through a high fog/smoke area, caused by a nearby forest fire. This article is…
In this speech he teaches the audience that the things we miss, tends to cripple our thinking and where the things we make up fuels our toxic emotions. When the perspective on any situation is not producing the results that you want, you should ask what am I missing and what am I making up. But usually we do not look at these two concepts of a perspective; we tend to assume the worst of that situation.…
1. For what purpose would Gawain poet place King Arthur in line with the founders of the ancient civilizations? The purpose is to show how well respected king Arthur was, how he was known as the greatest king in medieval times, to show how he was an important leader of medieval times and Britain.…
The author’s purpose is to show how easily people are influenced by society and those around them.…
The ruins her and her family visited were dedicated to all the people in her past and took ten years to be complete.…
when preconceptions of how things should be in one’s world is released, it can provoke others to…
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel Between the World and Me is written as if the narrator is telling a story by writing a letter to his son, Samori. It is written similarly to Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time as both novels are written in letter format. The narrator is talking about the fears and differences living in the world as a black person and describes more specifically the fear of harm to the body. Throughout the novel Coates is telling his son about the truth behind their history and his experiences with poetry, love, religion and a few different journeys he went on. Coates begins by telling how he felt as if he always had to be “on guard” as a young adult and that he felt threatened and was quite often fearful of the world around him but as the…
The majority of the people in the world don’t intentionally put themselves in dangerous situations, yet tragedies occur every day. Each year a motorcycle hill climbing competition is held in New Plymouth, Idaho called the Big Nasty Hill Climb. On September 19, 2009 my sister’s best friend Lacy Fine set out for a day of fun with her cousin Brittani and her cousin’s boyfriend Carlos to watch the hyped up event. She’s never been the most cautious person because her attention span is that of someone with ADHD or a stereotypical airhead. I say this with love in my heart, because she was literally a part of my family and would never purposefully hurt someone. I can assume from knowing Lacy better than almost anyone that on that Friday she was animatedly singing loudly to the radio or retelling a funny story with voices as usual. Her focus wasn’t on the task at hand of driving and she missed a stop sign coming down a hill and crashed into another truck. None of the passengers were wearing a seatbelt. The man in the truck was uninjured and Lacy was life-flighted with severe injuries, but both of her passengers were killed instantly. The two of them had just had a baby, which added to the unbearable amount of grief that Lacy and the rest of the family faced.…
I will make sure that I set the alarm on my cell phone and hour earlier than usual. l want to be ahead of the game. I will get a good seat, close to the font. I don 't want to be morbid, but I don 't want to just listen to a speaker. I want to see and hear and feel what they are feeling. l want to see the expressions on the speaker’s faces when they tell their stories, and hear the emotion in their voices, and see the tears on their faces. This is important to me because I want to see and feel from another person 's perspective, in particular those that were -- and still are -- affected by the negative impact of drunk driving. lf I were a mother of one victim, I 'm sure my feelings are going to differ greatly from the person who caused the tragedy, the drunk driver.…
I always used to say ‘yes’. My mother never taught me how to say ‘no’.…
Ross and Nisbett confidently believe that situations within our present environment determine our behavior. The latter, being the person’s emotional state, or personality serves no judicial purpose in determining behavior. The “specifics of the situation” (Ross/Nisbett 690) would be considered significant, in that the aesthetics of the situation is the “tipping point” in concluding actions. The authors also claim that “subtler, contextual details that empirical research has shown” (Ross/Nisbett 690) are factors that influence people to intervene. The authors also explain that the “fundamental attribution error;” is people’s belief in the significance of individuality, and failure in the significance of “situational factors in affecting behavior” (Ross/Nisbett 690).…
Now, society’s role: from the time we come into this world, we are introduced to a set of understandings. We begin to understand what burns, what slams, what…
At a young age, I encountered situations that forever altered my perspective on certain situations. Death is a part of life; we live, and we die. However I strongly believe if we make better choices, our lives can be prolonged. As I research how every day in America, 27 people die in an impaired driving fatality every 53 minutes it brings me back to the time I lost my role model. My cousin Heath’s poor actions not only cost him to lose his life, but others lives were lost to. At the time, I never grasped how many people drink and drove. I had always thought it was common sense, everybody should know not to do it. As I got to High school I fully comprehended how much stupidity everybody had concerning the matter. I quickly learned the term “Designated Driver” really meant who could be belligerently drunk, but be able to keep in in between the lines the best. Car crashes are the leading cause of Death’s involving teenagers. At least one quarter of those deaths are due to drunk driving. Seeing the consequences of impaired driving first handedly has forever changed my life. I pray that people would research and see for themselves how absurd driving under the influence is. How it not only can affect your life, but others lives to.…
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at a time of challenge and controversy.” The death of a loved one is a time of challenge for most individuals. How many people did you know die from cancer or a drunk driving accident, which mourning process is worse? Drunk driving mourning is worse, cancer can be avoided as to drunk driving accidents, due to the fact that cancer is natural and isn’t a choice, drunk driving is an option. You can walk away from getting in a car drunk, you can’t walk away from cancer. The statistics of cancer and drunk driving will be displayed in this essay to support my theory.…
Recently, there was an accident in Chile, leaving thirty three miners stranded miles underground, and at that time, I was doing homework. By the time the first one was rescued, maybe ten million people were glued to the news station, as if this was some horrible thing that never happened before, but I was playing some racing game or another. I’m not saying that I could care less-although I could-but what I mean is that this was happening on another hemisphere, and we thought it as more important than what was going on in our own lives. But I was only hearing bits from others, and became just as informed, but no more interested than when it first happened.…