...being un-supervised. Other people in the community speed over the limit posted and children play there and may be hit or injured. Even though the children play in the street it cause a safety risk to drivers that don’t speed or drive wreck less do to the children running in and out of the streets without looking for cars. The children are our future and they need to be protected. When a person is looking to buy a future home they want to see a nice neighborhood that looks respectable and not as if it’s a bad neighborhood. The appearance of a home in my belief can say a lot about the people who live there. Someone who takes care of their home for example pressure washing, not trash in yard, paint nicely applied. Also there are some resident that don’t have the money but the residents should do as much as they can. To give an example of this a resident in my neighborhood has fixed the garage door which is tilted half way closed and it’s not very appealing. The appearance of a residents lawn as well as home its self make a community. A yard or lawn care should at the minimum have the grass mowed. The plants should be not over grown or deceased. Living in Florida the grass isn’t always...
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...The poor people usually depends of this places for basic things like food or sleep,without that help some of them don`t survive winter. Most of these institutions exist thanks to donations made it by average people and not government assistance. Every day there is more people living on the streets and the help is simply not enough, even when these kind of institutions exist. The people which suffer of poverty even when we see them like a kind of dog in the street, they are human and they want a decent life like normal people. Is normal to say that those poor people are living on the streets by their own choice, but like I said before, that is ignorance. That people suffer a lot of things, even things that we never going to feel, for example the hungry . The sad of these situations is that most of these people is...
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...Rhetorical Analysis The New York Times Editorial Board recently published an article expressing its opinion on the issue of court politicization. Kansas Republicans have demanded the expulsion of four State Supreme Court judges due to the panel exceeding the limits of the state Constitution. The Editorial Board wishes to generate a sense of resentment towards right-wing politicians in their quest to meddle with judicial independence and create support for the accused judges. Nevertheless, the article fails to convey the author's yearning for citizen participation through the misuse of rhetorical devices such as logos and formal diction. One can aptly find logical appeals throughout the article and while its abundance is not the concern, the...
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...Minutes: 4 Key Message and Instructor Notes: TELL participants: Tone of voice plays a major role in getting a message across. Whatever the content of the things we say, it's our tone that communicates what we're feeling when we say them. It’s also our tone to which others respond. Your tone of voice is such an important part of communication that it may often override the actual words you're using. EXPLAIN: Curt, harsh, loud words can illustrate anger. Soft, murmuring, soothing tones can express content or calmness. A tone that rises in pitch at the end of the sentence indicates a question while one that is nasal and choppy can express irritation. People who communicate with a friendly tone and warm smile almost always have the edge. Most...
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...Provide three rhetorical strategies that Jobs uses within the second anecdote to develop his argument. Directly quote as appropriate. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. Imagery We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Antithesis The heaviness of being successful was replaced by thelightness of being a beginner again Antithesis At the end of his third anecdote, there are two paragraphs in bold (my emphasis) that I would like for you to consider. From these two paragraphs, explain: The rationale (motivation) behind these paragraphs. The motivation behind these paragraphs in that the two perfectly describe how life should be and how life is out with the old and in with the new. Explain the analogy contained within the paragraphs. The analogy that could be seen within the two paragraphs is a comparison to technology, for example every new thing that is introduced is going to be eventually going to be replaced by something...
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...most of us call “prisoners.” “Waterboarding” sounds at first like something you’d expect to see young people doing on a California beach, not a torture technique that involves forced simulated drowning. Less remarkable, perhaps, but possibly more relevant for most of us, we’ve heard the term “downsized” used when someone is fired or laid off. “Ethnic cleansing” covers everything from deportation to genocide. What we have to say may be important, but the words we choose to say it with can be equally important. The examples just given are cases of a certain type of linguistic coercion—an attempt to get us to adopt a particular attitude toward a subject that, if described differently, would seem less attractive to us. Words have tremendous persuasive power, or what we have called their rhetorical force or emotive meaning—their power to express and elicit images, feelings, and emotional associations. In the next few chapters, we examine some of the most common rhetorical techniques used to affect people’s attitudes, opinions, and behavior. Rhetoric refers to the study of persuasive writing. As we use the term, it denotes a broad category of linguistic techniques people use Moore−Parker: Critical Thinking, Ninth Edition 5. Persuasion Through Rhetoric: Common Devices and...
