Defend A Rhetorical Argument

Why We Fight, a 2005 documentary that was directed by Eugene Jarecki synthesizes multiple sources and uses various rhetorical techniques to raise questions about America’s motivations for combat historically and in the present day. In George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant, a british police officer experiences effects of Imperialism even as the oppressor in Burma during the time of British Imperialism. Although these two different work involves different situation, there is still an idea of imperialism that is running through. United States is acting as an imperialist country, trying to spread its policy throughout the world while Burma was going through British Imperialism. In the documentary, Why We Fight, Jarecki argues that the reason we

Heinrichs recalls a time when he needed to utilize defense against the seduction of persuasion when buying a car that turned out to be a lemon; he said, “[The car dealer] sized me up and changed my mood; he seduced me, and to tell you the truth, I enjoyed it. I had some misgivings the next morning, but no regrets. It was a consensual act.” (Heinrichs, 9). By not realizing that he was being taken advantage of, Heinrichs was cheated out of $15,000; the same might happen to students who aren't properly taught the art of rhetoric from both sides: attack and defense. Rhetoric isn't always clean oration and persuasion, but can also be dirty and unfair. Heinrichs mentions this especially when discussing fallacies, or the seven deadly sins of rhetoric. “The seven sins show the beautiful variety of ways that people cheat, lie, and steal.” (Heinrichs, 139), people are more than willing to play dirty in order to persuade you to their cause, and this can happen anytime and anywhere, by politicians or friends. It is exceptionally important that students are taught how to defend against fouls such as fallacies so that they can skillfully navigate the world and analyze the rhetoric they are being presented with in many situations, such as election season or even purchasing a

Whether it be staying late at the batting cage, running those extra set of bleachers in the morning, going for that early morning jog, or going in and getting the extra lift in, “Just Do It” can be the trigger to any fire that motivates those to get up and start working on their goal. “Just Do It” can be a motivationally enforcing slogan because it is telling you just go do what it is that you want to do. Don’t just sit around, get up and make it happen, whatever it is. It is the perfect slogan to promote everyone to stop second guessing their actions. “Just Do It” brings a can-do attitude to those who follow the slogan.

I agree with Danielle, that the writers audience is toward the people who are ruing the island by logging. I think this because in the essay he tries to say that he has nothing against logging, logger, or the logging industry, but he tries to say why can't we, while having a chance stop this. Also, the author continuously throughout the essay talks about his love for the island and all its beauty and wanting to protect it.

There are many ways to convey a message to readers. Often times authors, speech writers, etc., refer to Aristotle’s three main concepts of rhetoric, Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos is considered to be the, “credibility,” of the author. Pathos is the idea of, “emotional appeal,” to the audience. Finally, Logos is the translated as the, “logic,” involved when making a point. All forms of rhetoric have at least one of these concepts, while good arguments incorporate a well balanced mixture of the three.

The last sentence, explains a small break between two different songs; it is a smooth transition for the audience to know that the narrator will be reading a new story. He fully understands how to compare-and-contrast the environments and be adaptable. You do not want the audience to fall asleep at a concert.

In Thank You for Arguing, written by Jay Heinrichs had introduces to the reader about the rhetoric concepts and strategies that give us to understand more about offense and defense in an argument. He is not just to explain the concepts to the readers for how to build up a stronger argument but to make the readers to know what purposes that argument puts in our lives. Although rhetoric tools is hard to fits in our everyday life, Heinrichs still would help us to gain more ability on utilizing the knowledges of the rhetoric concepts, and convinces us to influence on our behavior that act in the argument.

Throughout this semester I’ve been able to grow as a writer, I’ve come to understand how rhetorical strategies come into contribution when it comes to expressing yourself as a writer. One thing that has come perfectly clear to me is that there is different forms of writing and each form can express and show different meanings.

Rhetoric’s are used in every occurence of our lives whether we are aware of them or not. From the way we greet new ideas and thoughts, to the way we function with already existing notions, regardless, rhetorics have incorporated into our daily life from the first few months of our lives. The dictionary recognizes rhetorical to mean ‘the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.’ What’s the main concept to explore of rhetorics, are the main uses and techniques that are commonly used.

Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Bait and Switch” describes the experience of going undercover as a white collar job seeker in order to observe the culture of current corporate in America, particularly the “transitional” life of those white collar worker who has been laid off and is seeking for reemployment. Nevertheless, getting a job was much harder than Ehrenreich expected, so she subjected herself to endless networking events, job coaching, and even to an “image makeover,” all designed to make her more attractive to potential employers. Unfortunately, six months of schmoozing, hustling, and spending do not only fail to help Ehrenreich to get an expectant job, but also cost her several thousands of dollars. However, Barbara Ehrenreich’s failure points out the issues people may face in job marker and gives several suggestions to help them to overcome those issues.

After the calibration process, along with juxtaposing the current timed write to my prior rhetorical analysis response, I now further comprehend my strengths and weaknesses as a writer. My introduction paragraph has grown immensely in terms of my ability to fully express the topic which I will address in response to the prompt. In my timed write, I open with a strong thesis statement in which I expeditiously identify the main theme of the following speech as “the severe lack of labor laws.” Although this is the paramount topic, I failed to address the underlying theme of women's rights used by Florence Kelley to justify her view on labor laws while serving to strategically juxtapose the violation of women's rights and the infringement faced

Rhetoric gives you an avenue to tell a story from your perspective in a way that connects with the intended audience without having to be one hundred percent substantiated. This writing style is evident in almost everything we read from billboards to Internet ads and even political speeches.

As for myself, I had to weigh the concept of media influence effecting my purchasing habits, as I spend the majority of my free time outdoors or engaged with a book. What I concluded, was repetitively humorous ads such as “Old Spice”, “Irish Spring” and “Dollar Shave Club” commercials, not only share unique similarities in content, they also primarily address the market for low cost, daily use items. Considering these realities and my own recollection of advertisements which motivated me to purchase a product, I would have to postulate the Dollar Shave Club commercials won the contest hands down. In fact, I have never procured any Old Spice or Irish Spring product or felt any desire too, I simply enjoyed the satire imbedded in the advertising, however, when it came to the Dollar Shave Club, I have been a member for the past 3

The reason why I disagreed is because if we let animals die naturally then we wouldn't have any seals or sea lions what if that sea turtle was having baby's and the sea turtle population was dropping and we said eh who cares they should die naturally without us helping it so there is a reason why I disagreed to this

Scene: After Aristotle’s funeral, some of his student’s get drunk following the service, which leads to a discussion of the line between how morality and public perception shape rhetoric.