Davis 1 Raven Davis Professor Bunde English 1011 26 September 2012 Rhetorical Analysis of “Outcasts United: A True Story about Soccer and Immigration Made for Hollywood? Pitch Invasion journalist‚ Andrew Guest‚ writes the article “Outcasts United: A True Story about Soccer and Immigration Made for Hollywood” from a sarcastic viewpoint. Guest starts by allowing his reader to get acquainted with Warren St. John’s cover article on “Outcast United‚” which later became a book. He introduces the
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decisions controlled by their own whims. That’s an important value Coolidge addresses in his first speech as president of the Massachusetts State Senate. In it‚ he discusses the importance of being selfless—of doing what’s best for the nation and doing whatever is necessary even if it won’t lead to reelection or popularity‚ a value perhaps even more relevant and important today. A main theme in Coolidge’s speech is for legislators to do whatever is necessary—that they shouldn’t be afraid of being given
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establish ethos‚ a positive view‚ and voice apart from stereotypical representations of the “angry-black-woman” derived from pop-culture. First Lady Michelle Obama is no exception to this rule. She is a special case because she is creating her own history and legacy as the first Africa-American First Lady of the United States. Michelle Obama: First Lady‚ American Rhetor analyzes the themes
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Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexical and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies‚ the syntax which structures them and their set of speech sound units differ‚ creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Most human speakers
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Every day‚ thousands of teenage and college-aged girls flip through the pages of tabloids and fashion magazines‚ admiring the glossy images of models and celebrities. While this habit is seemingly casual and innocent‚ for many it becomes an obsession that is interlinked with a struggle to attain an ideal yet unrealistic body image. In their articles‚ Meredith Baker and Walter Vandereycken discuss the media’s influence on young women‚ agreeing that media exposure has a strong negative impact on young
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Laila Lane Professor Katherine Gray English 1102 Rhetorical Analysis Today’s young generation has been getting a lot of slack from older generations due to the amount technology they have. Those who have negative things to say about this generation sometimes say that they’re not as smart as the previous generations because of the new technology that is available. Literary critic at the San Francisco Chronicle‚ Cynthia Haven‚ argues that the young generation of today has actually written
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In “Bring Back Flogging”‚ Jeff Jacoby addresses the problems within America ’s criminal justice system. He gives many reasons why imprisonment simply does not work‚ and suggests that corporal punishment should be used as an alternative. Published in the Boston Globe‚ a newspaper well known for being liberal‚ Jacoby provides a conservative view and directs his argument towards those who strongly support imprisonment and view corporal punishment to be highly barbaric and inhumane. However‚ in order
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In the “Speech to the Virginia Convention” (1775)‚ Patrick Henry convinced the colonist to fight against Britain using several different rhetorical devices; the four main ones were rhetorical questions‚ parallelism‚ diction‚ and allusion. These devices helped give him the power to be able to connect to the audience and show them what he see’s through examples of common stories that the audience already knew about. The use of rhetorical questions‚ the first rhetorical device‚ allows the audience
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Fighting Fascism: J.F.K.’s Speech to the Citizens of West Berlin On June 26‚ 1963‚ shortly after visiting the Berlin Wall‚ former President‚ John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave a speech to the citizens of West Berlin. The speech‚ titled “Ich bin ein Berliner”‚ was meant to ensure the citizens that he and the United States stand in solidarity with them in combating the communism that had imprisoned them‚ and in a sense‚ their democratic political system. Throughout the entire speech‚ Kennedy remains sympathetic
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gave this speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. In this speech‚ he states the struggles that African Americans face‚ due to discrimination and racial inequality in America. King held many peaceful protests concerning these issues‚ but no matter how peaceful they were‚ there was always police brutality and discrimination against them. He had hoped that all Americans‚ who heard the speech‚ would be touched by it and would take action on how poorly they were treated. The rhetorical devices
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