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...objective in reaching a final conclusion of Karla, one that is not admirable. It is difficult to imagine, from my point of view, that someone would defend Karla for the crimes she is convicted of. However, these people do exist and Rosie DiManno makes it her objective in this essay to show Karla’s true colours. She explains Karla’s actions, interprets and then criticizes them to allow the audience to realize Ms. Teale’s underlying intentions. I feel Rosie makes this point clear through her use of rhetorical questions to mock, ridicule and demonstrate Karla’s lack of sentiment. An example of this literary device is seen through the quotation “It’s Karla Leanne Teale who petitioned the warden at the Joliette Institution for escorted day passes, ostensibly designed to ease her gradually from prison to freedom before her mandatory release… Does that speak to the sentiments that might still exist in Karla’s treacherous heart?” (DiManno). I believe this use of a rhetorical question emphasizes the author’s point about how unremorseful...
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...the sportsmanship of the game. Writer uses some persuasive techniques like inclusive language, generalisation and rhetorical questions to emphasize his contention. At the bottom of the article, a visual image also been used to support his view. Reading through the whole article, many inclusive phrases are used by the writer, which can invite the readers to follow and join the way of writer’s thinking. “We all remember that Olympic runner…that was truly heroic!” In this phrase, a famous example of sportsmanship is used here, but by using the phrase “we all remember” is for reminding the audience of this example and link to the contention of that, sportsmanship in the game is more than win and lose. “We don’t want a repetition if this stuff around here”, before this phrase, a negative example has been shown, so using the inclusive language “we all…” writer put himself stand with the readers to criticise the unappropriated behaviours of parents during the game. By using these exclusive language, writer can lead the audience to think with him effectively and agree more with that the sportsmanship in a game is more important. In the middle of the article, a rhetorical question sentence is also been used to convince the reader that young people would learn more sportsmanship by accepting the losing. “Isn’t good sportsmanship a model of life?” By using this rhetorical question, writer tries to manipulate the reader to agree with the idea that sportsmanship is more important. For...
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...Ishmaeal Beah quite frequently uses rhetorical questions. His intention with the use of these rhetorical questions is to coax or subtly induce the audience. It is a question asked not for the answer, but for the effect. Oftentimes, he uses a rhetorical question to accentuate a point or just to get the audience thinking. For the most part these questions are not asked for a direct answer; instead they are questions roaming his mind and are then written onto paper. For example, he says, “Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive?” (179). And then he goes on to saying, “How was I going to explain my sadness which I am unable to hide as it takes over my face, to my new family, especially children?...
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...an implied audience. The effect of this is that it shows that the poem tells a story that consists of much more than the words spoken by the one giving the monologue. To evaluate, the dramatic monologue makes it engaging with the reader. Additionally, Browning uses rhetorical questions as part of form to help tell the story. For example, 'Who'd stoop to blame..' is a clear example of the Duke trying to persuade his audience. The effect is that it reveals more about the Duke's character as the rhetorical question reinforces the impression that the Duke is haughty and self-important. To evaluate, Browning uses rhetorical questions effectively, revealing more about his character. Browning uses a lexical field of jealousy, ownership, artistry and love in order to aid the progression of the story. For instance, 'my Last Duchess painted on the wall' shows that the Duchess is objectified. The effect of this is that it allows the reader to sympathise with the Duchess and forces the reader to think of the Duke in a negative manner. To evaluate, Browning uses lexical fields clearly to allow the audience to make a judgement on the characters. In addition, Browning uses descriptive language to help tell the story. For example, the Duke describes the Duchess of having 'A heart.. too soon made glad', the effect of this is that it allows the reader/audience to make a comparison over the character of the Duke. These, what...
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...set the stage for the revolutionary action to take place; the murder of the emperor, Julius Caesar. The scheming Cassius, praising Decius, and dedicated Antony all use a labyrinthine combination of rhetorical devices and modes of persuasion to coerce their victims into their desires of either the death of Caesar or the condemnation of the conspirators....
