Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle‚ being a persuasive novel in nature‚ is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone‚ use of periodic sentencing‚ descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric‚ Upton Sinclair constructs a moving
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Anti-Wal-Mart Advertisement Claim: Wal-Mart’s uncharacteristic low prices on merchandise in comparison to other businesses have jeopardized the survival of smaller companies. When anyone in general thinks about Wal-Mart‚ they would probably think to themselves that it is a great place to shop for merchandise and apparel‚ and how there is so much selection. While they think of the previously mentioned‚ their number one reason in all likelyhood for considering Wal-Mart is the low prices
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Jose Perez P.4 8/20/13 Humorists and their Role “There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they’re called humorists.” Alen De Botton states that “the chief aim of humorists is not merely to entertain but`to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly`” I agree with his opinion. Humorists are entertainers; even before written history they have always been essential to society. Comedians such
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The Article‚ Supplements are a Shame by Mike Tanier‚ argues one big factor that is influenced by many athletes‚ gym rats‚ and regular Americans who take supplements on a daily basis. The main argument that this article stresses is how most of the supplements that people take is just a big waste of money. Mike Tanier also argues that there is a lot more we don’t know about supplements than what we actually do know. For instance‚ even though we do not know how big the supplement industry is‚ we have
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The Imperial Bedroom by Jonathan Franzen is primarily about privacy and how America has reacted to the addition and deduction of privacy. Franzen makes a very convincing case that we were overreacting in a big way to our fears that we would lose our privacy. He uses a mixture of sentence structure which helps to raise your thought on the subject‚ and then answer the short sentence with an explanation in a longer one. Throughout this essay‚ we see much of Franzen’s sarcastic ways which helps
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Growing up and still to this day I am told how to uphold an image‚ a reputation‚ the same as Lynn Peril wrote about in her essay “Pink Think”. Femininity suggests that women and girls will never be looked at as someone who will ever reach an expectation of anything higher than being the wife at home raising a family and loving their husband. Being seen as that gentle‚ soft‚ delicate‚ nurturing being as Peril notes‚ pink think is a set of ideas and attitudes about what constitutes proper female behavior
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In light of the recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ people across the country—especially politicians—have been pushing for immediate action towards gun policies. Some believe that the government should allow for guns in schools‚ others think that there needs to be more gun regulations and less firearms in the hands of citizens. Nicholas D. Kristof‚ a columnist for The New York Times‚ has a firm belief in the latter. In his essay‚ “Do We Have the Courage to Stop
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Not All Industrial Food is Evil Lauri Gavilano EN1420 December 13‚ 2014 Not All Industrial Food Is Evil In the article Not All Industrial Food Is Evil‚ published on August 17‚ 2013‚ in The New York Times‚ Mark Bittman questions how a pound of tasteless and watery tomatoes cost $2-$3 a pound when 2lbs. of canned tomatoes‚ that had a better taste to them‚ could cost only half that amount. Now that businesses have to produce so much food for the population and with the processes tomato market
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a slave? I think it would be horrifying. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted everyone to have the same dream of freedom and equality for everyone that he had. SO that we may all have the privilege to live a free and normal life in the future. MLK’s speech was very compelling because he used such wonderful grammar and sentence structure that it gave him authority and credibility. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to replace violence and hatred with lovet
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JFK lived an extraordinary‚ however short and “unfinished life.” In Robert Dalek’s preface he contends that there have been countless biographies and documents‚ and articles on the 33rd president‚ so why should he add another one to the list? New research allowed him to dig deeper into the lives of the Kennedy’s and give a more whole story of the life of John F. Kennedy. Dalek thoroughly goes through Kennedy’s early years‚ giving extensive background on the lives of his grandparents and parents
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