In the passage Nancy Mairs has from multiple sclerosis. Mairs uses a complex word choice, her confident tone, and straight-forward personality to present herself in this passage. Maires knows and understands that she is cripple. She uses the euphemism “ differently abled” to convey that the word differently abled doesn’t describe anyone. Furthermore, she does not like to be called differently abled, she much rather be called cripple because that’s what she is, according to her.
Jane the Virgin: Season 2 Episode 17 Jane the Virgin, a spoof of a Venezuelan telenovela, currently on its third season is a show focused on bringing light to the Latino culture’s beauty. Jane Villanueva, a twenty-eight-year-old Venezuelan, who lives with her mother, Xiomara, and grandmother, Alba, in Miami, Florida. Alba, a devout Catholic, and her husband became illegal immigrants in America immediately after they got married. She dreamed her daughter would be a perfect Catholic, but Xiomara became a mom at sixteen, and to protect the father’s identity, Xiomara hid his identity from her mother. Xiomara had Jane, and to keep her from making the same mistakes her daughter did, Alba taught Jane that her virginity was like a flower, and once
Breanna Blanar Mrs. Curry-Minuni Advanced Placement English and Composition 23 February 2023 Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft If you learned that your family was in debt yet again, would you help them? In 1847, Eliza Stacey, a mother who is expecting a child, is writing to her father-in-law, Edward Stacey, to ask for his help a second time. The Stacey family, living in Canada, has unexpectedly entered debt yet again.
Chapter 12 of they say/I say begins with an anecdote. The set up is a classroom discussion, stating that you make a comment, then other classmates continue the conversation, making no reference to your comment, going onwards in a new direction. This is showing how no actually cared about the other views in the class, only their own. This demonstrates how important it is to have disciplined moves and practices while entertaining a conversation, which then reflects on writing situations, mostly for identifying who/what you are replying to. The top two learnings in this chapter are “frame your comments as a response to something that has already been said” and “To change the subject, indicate explicitly that you are doing so.”
Bryson Esplin Mr. Johansen ENG 101 1 February 2023 Rhetorical Analysis of Julie Petersen’s “Analysis Essay: Is Macbeth A Tragic Hero?” One true problem with writing posted to the internet is the inability to prove what, if anything, is true or credible. With common phrases such as “Don’t believe everything you read” and “Fake news,” it has become more important than ever to know what articles are reliable. One example of a source that claims to be trustworthy but is questionable at best is the website AskPetersen.com. Julie Petersen, who runs the website, claims to have everything to help readers “write a perfect essay” (Petersen, “Blog”).
Sarah Koenig, the host and producer of the popular podcast “Serial” is known for her engaging storytelling style and ability to use rhetorical devices and tools of persuasion to keep listeners interested and invested in the story she is telling. As a journalist and narrative storyteller, Koenig’s goal is to present a well-researched and balanced account of the events she is discussing and to use her skills as a writer and communicator to convey that information in a way that is compelling and engaging to her audience. But what Koenig fails to do is back up her conveyed idea of being a credible authority figure and also fails to provide a large amount of necessary information, while rambling on for unnecessary amounts of time about information that can be easily summed up shorter. Tactics like these show how she receives more listening time, viewership, and money. One technique she employs is the use of rhetorical questions, which allow her to guide the listener's thinking and lead them toward a particular conclusion.
America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. This phrase is sung with pride and passion by American citizens. However, some of America’s hardest working citizens are shackled down by a factor that they have no control over. Poverty, is what’s keeping citizens imprisoned while they should be living free. An appalling 44 percent of homeless Americans are employed (http://nationalhomeless.org/).
Throughout Serial (a podcast discussing the love story between two teens from Baltimore in the 1990s), Adnan Syed is interviewed by Sarah Koenig as her goal is to find out who really killed Hae Min Lee as she deeply investigates
The newspaper editorial “Someone has to stand up for the gifted students” Heather Mallick’s October 2017 article for the Toronto Star, takes a stance on the topic on gifted programs for students. The author seeks to convince readers that gifted programs should be implemented in schools. Based on ideas and key writing concepts from the reading “Mind Wide Open” by Jean Prinsen, it is clear that Mallick words the article in a way that is easy for the average person to understand. However, it ultimately lacks sufficient evidence, and uses threatening condescending language to make up for her lack of sufficient evidence.
Emma Marris uses many types of persuasive elements in her essay “Emma Marris: In Defense of Everglade Pythons”. In her writing she persuades her readers that the pythons should be allowed to be in the everglades since it is not their fault that they are there in the first place. She uses metaphors to relate to the reader and word choice to enhance her writing.
Within the speech delivered at the convocation of Douglass College at 1977 by Adrienne Rich, one is able to identify how Rich appeals to her audience emotionally through pathos, when she states, “Responsibility to yourself…means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind” (Rich). Here, Rich conveys how the student must demand appreciation from others in order to develop academically. The quote engages the reader emotionally as Rich enables one to contemplate whether one truly appreciates his or herself as well as if one considers others dependable, when respecting his or her mind. Therefore, the reader is able to comprehend that if he or she truly appreciates their loved one, he or she would
Approximately 40 percent of the nation's homicides go unsolved. In the podcast Serial, narrator Sarah Koenig analyzes the murder case against 17 year-old Adnan Syed, as she is convinced the murder has been left impenetrable. The murder took place in Baltimore, Maryland on January 13th, 1999, when Adnan was sentenced to life for the first degree murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. As no concrete evidence was ever collected in the case against Adnan, in her podcast, Koenig sought out to dive deeper into the investigation, deeper than the police ever did, to learn the full story, and potentially prove Adnan’s innocence. Episode three in the podcast, titled “Leakin Park,” presents a growing suspicion against a suspect in the case of the murder
Finally, I would like to look at a podcast called Serial. The first season of Serial follows the murder of a high school senior Hae Min Lee in 1999. After searching for six weeks, her body is found buried in the local park. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan, is arrested and charged with her murder. However, Sarah Koenig, host of Serial, believes there is something fishy about the case from the start.
The media that we consume should be of a certain standard where it is properly represented, ethical, and unbiased. The investigative journalistic podcast Serial, hosted by Sarah Koenig, is about the murder of Hae-Min Lee, and the accused murderer Adnan Syed. Throughout the 12 episodes of Serial, Koenig dissects and questions the facts and accounts that revolve around Hae-Min murder. At the same time however, Serial is also quite problematic, and not the best form of journalistic media that students should consume. It has a biased tone, it downplays the backgrounds of the people involved, and it is quite frankly, unethical.
In Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger appeals to his audience’s sense of emotions in order to persuade his readers that the obsession with high school football negatively affects everyone’s future in Odessa, Texas. Bissinger relies on emotional appeals by employing devices and techniques to present individuals’ personal stories and experiences. His searing portrayal of Odessa, and its Permian High School football team, exposes the side of sports that severely impacts the people living in this society. Bissinger shows the long term consequences of this delusion on the people who are directly and indirectly associated with Permian football. This demonstrate how detrimental the burdens are for the children, which touches the reader’s heart.
