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In the months leading up to the hostage crisis, the morale and patriotism expressed by the American people was gloom and not promising for the nation; “Especially in the last years of the decade, it was mainly just hard times” (Farber, 10).

John Lewis continues his speech through paragraph 5 by reminding his audience, the activists, that they are a part of a social revolution for equality and criticizes American politics through the effective use of rhetorical devices. For instance, Lewis condemns politicians who participate in unethical policies when he announced that “American politics is dominated by politicians who build their careers on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political, economic and

In the 1940’s a series of propaganda films titled Why We Fight were produced for the purpose of defining the enemies of World War 2 to justify the necessity of America’s involvement in war. Hitler needed to be defeated, Nazism had to be destroyed, and tyranny had to be stopped for the sake of the American way of life by any means necessary. How could society argue against America’s role in the world war when freedom was being threatened? As Martin Luther King Jr. said “Injustice anywhere is a threat to everywhere.” No questions asked, Americans mobilized in the name of liberty and freedom. However the 2005 documentary film Why We Fight directed by Eugene Jarecki is not a sequel or war propaganda. The film informs the audience and questions America 's military industrial complex that has since dictated policy since the victory of World War 2. With the help of narration, soundbites, and credible speakers Jarecki shines light on the pernicious impact of the armed industry on our government, army, and citizens.

When examining Wendell Berry’s piece his argument is stated in the sentence of his essay. “If you know even as little history as I do, it is hard not to doubt the efficacy of modern war as a solution to any problem except that of retribution¬¬-the “justice” of exchanging damage for another” (Berry, 2005).

Wellesley Commencement Speech Thesis: Although Bush did use consubstantiality as a rhetorical strategy to try and identify with the audience, she sent out a message that did not fit the rhetorical situation. Barbara Bush was well aware of the criticism from the students of Wellesley College. She was not their first choice, nor did the students have anything in common with the college drop out. Although Bush did use consubstantiality as a rhetorical strategy to try and identify with the audience, she sent out a message that did not fit the rhetorical situation.

She goes through each argument against buying local with thorough arguments and even concedes sometimes to her opponent in a way that does not take away from her argument. When discussing the fact that buying local sometimes hurts workers in third-world countries she acknowledges that but does not let it bring her argument to a screeching halt. Instead she admits that it could have negative effect but the positive effects should not be ignored. It seemed like she managed to avoid any errors while talking about her topic. Her tone could be at times a bit biased which became noticeable when she would talk about her past and how that connected with the idea of buying local. Besides that she made it reader friendly by explaining things simply with words that were accessible. The point where the effects of global warmings were discussed was written in an easily accessible manner. What I liked best was that she tore apart people’s arguments thread by thread which made it easier to support her side of the issue. While she did discuss certain parts about buying local that bothered people she could have been talked about more critiques toward buying local. All in all she made many valid points about buying local in a good

The Undeclared War also called the Quasi-War was an unofficial naval war lasting from 1798 to 1800. It was between the US, with British assistance, and France. Before the war the relationship between America and France became increasingly negative after the American Revolution. Despite being the US’s ally during the Revolution, the US traded much more with Britain than with France. The US and Britain had resolved their issues by signing the Jay Treaty. The Jay Treaty was seen as a violation of an earlier treaty between France and America. In response, France decided to attack US merchant ships to prevent trade between it and Great Britain. When a war between France and Britain broke out the US took a neutral stance.

From a communication and speech analysis stand point Ms. Alexander kept her self poised, keep her tone of voice smooth and inflecting when she needed to drive certain points home. She kept the audience engaged by moving around telling personal anecdotes that related to her topic to allow the persuasiveness of her speech to drive home about the problem of the criminal justice system and race as a whole. Her first point that really captivates and hooks you in within a matter of minutes of listening to the speech is when she says, “ People of color are the main ones incarcerated…Put in cages and treated worse than animals.” Right their she captivates and audience that otherwise believe she's crazy talking about race in the criminal justice system. Ms. Alexander managed to captivate and all WHITE audience on a topic that most had already made up there minds on. Her speech was effective in that all statistics about her topic she

Queen Elizabeth I’s speech was called “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury”, written in 1588. She gave her speech in order to make her people fight against Spain, and to prevent them from invading the border of Britain. In her speech, she used pathos, words with strong connotation, and plain folk. She wanted to stop their enemies from invading her own country and if they would win, she would’ve offered rewards for the soldiers. She used pathos in the speech very well.

James Peck uses two contexts to view such attacks as a tragedy and a melodrama within his piece of writing. Peck is a director and professor of theater and is well aware of what these two words within the theater mean. He is quite unsettled by the label that is usually attached to the attacks on September 11th. Politicians, the press and just the ordinary person have labeled the September 11th attacks as “a national tragedy.” This type of label troubles Peck because he is curious as to what distinguishes a tragedy from just something bad happening. Peck uses two contexts to view such attacks as a tragedy and a melodrama within his piece of writing.

In George Lakoff’s article titled “Metaphor and War, Again” (March 18,2003), he argues that the Gulf War II is unjust and utilizes various metaphors to assert it. Lakoff commences his justification with the metaphor A Nation Is A Person. The United States attempted to validate that its grounds of announcing war with Iraq was really just targeted to one individual, Saddam Hussein. The author resumes to stress the importance that the US is oblivious to realize that a lot of harmless bodies will be mascaraed during the conquering of the wicked oppressor. This is conducted as a solution to the war.

In short, the Albanians are presenting their complaints to the international community and the CIA knows forehand that the US should be prepared to respond in the same way and end the conflict immediately. Agent Young find the war pointless since the arguments given about a “nuclear threat” or a “terrorist threat” have been proven wrong. According to Young’s logic, if there is proof of them not doing anything, then why going to war? Even so, the media and Americans have bought the images of the girl running with her cat through the bombings in Albania. Agent Young relies too much upon the international response, and its rationality, that he forgets how the global society responds to the stimuli they receive. If they see a girl running with her cat while the war is destroying her home, it is almost sure that the US would receive the approval of the rest of the world. Moreover, what Brean and Ames wanted was the support of the Americans for the war they just invented. “A representative state can sometimes represent the aggressions and the fears of the majority. These fears are compounded by a sense that the non-liberal opponent is oppressing its own citizens.” The American internalized value of “fighting for the right thing” proves to be Agent Young and Americans

(187)Confessions of an Economic Hit Man By John Perkins was written in 2004, which reflects the increasing realization of the corporate power of Halliburton and other transnational organizations that were destroying third world nations, such as Iraq, during the Bush Administration. Of course, Perkins (2004) had worked with Halliburton through his previous NSA connections in the U.S. intelligence services. In this manner, Perkins (2004) defines the underlying economic motives of the Bush Administration to invade Iraq, which served as a platform for the false allegations of “weapons of mass-destruction” that allowed Bush to invade the oil-rich country of Iraq in 2003: “Bush

Hilary Mantel's speech is tendentious and personal, because only one her own opinion is presented. Looked at the speech objectively it is weak because of the lack of proof, since she is only arguing with her own personal opinion.

Question 1: What is your interpretation of the statement on page six that includes, “…indoctrinate blind patriotism…”