Profile Process Planning Sheet: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation Week 1 Assignment Please answer the following questions in complete sentence and paragraph format. Although this is not a formal essay assignment‚ please note that proper spelling‚ grammar‚ and sentence structure are required. This week’s lecture and Chapters 2 and 3 in your text will help you work through some of the terms within the rhetorical situation. Defining Topic‚ Angle‚ Purpose 1. What is your chosen topic? (For example:
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A Rhetorical Analysis of “This is Water” If one were to try to imagine a world without air‚ then it would certainly be very different than the world as humans know it. Since air is essential to the livelihood of most life on Earth‚ it could be considered an “important reality.” In David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech‚ “This is Water” to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College‚ Wallace states that “the most obvious‚ ubiquitous‚ important realities are often the ones that are the hardest
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the intensity of the sport and the many levels. You never hear of an olympic athlete starting gymnastics in their teens‚ or even preteens. This ad is published by United Sports Academy‚ out of Pennsylvania. This advertisement contains all three rhetorical appeals by using the cute little girl. There is a tremendous amount of emotional appeal show in this ad. The little girls brings a ton a emotion to the audience with her innocent look and her precious smile. She makes the audience heart grow as
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Another rhetorical strategy Sundberg uses is a parable. Her entire essay is a self-told story of her experience during her relationship‚ giving warnings and advice to her readers. Sundberg recalls‚ “When I met him he charmed me. My best friend said‚ ‘You’ll love Caleb…. My love for him was real and I did not want to be a single mother” (209). Again‚ the author uses her strategies to prove how our reality is not necessarily clear cut. In the beginning‚ she truly loved him and because of her pregnancy
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Bad Character Through reading “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle it is easy to conclude that all three characters (Jeff‚ Digby‚ and the narrator) think they are bad‚ by what was mentioned in the beginning of the short story by the narrator saying “We were bad (Boyle 1).” Bad according to Webster dictionary can be define as having a wicked or evil character (Bad). With this definition in mind‚ it does not really describe any one character in “Greasy Lake.” Digby and his cohorts all think they
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The DREAM On Rhetorical Review Illegal teenagers who have attended American schools are emotionally and psychologically Americans by right‚ but should they be allowed to become United States citizens? The authors’ interpretation of the Dream Act from 2010 age requirement differs from Pelosi’s and Reid’s bill that allows teenagers under the age of sixteen to become American citizens. Mark Krikorian feels the Dream Act of 2010 has loopholes that allow illegal aliens to take advantage of this new bill
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Rhetorical Analysis: “A Prostitute‚ a Servant‚ and a Customer Service Representative: a Latina in Academia.” For many in the United States‚ the idea that racism and gender inequality still exists seems absurd. The abolishment of slavery over 150 years ago‚ schools and public places not being segregated‚ and even Barack Obama’s presidency may serve in society’s argument that racism is a thing of the past. Pair that with the surface view that‚ from a legal stand point at least‚ women are viewed the
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Education "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."(Aristotle) The importance of education is effectively illustrated in the book Crow Lake by Mary Lawson and also in Alden Nowlan’s poem Warren Pryor. Both Kate’s family and Warren’s family highly value the importance of education and both families expect their children to receive higher education. Both Kate and Warren used education as a tool to escape poverty. However‚ they differ in their feelings
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Rhetorical Analysis of “Hurricane” Martin Luther King once said‚ “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe‚ popular‚ or political‚ but because it is right.” The song “Hurricane”‚ written by Bob Dylan takes a stand and ignores what was safe‚ popular‚ and politically right during the 1960’s and 1970’s‚ in order to paint a picture of injustice. Dylan organizes the actual events of a man named Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who was a middleweight boxer
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Television and the Rhetorical Analysis May 9th‚ 1961. Newton N. Minow stands in front of a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters to give his first big speech‚ “Television and the Public Interest.” Minow was appointed by President John F Kennedy himself‚ as the new chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). His speech directly speaks about the influence and future of broadcasting television. He refers the current programming as a “vast wasteland” and ultimately advocates
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