Word Count: 1399 Firoozeh Dumas argues how difficult it is for an immigrant with a foreign name to live in America in “The F Word.” The author describes her past troubles with having the Iranian name of Firoozeh. Children and adults alike pronounce it incorrectly and cause embarrassment and confusion. Dumas decided to start calling herself Julie in an effort to prevent inconvenience on the part of American tongues. Foreign names make immigrants feel alienated among a nation with names along the lines of Joe, Mary, Dave, Steve, and Sarah. Americans have become more willing to learn a foreign name.
Smith uses this repetition for emphasis on most every facet of her argument. In her concluding paragraph Smith says “As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist. I condemn a Democrat Fascist just as much as I condemn a Republican Communist. They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had…” The repetition of the phrase “I condemn…” puts emphasis on the fact that she too is against the ideas of Communism and Fascism, but reminds the audience that she sees a different approach to getting rid of them.
Her claim was to argue the problems of how women are supposed to be seen as thin, long hair, and busty. She dismisses that argument as she focuses on her past problems that end up coming out as anger and just nagging. Also, reveals her own problems with her own race. Her bias is revealed as she called the man a “redneck” and called herself a “nigga,” as she stoops down to her offenders’ level. Her unsupportive argument is not to prove the misconceptions of what makes a woman a woman, really her arguments about her own anger and aggression towards her past.
Emily McPherson AP Lang Summer Assignment: Essay Maureen Dowd uses sarcasm and humor to criticize political figures and their actions. Her tone is often tongue-in-cheek but factual about the grim future of American politics. She often uses quotes from common citizens to illustrate a national sentiment about a certain politician or situation. For example, in her column “Dystopias and Alphas”, about the American public’s frustration with President Obama’s not fulfilling his promises she uses a quote from LuAnn Lavine, a real estate agent from Geneseo; “Everyone was so hopeful with him, but Washington just grabbed him and here we are.” Another technique she uses to poke fun at politicians is to use in her column a humorous story from their
Part I Marybeth Hicks’ commentary on the Occupy Wallstreet protestor’s shines light on what seems like an unpopular opinion. She targets the protestor’s motives with the question of “Who raised these people?” Calling out the activists on their illogical and outright silly motives she justifies what she says with truth and facts that the protestor’s don’t even seem to realize. She lists five points that the protestor’s fail to notice on why their cause is as ridiculous as their behavior. Part II She begins her article stating that “Yet it's not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I'm the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms
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For them, it's only an act of rebelling against Party. Winston is only attracted to Julia because she is a rebel. Julia is a rebel against the party who is trying to find more party members who feel the same way. Even though she is an attractive, young woman, her rebellious mind is her most attractive quality. Winston is most attracted to her that she hates the Party as
In the Essay “Pc is Ridiculous!” by Alison, the purpose of this essay is to state her opinion on the fact that she believes Political Correctness (pc) is ridiculous to her! She finds it to be so ridiculous that she begins to insult the people who participate in pc. The thesis of this statement begins in paragraph two, although paragraph one does not state much of a thesis because of the way she begins to vent and ramble on how ridiculous it is. But in paragraph two she states the purpose of why we or the populous participate in pc. She states that if we continue to participate we will be a “repressive society” which to me seems very one sided, she speaks to everyone in this essay, because she wants everyone to know that if you participate in the pc, we are not only being ridiculous but we are being a “repressive society.” This essay, or what seems to be an essay, is not an effective argument because of the way she argues, she does not see things from both sides, but she chooses to voice her side and why she thinks it is ridiculous!
‘HHMM’, Hollywood, Harvard, McDonald’s, and Microsoft, were selling not only their products but also America's culture and values, the secrets of its success, to the rest of the world.' However, employing only hard power or only soft power in a given situation will usually prove inadequate. Nye utilizes the example of terrorism, arguing simply utilizing soft power resources to change the hearts and minds of the Taliban government would be ineffective and requires a hard power component. Nevertheless, in the Middle East, in the eyes of Islamic fundamentalists, the openness of Western culture is repulsive, which we have a term for it ‘anti-Americanism’. As a result, Joseph Nye, suggests that the most effective strategies in foreign policy today require a mix of hard and soft power resources, the ‘smart power’.
“War vs. Dialog” Professor of linguistics, and author of “The Argument Culture”, Deborah Tannen is trying to get people to “think of argument not as war or a fight but as a dialogue among a variety of different positions” (Tannen 475). Tannen convinces her readers that “adversarial debates which typically represent only two sides of an issue and thus promote antagonism, creates problems in communication” (Tannen 475). In this writing, Deborah Tannen is also trying to persuade that our argument culture is a problem. Even though there’s at time to fight and defend your point, The Argument Culture of Americans today is bad, waste of time, negative for the community and can worsen the relationship of the two arguing. To support her focus, Deborah goes about it and gives realistic, everyday life examples.