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... or a verb such as "resembles" to show how they are similar. Example: "His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry.../And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow." A metaphor is figure of speech in which two "essentially unlike things" are shown to have a type of resemblance or create a new image. The similarities between the objects being compared may be implied rather than directly stated. Example: "Fog comes on little cat feet" An extended metaphor is metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences. Example: "The sky steps out of her daywear/Slips into her shot-silk evening dress./An entourage of bats whirr and swing at her hem, ...She's tried on every item in her wardrobe." Onomatopoeia is a word designed to be an imitation of a sound. Example: “Bark! Bark!” went the dog as he chased the car that vroomed past. Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. Example: "Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me;/The carriage held but just ourselves/And Immortality." Dickinson portrays death as a carriage driver. An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which a pair of opposite or contradictory terms is used together for emphasis. Examples: Organized chaos, Same difference, A paradox is a statement or proposition which is self-contradictory, unreasonable, or illogical. Example: This statement is a lie. Hyperbole is a figure of...
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...In this satirical article published in The Onion the author is satirizing the strategies used by companies to market products to attract its susceptible customers. Using several rhetorical devices to campaign its innovative, revolutionary product: MagnaSoles shoe inserts. Using the fictional MagnaSoles as a model, the article humorously mocks the strategies used by companies to market products. Using an exaggerated or sarcastic tone throughout, it gives the read a true taste of the tactics used in today’s customary advertising. The passage quotes doctors in the field of pseudoscience and uses false scientific nonsense as an appeal to authority, it’s main rhetorical device. Together, these rhetorical devices are used together with ethos and logos to give a hyperbolized version of a modern advertisement. By using phony complex diction, such as “pseudoscience”, “kilofrankels” and “biomagnetic”, terms that retains no existence in the science world. The Onion’s writer reveals the advertisers’ outrageous front shown in paragraph six and seven. Since “pseudoscience” is a resemblance to science based on misleading assumptions, thus leaving the question would one really want to purchase something that qualifies as “fake” or a “resemblance” to the real deal. As a matter of fact, Magnasoles are insoles and not a living organism, so producing a “biomagnetic field” (a phenomenon of magnetic fields produced by living organisms; it is a subset of bioelectromagnetism.) would simply be impossible...
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...A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point. The question is used as a rhetorical device, posed for the sake of encouraging its listener to consider a message or viewpoint. Though these are technically questions, they do not always require a question mark. For example, the question "Can't you do anything right?" is asked not to gain information about the ability of the person being spoken to, but rather to insinuate that the person always fails. While sometimes amusing and even humorous, rhetorical questions are rarely meant for pure, comedic effect. A carefully crafted question can, if delivered well, persuade an audience to believe in the position(s) of the speaker. In simple terms, it is a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. Negative assertions Often a rhetorical question is intended as a challenge, with the implication that the question is difficult or impossible to answer. Thus the question functions as a negative assertion. For example, What have the Romans ever done for us? (Monty Python's Life of Brian) should be read as The Romans have never done anything for us. Similarly, when Shakespeare lets Mark Antony exclaim: Here was a Caesar! when comes such another? (Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 2, 257), it functions as an assertion that Caesar possessed rare qualities that may not be seen again for a long time, if ever. Such negative assertions may function as positives...
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...will be so disconnected from nature that even looking outside a car window during a drive, would be quite bizarre. By utilizing testimonies that represent either the average technology-loving American or the modern transcendentalist, nostalgic imagery, and rhetorical questions he develops a well thought out argument about the severance between people and nature. After Louv learns about the advance science has reached, where altering the very color of a butterflies wings is now a luxury, that the science of synthetic nature has let Americans’ achieve, he comes across Matt Richtel, an American writer and journalist for the New York Times, who believes Americans have developed a new advertising medium, a medium that could captivate people’s attention much faster than any other traditional method, such as billboards and street benches. And although Richtel is correct to a certain extent, by implying he is right about how “moving ads out of the virtual world and into the real one” is something that is currently taking place, however, Louv suggests that such a form of advertisement is not even worth looking at. Louv quoting Richtel’s ridiculous statement where he claims “It’s time for nature to carry its weight”, is the perfect example of the average American, so ignorant to the pressures humans impose on her, draining her ability to sustain life, yet have the audacity to demand she carry her own weight. Nonetheless, Louv goes on to present the testimony of a friend not willing to give...
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