ipl-logo

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Ruby Wax

1022 Words5 Pages

Rhetorical Analysis: Ruby Wax, “What’s so funny about mental illness?” According to TED.com, 1984 was the year TED was born out of the “observation of a powerful convergence among 3 fields: technology, entertainment, and design” by Richard Saul Wurman. TED has now come a long way under the entrepreneurship of Chris Anderson. He has since then changed TED from being ‘invited-only’ to being open to the public and from being national to international with the first six TED talks published in June of 2007 reaching a million views in September of the same year. TED will soon, proudly; celebrate its 31st anniversary, anticipating many more years of successful talks. “One in four people are suffering from a mental illness...so that means you, the funny looking guy with the bad teeth, would be affected…” says Ruby Wax. Her TED talk is began by using a statistic that makes the audience laugh. Being a woman that was born in Evanston, Illinois to Jewish parents, originally from Austria, …show more content…

In her TED talk, Wax uses different methods to show statistical information. Most all of her information is stored in her head so when she speaks the audience she can make eye contact which implies that what she is saying is very important. By using posters and pictures, Wax can give information to people that have a hard time understanding numbers and a bunch of words. This shows that Wax can not only provide information by just talking but she can also explain by drawing and that’s a huge factor when trying to get your point across. Wax’s message is clearly explained throughout the TED talk. By using rhetorical questions, the audience and the speaker both are at the same point in which there is no answer to be said but a period of thinking about what is truly being asked. In eight minutes and fifty-eight seconds, Ruby Wax has answered her question, thousands of viewer’s questions, and audience questions. She not only answers then but has a valid explanation of

Show More
Related
324 Words | 2 Pages

Have you ever thought of what’s the purpose and why in the world are you doing something? In the following reading, “A Rhetorical Process for Designing Compositions”, further questions the actions that you are taking on. Furthermore, when you make an attempt to do the following actions, have you perfected it by practicing before or have you just going at it first handed without any support or small amount of research to help you? For instance, Schneider states, “They hadn’t thought about the arrangement of their communication strategies in order to build the most persuasive presentation”, in the following reading “A Rhetorical Process for Designing Compositions”, to further explain the issue with our lack of information (Schneider 21). Finally,

Read More
467 Words | 2 Pages

Her use of rhetorical questions compels her audience to believe that the newspaper is indeed required for the

Read More
540 Words | 3 Pages

Minimum wage has always been a difficult topic to talk about in political situations with questions about increasing or decreasing it forever on the ballot. In today’s economic state there has been an increase of the minimum wage in several states such as California; which has caused a debate on the national level of how much the lower class can live on. In Barbara Ehrenreich’s book she tries out low wage living and documents it in Nickel and Dimed, in her opinion it's barely possible to survive on low wages for even one person. To show this she employs conversational and concrete diction to show the difficulties of living two lives that are at different poles of the economic scale and the ignorance of both classes to those besides themselves with a confusion of audiences.

Read More
565 Words | 3 Pages

In 1905, a United States social reformer named Florence Kelley fought for child labor laws and improved working conditions for women. In July 1095, Kelley delivered a speech on child labor (and other topics) while in Philadelphia as a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention. Within the speech, Kelley uses many notable rhetorical devices, which will be analyzed in this essay. Perhaps the most noticeable of Kelley’s rhetorical devices is the vast amount of facts and statistics contained within her speech.

Read More
468 Words | 2 Pages

From the forerunners of world renown business to Nobel Prize winners and influential peacekeepers, the Ted stage has been home to millions of successful individuals. For famous faces and transformative youth alike, the Ted stage has created a powerful way to spread global messages. Taking the stage, 12-year-old Adora Svitak has ambitions to change the world. Invention as stated as by Laurie L. Haleta is the speaker’s resources and ability to influence the audience (pg. 148). Using ethical and emotional proof, the young Ted Talk presenter was able to convey an important and lasting message to millions of adults.

Read More
1574 Words | 7 Pages

“If you don 't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim” (41). Although Rex Walls was not always an admirable father and role model, he did make an essential point while teaching his daughter, Jeannette, how to swim. In life, not everything comes without resistance. As Jeannette Walls describes throughout her life story, sometimes people are forced to face hardships that make them question their whole life. However, as seen in her book, it is important to learn to take those hardships and use them to shape one’s future for the better.

