Antonia Peacocke uses short parts of from different authors to shape her argument, agreeing with some and pointing fun at others. She recognizes some of the steps taken due to the fact that the content of some of the jokes are not for younger ears. She ends her article explaining that although she feels that there is more to the jokes on Family Guy than the offensive crudity that people like to point out she still finds that people still need to realize that some jokes do go too far and take to heart "the distinction between a shamelessly candid but insightful joke and a merely shameless joke".
Diction 1) In John Kennedy’s speech, many words are abstract because he’s appealing to the audience’s pathos, and abstract words such as freedom, poverty, devotion, loyalty, and sacrifice are used so that the audience will not oppose because they are hooked emotionally; these words also keep the tone appropriate for the circumstance they are being used in. 2) In the speech there are formal rhetorical tropes such as metaphor and personification. Some examples of this would be “Now the trumpet summons us again”, and “And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion”. 3) Kennedy uses many figures of speech that may be considered cliches. The fresher metaphors are the ones he uses when he’s speaking about the future of the United States.
He even sprinkles some dry humor throughout the article if you are willing to look for it. Hansen achieves his purpose of instigating public thought by a mixed use of different subjects and by appealing to logic and credibility along with a less obvious appeal to emotion. In the introductory sentence, Hansen seemingly constructs a dilemma using the language of “caught between
By telling the tragic story of Medea, Euripides is giving his audience a reflection on the current events and politics of Athens in the 4th century B.C. There are two messages being sent to viewers, the first which tells a familiar tragedy, and the second which refers historically to events going on at the time of the play. For Euripides, the current events that he was writing about were the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars. Through entertainment, he presents his position on democracy and internal security in a way that the audience can understand. In the same way, Jon Stewart entertains his audience with humor, sarcasm and poking fun at politicians to send a message across about politics today.
Understanding Business Research Terms and Concepts: Part 2 Diana Reynolds RES 351 February 6, 2012 Dr. John Kwagyan Understanding Business Research Terms and Concepts: Part 2 Which type of research design— exploratory, descriptive, or causal—is appropriate for the following examples? Explain why. • The objective of this study is to find out the actual reason of the difficulty and to propose new probable solutions or innovative thoughts. – This is an exploratory research design because the researcher collects supplementary data during investigation to produce a hypothesis • A foodstuff producer needs to recognize the demographical figures of public who buy natural eatables. – This is a descriptive research design because the producer is discovering uniqueness to probably generate a marketplace strategy for natural eatables.
Laughter is often called the best medicine, and while Sherman Alexie probably wasn’t laughing, or intending for the readers to laugh, when he wrote his essay, Indian Education, he does include some humor, often dark humor, into it. Including humor isn’t uncommon when an author writes a serious piece of work such as Indian Education. The humor is meant not to make people laugh so much as it is to lessen the seriousness or pain even that the author and reader might feel while writing or reading this essay. Alexie often directs his humor on the people who made his life difficult and miserable during his school career. He does this to make his essay more enjoyable while still maintaining its seriousness and validity, and also to ease his own pain
If we are not intending a purpose for our words, either spoken or written, they will bear no fruit – they are useless. We are also reminded that sometimes our communication has consequences, even when we think there will be none. Therefore, let us take heed before we speak. This is not meant to deter us from speaking or writing as often, but to make sure they have an intended purpose. When asked to speak, have something meaningful to say.
In “Weasel Words: The Art of Saying Nothing at All,” by William Lutz, the author defines not only what weasel words are but also how advertisers intentionally use them to deceive the public. Lutz achieves his purpose-which is to empower readers to see through the verbal games weasel words play-by his helpful use of headers and thorough explanation of how the most common (and effective) weasel words work. Lutz’s uses of headers are effective because they keep the reader on track throughout the essay. Without the headers divding the essay into sections, most readers would experience information overload. Lutz’s first two headers (“’HELP’-THE NUMBER ONE WEASEL WORD”,”VIRTUALLY SPOTLESS” are examples of how the author will move from sections
Everyday people lie about something with the intent of never getting caught or with bad intentions in mind, but this book shows how lies can actually be good at a moment and furthermore have some truth behind them. O’Brian describes it in a few simple words, “Story truth is truer than actual truth. Story truth shows feelings and make the past the present.” Throughout the book, lies are really just exaggerated truth bearing a true statement surrounded by a bunch of false items to back it up. This is described when O’Brian states, “…you start sometimes with an incident that truly happened,…, and carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that none the less help to clarify and explain it”. An example of this statement occurred when O’Brian was stating that he killed a young man and there were scars on his face and his jaw was in his throat and his eye was blown out and in the shape of a star.
Only through experience and proper research can a speaker effectively read the demonstrative communication of the audience. Poor execution of these skills can cause the message to be misunderstood or not delivered. The power of demonstrative communication can enable a speaker to perform better or prevent a message from being understood. The effectiveness of any type of communication lies with the sender. Cultural differences must be accounted for to prevent potential problems or misunderstandings.