We have all heard of famous athletes having their career and life jeopardized because of taking steroids. Still, some of them do not stop and others keep on taking them. What is so addicting about steroids that make athletes risk their whole career or life for? It just does not make any sense, does it? To tell the truth, steroids just like pretty much everything else in this world, have pros and cons to it.
Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine talks about guns control and its related violence, which arouse the attention to the public insecurity, media propaganda and government problems, the main argument of the film is that Americans already lost trust among each other, which cause the over control of guns compare to other nations. there are many impressive scenes in the movie that make people have a deep thought about what is wrong in the U.S. by using various techniques of persuasion such as the use of ethos, pathos and logos. one techniques Moore uses is ethos or the ethical appeal, means convince an audience of the author's credibility or character. it's not hard to see, Moore well-used of interviews from both sides of the guns issue, from not only victims but also the related association to build a full credibility to the audience, the interviews of victims in Columbine slaughter and the president of National Rifle Association could be the best example to show it and Moore try to explain that he is trying to get all the facts start with the bottom of the problems; not just this one support his argument, other example use of ethos would be appeal to celebrities, such as the interviews with rock star Manson and use a clip from a comedian show called "bullet control"; also example is appeal to authority, for instance, Moore interviews the headmaster of a elementary school in Michigan, where a 6 years old child was shoot to death by his
Leong’s piece is saying that athletes aren’t only to blame, with good points like the amount of pressure we, the public, the fans have put on them. Fry strongly shows his view, it is pointless and a waste of time trying to fix this problem and current way the government and drug commission are going about it and a waste of money. The image also shows this as well as a more in-depth view of the stupidity of what is going on in court
Lesego Mosweu Spoken Language Analysis How does Charlie Sheen use language to defend himself against media criticism and elevate his status? Charlie Sheen uses language that defends him against criticism from the press and he also attempts to elevate his status in the process during the interview with Diane Sawyer that was prompted by recent media criticism. The highly controversial character was known for his extravagant lifestyle and hard drug use and uses this interview as a platform to prove himself a changed man. His problems rapidly escalated and reached a point where he had an on-screen meltdown which led to his removal from the highly popular ‘Two and a Half Men’ Tv show. Firstly Charlie Sheen responds to initial questioning with the repeated use of the abstract noun ‘passion’.
"(Peterson) With new improvements in technology, Quentin Tarantino and many other directors are capable of creating and destroying characters in a brutal, detailed manner. These characters are created as if they were made on an assembly line. Many critics and viewers protest these movies because they showcase non-senseless violence in a repetitive fashion. Other violent movies, such as The Passion of Christ, display violence in a detailed manner, but also offer a message of morality to its viewers. Violence in movies has always been a controversial issue, and author Vivian Sobchack concludes that these movies showcasing violence have no "moral agenda."
Facebook is the gun that enables us to fire virtual bullets at all of the people that we despise, but every so often we take a shell in return. This shell can put a ripple in our psychological state which has us asking ourselves, I am I as happy as my friends ? “ The real danger with Facebook is not that it allows us to isolate ourselves, but that by mixing our appetite for isolation with our vanity, it threatens to alter the very nature of solitude” (Marche) . People should have their moments of solitude in this crazy stressful life; Sadly facebook acts as a weapon that destroy our much needed seclusion. In today’s generation having a face book ties you to being part of the pop culture phenomenon, without having one you receive the feeling that you are missing out on the virtual connection.
The author of this context has used different techniques to suck the audience into believing about this newspaper article. He uses ways of scaring the readers by telling them the truth about what is happening in the very place they live at. He tells the readers that their very teenaged children may be a part of organised crime by buying drugs and getting into a lot of debt to very dangerous people. They may start at about 100$ for a ‘point of methamphetamine’ and then get addicted to the drugs and end up getting into very huge debts. He also states that you may get a knock at 2am at your door with a thug demanding money, and the only way to pay them without getting killed is to sell businesses to pay back the mounting debt that their children have gotten into.
What type of appeal is mentioned? Looking through the words in the article one would find would be pathos, ethos, and logos. An example of pathos would be the statement “But consider a far more serious issue: chronic pain.” What the author is trying to get at is do not just look at the football player using an illegal drug, but the reason behind it, his pain. Pride, fear, and a bit of sympathy is the author’s way at appealing to the emotions. Most people would take medicine either from store bought or prescribed, but what if that does not work or after awhile of taking it, it does not work for the body?
During the movie while Michael Moore is talking to people he is trying to find out why American history is so violent and why Americans are so scared of any tiny thing that might happen and why other countries aren’t the same even if the all have violent TV programs and violent video games and even there violent history but he cannot find out why Americans are always so violent no matter what he tries. The difference between American gun laws and Danish gun laws are extremely different. Danish gun laws make it much harder to get a gun in Denmark than in America. This is because Americans are used to relying on weapons to protect them selves because things are much worse and much more violent there. This is what Michael Moore was trying to prove in his movie, that Americans are violent for no reason because they afraid of losing their rights and Michael Moore tries to show us this through his documentary, was very truthful about how violent and paranoid Americans are.
The lack of information on the public website creates unintended consequences for the public such as increased anxiety about their neighbors, as well as increasing the risk of harm to the registrants. Information is needed for people to make a reasonable assessment of the threat level an offender poses. The public should know more about the offender, the type of crime committed, how long ago the offense occurred, and the offender’s risk level. People know that there is a difference between a man who urinates against the side of a building when he’s had too many beers and a man who forces a six year old to have sex. But they need to have the information in order to use it.