Shooting Dad by Sarah Vowell Sarah Vowell, the author of Shooting Dad faces the struggle of a relationship with her father due to his extreme admiration for firearms. Vowell, although allowed to voice her own opinion on politics and beliefs (she is a democrat and father is a republican) has a hard time relating to her fathers view points. She loves the arts, he loves guns. Vowell noticed even more of a seperation from her father when she watched her twin sister follow her fathers passion for guns. Vowell remembers her experience with guns as a child.
This could be one of the reasons why Canada’s annual gun related death is 165 while America’s is well over 11,000. In the movie, Moore uses three different techniques to promote his purpose in the movie; these techniques include Pathos, Logos and Ethos. In the movie, Moore uses ethos to help him gain the trust and belief from his audience. Moore does this threw credibility, trustworthiness, sincerity, authority, persuasiveness, intelligence, reputation, experience, fairness and thoughtfulness. One of the examples of this was when Moore took two of Columbine’s students to visit the headquarters of K-mart, to try and prevent further sell of the bullets that entered their bodies.
David Stout Compare the changing representations of men in advertising from the 1950s, 1980s and 2000s using (print and) TV adverts. Media is primarily the most influential institution in the world. It is so powerful that when Katie, from the 1950s Oxo advert, was spoken discourteously to by her husband countless people went on strike. Additionally, when Katie forgot to wash her hands after coming back from the shops there was chaos in the community. People thought that the family shown on the television was actually real.
S&W also is the top manufactuer of handcuffs in the United States and is trying to push its way into other sporting markets including knives and bicycles (Smith & Wesson, 2013). The S&W brand was severely tarnished in the early 1990’s when the company, then owned by british people, conspired with the Clinton administration to impose fangled and unreliable safety features on all firearms sold (Austin, 2013). This resulted in a ban on all S&W products by gun consumers in America that almost destroyed the company. The company was then sold and the brand has since partially recovered. There are still many people who feel S&W markets their products too heavily towards law enforcement, which when coupled with the memory of their push for biometric technology being implemented into every handgun sold makes them untrustworthy.
Yuh kin lemma have two dollars outa mah money. Please, Ma. I kin give it to Pa…Please, Ma! Ah loves yuh, Ma” Dave shows very childlike behavior, begging his mother to give him the money. He also tries to trick her by saying that the gun is for his father.
Lily also lives with her father and she says in the book that it never felt right to call him dad so she just settled on T. Ray. T. Ray is abusive and convinces Lily that her mother’s death is all her fault by telling her that she picked up the gun and it went off in her hands and killed her mother and that her mother didn’t care about her at all and left her. The date is 1964 and President Johnson has just signed the Civil Rights Act. Rosaleen decides that she wants to register to vote and Lily walks with her into town. As they reach the outskirts of town Rosaleen and Lily come across three white men who harass Rosaleen.
If I could be one of the characters from this book I would want to be Groovy because she likes to cook and she is very forgiving and a nice person. In the beginning of the story Groovy and her dad are walking downtown when a policeman arrests her dad and Groovy does not know why her dada is arrests. The Groovy tells her mom what happened and her mom already knows that her dad got arrested. Groovy wants her mom to tell her why about her dad, but Groovy mom will not tell her. The finally her mom tells her that her dad got arrested because he lost all of her inheritance on a one bet at the racetracks and that was for her to go to cooking school.
A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor opens with a scene of a grandmother in the kitchen with her son, Bailey, and his family, which consists of a wife who wears slacks and a kerchief around her hair while she feeds a young baby as well as two children; a young boy named John Wesley and June Star is the little girl. The family is preparing to go to Florida on vacation but the grandmother is insistent that they should go to east Tennessee instead because she wanted to visit some of her connections. She is ignored by the family and no one seems to care about her opinion. It is clear that she is trying to weasel her way into getting her wish but none of them are falling for it. The grandmother mentions that there is a fugitive on the loose called the Misfit and that they might run into him if they go to Florida but again, this line of reasoning has no effect on them.
June 5, 1969 Dear journal, I’ve realized that I’ve not been writing since ’56 ,but that’s because we’ve been having some unpleasant weather. I know Oklahoma is in tornado alley, but there’s not been any tornadoes yet! Sometimes the weather gets so brutal that I take my wife and daughter to the storm shelter anyway. I think I might get my daughter a dog for her birthday on the 15th. Even though our money is based on how many eggs the chickens hatch, I’ll do anything for my daughter because…she’s the only one I have.
If my words could paint a picture of how it was growing up in the Byer residence, I would have 1,000 words of bliss until the summer of 2003. It was August 29th, 2003 the morning after Josh’s first High School Varsity football game, that night my parents sat together watching the game. After that, Mom, Josh and I packed into the minivan, while dad left separately in his truck. I did not realize he did not come home until I came downstairs the next morning when I saw Mom in tears at the kitchen table. My heart dropped, deep down I knew this was bad.