Giles Fraser Rhetorical Analysis

In the fourth chapter of Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak entitled All the Way Down, Palmer is addressing and discussing clinical depression and the discoveries he made during this time. Disconnection and mystery are both explicitly covered to accurately explain the run and feeling of depression for the individuals that have never experienced the disorder. One of the main ideas that is addressed is that one of the only ways to get out of depression is to use knowledge of the heart and the choices that lead to wholeness are expressive of personal truth rather than calculated and intended to achieve a goal.

During the Great Awakening, a time of religious recovery, Jonathan Edwards' sermons were lectured. In his sermons, Edwards utilized an assortment of rhetorical devices, including imagery and basic metaphors to make the "sinner" regret and fear.

This postcard builds suspense in the reader’s mind. Alex saying that this adventure could kill him makes the reader interested in finding out more. “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man.” (Krakauer 3).

When you see a solider in his or her uniform, you are proud that they are serving this country to protect our freedom, securing our country, and defending democracy worldwide. The solider can come from different branches of the Military. The one you might be familiar with is the U.S. Army. These soldiers are well respected and prepared to serve our country whenever and wherever needed, combat-ready at all times, and trained to counter any threat, anywhere. In 2007, the United States Army department published a recruitment ad for U.S.

Nonconformity allows people to go against a prevailing rule so that they may do as they please.

In the article written by Vincent Barnett, he explains the different reasons that Machiavelli might have written “The Prince”. He also mentions the lasting effects of” The prince” and also mentioned how Machiavelli was ridiculed and judged for his brutally honest writing. Barnett mentioned that Machiavelli had lost his job as the secretary to the chancery in Florence. After losing his job he was arrested, tortured, and became extremely bitter. One of the possible motives for writing “The Prince” was that Machiavelli was trying to get reinstated back into his old job. Machiavelli could have also intended” The Prince” to hit the audience as satirical. Possibly to poke fun at all the failures of the political leaders and to make them look unintelligent.

Many people wish they can drop everything important to them and isolate themselves from society; very few people will even attempt this, but Chris McCandless breaks societal norms to accomplish this goal. In Into the Wild, John Krakauer tells the story of this young man’s life to inspire the audience to chase their dreams through the use of logos, involved sentence, and anecdotes.

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.

Jonathan Edwards is one of the leaders of the “Great Awakening.” Before reading the text, determine the historical context through online research. In one or two sentences, briefly define the historical context of Edward's’ speech. What does Edwards hope to accomplish with this sermon? Define his purpose.

Starting this year, I thought English 102 was just going to be another general education requirement I needed to have in order to graduate. English has never been my favorite subject, so I guess it is safe to say that I was not super excited about this class. However, this class turned out to be different then I thought. It turned out to be more useful then I originally thought. English 102 was both helpful and fairly simple because of what what I learned, the effort I put in and how prepared I was.

Throughout the passage, Barry establishes an optimistic tone through encouraging diction. For example, on lines 20-21, he says "To move forcefully and aggressively even when uncertain requires a confidence and strength deeper than physical courage" (Barry). Here, he is conveying the point that a scientific breakthrough takes hard work and dedication, but keeps a reasonably optimistic tone and gives his audience a boost of positivity. He also uses an encouraging tone on line 49 when he says "ultimately, if the researcher succeeds, a flood of colleagues will pave roads over the path laid, and those roads will be orderly and straight" (Barry). He gives his audience, who may be that successful researcher one day, a reason to keep working by lifting

In the documentry (Let's talk about sex) I was speechless of how much of a difference is US with other countries like Neatherlands. I was amazed by the way they are educated at a young age and the kinds there think it's normal and are comftertable talking to thier parents about sex conversations. Kinds from Neatherland are aware of the consequences if they don't use protection, they always carry condoms with them, school provide them with free condoms and encourage safe sex, and parent's give them the freedom and they expect for thier kids to act responsibly. Mailin a mother mention in the documentry that kids do have sex at age 16, 17, and 18 and she rather have her kid have sex at home then out in the streets. This shows me that parents

The following point is reinforced by detailing the dynamic between physicians and patients in relation to the contemporary treatment of “depression.” He describes the doctor as an enabler who stands as an “obstacle.” The said doctor prevents the patient’s ability to understand that what we typically refer to as “depression,” is nothing more than the predictable emotions associated with unhappiness after making bad life choices. Dalrymple implies that physicians cannot help most of their “depressed” patients without abandoning their profession’s commitment to objective disinterest in the voluntary choices of patients.

I agree with Slater that people will take medicine to get some relief for a health issue even to the detriment of another part of themselves. Often times, with single-minded focus on one problem we don’t comprehend the enormity of possible consequences to our choice. Only when we have relief from what ailed us do we begin to see the new difficulties we face. Yet, at the same time, the new awareness we obtain can refocus us to concentrate on the little things that make us happy instead of blindly going through the motions of living, making the quality of life more important than the quantity of

In Marjane Satrapi's word-specific panel about refugees fleeing north on page 89, she indicates the perilous situation of the war through taxis escaping flaming iconography. The bombing of border towns in the Iran-Iraq war forces residents to abandon their homes and belongings in the hope of finding refuge in the northern cities. The foreboding, chaotic scene underscores a period of turmoil in Iranian history. The words of the panel state, “After Abadan, every border town was targeted by bombers. Most of the people living in those areas had to flee northward, far away from the Iraqi missiles.” Satrapi sets the backdrop of warfare with intense, slightly militaristic words such as “targeted,” “flee,” and “far away”. This being a word-specific panel, the graphic