Summary of The Rhetorical Stance In Booth’s speech, The Rhetorical Stance (Booth, 1963) he argues that currently the teaching of rhetoric is ineffective. Due to the lack of information students are being taught about rhetoric and the way it is presented. Booth, in his speech, has this to say about what he believes rhetoric is: “Rhetoric is the art of finding and employing the most effective means of persuasion on any subject, considered independently of intellectual mastery of that subject” (Booth, 1963). Booth is merely saying that you need to answer a few simple questions in order to write a persuasive and effective paper. Do you engage your audience?
Bollinger literally misunderstood his position as an introducer and made himself look bad. His comments were not the time or the place to display the issues he has with Ahmadinejad or have ridiculed him. Even though Bollinger introduced Ahmadinejad to persuade the audience to dislike him and arouse the crowd with
Andrew Jackson Political Cartoon Steven Breen was born April 26, 1970 in Los Angeles, California and is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and 2009. He graduated from Huntington Beach High School in 1988 and attended the University of California, Riverside, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science. Steve Breen is fast developing a reputation for provocative political cartoons that have captured the attention of some of the nation's premier publications. His cartoons regularly appear in The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek and US News and World Report.
He started off with describing the attack in extremely details and included his perception in this situation. The purpose of this was to get the citizens to believe that Bush was on the same side and to show that he had the same feelings as themselves. This little part of the speech with the used of Pathos, basically just captured everything’s attention with the emotion. Some of them were feeling lost and uncertain of how to react, and Bush made it clear that those were the feelings you should felt. Also, it was designed to defend reason for anger.
Varvel is against this and uses privacy as main theme of his cartoon. In the political cartoon, Gary Varvel uses various rhetorical strategies to express his opinion that interfering with people’s privacy is wrong. Cartoonist, Gary Varel, appeals to logos persuading the readers against NSA’s work as there will be one day when people’s private information will be revealed through media. He appeals to ethos by displaying irony of the situation i.e. the guy with the newspaper is shocked to see the news about his children in TV and he appeals to ethos by drawing viewer’s attention towards NSA’s work.
He simply was not strong enough to say no because he believed that this would show weakness inside of him. Weakness leads to failure, and Okonkwo simply cannot fail. He tries to accuse Obierika in order to cover up for his own feelings. This quote adds to Okonkwo’s character by inducing even more of the idea of his fear for failure and weakness. He does anything possible to cover up his weaknesses and will never give in to them.
Larkin aimed his poems and every single person whereas Swift targeted the Irish specifically. Larkin comes up with a solution to the problem of fault and sin in his satire but does not defend it. He simply says that parents must not have kids. Swift presents a solution and defends it with reasonable arguments. Swift is also targeting an audience that he believes is ignorant.
Result of Recession by Zyglis A political cartoon is one of the best ways to convey a message to an audience in order to inform them of a current situation and acknowledge the reality of politics and our surroundings. The Buffalo news cartoonist Adam Zyglis published the cartoon “Recession to Depression” in 2009, when the recession was flaring up and the entire nation in panic and hopeless. Zyglis cartoon also encourages an audience to think critically and give them the confidence to raise their voices for their rights from their political leaders so they can realize the magnitude of crisis that the people were going through. The cartoonist portrays how people were breaking down emotionally due to recession in 2009. Through the use of caricature, pathos, and visual elements, such as Irony and symbolism makes the cartoon more effective.
He well understands that many conservative Americans have had enough of being laughed at by Hollywood and by the media chieftains in New York and Washington. The condescension shown to the right is undeniable, and perhaps could be true. The vast majority of people want to see Newt Gingrich explode right in front of their television sets. There is a Las Vegas website : lasvegasportsbetting.com that has Newt Gingrich odds on favorite to win Florida’s Jan 31st primary, now if that’s not wishing for some kind of show down or meltdown for Gingrich. But with all that said and done.
Postman (1985) also discussed the idea that the television becomes most trivial and, therefore, dangerous when trying to present important cultural conversation topics such as: politics, religion, news, and education (Postman, 1985). This fear is in direct relation to the way the Digital Revolution has allowed the media to do more than what it was initially intended to do. In regards to this, Postman (1985) writes, “It is a world without much coherence or sense; a world that does not ask us, indeed, does not permit us to do anything; a world that is, like a child’s game of peek-a-boo, entirely self-contained. But like peek-a-boo, it is also endlessly entertaining.” (p. 77). As you can see through this peek-a-boo analogy Postman (1985) illustrates the fact that televisions image-based inability to provide thoughtful ideas needed for a media literate society.