Rhetorical Analysis Of A Young Girl's Letter To Albert Einstein

The allusion present in, "And just as Einstein refused to accept his own theory until his

It was recorded that 58,220 U.S soldiers died in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was part of the Cold War period, when the United States attempted to contain Communism. It lasted from 1955 to 1975 and Communism won, One U.S soldier, Sandy Kemper,who died in the war, wrote a letter to his family during the Vietnam War. In his letter, he uses rhetorical strategies such as satire,imagery and diction to create a piece that is an example of a successful antiwar sentiment.

In order to make his response more effective, Albert Einstein uses rhetoric in his response to Phyllis Wright. In his response, Einstein takes the question of prayer and applies it to his scientific knowledge. As a very credible scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Albert Einstein was a wise choice for Phyllis to write to. Moreover, in the context of this letter, Einstein proves to be a good choice especially when compared to what other scientists were accomplishing in this time period. Although he is a scientist, Einstein knows his audience by not overlooking the aspect of religion. By analyzing his audience, Einstein's purpose comes through his letter by concluding that it is okay to think outside the box and that the topic is ambiguous.

Galileo is concerned with obtaining the truth about the world we live in, whether religion provides an answer or science. This is evident in the letter when he is discussing the “celestial bodies” concerning the work of Copernicus. Galileo believes that it would be wholly unjustified to ban Copernicus’ work after it has been confirmed over the years, he puts it: “in my judgement to be a contravention of the truth” if this were to occur. Basically Galileo believes if something is true, the basis of the truth either, religious or scientific is equally creditable. He further states that if scientific fact is unattainable, it must be a thing of faith and religion; “where human reasoning cannot reach” and there “is no science but only opinion of faith” the truth must be in the Scripture. This is demonstrated in the letter “whether the stars are animate” or “whether or not the heavens are spherical”. Galileo believes that ultimately that the science behind a phenomena will

In the letter Galileo explained that it would not matter if something in the Bible was disproven, the primary purpose of the Bible is salvation. He also believed that God gave him and others intellect. He reasoned that if God did not want people to gain knowledge, then God would not have gave them the ability to reason or the ability to make new discoveries. Galileo also believed that if the sacred scribes wanted us to have all the answers they would have written them, and that the Holy Ghost intended to only teach us how to get to heaven, not how heaven goes.

In Albert Einstein’s response to Phyllis Wright’s question inquiring as to whether scientists pray and what for, he utilizes the components of rhetoric in an effective manner. Firstly, Einstein would be very familiar with the subject at hand, considering that he and many of his colleagues are scientists, whose beliefs he would have most likely known. As a speaker, Einstein kept in mind his audience and spoke more as a teacher, also taking care to use simple terms as Phyllis was only in the sixth grade. His reputation as a scientist was already at this point grand, thus ethos is addressed without needing its own written responses. Understanding that in this context he must be very to the point, Einstein began with, after a short introduction,

In 1847 Eliza Stacey writes a letter to her father in law, Edward Stacey, to persuade him to help the family get out of this debt they have unexpectedly fallen into. Through her letter Eliza Stacey uses pathos to display the suffering the debt has brought her and ethos to establish a reason to ask for his help. She also uses personification and anecdotes to make Edward recall the series of events in the past that have led to debt hoping that Edward will feel sympathy and recognize Eliza’s helpless feeling and cry for help.

However, it is the human's job to produce “the happiness of the good and the punishment of the evil” (Document 12). This, promotes the fact that our minds are stronger than we think. John Calvin supported astronomy (Document 2). Calvin supported this because of its connections to Moses and the book of Genesis. However, he also went against the Catholic Church and supported astronomy probably because he was Protestant and just wanted to support what the Catholic Church disagreed with. The Church didn’t want to let Galileo spread his ideas about the moon because they knew that it discredited many of their beliefs (Document 3). The church didn’t want Galileo to prove them wrong so that others would stop going to Church. The Pope made Galileo recant what he had said. The church did this to make sure that more people didn’t stop going to church which was their source of money. Walter Charleton, an English Doctor and natural philosopher said that “It appears so impossible that atoms.... could fix themselves into so vast and symmetrical a structure as the World. The creation and arrangement can be connected to no other cause, but to an Infinite Wisdom and Power” (Document 8). In this document, Walter Charleton states how far science can go and only God could have made such an amazing object which is our

