His years of public service offered his audience a sense of trust and credibility toward his views. He begins by assuring those opposed to the death penalty, that he has studied, listened and considered their views completely, but he still believes in the death penalty as a means to the practice of social justice. His values and beliefs, nonetheless, are for protecting the precious lives of the innocent and upholding justice in our society. Overall his essay is a keen definition of social and humanitarian justice. Koch’s intellectual strategy works on the emotional, rational and logical aspects of human thinking and deduction.
Life is full of dangerous challenges and advantages, but depending on how we deal with them is what makes us good or bad people. In the documentary Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer readers see, that man’s determination really can affect man’s morality. When pushed to the limits one can see people true colors. Examinations of the characters Rob hall, Scot fisher and the author Jon Krakauer will show the individuals true nature. The story really does show one of how people can act and react when they are so close to there dreams and sometimes it can be positive and other times it can be negative.
Critical Review on “How David Beats Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell The author of the article “How David Beats Goliath” is Malcolm Gladwell. The purpose of the text is to educate the reader about the advantages of being unconventional. Another purpose was to compare Vivek Randaive’s life to the myth of David beating Goliath. This article is lengthy yet well written, keeping the reader engaged. The charm of this article comes from the author’s writing style.
Faulkner also uses rationalization and diction to make this soliloquy more powerful. Logos and pathos are also used in the passage. Faulkner clearly demonstrates stream of consciousness in this passage because the reader gets a feel for what he is thinking and what he is feeling. He uses stream of consciousness to help fix the limitations that language puts on expressing thought. One example of it is when Cash says, “Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint.
From Statistics To Best Believed Rumors Joe Best’s “Damned Lies And Statistics” is a well written book about, as I understood it, the different ways in which a statistic is made into a “rumor.” In other words, the book goes on and on about the different series of pathways in which a statistic goes threw that eventually force it to evolve into being interpreted into something greater than what it really is. Best provides a series of examples that support the thesis. In which he forces the reader to expand his or hers ideas about the statistics they know, and to really analyze each detail and to use commonsense to make it a fact or a trashy rumor. Although I considered this book to be “boring” at first, it actually turned out to be the best book I have ever read. It actually taught me something, the importance of words.
Dionte' T. Patterson Nerf 6B 9/25/10 After reading the paragraph, I agree with Baldwin's ideas that language is a powerful instrument and that it reveals a persons' private identity due to my personal experience and from what I've learned watching others. Using a single word by itself or putting them together in a sentence can both lead to trouble and can show a persons' true colors and the way that person was raised. James Baldwin states that language is a political instrument, means, and proof of power. This can be proven in society today by the everyday language we use. There are certain words used across the world that are frowned upon.
Swift’s repetitive creation of his extreme mental images, which appeal to one’s senses, gives the reader a false opinion about him, but subsequently becomes beneficial to his overall essay. The use of imagery in “A Modest Proposal” definitely is exceptionally vivid, and as a result, stirs up an emotional response in the reader (pathos). Swift’s intention to using imagery in his essay is to not only get dramatic reactions from his readers, but to also persuade them so much that they are agreeing with his point of view. In his essay, he offers many different descriptive images in which portray the dehumanization of children and women using words such as “breeders,” “flesh,” “carcass,” and “meat”(1026-1027). One of the disturbing images that Swift creates for his audience dehumanizes children by referring to them as pigs which would be roasted then worn as fancy gloves for females, and as boots for men.
The penultimate sentence in this paragraph speaks of “Influencers disconnected from the seasoned wisdom of friends and mentors” (emphasis added). This wordplay relating the “connectedness” of social media to the reality of disconnection from people not only tickles the funny bone of literarily minded readers, but also adds to his logical case against the overuse of social media. Hansen also appeals to the credibility of others by referencing books and authors. This helps us see his intended audience more clearly as he does this. First he references a quote about the middle class from Alexis de Tocqueville “in his famous book Democracy in America” (emphasis added).
Brutus, for example, repeatedly refers to his own character, wanting to persuade the crowd that because he is an honorable man, what he did was right. He also praises the man he killed, which justifies it in the eyes of the crowd. We see this now when a politician will praise his opponent, even though he has previously devastated him (or her) just previously. “Who is here so vile that will not love his country” he asks (3.2.34). Who could say no?
You can create a sense of envy or of indignation. Naturally, in order for you to establish at will any desired state of emotion in your readers, you will have to know everything you can about psychology. Maybe that's why Aristotle wrote so many books about the philosophy of human nature. In the Rhetoric itself, Aristotle advises writers at length how to create anger toward some ideal circumstance and how also to create a sense of calm in readers. He also explains principles of friendship and enmity as shared pleasure and pain.