Alonna Bauer Rhetorical Analysis

Throughout the novel, Janie waits for men to rescue her from her life rather than her taking action to have a better life and claiming her independence. Janie’s reliance on men is shown following Jody's death when she realizes "that she had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. ”() Due to the fact that Janie allowed Jody's oppression suppress these "thoughts" and "emotions", and the fact that she only accepted them after his passing, Janie's passivity while in her relationship is exemplified. Janie relies upon death to give her the courage to "find" her suppressed emotions. Janie’s reliance on death is shown here because she is only able to find these emotions inside of herself

Michelle Alexander is a professor at the Union Theological Seminary,a civil rights lawyer and advocate and writer that devotes herself to speaking out on racial injustice and that slavery hasn't actually left america or in Alexander’s words, “we have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.” Alexander's book touches a lot of subjects that have to do with America's criminal justice system, such as criticizing past President Richard Nixon's “the war on drugs”, she explains that because of this event our country has lead to mass incarceration, of those being arrested with usually black americans. Thus we have this crucial issue with racial injustice and denying our citizens basic human right by holding them in jail cells

Dalkesha Bryant is a motivational speaker and the CEO/Founder of the inspirational brand Reflections of Greatness. She was raised by her mother, in a low-income community, in Cincinnati Ohio. As a young child, she always aspired to be greater than the tough circumstances that surrounded her. Once she found her voice, she used the chaos around her to fuel her drive to be more than a “product of her environment.” She was determined to become a product of her thoughts. She learned early on that in life, your mindset is the driving force the controls your outcomes not your environment.

Stephanie Ericsson categorizes the many ways people lie on a daily basis. She uses a mixture of facts, quotes and opinions to capture the severity of telling a lie. Her article has enabled me to understand the thought process that goes behind telling a lie. She justifies minor lies by using ethos and stating that minor lies prevents hurt feelings and that it is normal to lie. Stephanie frequently asks rhetorical questions to make readers think of the matter at hand. She also uses anaphora to seem more relatable and understanding to her readers. I tell minor lies on a daily basis but I did not realize that there is so many different types of lies. i and many other people often rationalize with ourselves to make our lies seem less harmful when

Throughout the 1905 speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Florence Kelley uses many different rhetorical techniques in order to create an argument that allows the audience to join her endeavors, Kelley does so by using appeals to pathos, logos, ethos, parallel structure, diction, and rhetorical questions.

In front of an audience of 28 attendees, Pastor Anderson Kim preached from 1 John 4:7-21. He preached "God will greatly blessed zoey with great joy. When you bring up someone you need love. Anyone can be brought up with love, but what kind of love? Love from God first loving us."

When looking at the recent years the definition of poilitical correctness has changed substantially. A believer of this statement as well as Pulitzer prize winner, Gene Weingarten wrote the column, “Will I ever yield to the modern sissification of discourse? Nope.” Published on November 23, 2016 by The Washington Post, he argues that people in this modern world have become way to sensitive to basic debates. Weingarten starts building his debate by strong use of negation, and appeals to a general audience. Towards the end of his column he uses strong evidence that supports his ideas and displays the real world “issue” at hand.

Dawn Huebner, discusses a topic in her TED talk that everyone is familiar with; anxiety. She starts out reminding us that a little bit of anxiety is okay, but when it becomes debilitating, it is then concerning. She also adds a third member to the acute stress response; freeze, explaining that when addressed with a stressful situation a person can fight, flight or freeze. This talk was very informative and I was really glad my husband was present while I was listening to it. He has been struggling with social anxiety more than usual lately, and I have been encouraging him to seek help for it. He was interested in the bribing technique used by Mrs. Huebner, and suggested a very expensive video game for as reinforcement for attending my upcoming

Deborah Tannen is a professor in linguistics at Georgetown University. She studies the different patterns of language, like talking to people at work, friends, family, politics, academics, law, and how the ways we talk affect relationships with others. In her essay, “Oh, Mom. Oh, Honey. : Why Do You Have to Say That? ” The author’s purpose in this essay is about how mother and daughter relationships are, and what the mother is trying to say to the daughter, when talking to her. The reason behind the author’s purpose, is because her own mother was gradually getting weak. She started spending more time with her mother and caring for her. When her mom died, it transformed her thinking about mother and daughter relationships. She uses real life experiences and dialect to convey her intentions to the reader. In the essay, the author uses research and conducted interviews that she found about mother and daughter relationships, to show the actual meaning to what mothers are saying to their daughters when communicating.