The serious problem Einstein referring in his letter was that reactionary/Politics managed to instill suspicion. If people were to listen to Einstein would either be thrown in jail and blacklisted for the sacrifice of his personal walfare. Pete Seeger was a folk singer,when he testified he was sentenced to a year in prison. He appealed and won but still remained on the blacklist (DocE). (DocF)Giles Corey condemned to death because he wasn’t giving names of the suspected witches. Stones layed his chest until pleaded aye orray. Corey’s final words was more weight and after that he

When dwelling into the explorations about science and religion, one can find it quite amusing. "If science and religion are to continue to coexist it seems opposed to the conditions of modern thought to admit that this result can be brought about by the so-called

The Pivotal Dichotomies of Science and Religion Science can help identify and elaborate upon the laws of nature, help humans ascertain an improved understanding of the universe, and enable people to acquire powerful thinking skills to generate innovative and beneficial ideas. However, in the recent centuries many scholars have addressed the numerous conflicts that have emerged between the fields of science and religion. Although certain similar factors can render science and religion compatible, many differences have caused a contentious divisiveness to permeate between the two fields. Many philosophers have contemplated and debated the relationship between science and religion.

Towards the conclusion of Galileo's letter he offers an argument of truths. The argument basically states this: if the truth of the Bible conflicts with the truth of fact, and two truths cannot contradict, then one or the other is wrong. Since the truth of fact cannot be wrong, except for ignorance, then the scientific interpretations found in the Bible may therefore be in err. Galileo's doesn't exactly feel that the Bible is wrong, he is just providing one more argument towards the difference in science and the Bible. The errors themselves, he states, are most likely due to the inability to "affirm that all

Albert Einstein once said “I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details”. Einstein wanted an equation that would encapsulate all physical laws. To put the beauty and the power of the universe into a single equation was his life’s goal. Although Einstein’s name is now synonymous with genius, his professors would have never predicted him to be this successful as he would always cut class, and he could not get a single job after graduating. Einstein thought he was such loser that he wrote a letter to his family saying perhaps it would be better if he was never born. His father had to apply on behalf of Einstein for academic positions, but they all said there were no positions available. His father passed away thinking that Einstein was a total disgrace to the family. In 1902 Einstein moved to Switzerland, and began a career far from science. One of his friends got him a job to be a patent clerk in the Swiss patent office. He spent six days a week reviewing applications submitted by inventors to the Swiss government. He had to analyze the patents and strip them to their essence, which honed his skills as a physicist. Since it was not intellectually demanding it would give him ample time to contemplate the universe. Einstein’s daydreams would change the way the universe was understood.

Albert Einstein, when asked about religion, once remarked to a young girl that underneath it all, science is a sort of faith: there is a faith in the validity of the theorems and postulates which physicists employ. Socialism, too is a sort of faith, based on implicit assumptions about the nature and behavior of humanity. Yet in tone and style, his writings differ: in the first, Einstein constructs a well-reasoned and logical explanation, reflecting his confidence in the immutable laws of science, whereas the second’s persuasive and idealistic arguments convey that the tenets of the humanities are open to speculation and interpretation.

Albert Einstein was the first child born to Hermann and Pauline Einstein, Jewish, middle-class Germans, on March 14, 1879 at Ulm, in Wurttemberg, Germany. Albert's sister, Maria, was born in November of 1881. They remained close throughout their lives.Einstein and sister 1 The Einstein family moved to Munich in 1880 to start their own business. Albert began his secondary schooling at Luitpold-Gymnasium. In 1894, the family business failed and the family moved to Milan, Italy. Albert stayed behind in Munich to finish his