History is made by men with The Right Stuff; Abraham Lincoln faced not one man but a nation. A nation torn apart, set against each other in Civil War. Abraham Lincoln displayed the Right Stuff by ending the war, freeing slaves and reuniting the nation as one. In the 1940s the military begun testing rocket propel jets. These new airplanes required certain men with unique aptitudes, ones who have the ability to push themselves, never quit, never accepted the norm and demonstrate the courage to push the envelope and set records that are still talked about till this day.
Phillips uses detailed descriptions with intense word choices to move his audience. Examples of this are spoken throughout lines 15-20 such as he “forged a thunder bolt”, “sent him home conquered” and “put them under his feet.” All of these describe his power. They raise Toussaint above the rest and give him and almighty ring to his name. Phillips final strategy is personification. The power of the last paragraph is held all in personification as Phillips states that they see with their prejudices, not with their eyes.
Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated as the 34th president of the United States on January 20, 1953. The speech he gave at this event was a very important one. It called on Americans to unite themselves against their large foe, which at this point was communism. Some strategies he used in his speech to make successful is syntax, repetition, logos, and pathos. All three of these strategies are commonly used, but it takes an innovative man to use them and clearly support his purpose, and that is exactly what Dwight Eisenhower did with his address.
In the movie: An Inconvenient Truth, all of the rhetorical devices were used in order to increase the efficiency of the purpose of the movie, which is to convince and to inform the audience about the serious effects of global warming. He used logos, appealing to logic and statistics, ethos, appealing to ethics and morality, and pathos, appealing to emotions and feelings. He established ethos through visual elements, audio track, and through written text. He appealed to logos through expert testimony, quantitative data, inductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning. He also appealed to pathos through visual elements, audio track, personal anecdote, and through humor.
In Ronald Regan’s Berlin address speech he clearly demonstrates ethos pathos and logos. Regan uses each of these tactics successfully in different ways creating a great example of persuasion. Regan primarily uses pathos to grab the audiences’ attention and persuade them into thinking that he is correct. Regan begins his speech by demonstrating the usage of pathos. He states, “soviets are in a limited way becoming to understand the importance of freedom”, and “for we believe that freedom and security goes together.” By him stating this he is creating an emotion of American Pride and freedom.
Accused of mass murder, unfair treatment, harsh taxing, no toleration of other beliefs and ideas, Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of the Quin dynasty, was able to clarify and justify his actions. Shi Huangdi proclaimed, “A strong empire needs a strong ruler,” (Erick Salas) and thus began the intense battle on Friday to prove him innocent on trial. gggggShi Huangdi began the trail by stating the history behind his life and the many accomplishments he gained during his reign. He was able to mesmerize the crowd with the achievements of the Great Wall, forming a written language, and standardizing currency. He did fail, however, to mention the consequences of his decisions, which the prosecution
Adding on to my previous thoughts, the reason why the sentences are so casual is because the novel overall was created to emphasize the life style and thought processes of soldiers during the war with the use of vulgar diction/profanity and the use of slang. The longer sentences in the book are generally used to describe an entire or used to provide imagery to the reader. The shorter/simpler sentences are used to make quick statements and to get right to the point. With the use of short sentences, O’Brien can express a clear concise straight into the reader which allows for a quicker understanding of a character’s current circumstances or mood. With the use of long sentences, O’Brien uses vivid imagery which allows the readers to use their own five senses to paint their own ideas of the war scenes being described.
Even though during both wars some of the ways the propaganda was distributed were different, it all tried to set out the same message. The government wanted the people to know only what they wanted them to know. During both wars propaganda tried to influence and maintain the public's attitudes and enthusiasm toward the war and gain the public's support. Both wars used newspapers and posters to dehumanize the axis powers and to turn the Americans against them. In both wars, propaganda was successful.
“In a true war story there is not even a point, or else the point hit’s you twenty years later, in your sleep” (295). I found this line to be so powerful, simply because this is what O’Brien’s entire story is all about. In my mind, How to Tell a True War Story, is all about the deeper meanings of stories. Unfortunately, if you read this story, and analyze it completely on the surface, it really should not have any effect on you. However, the deeper meanings that a true war story possesses are so powerful, they can truly touch a person.
From 1911 to 1916, Cummings attended Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. (bachelor arts) degree and a Master's degree in English and Classical Studies. During his graduation ceremony, he delivered a highly controversial speech called “The New Art” in which he accidentally accused Amy Lowell, an extremely well-liked and very popular imagist poet, of being “abnormal”. (Dreams in a Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings) Although Cummings actually deeply admired Lowell and her signature style of writing, and meant her being “abnormal”, in the sense that she was distinctive, the receiving crowd