1. A book by Robert Akins called Greeks and Romans. It was published by Random House in Philadelphia in 1987.…
-Ethos is the most essential to an argument. By using ethos he denotes that some of his friends and bloggers that he follows have all felt the same way that he has felt about the internet. This makes the readers follow that people around the world and even his…
CitationsComplete each citation. Remember that in an actual document, you would underline or italicize the title.…
The IBEW is one of the most progressive unions in the country representing around 750,000 members.…
Marcus’s writing, you will notice that her ethos is easily revealed. Her reference to current events and important world issues show that she is very knowledgeable on the subject matter at hand. She seems to have done her research and provides the reader with important issues and situations that have happened during President Obama’s presidency. By showing her knowledge of the subject matter she is more likely to convince the reader to side with her stance as most people will believe someone with knowledge on a subject more than someone who does not know the subject matter.…
The “Necklace” story is about greed, passion for more that what one can have. In this short story, French Writer Guy de Maupassant writes about Mathilde Loisel who is consumed with the desire to have everything that she cannot have. Despite the fact that she has a nice home and a great spouse, she is unsatisfied with everything in life. All she is a think about is riches and privileges that other people have. Her craving for riches is a steady torment and turmoil. Whenever she visits her rich friends she cannot help but overcome with desire to possess of these costly garments. Sometimes the desire even put her to tears. I think craving for these things is a way to complement for things she could not afford. She so obsessed of looking better…
In “The Necklace,” a female character, Mathilde, is living in Paris during the 19th century. She is poor, yet undyingly wishes she was wealthy. One day the woman is invited to a prestigious ball within her city. She immediately she contacts a rich friend and borrows a fabulous necklace. Once the night is all said and done and she returns from the ball, she realizes that the borrowed necklace is lost. She reacts by lying about the necklace and buying her friend a new one. With her financial situation the way it is she goes spiraling into debt and never recovers. Later, once Mathilde admits to her friend that she lost and replaced the necklace, it is revealed that the borrowed necklace was a fake worth very little.…
McEwen states “Costa and Cardoza are Democrats, and the river’s restoration was pushed by California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats and both in the hip pocket of environments”(13). This shows Ethos writing because he is showing ethics. I agree with this because Democrats care about the environment so they are going to be against the River Restoration Project. When he states “such as Jim Costa of Fresno and Dennis Cardoza of Merced”(11). McEwen uses Ethos here to show his credibility by naming two well-known authors. I agree with the way he uses Ethos because it improves his credibility. McEwens use of Ethos writing made him seem more credible and therefore superior to…
Your recent article titled, “Boobies bracelet ban struck in Eastern PA” (August 6), detailing the court’s decision struck down the ban on the bracelets that support breast cancer awareness, brought back memories of when I was in high school wearing the same bracelet. I can easily relate to and feel sympathy for the hardship that the girls in this article had to undergo. The article discusses two young girls and their decisions and consequences of being suspended for trying to express themselves and raise awareness for breast cancer by wearing the bracelets. A group of friends and I dealt with the same dilemma in high school when wearing the same arm bands around. Before being told to remove the bracelets we wore them around the school for almost an entire week without any problem, it wasn’t until we refused to remove them that it was made into a big deal. We were told to remove or flip over the bracelets because they were a “distraction” and “vulgar to others”, including faculty and if we did not remove them we would receive in school suspension and we were given just that. The bracelets were designed by a nonprofit Keep a Breast Foundation of Carlsbad, CA, to promote breast cancer awareness among young people. According to the American Cancer Society there are about 232,340 new cases of breast cancer in women this year and of those about 39,620 deaths so far. Simple gestures like the bracelets discussed in the article are only to help raise awareness for those pushing the battle of Breast Cancer, not to be seen as a stirred up controversy. I felt and still feel that removing the bracelets were censuring our ability to express ourselves and raise awareness for the disease that affected two people very close to all of us.…
Cited: Reybold, Laura. The Dangers of Tatooing and bpdy Piercing. New York: The Rosen Publishing group, 1996.…
In today’s society, the one thing most stressed about is one’s outer appearance. It doesn’t matter how smart one is or how talented you are, if you have beauty then you have the world. Margaret Atwood, author of Oryx and Crake, focuses her novel around a society where most companies promote a better outer appearance for people. People would spend every spare dollar to get wrinkle free skin, so that they can be young looking old people. The “Crakers” were made to have no human imperfection, which is the cause that makes people feel inferior. Free experimental procedures enabled people to look younger at any risk because it was free. Lastly in Atwood’s society, cosmetic procedures have become so normalized that one can never tell what is or what isn’t real. Today’s society has become so fixated on having procedures, such as plastic surgery, that it has become an obsession to be beautiful. Atwood’s prediction on how society will become obsessed with cosmetic procedures is accurate because of the path our society is headed. According to the research, people are on the path to a plastic surgery obsessed society, because they feel like their looks are inferior, people are oblivious to the risks because of the cheap procedures that are out there, and it is no longer considered a taboo.…
Ethos is the rhetorical appeal to someone’s credibility which is important in this book because its purpose is to…
Associated Press. "Veterans Administration Health Care Is Not Readily Available in Rural Areas." Do Veterans Receive Adequate Health Care? Ed. Susan C. Hunnicutt. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. At Issue. Rpt. from "For Veterans in Rural Areas, Health Care Can Be a Battle." www.ap.org. 2011. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 13 May 2013.…
I agree that the writer’s goal was accomplish because through symbolism of a necklace, Maupassant was able to reveal the moral of the story. We see in the story that the main character who was obsessed with her look wasn’t satisfied with her life. She had a good husband who cared for her and did everything to make her happy. She did not see that. This can be applied to reality in the sense that we get caught up with what we look like or what we are wearing, that we go to lengths to make it happen. Through the symbol of a necklace, the author was able to convey to the readers the theme that vanity is worthless and there’s a price to pay for vanity and that we should be grateful for what we have.…
Dana Stevens uses ethos very well when trying to make her argument in “Thinking outside the idiot box.” Stevens starts off with informing the audience that she has a Ph.D in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley. If the author has earned her a Ph.D in comparative literature that gives her credibility because she has had to go through a lot of years of schooling and she has a lot of writing experience by now after getting a job in the field. “Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic and has also written for the New York Times, Bookforum, and the Atlantic” (Stevens, 2012, p. 295) is…