In the early 1900’s the woman suffrage movement about took america captive. But only because these women felt like they were the prisoners. During this time many women boldly spoke out about their inability to vote, a right that is meant for everyone. Countless protests, speeches, and rallies eventually lead to women gaining this right. But one of them stood out from the rest. Florence Kelley wasn’t as pressing as other activists, yet she was just as effective. In one of her most famous speeches she talks about child labor law faults, and that if women are not allowed to vote then the laws will likely never change. In this enlightening piece, Kelley focuses on convincing the audience to fight for better child labor laws by using imagery to

Sarah Malmstrom’s speech was aimed to inform her audience about the importance of understanding what low income schools are and how they will affect them as future educators. In her thesis, Sarah indicated how low-income schools are overlooked and incorrectly viewed by many people. I chose to do my rhetorical analysis over Sarah’s speech because I believe she did a great job at informing the class and myself about low income schools, the myths of so and how we, as future educators, will likely be affected by this.

Assessments are used to track a student’s progress while examining how much they have learned. In the English Teacher’s Companion, it discusses that all the work a student does throughout the year becomes a means of assessing what they have learned (285). In my classroom, it is crucial to examine the process of my students learning throughout the year without basing their entire grade on one final exam. As mentioned in the text, a few of the strategies that I imagine using are to give students as much information as possible. The author states “Students should understand the requirements, the standards, and the criteria” (286). With that being said,

Advertising was developed first to inform the public of new products launched in the market, then to persuade consumers to buy one brand over another. The giant web Google through the commercial spot titled "Dear Sophie" was able to inform and boast the benefits related to the use of Google Chrome browser in ninety seconds. Convinced that rhetoric can benefit the advertising practice, an analysis of the commercial "dear Sophie" will help understand how the director has used rhetoric and pathos to convince and to evoke emotion from the audience.

The triumph of the will is considered one of the major visual icons of Nazism . As the Historian William Shirer said "many of the most enduring images of the Nazi regime and its leader derive from Riefenstahl's film “ . This movie is truly an artistic endeavor that shows how art can often be beyond the surface purpose of a project, that explicates in the cinematic techniques that work in concert with one another to create a cohesive portrait of this political and military leader, Adolph Hitler. Riefenstahl’s movie is a great example of how can the rhetorical appeals Ethos , Pathos , Logos be melted together to produce one of the best convincing weapons . This can be obviously implied in the choice of music , gestures

Rhetorical Analysis “Risk Perception, Behavior, and Consumer Response to Genetically Modified Organisms: towards understanding American and European public reaction” written by Carl H. Nelson, in his article he explains genetic engineering and why people in the US and Europe have so many different reactions towards genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is taking genes from one organism and modifying it in order to improve the organism. Nelson connects a lot of the article to ethos by explaining why people dislike genetic engineering and how people have been preventing it from happening. Most of the time people are against it because of their lack of knowledge on the situation or previous events caused them to distrust anything being put in there food. Nelson also backs up the good and bad using logos or facts. Nelson believes that genetic engineering could be a good thing it just needs to be further studied so that the public will trust what's being tampered with in there food. Although the paper has several facts about genetic engineering it does not really connect to the reader although in a paper that is science based it may be hard to us pathos. Nelsons paper is mostly connected to ethos or ethics. He explains why people want to prevent them and how they are prevented, mostly because genetic engineering could have the potential to hurt the environment. In the US we did not and do not regulate a lot of the genetic modifications we do, there is very little public