Personal Narrative: The Art Of Basketball

Aristotle’s disquisition the Art of Rhetoric suggests tools that can be utilized in the analysis of rhetoric. The renowned philosopher categorizes numerous literary devices into ethos, logos, and pathos. Suzanne Barakat’s Ted Talk “Islamophobia Killed my Brother. Let’s End the Hate” utilizes all three devices but has an emphasis on the final leg of the persuasion tripod, pathos. Suzanne Barakat make use of pathos to give a speech that creates change.. Pathos “represents an appeal to the emotions

plays a role in his personal history and in the politics of the film • Scene seems to announce yellow masculinity’s emergence into public visibility; an Asian American man literally has the ball • The basketball serves as a metonym for black male athletic prowess, an affiliation btw yellowness and blackness • Image of two Chinese children struggling, conjures up fears of wet backed illegal immigrants sneaking their unwelcome way to the US • A personal salvation through basketball, the ultimate hoop

free expression as long as it isn’t exercised” he says. Rosenblatt goes on to give examples of two professional athletes who exercised the right to free speech. The first athlete Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf a basketball player in the NBA decided not to stand during the playing of the national anthem due to personal religious reasons.

gaming: the road to becoming an art form. Today, museum curators from across the globe continue to accept video games into their collection, adding to its legitimacy. However, just as movies struggled to be considered art in the 1970s, the path for video games has not been smooth sailing. Many critics, such as the late Roger Ebert, have been increasingly vocal about their reasoning for why a

Evaluation: arriving at a judgment about whether something is good, bad, or mediocre, which involves subordinating one’s personal taste to the critical assessment resulting from the first three stages. 5. Engagement: taking some action that connects our critical perspective with our role as “global citizens” in order to question media institutions, adding our own voice to the

Ericsson is a writer of all sorts who pulls events from her life to use as starting points for her work. She does this to make everything she writes deeply personal. The essay, “The Ways We Lie” was originally published in the Utne Reader. The Utne Reader is a reader’s digest based out of Topeka, Kansas. It presents new and fresh ideas in art, culture, politics, and spirituality. Utne readers are people who are motivated for social change, and they want to make the world a better place. The readers

An auteur is a director who personal creative vision and style is expressed through films. The term auteur is originated in France and is French for author. There are different ways in which a director can express their vision in films and show who they are. There are many directors that are considered to be a auteur such as: Quentin Tarintino, Tim Burton, Kathryn Bigelow, Stanley Kubrick and Woody Allen. The director I have chosen as an auteur is Spike Lee. Lee’s Life: Spike Lee is an American

Starting as a small Tumblr blog, Humans of New York eventually developed over time and evolved. In growing popularity, Brandon Stanton, the blogs creator, eventually decided to turn his famous blog into what some may consider a photobook. When he began accompanying these photos with quotes, or “stories”, is when he noticed his creation come to life. This is where Humans of New York: Stories was born, ready to impact and affect readers all over the world. Stanton’s text provides the reader with a

My Personal Narrative     One event from my life that I always remember is when I was first starting school. I was wearing a Bright Blue Basketball Shirt and a pair of Bright Blue Basketball Shorts. I woke up very early that day. When my sisters finally woke up they got ready and we went outside to wait for the bus. When the bus came my mom wanted to get pictures of us. So when we arrived at school I went to class. I was extremely nervous but when my teacher told us her name I laughed. She told us

One that I will focus upon in my paper is a document dealing with the CIA’s plan to overthrow Castro that dated April 12, 1961. Many of the personal interviews that I will use will come from Miami based newspapers. To get a national prospective, I will use national newspapers and Magazines such as Time, Life, and The New York Times.. In a New York Times editorial, an American was outraged