Sirota Shortly before the controversial billboard was taken down just a couple of days later, an article written by David Sirota, titled “ Kenneth Cole Gets Schooled” appeared in the liberal political and current affairs website, Salon. In this writing, he criticizes the fashion designer Kenneth Cole and his company’s use of adopting a slogan that dealt with a national debate over unions, particularly teachers, in hopes of capitalizing off of the public’s reaction and response. By exploring the factors that explains the formation of the union such as the education system and accountability, Sirota’s article displays a firm but biased and partial argument in the importance of unions and their role in the education system. A strength within the essay lies in his varied choice of rhetorical strategies.…
On January 20th, 2017 Donald J. Trump was elected as President of the United States. He has only been President for a couple weeks yet it feels like his four years should be over. With the Republicans in charge of the congress there is nothing in is nothing in the way of accomplishing whatever they want; not even their conscious and sense of moral. In his opinion piece "Republican Fausts" , David Brooks is successful in his attempt to persuade his Republican colleagues that they have the responsibility to stop Trump and his administration through his use of logos, allusion and rhetorical context. David Brooks refers to the Republicans as “Fausts”, repeatedly throughout the article as well with calling their relationship with Trump “Faustian.”…
In David Brooks’ article “Fly the Partisan Skies” (2004), he mocks the often wholly ridiculous, bimodal stereotypes which conservatives and liberals hold of each other. Brooks elucidates these absurd political prejudices by creating an analogy in which each party represents an airline (“Liberal Air” and “Right Wing Express”) equipped with all the extreme stereotypes (“moral vanity used as a personal device”, “Hummer-brand planes”) associated with each party. Using overly-exaggerated stereotypes in order to divulge the arbitrary and wholly unnecessary nature of bipartisan animosity, Brooks urges conservatives and liberals alike to re-evaluate both their negative views of each other as well as their justifications for said views. Brook’s immediate…
How can the nature of marriage and sexuality within the Dobe Ju/’hoansi and the Trobriand Islanders of these elements of their society help us to understand the worldview of these communities? The Trobriand Islanders are a stratified social structure which is divided into owners and workers. they believe in the idea of sorcery. When death occurs Tuma is a place where the spirits go and where babies come from.…
Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft To Jay Heinrichs, author of “Thank You for Arguing”, rhetoric is a persuasive essential; and while used in the art of influence, it provides an undeniable amount of credulous logic. The rhetoric used in the time frame of this book pertains to many political debates and presidential campaigns. Politicians need to use the tool of rhetoric to sway their audience’s opinion. The communication made from a speaker to an audience is illustrated dealing primarily with credibility, and the logic concerned with the writers argument; rhetoric is the most powerful argumentative tool.…
Although a superficial reading of Sayed Kashua’s Native may have readers believe Kashua is pursuing a political agenda of gaining sympathy for Arabs in the Arab-Israeli conflict, a deeper reading reveals that there is no political agenda within Kashua’s writing and that it is the apolitical nature of his writing that allows readers to voluntarily sympathize with Arabs. The stories Kashua shares throughout his column are not politically-driven, but day-to-day accounts of his life.…
Thank you for your comments on my analysis. Here are my thoughts. Using an ethos appeal, Ken Herman uses his status as a prevalent journalist for a major daily newspaper in Austin, the capital city of Texas to garner credibility for his “opinion” of the December 2016, Austin City Council election and to perpetuate the “Austin American-Statesman’s” preferred political ideologies in society. After reading Herman’s article, it is obvious the “American-Statesman’s” political ideology leans left. Although Herman makes these liberal views known throughout his article, he carefully constructs his opinion article with the selling of the newspaper in mind.…
This detailed explanation of the freeway contributes to her depiction of the upper Midwest as uninteresting. Marquart uses zeugma when she says, “This is the way I recently heard a comedian describe the column of states that holds down the center of the country--the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma--a region that spawns both tornadoes and Republicans.” Her use of zeugma helps to reinforce the sentimentality that people bear with the upper Midwest. Though the region has occurrences with tornadoes, it is a region that produces Republicans. Often associated with the Republican party and their views of Conservatism, is the controversial topic of illegal immigration.…
