Reflection On Rhetoric

Who was the specific audience of your Visual Presentation? Include specifics that make the audience unique, such as their experiences or perspectives related to your topic.

“A Lesson Before Dying” is a novel that depicts racism, in-justice and sacrifice all through the perspective of a black male.

The Greek communities that have risen across the country have created huge impacts on every university that they have established themselves on. Historically, fraternities were designed for students to discreetly meet to discuss issues and host debates that their members believed would be deemed inappropriate by their collegiate faculties. Since their founding, fraternities and sororities have completely revamped their focuses. They are used as social, professional, and honorary organizations that promote many different combinations of community service, leadership, and academic success. The ideas of brotherhood and sisterhood have also transcended the college experience,

Walking around a university’s campus any day of the week, one sees an array of Greek letters worn proudly by young men and women in the Greek system. Fraternities and sororities play a big part in a university. The Greek system can also be an easy target to direct criticism. There are those who oppose the Greek system and those who embrace it. Evan Wright opposes the Greek system in his article “Sister Act” that was featured in Rolling Stone Magazine. He uses examples from students at Ohio State University in Columbus to show his disapproval of the way sororities are now days. He portrays sorority girls as catty conformists who are obsessed with partying with fraternity

Do you ever wonder how journalists get away with presenting overly biased information through blog sites and news articles? Reporters have been doing this for years, and because of the law enforcement's inability to regulate what gets broadcasted through the media, these articles remain the leading culprits for false interpretation by the audience. A Modest Proposal is a prime example of how easy it is to manipulate the media by the way Swift conjures up what seems to be the “only solution” for the poverty issues in Ireland. Although the idea of “eating children to save money” seems absurd today, the citizens actually believed it to be a probable solution at the time. Swift influenced the viewpoints of his readers by the way he presented logical statistics in his work, making him seem as a credible source to onlookers who had no prior knowledge on the topic.

The game I saw was the Boston Celtics on TNT. I saw the game for ten minutes, and in those ten minutes the Gatorade logo was shown a total of five times. First, it was shown two minutes into the game, there were two big containers with the Gatorade logo. The next time I saw it was a person with a Gatorade bottle. Then I saw a person with a Gatorade shirt. Then the cameras pointed at another big set of containers on the other side from the other two containers I saw in the beginning. The last time I saw it was on the backboard of the

Plato once said, “Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.” Through all the time that has passed since those words were first said, rhetoric has been used millions of times in millions of different ways, from a heavily thought out presidential speech to a kid trying to convince his parents to let him eat another cookie from the cookie jar. It is also used heavily in advertising campaigns. The purpose is to convince the audience that they are the best presidential candidate, that they deserve that extra cookie, or that they are providing a great product that you don’t just want to buy, but need to buy. Rhetoric rules the minds of men, and women, for that matter. Multiple rhetorical devices and persuasive techniques, such as color choice,

Transferring to California State University, Sacramento was the most optimal decision that I have made recently this year and so far, it has been an enjoyable yet compelling one because of the helpful environment around me. Compared to the other two colleges I attended in the past in Stockton, California, I believe Sacramento State University has better resources and opportunities to grow as a student. Some of the resources I have utilized here are the Writing Center and PARC, but I plan to branch out and explore many others I have heard about. Although my major is Mechanical Engineering, I still have other classes that I am required to take in order graduate in Spring of 2020, such as English 109W for my undergraduate GWAR. Before entering English 109W, my mind was set on just completing the course and getting a good enough grade to move on to my Writing Intensive course, the last English class I would take in college. I thought that my writing skills were above

The 2016 presidential campaign, was wrought with several controversial issues, none more so than the refugee crisis. Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim rhetoric, appeared to go against the American ideals of protecting religious freedoms. This trend continued into his presidency, he enacted Executive Order 13769 “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”, banning immigrants and refugees from seven predominately Muslim countries. While, the President claims these measures were taken to prevent any future terrorist attacks on the United States, many question if the Order has more to do with instilling a ban on Islam. Yet, with the possibility of terrorists entering the United States, how can we

To have a rhetorical analysis is to look at a literary dimensions of a passage. When using a rhetorical analysis with a biblical text your main reason of rhetorical analysis is for clarifying our understanding. In the ancient times, the authors often would employ the same techniques that today’s authors use to assist the readers to understand the message of the text or just to persuade them of the truth of the presentation. Rhetorical analysis is considered an art of reading a text it closely involves close attention to the scope of a given passage, meaning the beginning and the end. Rhetorical analysis should always have the slight possibility of the text will bear directly on exegetical questions. This device rhetorical analysis is also called

Rhetoric is a course in which students are taught the values of persuasion. And yet, behind this course is the utmost power to corrupt the world, changing it into a world of our own policies. This power, even though seldom discussed, has lead to many intriguing discoveries. One such discovery is how people are able to shape the world they live in simply by choosing the right words. Therefore those who would want the world to be a better place must protect this power. If in the wrong hands this power could cause serious damage. Several authors have striven to protect rhetoric and its power. Few agree on the matter of defining rhetoric, but they know that they must protect rhetoric from dark souls. A single definition of rhetoric must maintain a simplistic nature while incorporating every aspect of rhetoric. However, I argue that rhetoric is a means of persuading audiences of a situation and a particular reality through language and personal appeal. In order to prove this definition I will discuss how rhetoric creates a situation, the shaping of a different reality, the audience, the use of language, and the personal appeal. Finally, I will demonstrate the absolute need for rhetoric.

Glancing at the heading you may be wondering ‘what is rhetoric?’ Is it Ethos? Is it a question that is not answered or a type of persuasion? For the most part, rhetoric is a word that we may not use in our everyday language, but we utilize it religiously; we have practiced this skill in our everyday life since we were young. Rhetoric is actually communication. Every time you write a paper, every time you create a text, and every time you have a verbal conversation, rhetoric is being applied. The formal definition of rhetoric is, "the study of how humans use language and other symbols to influence attitudes, beliefs, and actions for other"(Ramage, et al. 16). It is used in many forms: texting, symbols, and word choice; rhetoric can also be divided

After watching the first video, “Heider and Simmel 1944 animation” there were objects that appeared to show some emotion by the way they were moving. As in the second video, “Kuleshov experiment” there were different people sharing the same facial expression in response to a girl in a coffin, a bowl of soup and a spoon, and a women on a divan. This experiment showed every aspect in the video being motionless. This experiment brought emotional reactions from its viewers to this sequence of images. In the third video “Intellectual Virtues” Dr. Baehr, spoke on how we should become life long learners and how we could display this learning, by being open-minded, having intellectual perseverance, and having intellectual humility. For the final video,

During our unit on ancient Greece, my students completed a project called “Greek Superstars”. They first had to pick a field of study that they were interested in (e.g. philosophy, mathematics, drama etc.) from a predetermined list. Once they narrowed down their area of interest, students had to find a partner who picked the same field of study. The next step was to research a “Greek Superstar” who contributed to that field. The end product of the project was to perform a skit to be presented to the class in form of a news broadcast. During the research phase, students had to hunt for background information and achievements, and make personal connections to today. Some groups struggled during this stage while other thrived. Students who struggled

3. Make sure the flow go rational and clear. When we are creating the story, the video should look visually consistent from beginning until the end.