* Clearly Swift would not be as innocent or fatuous as to think his proposal would solve the problem he addresses. But the essay is effective in encouraging recognition of the gravity of the political problem he describes. He exposes the problem and its causes, and he hopes to expose the selfish motives of those responsible. There is also the reality that Swift is enjoying himself. After all, the essay is funny in a sardonic way, even as it addresses a very serious political
Laughter is often called the best medicine, and while Sherman Alexie probably wasn’t laughing, or intending for the readers to laugh, when he wrote his essay, Indian Education, he does include some humor, often dark humor, into it. Including humor isn’t uncommon when an author writes a serious piece of work such as Indian Education. The humor is meant not to make people laugh so much as it is to lessen the seriousness or pain even that the author and reader might feel while writing or reading this essay. Alexie often directs his humor on the people who made his life difficult and miserable during his school career. He does this to make his essay more enjoyable while still maintaining its seriousness and validity, and also to ease his own pain
The author succeeds in getting his point across to the readers by pointing the finger at them. He causes each of the readers to re-examine their usage of fossil fuels and begin to explore on their own ways to decrease the amount of fuel used by them. Mr. Berry does get his point across but in a very confusing manner. His use of metaphors and finger pointing only causes confusion to the most simple of reader and even though the information is accurate, he did not
He puts the icing on the cake when proving that he is a racist person because he makes miss Phoenix feel as if she’s worth nothing when he so rudely holds the gun in her face and simply asks her, “‘Doesn’t this gun scare you?’”. Normally when you raise a gun to someone’s face, they’re going to reply with a yes but instead of replying scared, Miss Phoenix replies with a, “‘No sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done.’”
Oliver Malloy once stated that “Guns make losers feel like winners. That’s why people who suck at life don’t want to give up their guns,” and it is one of the most honest statements Oliver has ever made. In today’s world, gun violence is often debated amongst both the politicians and the people. A recent proposition has been made claiming that teachers need to be armed with guns. Is this such a terrible thing?
However, yesterday's outrage illustrated that such debates are mainly opportunities to enforce the compensatory victimhood of "reverse racism". In the Telegraph, Toby Young consulted his dictionary, and found Abbott's remark to be the very definition of racism. After many hours of tweeting and ratcheting up media coverage, blogger Harry Cole appeared on Sky News to lament those who "use race as a political tool". The insistence on an apology evinces a new standard of racial sensitivity among rightwing commentators. Racist jokes are always "taken too seriously", but Abbott's sentence is offensive, no contextualisation allowed.
Also, the video seemed easier to interpret and follow along with, as the written version required rereading for greater comprehension. The video was entertainment still, which this viewer believes is at least in part a test of good writing. One could not watch it, without feeling the anguish Woolf felt at being suppressed where she so much wanted to grow. That sympathy is what effects people to support her
She employs a combination of a quizzical and contemplative tone to appeal to readers and to connect to their feelings and experiences. In the first paragraph, Wenke begins by placing the reader in the perspective of a student who resorts to cheating on a test. By doing this, she invokes sympathy in the reader. At the beginning of the paragraph, the student is in danger of failing. Later, though, after the student has cheated, there is a sense of ease and resolution to the situation, and this weakens her argument, making the issue of cheating seem almost irrelevant or benign.
The example here shows him mocking a dissenter in a particularly scathing method by mirroring his own actions, possibly opening himself up to criticism due to his response. This tweet that reveals potential flaws is actually one of his highest retweeted and favourited post, prompting a further look into the follower’s responses. There is an intriguing deeper layer to this, both the dis-embodiment of Rushdie in the physical medium as the interactions are hardly with physical contact, and yet the enhancement of embodiment because social media allows Rushdie to project the ‘bodiless’ portrayal of him. In this medium he is free to remain as ‘motifs for the mystique of flawless command’ where unless he chooses to reveal such flaws he is in control of what is revealed to his readers . In short, besides his individuality making him a mental presence online that reveals his flaws encouraging criticism and a more distributive leadership where his followers can influence each other based on their interactions over his tweets, this presence interacts with the embodiment such that despite this possibility he possesses power over what he tweets and what body image he chooses to show, hence also enhancing the role of his individual impact on his followers in leadership since he is still the main mediator of the discussion and drives the conservations forward, as seen in the next example.
Initially, learners used negative politeness strategies in their interaction with their teacher. Brown and Levinson defined negative politeness as “a redressive action addressed to the addressee’s negative face: his want to have his freedom of action unhindered and his attention unimpeded” (1987, p. 129). But, blogging gave them this opportunity to become closer to their teacher and to experience using positive politeness strategies in their interaction with the teacher. Result of the analysis of the learners’ posts when they were interacting with each other also revealed that there was a tendency towards positive strategies although learners used negative and bald on-record strategies in their first posts. Positive politeness plays an important role when forming good interpersonal relationships.