Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Summary

The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair was a very touching and motivating story. Sinclair aimed for our hearts, but instead, he hit our stomachs. The Jungle is a story of hardships and trouble, some successes and many failures as a family tries to achieve the "American Dream." In this book, "The Jurgis Ruckus' myth of failure is the other side of the Horatio Alger's myth of success." (xxvi)

September 11, 2001 is a day that shook the United States to its core. Millions of Americans felt the pain, the loss, and the anger that came with the attack on their nation. It was a day of mourning, and when it comes to days of mourning it is difficult putting one’s pain into words. However, Leonard Pitts Jr. was able to move past the emotion. He put into his words, not only his own feelings, but the feelings of an entire nation. Pitts conveys the emotion felt after the terror attacks in his essay “Sept. 12, 2001: We’ll go forward from this moment” through his mournful, angry, and righteous tone.

Terrorist attacks have increased over the last twenty years, but one of the most remembered is the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. It happened on September 11, 2001; and is commonly referred to as 9/11. Americans grow up learning details about 9/11; but rarely do we learn about a personal experience. In Adam Mayblum’s email “The Price We Pay,” he tells the story of what happened to him, and others around him on the day of September 11, 2001. Mayblum explains in paragraph ten “If you want to kill us, leave us alone because we will do it by ourselves. If you want to make us stronger, attack and we unite.” He made an excellent point with that statement, because he is right. He provides us with imagery, thoughts on terrorism, and strong use of emotions throughout the story that brings us a very well written narrative.

The momentous tragedy that occurred on September 11th, 2001 has been engraved into the memories of United States citizens. What began as an ordinary day quickly evolved into an tragedy no one could have predicted: thousands of lives had been taken and countless more devastated and ruined by the acts of terror. Although unpredicted, the horrific and frightening news affected all. The four planes individually plummeted into their targets—two crashed into the Twin Towers, another struck the Pentagon, and the final hurtled into an empty field—eliciting a wave of panic throughout the nation. The jarring images of commercial airplanes hijacked by members of the terrorist group Al-Qaida managed to instill a fear. As the terrified country anxiously fretted about the future, President George W. Bush delivered a speech to address the nation in order to soothe the tensions and worry. In George W. Bush’s “9/11 Address to the Nation,” the terrorist attack orchestrated against the U.S. is addressed with rhetorical devices such as parallel structure, imagery, and various appeals in order to inspire and heal the country.

A prosecutor’s job is to find evidence to support his case against an individual accused of breaking the law while a defense attorney tries to present evidence to prove the innocence of the person accused. Neither can be truly be unbiased about their evidence but each of them is motivated to confirm a particular position. Much like a defense attorney, in his biography, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer attempts to prove that McCandless’s tragedy was not due to his incompetence or lack of knowledge about the wild. He asserts emotions and rational onto McCandless’s experience as well as drawing similarities between his personal experience and McCandless’s in order to create a more sympathetic response from readers.

On September 11, 2001, the day of the towers fell, Lawrence Wright was an active journalist for the New Yorker. That afternoon he sent a simple request to his boss: "Put me to work." From his home in Austin, Lawrence Wright began interviewing a survivor in Queens, New York. He conducted the interviews long-distance, and put together an account based on the experience of this survivor. From there, Wright stumbled on the story of John O'Neill, the former FBI agent who became chief of security for the World Trade Center. The accounts of O’Neill’s

Krakauer introduces new themes and new important figures as he delves deeper into the mystery; Krakauer was the only one who published about how “his [Chris’] camera was ruined and McCandless stopped taking photographs, he also stopped writing a journal” (Krakauer 38). The anecdote was the utmost important theme discussed as almost every thought Krakauer had already happened. With such anecdotes, the reality of the situation is apparent, especially utilizing diction describing events that already happened. As Chris eventually passes in the woods and “by the time The New York Times, picked up the story about the dead hiker, the Alaska State Troopers had been trying for a week to figure out who he was” (Krakauer 98-9). The news of McCandless death materializes via anecdote, so it is to show the importance of said device.

​“There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go” (Unknown Author). As a nation, the people will be faced with adversity but with every step we accept, learn, cherish and let go. Anna Quiden, writer for Newsweek magazine, describes the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11. She writes this for the friends and family of te victims and all the concerned Americans across the country. Her article is filled with hope, so that the people can stand together and unite as one. Another hardship that has shaped America was written in the New York Times in 1963, by Claude Sittton called

Erik Larson shapes a story of suspense and excitement through juxtaposition, foreshadow, fantasy, and direct quotes. Through these different strategies, he is able to hold the reader’s attention while describing true history in a contemporary way. Larson takes Truman Capote’s idea of a nonfiction novel and creates his own story of a murderer in important history.

The author successfully uses ethos, pathos, and logos, while also managing resources and constraints to write a fitting response to the exigence of post 9/11 security efforts. Brill conveys his message strongly using ethos, or credibility of the rhetor, to gain his audience's trust. Brill establishes his credibility quickly by explaining how he “reported for a book about the nation’s recovery efforts in the first year after 9/11”(62). Brill later shares that the name of the book is How America confronted the September 12 Era. It is key to the success of the article that this

Krakauer executes Into the Wild in a clear style, unbiasedly exhibiting the occasions of McCandless' life. His dialect is succinct and straightforward, making his written work open to perusers. While numerous biographers have a tendency to make fanciful regardless of the possibility that imaginable scenes and occasions to influence the record to peruse more like an account, Krakauer rather settles on a journalistic way to deal with his written

In the beginning of the chapter the reader observes a postcard. Analyze the effect this postcard

As Nadine Gordimer states, “A truly living human being cannot remain neutral” (Goodreads.com). Gordimer’s statement rings especially true in the world of journalism and biographical writing, something a reader quickly notices once having picked up Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild. A biography, which details the events leading Chris McCandless to Alaska and, ultimately, his demise, Into the Wild is riddled with speculation and opinion from multiple persons, including Krakauer himself. Krakauer, like many other writers, found himself incapable of maintaining impartiality while still writing that which he ingenuously believed.

The tragic events that occurred on September 11th, 2001 will live on forever in the history of the United States as citizens shed fresh tears for those lost every year. Hundreds upon thousands of articles have been written since the life-shattering catastrophic event, most of which – unsurprisingly – focus on the politics of the entire situation. In one article, “9/11,” Susan Sontag ruthlessly criticizes the government response following the attacks, making bold claims that they were withholding information from the public and leaving citizens blind and ignorant. Though Sontag is effective in describing a valid argument against the government’s response after the events of 9/11, her success is lost in her failed establishment of ethos in her lacking appearance of knowledge, little fairness toward the government’s side, and lost credibility due to inadequate facts and strong emotions.

Taken at face value, Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night and Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test may seem very similar. They are both centered on a major author of the 1960s and his experiencing of historical events of the time, while set in the style of New Journalism. When examined closer, though, it becomes apparent that these novels represent two very different sides of New Journalism – Armies of the Night an autobiography with personal and political motivations, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test a sociological piece which tries to capture the essence of its subjects rather than the absolute facts. By looking at the form and style which the novels were written in and the motives behind Mailer’s Armies of the Night and Wolfe’s The