Jessica Carroll Carroll 1 Lanie Rieth English 121 21 Sept. 2009 “Fat-Fighters” On April 15, 2006, Slate.com posted an article called “Junk-Food Jihad.” In this article the author, William Saletan, discusses his views on the banning of junk food in a very sarcastic and mocking way. The author expresses his hatred against this topic very clearly in this article by establishing his ethos and stating his point of views. He grabs the reader’s attention right off the get go by stating, “Goodbye, War on Smoking. Hello, War on Fat.” Throughout the article, he argues his opinion on fast food and junk food vs. tobacco. His tone in the piece, the quotes he includes, the facts and statistics that he uses to establish his authority and credibility, and his way of arguing his point without pushing the reader to choose a side, all lead up to his main argument on the banning of junk-food.
As a continuation of his introdution, Colbert sarcastically asks for someone to pinch him because he may be in a dream being so close to Bush. He then continues and tells someone to shoot him in the face, a reference to Dick Cheney accidentally shooting someone he was hunting with. After these introductory jokes, Colbert got down to business with his roasting of President Bush. First, Colbert compares Bush to himself in the sense that they both go straight from the gut and do not pay attention to the facts. He then makes a joke about the government being best when governed least, and states that the government Bush has set up in Iraq is excellent by those standards.
How is suspense created through the narrative in the Band of Brothers clip? Band of Brothers is a television series written by Steven Spielberg. This television series is based on the happenings and events of WW2. It intensely portrays the problems and the negativity of WW2, which for some war veterans hasn’t gone down so well, as they believe that a remembrance piece of work should almost salute the soldiers for being terrible brave, however this television series is very negative towards the whole war. In this analysis I will be looking in depth at the clip we viewed in class, which I believe is the first of the 10 series remembrance drama.
In the second paragraph of Speight’s article Speight is telling the reader that certain networks are pursuing lawsuits against reality TV writers. He tells the readers in a way that Speight and his fellow co-workers feel like they are being trashed and that all they are is a big joke. But then in the fifth paragraph Speight loosens up and lightens up the article. He uncovers that he has worked on a lot of accomplished reality TV shows in paragraph six. But the happy-go-lucky tone ends shortly in paragraph eight where he tells the readers that he has battled with many suffering and dismal reality TV shows.
Racial Divide On November 23rd of 2012 Tom Bohs published an article in The Jackson Sun called “Bill Way Flap a Mirror of Community Racial Divide.” Racism means hate or dislike. People could be racist against religion, gender, color, or language. The first amendment states people are allowed to express and say what they believe in. Radio host Bill Way posted on a social network how he felt about the president. People didn’t like what Bill had to say.
He also declared that the United States had lost ground in the world not as a result of foreign aggression, but “because of the traitorous actions of those who have been treated so well by this nation.” The corporate-controlled news media also shared the blame for McCarthy's ability to disseminate "great lies." During the Wheeling speech, no reporter asked to examine the list McCarthy held, and it is said that McCarthy himself later joked to members of his inner circle that nothing was on the paper but a reminder to pick up his laundry. Addressing the Ohio County Women's Republican Convention, Senator McCarthy first quoted from Marx, Lenin, and Stalin their stated goal of world conquest and said, "today we are engaged
Chapter 13 Case Study: Playing “Chicken” with Gay Marriage 8 February 2015 1) Was the CEO wise in making his anti-gay marriage views known, exposing his company to such controversy? I don’t think that Mr. Cathy was wise in voicing his views the way he did. Since Chick-Fil-A has been around it has had a reputation as a faith-based company, so most people already assumed the beliefs he threw in the public’s face. Two years after the controversy exploded, Huffington Post published a follow-up article about the incident. “Chick-fil-A President and CEO Dan Cathy apparently laments getting the fast-food chain involved in the debate over marriage equality, but he isn't taking back his anti-gay comments (Sieczkowski, 2014).” Cathy also stated, “Every leader goes through different phases of maturity, growth and development and it helps by recognizing the mistakes that you make,” Cathy told the AJC.
This critical written task will discuss a speech by Adam Conover made at Deep Shift, a conference on how to market to millennials, with an audience of advertisers. Conover is a tv host of his own show, a comedy show, “Adam ruins Everything”, in which he (Conover) debunks common misconceptions about several broad topics. This task will break down how millennials are represented in his speech, for all Conover’s arguments. Overall, Conover disagrees with the general view of other generations of millennials, and he is making this clear at the convention to help the marketers make their advertising connect more to the millennials, and to tell about the toxicity of this generational thinking. Millenials are most commonly defined by their birth
Family Guy is one of the most disgusting, cruel and racist shows I have ever laid my eyes on, that is what I first thought after watching the TV show, Family Guy, for the first time, now that I look back on it, it is simply not true. If you look into the show more deeply and get what Seth McFarland, creator of Family Guy, is trying to portray you realize there is a lot more to it. I took the same view of the show as Peacocke, at first I did not like it, but I was forced by my family and friends to watch it. After watching several episodes, I stepped back and took a deeper look at the racist and sexist jokes said on the show, and I realized there was more to learn and see then just
Analysis of Michael Kinsley’s Racial Profiling Michael Kinsley is a renowned liberal columnist whom wrote articles for the Washington Post, and is the founding editor of Slate. He was also a co-host on CNN’s Crossfire, which was a televised political debate forum that aired until 2005. Michael Kinsley wrote the article, Racial Profiling at the Airport: Discrimination we’re afraid to be against on September 28, 2001; a mere 17 days after the 9/11 Al Qaeda-lead terrorist attacks on the United States. During this time there was much hatred and anger towards those whom were of Arab ethnicity as a general population, as opposed to just the small percentage of terrorists who actually committed the crime. Racism, hate