Tina Haas – COM220 Week 1 Assignment: Bias‚ Rhetorical Devices and Argumentation What are some examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech? The very beginning of the speech begins with a campaigner who is introducing their new candidate for Governor and who expresses negative bias towards the current Governor‚ Jim Gettys. It begins by describing the current governing as an “evil domination”. That same campaigner then expresses equal bias but in a positive way‚
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Psycho Rhetorical Analysis There are many factors that contribute to making a film as a frightening as Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film Psycho‚ without all of the typical gruesome scenes moviegoers are used to seeing. The timeless movie Psycho is a 1960 American psychological thriller about the encounter between Marion Crane‚ a secretary hiding out after stealing a large amount of money‚ and the schizophrenic motel owner Norman Bates‚ both of whom must deal with the guilt and surveillance
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Paret Rhetorical Analysis In his article‚ “The Death of Benny Paret”‚ Norman Mailer sorrowfully retells his first-hand account of the tragic death of the boxer‚ Benny Paret and the horror that he witnessed that day. Using figurative language such as similes‚ and diction to enhance the readers’ emotions‚ the author conveys to the reader a sense of shock‚ loss‚ and regret. Mailer retells his heartrending witness of the death of Paret in order to order to convey to his readers of the inhumanity and
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Here is our paper that we produced for the group project. Our topic was on the analysis of the moderation processes on Reddit. I have added the introduction and my portion on oversharing. Introduction The integrative social networking platform Reddit combines modern pop culture into a registered discussion website. Established only twelve years ago‚ Reddit is a functional worldwide website that allows its users to submit and comment content in the form of text posts‚ images‚ or direct links. Reddit
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Rhetorical Analysis Peter S. Goodman‚ an executive business and global news editor. In the article “ Foreign News at a Crisis Point ”‚ asserts that foreign journalism needs to change. Goodman supports his claim by first defining the crisis of the situation‚ next illustrated the needs for change in journalism‚ and demonstrating the urgency for reliable news. The author’s purpose is to convince foreign news policies to alter in order to provide accurate news. Goodman asserts an urgent tone in order
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Rhetorical Analysis of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” The “I Have a Dream” speech has very simple diction and context. The author of the “I Have A Dream” speech is Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. King and is known for his work in Civil Rights during the late 1950s and mid1960s. The purpose of this speech is to inspire change in both white and black citizens of the United States during the Civil Rights era. The main idea of the speech is to convince both sides of the discussion that they must
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Rhetorical Analysis of a Cartoon As the presidential election approaches‚ America is split‚ debating between Republicans and Democrats‚ but there is one thing that they all would agree on: the price of gas‚ and how ridiculous it has become. Over the summer‚ for the first time ever the national average for gas hit four dollars a gallon. I am going to guess that I didn’t have to tell you that- you already knew. Since most Americans are against high gas prices‚ it makes it easy for a cartoonist
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1510-120 10/18/2013 Rhetorical Analysis I picked the music video “Same Love” by rapper Macklemore and director‚ Ryan Lewis. Macklemore is confident and proud of the fact that he is fully supportive of everyone’s sexual orientations. Although Macklemore’s audience is more toward homosexual people‚ the message also reaches out to all different kinds of people because he put it in a song‚ so everyone who listens and likes the song will hear the message. Throughout the music video and lyrics‚ he
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Ian Tsai 00121145 Professor Grace Ma Selected Reading in English & American Novels 20 June 2013 Freudian Criticism: Reading Characters ’ Trauma In Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita & Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye According to Sigmund Freud‚ the unconscious of every individual are residual traces of prior stages of psychosexual development‚ form earliest infancy onward‚ which have been outgrown‚ but remain as "fixation" in the unconscious of the adult. When triggered by some later event in
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The digital world‚ especially its omnipresence and highly structured environment‚ has introduced a new sort of rhetoric which holds a significant effect on identity. Digital rhetoric theory has come about as a result of communication occurring via various electric formats (Plessis 2013 p. 2). The Internet functions as a source which promotes “rethinking of identity as anonymous‚ fluid‚ and unfixed” because of its collaborative nature (Hess 2014 p. 3). Users are always interacting with the readily
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