Adriannah Baker Professor Washburn English 101- College Writing 19 October 2014 Addiction in the Homeland When Deborah Sontag wrote the article “Heroin’s Small-Town Toll‚ and a Mother’s Pain” it wasn’t to scare or frighten the public. What she wrote were facts and intimate details of a family’s pain and heartache over what happened to the person they loved who had an addiction she couldn’t beat. Deborah wrote this article with the intention of letting everyone know that heroin is a very serious
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Brandon Vanwert 11/6/12 Eng101LecR5 Soma Feldmar Imagination and Reality Rhetorical Analysis The essay "Imagination and Reality" was written by Jeanette Winterson. Winterson is a British writer who was born in Manchester‚ England. After moving to London‚ her first novel‚ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit‚ won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel‚ and was adapted for television by Winterson in 1990. This in turn won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama. She won the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
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Unity and World Peace After the Vietnam War‚ Americans had become annoyed and conflicted on the subjects of war‚ as well as their government. The American culture was changing as people began to realize how ‘dishonest’ and ‘untrustworthy’ some of our politicians had become. During this period society’s faults and weaknesses also became more apparent. In the midst of this changing environment‚ in 1960‚ John F. Kennedy was elected. On January 20th‚ 1961 John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the president
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Chris Porter ENG 105-14 January 29‚ 2012 Rhetorical Analysis Spandex is No Good! In the essay‚ “What You Eat is Your Business”‚ Radley Balko writes to tell his audience about how the government is trying to control people’s health and eating habits by restricting food‚ taxing high calorie food‚ and considering menu labeling. Balko includes in his essay that government restricting diets and having socialist insurance is not helping the obesity problem‚ but it is only making it worse
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are some of the important rhetorical methods that many authors use to portray their ideas. In “A Piece of Chalk” (1905)‚ G.K. Chesterton demonstrates his adept writing ability in using those methods as a means of appeal to convey that everything is beautiful and valuable in its own way. His piece of writing not only exemplifies the use of contradiction‚ humor‚ analogy and metaphor‚ but also succeeds in using relevant support and evidence. Initially‚ the first rhetorical technique that Chesterton
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into the age of technology‚ in which people rely on cell phones‚ music players‚ and even communicate through social networking. Facebook is the leading social networking site‚ and is the basis for Hal Niedzviecki’s essay "Facebook in a Crowd". Two rhetorical devices do support the argument that is presented later in the essay‚ and they are humor and pathos appeal. Niedzviecki also uses a narrative form of writing to tell a story about a man with a near seven-hundred online friends on Facebook‚ but he
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Rhetorical Analysis Laurie Schutza’s essay‚ “The Pack Rat Among Us” gives the readers a view of what a hoarder is like physically and mentally. A hoarder is a person who gets too attached to personal items that he/she cannot get rid of over the course of their lifetime. This causes the hoarders to have stacks of random things that must people would have disposed of. “Hoarders tend to keep what many may consider useless items such as empty food containers or cardboard boxes” (Schutza 306).
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October 16‚ 2012 Rhetorical Analysis: “You are being lied to about pirates” In Johann Hari’s article “You are being lied to about pirates” (published Monday January 5‚ 2009 by the Independent) he uncovers for his audience/readers the truth behind piracy and how it is reflected in the ways that the government “tries” to inform the public. The article shows that his audience is the people he recognizes to be the real villains in destroying the pirate “organization” as well as the uneducated readers
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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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The rhetorical device Antony took hold of throughout his persuasive argument is verbal irony. The use of verbal irony in his speech is so strong that it borders on sarcasm. "Friends‚ Romans‚ countrymen‚ lend me your ears/I come to bury Ceasar‚ not to praise him." (3.2.81-82) says Antony when introducing himself to the crowd. The use of verbal irony is exemplified in this quote with the use of “Friend” He addresses the plebeians as "Friends" with the purpose of persuading them into believing that
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