Rhetorical Analysis: Allegory of the Cave The text I have used to do my rhetorical analysis is the “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato. In this text‚ Plato gives an explanation of his idea of the situation of humans in respect to knowledge by telling us an allegory. In his allegory‚ Plato says that there are a few prisoners seated in a cave behind a small wall facing a big wall. The only thing they can do is looking at the wall in front of them and listen‚ they cannot even move their neck or the
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outside the limits of being either pleasant or beneficial. 4. Doesn’t the same hold for the admirability of the fields of learning‚ too? Conclusion. Whenever one of two admirable things is more admirable than the other‚ it is so because it surpasses the other either in one of these‚ pleasure or benefit‚ or in both. Whenever one of two shameful things is more shameful than the other‚ it will be so because it surpasses the other either in pain
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My mother has told me since I was a child‚ “Conversation before confrontation. You must use your words to solve differences before violence.” That saying has always stuck with me since the first time I heard it. In keeping it close to my heart‚ I have grown to live by those words. Before any source of conflict can arise‚ I take the pacifist route to try and solve differences instead of letting hate overcome a more peaceful direction. People in the world will always disagree. That is the one fact
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Rhetorical Analysis Audience My audience for this piece consisted of Apple Watch users who want to track their daily and weekly fitness through the activity app provided by Apple. I met the needs of this audience by going into detail on how to perform each step. I made sure each individual step was concise but informative‚ so that the person following these instructions would not be overwhelmed. I also made sure to include instructions on how to receive notifications‚ in case the performer desired
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Marlena Young Professor Phillip Dennis‚ PhD English 111 07 October 2015 Food Inc.: Rhetorical Analysis Food Inc. is an informative and revealing documentary film‚ aimed to expose the dirty truth of the industrial food industry in America. Directed by Robert Kenner and produced by Michael Pollan‚ this film informs the American people exactly what they are eating and how it’s affecting them‚ by painting a more realistic picture of the food industry‚ than that of an agricultural society. With the use
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a speaker for the COPE/ child crisis department. The COPE acronym stands for Community Outreach for Psychiatric Emergencies. COPE is called when there is a psychiatric concern. The COPE nurse will assess the patient and if needed mobilize a team of two individuals to meet with the patient. COPE works with local law enforcement to ensure that the patient and their family are in a safe environment. COPE has the ability to respond to a psychiatric crisis twenty four hours a day‚ seven days a week. There
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Rhetorical Analysis of Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down this Wall” Ra’Shell Ford Due 7/24/2011 Rhetorical Analysis of Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down this Wall” On August 15‚ 1961‚ Communists began building a wall to keep Germans from escaping Communist-controlled East Berlin to West Democratic Berlin. There were guards‚ electric barbed wired fences‚ and of course the twelve foot concrete wall that prevented Germans from escaping. After the wall was built many Germans still tried to flee the west but
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for this ad are mostly people going through transitions in their lives. By this I mean‚ first moving out of their parents house‚ midlife crisis‚ etc. However‚ I think it hits harder with young adults who are just leaving for college. This ad targets two aspects that a majority of the audience
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and perceptions of the world because the idols are pre-made and are unable to be corrected with out great personal discipline (Article Two). Bacon believes it is important to consider the bias of the idols because without understanding the bias then one cannot break away the bias to fully be enlightened or have a true knowledge of how the world works (Article Two). Sir Francis Bacon classifies the idols of the world into four groups. The groups include: Idols of the Tribe‚ Idols of the Cave‚ Idols
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Anjali Prabhat Mrs. Keating Honors English I 30 November 2012 Any skillful author has hundreds of tricks up his or her sleeve for successfully conveying the theme of the story to readers. One of the most effective methods in doing so would be through the use of irony‚ both situational and verbal. When an event occurs to the contrary of what the reader might have been expecting‚ the plot thickens‚ adding a twist or creating a higher level understanding of the story. Irony can also
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