Read More
475 Words | 2 Pages

This is significant to the article because it explains Stones point of view. Stone has knowledge about technology like most boomers, but she does not have the skills that millennials would. Stone has vastly different morals than her students because she's a baby boomer and was was born in a different time thusly affecting her ethics. Considering Stone was born in a different time this impacts how she writes and thinks. Although, Copeland explains how women are mainly affected by the devastation of social media.

Read More
709 Words | 3 Pages

When animals around the planet begin to attack humankind, it is up to one man to persuade the world to take action, or allow themselves to perish. Jackson Oz, a dropout from Columbia University, has for years, been developing a theory called HAC or Human Animal Conflict. After noticing an increasing number vicious of animal attacks on humans, Oz dropped out of Columbia University to focus more on HAC, that raised several eyebrows from his peers. He has no job or PhD and is struggling. All over the world, brutal attacks are destroying entire cities.

Read More
872 Words | 4 Pages

Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis”, Carroll describes the need for rhetorical analysis to assist in decoding the purpose and intent behind a cornucopia of the situation we faced daily. She elucidates the subject by describing the steps that we need to effectively to do it. She points out how we analyze people around us by making quickly a conclusion to the person that we are analyzing. As a student, it is important that we use Rhetorical Analysis as a strategy to communicate effectively.

Read More
937 Words | 4 Pages

His first credibility is that he is a TED talk speaker, people sign up to watch TED talk speakers because it makes people more comfortable with taking what he says seriously. His second credibility is when we find out he's a computer scientist during his speech. He talks about a novel he wrote doing one of the 30-day challenges and sarcastically talks about meeting John Hogmen and says “I don’t have to say, “I’m a computer scientist" No, no, if I want to, I can say, "I'm a novelist. " Tone relates to this mode of persuasion because, without his upbeat energy, the audience wouldn’t feel as obligated to listen. With a positive tone, he successfully keeps the audience interested but also influences people to start making changes to their

Read More
665 Words | 3 Pages

In the story “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Jennifer Price explains the influence of “plastic pink flamingo phenomenon.” Furthermore, she also delineates the lavish nature of real flamingos. However, Price’s purpose is not to enlighten the readers of either real or artificial flamingos. In fact, Price attempted to introduce her own view of the United States culture. By talking about these plastic flamingos, she gets a point a crossed to the readers.

Read More
396 Words | 2 Pages

Grant-Davie opens his writing with numerous definitions of a rhetorical situation. He then says that these definitions do not grasp the complexity of rhetorical situations. To fully understand a rhetorical situation, he suggests an analysis of the exigence, recognizing that rhetors and audience are both a part of a rhetorical situation, and that there may be multiple rhetors or audience. Grant-Davie then stated the four constituents in rhetorical situations that are exigence, rhetors, audiences, and constraints.

Read More
1903 Words | 8 Pages

Rhetorical questions In his expository text, “Blink”, Malcom Gladwell uses rhetorical questions to get the reader interested in the content of the book. This trend begins in the introduction where Gladwell introduces the idea that the subconscious mind has extraordinary abilities that people do not know about. After the Getty museum was asked to buy a Greek Kouro statue that was in almost perfect condition. The Getty performed an investigation to determine whether the Kouro was a forgery or not.

Read More
1046 Words | 5 Pages

rhetorical questions and short, precise sentences. A rhetorical question is a question asked to make a point, rather than prompt an answer, and in this speech plenty can be found (p. 57, ll. 16-19, 24, 28-29): “If it is the plight of the Palestinians that drives them, why, every time it looks as if Israel and Palestine are making progress, does the same ideology perpetrate an outrage that turns hope back into despair?” , “What was September 11, 2001 the reprisal for?”, “Why if it is the cause of Muslims that concerns them, do they kill so many with such callous indifference?”, etc. These questions are not meant to be answered, and no one at the conference could.

Read More
506 Words | 3 Pages

In conclusion, Dana Gioia applies vocabulary and rhetorical appeals to actively influence his audience to agree to his argument. Furthermore, connecting his audience to the subject and inspiring them to help his issues and understand his

Read More

More about A Rhetorical Analysis Of Ruby Wax

Related Topics

Open Document