I chose to do my nonfiction reading analysis on the first article, On Trump’s Syria Strategy, One Voice Is Missing: Trump’s. When doing critical analysis the reader normally asks themselves four essential questions. What is being said (the subject)? To whom is it being said (the audience)? How is it being said (the style)? Why is it being said (the purpose)? In my essay, I will answer these four essential questions and add a little bit of my own input and thoughts on this article. The subject of this article is fairly easy to determine. This article talks about Donald Trump's silence on the situations with Syria. It is stated in the article that “Mr. Trump has done little to clarify how he will proceed after firing Tomahawks at a Syrian air base in retaliation for the chemical attack”. America has just attacked Syria and Donald Trump has said nothing about what he will do next, the article's main points are centered around that. The purpose of this article is to inform, not to persuade or to entertain. The purpose of this article is to inform the American people that we have bombed Syria and that our president has made no comments, statements, or has even addressed this …show more content…
This article is placed in The New York Times, a popular place for Americans to get their daily news. So this article is targeted at the American citizens who keep up with the current news and stay up to date on what is happening in their country. Ever since Donald trump has been elected president the people of America always want to know what he has done or said because he has a history or doing and saying some pretty rash things. On the contrary, this article has told people that he has not said anything pertaining to the situations in Syria. This is certainly an odd occurrence that our normally outspoken president would remain so silent on a topic that is so
First, the author uses an appeal to ethos to strengthen the argument. For example, direct quotes are written from the president saying, the US should “prepared to impose additional and stronger sanctions on North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programs” (Tillett). This example is a quote form Trump who he gave to the reporter in
In some situations, even the bravest of people could falter and react in a cowardly way or vice versa depending on your strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes a life-or-death scenario can be that situation. In "The Most Dangerous Game", Rainsford is stranded on a island where he discovers he will be hunted for three days. The rules are simple: if he makes the three days alive, he wins, otherwise, General Zarroff, the privileged owner of the island, wins his own game. Rainsford fights harder than ever before to beat the odds and come out of Ship-Trap island unscathed and get his justified revenge. To continue, High Noon is the iconic movie about a humble sherif with a dedication to his town. He, in a sense, is being hunted as well by a
President Obama’s tactics in Syria is much different than President’s Bush’s tactics in Iraq. In August 2013, Obama seeked Congress approval on military action in Syria after the Syrian government used chemical attacks that killed over a thousand innocent civilians. On September 11, 2013, military action was placed on hold
Not even three full months into his presidency, President Donald Trump has received massive backlash for even the most miniscule of things. The media coverage that Trump has is unparalleled to any president before him. Journalists from all over the world realize that the President is the biggest story on earth right now, and they do not intend to ease off. Presented with a story as tantalizing as this one, one has to think why would they want to stop? Readers dig the stories the press writes about Trump almost as much as they disagree with what he says. The columnists have made their opinions overtly clear in their writings with the help of rhetorical devices such as metaphors, motifs and paradoxes. They then follow up on this with cherry
Thomas L. Friedman discusses a variety of topics in his article titled “Hillary, Jeb, Facebook and Disorder”. As a result, Friedman makes it very complicated to clearly address his thesis or his call to action. The numerous topics that Friedman describes is an example of a highly ineffective writing technique. A writer should make it clear to his audience what he/she will be talking about in their writing. Instead, Friedman leaves the reader in a muddled trance.
take on our countries foreign policy and by the end of the article questions whether or not our
“Monsters don’t sleep under the bed, they sleep inside your head.” When I was a child, I had a nightmare of being chased by the big bad wolf, and I was running trying to catch up with my parents who were driving away yelling at me to hurry up. Fear is a feeling that everyone has. Were all programmed with it. As kids get older they start to understand more and can tell the difference between real and pretend. When we experience fear, it can release adrenaline and dopamine which can make us excited and enjoy the thrill we feel when we experience scary things; which is why scary stories intrigue us. What role does transformation play in stories that are meant to scare us? Scary stories often involve transformation to elict fear.
Syria has been in war for four years. The rebels versus the president, Bashar al-Assad, and his loyal troops. But in 2016, the war has worsened. One of Syria’s major cities, Aleppo, has been getting bombed relentlessly by Russia. Innocent people die everyday. Children are left hurt and parentless. People that survive unscathed try to flee the city, only to find they cannot. They are prisoners in the city they once loved.
