Rhetorical Analysis Of Albert Einstein's Letter

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.

The Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany was written by Galileo Galilei in 1615. Galileo was an Italian scientist that began making new discoveries in the heavens in 1609. He discovered many things that did not coincide with the teaching of the church.

“Build your own life...find your opportunity, and always be sexy.” The general claim made by Aston Kutcher’s in his speech at the Teen Choice Awards is that to be successful you have to make your own life, work hard, and be thoughtful. He uses ethos and rhetorical devices to support his claim. His purpose is to inform in order to be inspiring. He establishes a serious but casual tone for his audience of mostly teens.

John Downe, a weaver, letters’ was written to convince his wife to immigrant to the United States from England. Downe use of positive connotation towards America throughout the letter is to substantiate the encouraging side effect of hope. He emphasized all the benefits and opportunities in America by using a persuasive and common-man tone. Downe’s letter uses a variety of literary devices, especially positive imagery, syntax structures and effective diction to present the idea of generosity and abundance that is offered in America.

Referred to as a “antislavery zealot” by some and as a “heroic hand” by others, John Brown was certainly one who stained history with blood. John Brown’s conduction of anti-slavery raids to fight “fire with fire”, triggered by his radical ways to fight the tyranny that was slavery,Brown impacted the whole country. During this time most anti-slavery supporters were peaceful and only tried to fight slavery “morally”, however John Brown lead many anti slavery raids his most famous and the one which he would have to pay with his life being, the Harpers Ferry Raid. The seizing of federal armory and arsenal with a group of men with just a mere hope of the local slave population helping him in order to reach success and create a nation wide effect failed miserably when the slavery population frightened did not join his raid. Captured, John Brown delivered one of the most enticing and alluring speech during his trial, his last speech, his address to the court in which he admits his actions in his “crusade” to fight slavery as well as patronizingly accepts his punishment without regret or remorse. In his speech he address one objection, being that if he was fighting on behalf of the rich, high class and those who supported and benefited from the tyrant slavery system,he would have been rewarded and praised instead of punished, proving that once again the tyrant, oppresing, racist and discriminating federal government was being run by bias men who aimed to keep the inhuman hierarchy

Gandhi ineffectively utilizes ethos in Letter to Viceroy, Lord Irwin when he attempts to persuade the Viceroy to respond and change conditions imposed on the Indian people. At the beginning of his argument, Gandhi does not immediately establish his credibility but reasons out his actions instead: “Before embarking on Civil Disobedience and taking the risk I have dreaded to take all these years, I would fain approach you and find a way out” (2). The fault in reasoning out his actions rather than establishing who he is is that the audience does not immediately trust Gandhi. If Gandhi were first to establish who he is, the intended audience would more likely continue to trust what Gandhi says. In this case, the lack and misplacement of ethos are

The Special Theory of relativity is an acknowledged physical theory that revolutionized advancements in the relationship between space, and time. The theory is one of the most interesting discoveries that are still used today in science fiction movies such as Star Wars, and Star Trek through the use of black holes, and time travel due to it’s astonishing results, and it occurrence at speeds close to the speed light, which can be appealing to a wide range of audience. This was a harvest from six years of extremely handwork by Albert Einstein. Einstein used resources that were widely available to the public due to his economic constraints. It wasn’t until 1905, when Einstein finally had finished and published his discoveries, and gatherings

Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in it he states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” which presents the facts that all men should be treated equally (Banneker 21). This is not happening, therefore Benjamin Banneker was obliged to write a letter. In his letter, he suggests the abolition of slavery because, as stated in his letter, “all men are created equal” (Banneker 23). In Benjamin Banneker’s letter to Thomas Jefferson he exploits fear tactics and formal diction to effectively persuade Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

On the 12th of April, in the year 1999, Elie Wiesel gave a speech at the White House. Several members of congress, President Clinton, and the First Lady, Hillary Clinton, were present to listen to him. His speech became a powerful testament to the pitfalls and dangers of being indifferent to the sufferings of others. However, Wiesel’s speech was also a very skillful exercise in using rhetoric for persuasion. By using certain wording and striking the right balance of facts and emotions, he was moving the audience in the direction of understanding his point of view. He was moving the audience to not feel sympathy, but actual empathy to the events he was speaking about. To feel the as closely as he felt for these events in history. He acted as judge, jury, disappointed parent and as vengeful deity. In this paper, I will examine key elements of his speech to show that by instilling deep feelings of shame, fear, and even pride at the right moments can inspire people to open their minds to the dangers of ignoring the pleads of help from their fellow man.

Through a wide variety of rhetorical devices the orator, Wiesel, attempts to instill a form of guilt into his audience, as he makes his desperate plea to the American people, and to the president, to take a stand against the great evil he witnessed. Wiesel uses apostrophe, juxtaposition, and causal analysis to ensure he effectively drives his message home, implementing them each in their own way to ensure the necessary ethos and pathos is built so that Mr. Wiesel can sway his audience to his opinion, and ultimately encourage them cancel the visit to Bitburg, achieving his final rhetorical goal.

Banneker through this essay is using clever strategies such as sympathy, relatability, and mockery to power the effect of the letter. The strategies used to argue that there needs to be a change and it starts with Jefferson one of the fathers of the Declaration of Independence. The wording of the letter is also a thing that makes it more affective. Banneker use of rhetorical technique over all is what strengthens his letter as a whole making what he has to say effective.

Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant politician and intellectual who had a major impact on the revolution of the colonists to gain freedom from the British. However, was he also a hypocrite? Historians revealed that Jefferson, like many other white men at the time, owned slaves at his home estate. In a letter from Benjamin Banneker, the son of former slaves, Jefferson is argued against about the injustice of owning slaves and the freedoms he possesses that enslaved people are unable to receive. Throughout the letter to Jefferson, Banneker uses the rhetorical strategies diction, syntax, and figures of speech to convey his attitude and tone towards slavery and send the message that all men should be treated equally.

In 1791 Benjamin Banneker, an educated man who was the son of a former slave wrote to Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson the framer of the Declaration of Independence was opposed to slavery but yet owned slaves himself contradicting his own beliefs. Banneker’s understanding of this lead him to write to Jefferson. In the letter Banneker uses the rhetorical strategies of allusion, juxtaposition, and an indignant tone in order to argue against slavery.

Benjamin Banneker in his letter to Thomas Jefferson offers a series of arguments against the institution of slavery through a series of rhetorical devices. Banneker, who is an exceedingly educated African American man, never refers Jefferson by his name, but by only calling him “sir,” to show his respect. In the late eighteenth century, it is not a black man’s place to condescend a white man. Even though Banneker is a respected man, he is indicating that he must show his respect for Jefferson just because he is white and Banneker is black. Thus, showing Jefferson the “injustice” of the country that he helped develop.

On April 12, 1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel delivered a speech in order to inspire the American people to take action in times of human suffering, so that events like the holocaust will never again take place. Through the use of persuasion, word choice, and rhetorical techniques, Wiesel successfully appeals to his audience of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, and the rest of the American public. The main point in his speech is that of indifference and what can come about because of it. In order to define indifference to the audience and persuade them to never be indifferent in the future, Wiesel exclaims it as having no difference. Wiesel also uses descriptions about what may cause indifference; as “a strange and unnatural state in