In the United States, our government is made up of people with different political ideologies and assertions. Our association with certain political parties is an example of our differences. Republicans and Democrats throughout history have represented the interests of their supporters rightfully. Conservatives have contrasting views upon the economy, social issues, and international policy. Liberals uphold democracy to its highest standards and support an equal political community.…
Ann Richards presented her Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in 1988. Descriptive analysis aims to understand the purpose of a work, and the methods used to achieve that purpose. There are six elements, not including purpose, that can be strategically used to achieve a goal: persona, audience, tone, structure, supporting materials, and other strategies (Campbell and Burkholder 21). This rhetorical analysis examines how Ann Richards uses persona during her Keynote Address to the 1988 Democratic National Convention to convince listeners that the current government is dividing the country and that equality for all is important.…
In his persuasive essay “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation”, former president Ronald Reagan advocates for the overturning of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling that occurred a decade prior to the essay’s publication in the spring of 1983. This controversial case, whose ruling continues to be a hot topic in current political and ethical debates, permitted abortion on a federal level through all nine months of pregnancy. Nearly halfway through his first term of presidency in 1983, Reagan had vastly improved the nation’s economic situation, allowing the country entered a period of economic prosperity (“Ronald”). This allowed Reagan to dedicate more time to actively participating in the pro-life movement, as he strongly believed that…
As in any other state in this country or country in the world, Iowa and the Midwest have a history of hate. While Davidson describes in fascinating detail a growth of hate groups and ideologies in the 1980s, the lack of discussion of the history of hate in Iowa and Midwest could give a reader the false impression that hate is something new to the region, a product imported from the former Confederate states to meet a market created by the loss of family farms. As is clearly shown in the story of the anti-German sentiment and the Babel Proclamation of 1917 and 1918, the 1980s were not only time some Iowans in a time of great strife and anxiety have turned to hatred of an outsider group, whom they allege is plotting to undermine…
In his book ‘do not think of an elephant’, he author is keen in outlining the different American values which most individuals are unable to progressively articulate. Osborn also manages to show how different groups of people frame their issues(Osborn 307). Being a popular policy maker and a good literate critic, Osborn, has been able to present and support favorable policies especially those which are in alignment with values and personal identities, and especially issues that counter other people’s best interests. In the book ‘metaphors and politics’, the author argue that in most cases, we should not just use ‘flowery’ words which should be entirely reserved for literature purposes. It is emphasized that metaphors are only meant to improve daily…
In Obama’s “Tucson Memorial Address,” he addresses the tragedy of the shooting that occurred in Casas Adobes, Arizona, resulting in the death of six people. When he addresses the tragedy, he expresses that the violence that continues to occur is destroying the image that Americans have built for this country. Barack Obama uses the rhetorical techniques of pathos, anecdotes, and kairos to further emphasize his argument about the consistent rise of violence in the United States, relating to his other argument on how to reduce the violence. He utilizes pathos to inflict the emotions of sympathy and anger to inform his audience about the effect of violence. Obama then applies several anecdotes, specifically about the victims, throughout to emphasize…
The spoken and written word, dating back to the first civilizations and the Agricultural Revolution, has been used to express our thoughts and feelings, to help communicate with the people around us, to empower, and to inspire. However, language can also be used negatively: to denigrate, insult, obfuscate, euphemize, or deceive. It is especially used negatively in politics, where politicians use rhetoric and language in order to lobby their own agenda, further propaganda, and divide the population without directly saying so. In an amusing political cartoon by David Horsey, a group of children perform for their parents in a play about Thanksgiving. In this cartoon, a young white “pilgrim’’ proclaims to a group of young “Native Americans”, to the surprise of the parents, that he is a “racist European Conqueror who has come to commit Genocide against them”.…