Instagram, twitter, and Facebook feeds or snap chatting peers? Seventy three percent of wired teens use social media websites (CNN). We live in a society where social media dominates a vast majority of our life. Lapointe Lapointe, through a relatable series of emotional developments, targets teens and families caught up in social media to clearly inform them about the dangers of tech-based social apps and the vitality of monitoring what we say, do and like. Our actions, although they may seem immensely
remember the days when I was naïve enough to think that when someone went through the trouble of uploading a photo of a product into their Instagram account (or Facebook, or any other social media handle) it was because they actually, truly enjoyed using it (eating it, wearing it, you get my point). Oh, how social media has grown and changed in recent years! There are various studies that indicated that to be considered an “influencer”, a person had to have over 10,000 followers. More recent data shows
“We don’t have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how we do it” (Qualman, n.d). According to Merrain Webster 1828, “social media is form of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messaging, and other online (such as video). Technology has involved into something that everyone can utilize effectively just by the swipe of finger or by pressing a single
Name: Nur Syamimi Liyana Tutorial Grp: W4 Date: 28 March 2015 Title: Social Media for a Good Cause Topic: Persuasive Speech Specific purpose: I want to persuade my audience to put social media to good use and support their favourite cause by sharing information to their circle of friends. Central Idea: To persuade the audience to raise the awareness and raise funds for the cause of their choice through social media ___________________________________________________________________ Introduction
you failed your test knowing you should study, but you’re so eager to finish watching the 2nd season. In addition, you are giving your freedom away because you cannot put down your phone for one minute. You are basically obsessed with the idea of social media. You can change that by spending just one week out of the year with no phone, television, tablet, or even Netflix time. That week will be the first week of May. May 1-7. By putting away all of your electronic devices, you can enjoy the finer things
Analysis and Comparison Essay English Language Assignment In this essay I will be comparing and analysing Emma Watsons ‘Gender Equality is your issue too’ speech, executed on the 20th of September, 2014. Watson had pre-prepared this speech, as it was performed for the HeForShe campaign at the UN Headquarters, in New York. Alongside Tim Collins’ speech to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, in Iraq, 2003 – of which was an eve-of-battle rousting and of which had not been prepared, prior to British
an individual’s views who left their dream career to become a gun control activist. Dan Gross uses rhetorical speech and persuasion in order to educate his audience on why “gun violence can’t be our new normal.” Dan Gross, the head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, entices the audience by using the following rhetorical, persuasive, and visual elements throughout his speech: ● Dressed professionally in a suit. ● Began speaking about his passion, then tied it into a personal tragedy
not now, when?” to express the responsibility she has a public figure to deliver an awareness for gender equality. Having given the speech at an esteemed UN conference and incorporating disheartening gendered experiences, Emma Watson makes her call to action of participating in HeForShe very clear and convincing. Though ethos and pathos contribute to her persuasive argument, I claim that Watson’s profound reasoning and logistical evidence teaches the male half of the world that the idea behind fighting
The persuasive speech I viewed was titled “Implications of Social Networking and Text messaging”, which I immediately was drawn to which looking for a video on YouTube. It caught my attention because I use social networking and texting every day as a form of communication and wanted to know what was so detrimental to doing so. During the entirety of the speech, the speaker stayed true to the title. He talked about the negative outcomes of using too much social networking and texting but made sure
Some perfect examples of sophistry in the world today are Lawyers, Advertisers, politician, executives of large company and powerful people in the television and social media and some talk show host, Why because their extremely developed argumentation skills in debates persuasive speech, and rhetoric is powerful and reaches far. An advertiser, a politician must convince, (even use of clever talk to deceive) the public to think that they are the best candidate for the job. A defense attorney is