Essays on Rhetoric Page 8

A Move towards Better Communication Deborah Tannen graduated from The University of California, Berkely, M. A. in 1979 with her PHD in Linguistics. She is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. Tannen has written many books where she applies her theory of Linguistics to everyday situations. Some of her books are: That’s Not What…

With the continuous exposure of marketing media, it is safe to say that it may affect our individualism and society as a whole. This is an approach to advertising’s effects on the society. In the commercial advertised by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), many techniques are used to convince…

April 22nd, 2013 Rhetorical Analysis “It’s become a sad rite of passage in many American communities, the services held for teenagers killed in auto accidents before they’ve even scored a tassel to hang from the rearview mirror. ” Anna Quindlen wrote the article, “Driving to the Funeral,” in the June 11, 2007 issue of Newsweek…

Abraham Lincoln’s speech addresses the issues of slavery and how the civil war could have been avoided. Lincoln appeals to the American people’s sense of jingoism and references the bible to create a common ground for the people to relate with. During Lincoln’s inaugural address he appeals to American patriotism by saying “we” and “our”…

Justice vs. Terrorism “The Dark Knight,” a movie directed and produced by Christopher Nolan, depicts the way a system of justice deals with terrorism. If an archetype is defined as a symbol that exists instinctively in the collective consciousness of the human race, the terrorism in Batman The Dark Knight represents an archetype through the…

Abstract. The paper analyzes the rhetorical appeal of two texts through the prism of three classical modes of persuasion: Ethos (appeal to authority), Pathos (appeal to emotion), and Logos (appeal to logic). The two texts are intended for the same target audience, but they advocate different perspectives on the issue of same-sex marriages using distinct…

The speech was given on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, in a time where it was very difficult for blacks everywhere, and they wanted to change the way they were treated. The civil rights movement was becoming more and more popular at this time. Purpose: To motivate people to make a change. “I…

Pyatachev E. G. Text Three From W. S. Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972), the son of a solicitor, was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford and for more than twenty years from 1932 was a fiction reviewer for such periodicals as the Spectator; Sketch, Observer and Time and Tide. He published his first book, a…

In the early 1980’s a worldwide epidemic affected millions of people. Although it is true that the AIDS virus was spread to people of all genders, sexual orientations, and races, there were many stereotypes that stuck with the name of the disease. Mary Fisher, who is an American political activist, artist, and author made herself…