On the other hand, a U.S. military intervention is unlikely to happen since the U.S. cannot afford, politically or economically, an unsecured contribution to the Syrian war for an unpredictable period of time, especially after Obama’s foreign policy has been focused on ending all military involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. army hasn’t seemed to rest from the wounds of the two major past war, and veteran families were promised that military interventions will end, which makes the issue of intervention in Syria even more complicated for the U.S.
For my issue I will be focusing on the influence of the American mainstream media after the September 11th attacks and during the United States’ international military campaign known as the ‘War on Terror’. On September 11, 2001 otherwise known as 9/11, a series of terrorism where committed in which the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda devised four bomber attacks on U.S landmarks killing 2,977 people (CNN). Shortly after the events of 9/11, George W. Bush enacted the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorist (AUMF) and from his administration declared their own definition and objectives regarding the war on terror. The declaration would create not only a mass media indolent but insight a decade long conflict of fear of security
This article demonstrates extreme bias as it is a letter from the president of Georgia in regards to his views of the war. These represent the views of the Wall Street Journal on the Russo-Georgian War. Although Saakachvili is the president of Georgia, he does not display blatant bias as the previous sources had in regards to the war. Saakachvili writes the facts from his point of view, and his word choice demonstrates persuasion/use of bias. The president uses the words “democracy”, “freedom”, and “independence” frequently in his letter, which appeal to the American reader. In addition, his syntax describe the intensity of the event. He wrote,”Our offers of peace were rejected. Moscow sought war” (Saakachvili). The short sentences with no
Speaker: Well-known journalist Thomas L. Friedman does not like Donald Trump’s government. His writing style is simple and he includes
“The press is very effective in telling us what to think about” says Dr. Srinivas Melkote, in his article on the way in which the times framed events leading up to the Iraq war. I believe him to be entirely correct, for this has been the often subtle desire of the press in all of its forms: to influence its readers to think in the way they want us to. For this section however, I will confine myself to merely reviewing the variety and scope of the articles before I delve into their meanings and biases. As a prominent news organization, the Times sees itself as responsible for reporting newsworthy events to the public to inform them and better equip them for living in and responding to society, as well as protecting them from manipulation. The Iraq war, from the initial motivation to reaction by the acts on 9/11 to the aftermath that is still being dealt with, is certainly a newsworthy event which any American news company worth the paper they print on surely covered. With such a massive story however, involving so many facets and sprawling over such a protracted amount of time, the Times could not encompass it within a single article, nor would it have been right to do so if there goal is a properly informed public. This being the case, many hundreds of articles were written by the Times in order to give the public access to as much information and as many different perspectives as they could, so as to better encapsulate the ever evolving narrative that is the Iraq war. It is from reading these articles that I hope to better understand the motivations behind any predisposition of opinion that I find within the
People died and a lot of them. Assad has basically thumbed his nose at Obama and the world. This article positively dripped with sarcasm by the author. He is right in believing we could have done better by Syria. Doing nothing was the wrong answer. Obama Acknowledged that he did not pay enough attention and failed to exploit ambiguity is so wrong on many platforms. For one, it is very vague. It reminds me of the Ostrich’s head in the sand analogy: It will all go away if I ignore the situation. Cohen states that Trump’s rhetoric is a chest pounding reaction to Obama’s non action. Failure of this magnitude will come back to bite America later after the 2016 elections. What the issue is, is that America is but one country and America’s allies need to work together to find a consensus on how to respond in situations like Syria and the Middle East. Cohen states that Syria did something awful and now the whole world is at risk. Another generalization documented that fits the hasty category. Both Obama and Cohen are guilty here with the generalizations. Welcome to the human race. Life is all about what is right and what is easy. Actions that represent how world allies see this situation are never the easy choice. It affects all life on the planet. It should be democratic and a world decision on how to proceed. Leaders like Assad care more about money and power than the people who live under his rule. This is so wrong from a world standpoint, these leaders need to understand that all humans deserve basic rights and ignoring tis fact are unacceptable on every level and the world allies need to step up to prevent injustice wherever it happens in the world. Human genocide was wrong in Syria and the world needs to make sure it never happens
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" focuses on different marriages , and how individual characters view these unions in the 19th century . The characters in the novel portray the many delicate reasons why women got married. Marriages in this book were based between upper and middle classes. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife", Jane Austen provides this statement as the first line in her novel. Marriage was the most important theme throughout the novel.