The personal agenda and ulterior motives of composers shape the complete or absolute truth into a mere representation of reality. The concept of absolute truth then becomes non-existent as the resemblance between the reality of a situation and its representation is morphed to coincide with the composer’s own values and ideologies. The use of editing and selection of content in ‘We Ain’t Got Dames’ and ‘Playing the Ego Card’ distorts the truth in order to emphasize stories which cater to prospects of the staff of Frontline. Verisimilitude is also enhanced by the 1994 satirical parody Frontline by Sitch. Et.
Propaganda is a set of the messages intended to influence the opinions of the masses, not giving the opponents any opportunity to rebut the idea. Instead of telling people the truth, propaganda often aims at manipulation of ideas to influence the behavior of a large number of people. So, it presents ideas selectively. Propaganda is related to advertising, where it is about promoting a product. It is also used to influence religious beliefs of society.
Propaganda Miguel Guzman Have you ever wondered what propaganda means? Propaganda are posters, cartoon pictures, radio, newspapers, and etc that bring information or rumors to the public. They also try to persuade people into agreeing to or joining certain occurring events or problems in life. Propaganda is made for certain audiences during the occurring event. For example, presidents use propaganda to encourage people to vote for a certain democracy being republicans or democrats in the U.S.
Non-conformity is an act of rebellion, opposing the expectations set by society. Non-conformity should be admired and admonished, valued and reproved, depending on the various situations it is applied to. I believe that non-conformity may have both positive and negative outcomes, ghastly consequences and excellent results. Those who choose not to conform either do it knowing it will result in an affirmative or negative outcome, or not knowing it what they are doing at all. In all fact, an act of non-conformity cannot be judged by its rebellious nature, but by its effects on the society or things involved.
Success Through Success Ever pay attention to the manipulation of words used by presidents when giving a speech? Until reading “A Nation of Victims” by Reanna Brooks, and “Why JFK’s Inaugural Succeeded” by Thurston Clarke; the manipulation of words were subliminal. Brooks presents the audience with an analysis on President George W. Bush’s manner of speech. Brooks feels that despite his verbal blunders and linguistic stumbles, his words are purposely selected to hide certain issues and to negatively frame opposing view points. Also, Brooks says that Bush’s speeches are emotionally charged, “dependency-creating” and thus provoking fear amongst his listeners.
A defense of political constructivism Nicholas Tampio Department of Political Science, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA. nicholas.tampio@gmail.com Abstract In Political Liberalism, John Rawls describes a metaethical procedure – political constructivism – whereby political theorists formulate political principles by assembling and reworking ideas from the public political culture. To many of his moral realist and moral constructivist critics, Rawls’s procedure is simply a recent version of the ‘popular moral philosophy’ that Kant excoriates in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. In this article, I defend the idea of political constructivism on philosophical and political grounds. Initially, I argue that political constructivism is the best available methodology for self-legislating, socially embedded and fallible human beings; then I show that political constructivism may produce principles that could garner the principled assent of Euro-American Muslims such as Taha Jabir Al-Alwani.
2. Purpose and Research Questions 1.2.1 Purpose of This Research The present thesis aims to reveal the rhetorical characteristics of Obama’s election campaign speeches using the analytical tools of Aristotle’s three appeals. The author intends to provide a practical method for catching the ethos, pathos and logos concealed in American election campaign speeches and at the same time to put forward a proposal of raising English learners’ awareness in public speaking. So there are two purposes for the writing of this thesis. 1) This thesis is to provide a means of seeing through language, to probe into the rhetorical skills used in Obama’s election campaign speeches and to explain how language is used by powerful groups to reinforce persuasion.
The humanist approach doesn’t describe deviance as a behavior, rather defining it by the reaction and it being a subjective experience. The positivists focus on the high consensus deviance, the deviance that the majority agrees upon, such as hurting yourself or someone else. They want to explain the behavior and believe that it’s caused by the social environment. One theory used to explain behavior by the positivists is control theory. Control theory helps explain “crime, deviance, and especially delinquency” (56) In 1969, Travis Hirschi developed control theory.
In line with this, another author explains that smart sanctions aim at causing harm to the target state and but not vulnerable civilians. These sanctions are different from economic sanctions and political sanctions in two ways. Firstly, they purposely target and discipline the political elite who carry out policies that are against international criteria. Secondly, smart sanctions reduce human misery by “exempting specific commodities such as food and medical supplies” . Two examples of this type of sanction are identified
As time goes by, the "deviant" takes on traits that constitute deviance by committing such deviations as conform to the label(so you as the audience have the power to not label them and you have the power to stop the deviance before it ever occurs by not labeling them) . Individual and societal preoccupation with the label, in other words, leads the deviant individual to follow a self-fulfilling prophecy of abidance to the ascribed label. This theory, while very much symbolically-interactionist, also has elements of conflict theory, as the dominant group has the power to decide what is deviant and acceptable, and enjoys the power behind the labeling process. An example of this is a prison system that labels people convicted of theft, and because of this they start to view themselves as by definition thieves, incapable of changing. "From this point of