Rhetorical Analysis Of David Callahan's The Cheating Culture

Cheating has always been an issue among students. Almost everyone cheats in some fashion in classes. Whether it’s by blatantly copying another student’s answers, or working together on an assignment meant to be done on your own, cheating will remain a staple occurrence in academic life. In Rebekah Nathan’s article, “The Art of College Management: Cheating,” Nathan (2005) delves into students’ various reasons for cheating and even includes cheating as an “aspect[] of student culture,” (p. 27) from the point of view of a student. Nathan defends cheating as a whole by including it as an inevitable part of student culture. Additionally, she claims that everyone cheats, further diving into the idea that cheating is not inherently wrong. As a result of consistently defending cheating, Nathan neglects to provide worthy solutions to the issue as well as ignoring the consequences of cheating.

Curiosity wins the reader’s interest in accounts and push them to take on their engagement in the narrative. In “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, the way in which the characters talk to each other gives the reader chills and urge the reader to feel attached to the characters. Connell develops curiosity in the reader through his tone and the use of foreshadowing.

The “Climax” is the moment of greatest emotional intensity and/or the turning point in the story for the main character. The climax of The Book Thief is when the planes bombed Himmel Street while everyone was still asleep. It was the moment of greatest emotional intensity because Liesel had that kindness that spread around with those she meets, she cared deeply for Hans, Rosa, and Rudy, and when they died, you could feel the emotion that Liesel had, it was all too much. “In disbelief, Liesel buried her head into Rudy’s chest. She held his limp body, trying to keep him from lolling back, until she needed to return him to the butchered ground.” “She took a step and didn’t want to take any more, but she did. Slowly, Liesel walked to her mama and

Herodotus, the author of histories, once said, “During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.” World War I was a lengthy and critical war which resulted in the death of millions. This ranked it along with the deadliest conflicts in human history. As a soldier during World War I, Richard Connell witnessed the darker side of man displayed by others during the war that influenced his writing of The Most Dangerous Game. Using metaphors, imagery and irony, he was able to demonstrate the ugliness within humanity and the way that the human mind can suffer from viewing such manslaughter.

The Vietnam war; a war that brought out the worse from the best people. This happened because of the situations that the war brought to these soldiers. Not knowing the bad guys from the good guys, being alert all the time, thinking about your loves, killing people that you don't know anything about, destroying villages, and many other actions. These

Michael Moore’s documentary is filled with an ample amount of logos, ethos, and pathos which helps get his message through to the audience. In ‘Bowling for Columbine’, Moore talks about the horrific shooting, which occurred on April 20th, 1999 at Columbine high school. Moore explains how Michigan has a disturbingly big tolerance for firearms and actually see it as a necessary item that everyone should have. Guns in Michigan are so easily accessible that it can be obtained at a bank for free if you open up an account with them. Moore demonstrated this to be true as he so easily walked into the bank empty handed and came out with a rifle. ‘Bowling for Columbine’ revealed how America has the worst murder rate when it comes to shootings even though

The idea of cheating to attain rewards is no new concept. Throughout history, people have performed actions that contradict their morals in order to advance in society. Leaders, parents, and even children have taken shortcuts that strike at their integrity. In recent times, cheating has become more prominent than ever before. The concepts of honesty, fairness, and morality are not enforced, therefore, deception, fraud, and dishonesty prevail in the shadows. In Cheating Culture, written by David Callahan, the author addresses the issue of lying, deceit, and trickery in today's world, while also recognizing a change in the near future is within the people's grasp.

Chapter 10 is called “The Leech and His Patient.” This title is a perfect symbol for what happens in the chapter. Roger Chillingsworth continues to work on his patient, Dimmesdale, to try to figure out what is wrong with him. At the same time though Chillingsworth, the leech, is growing obsessed with his patient. Chillingworth has connected Dimmesdale's spiritual sickness to his physical sickness. At the end of the chapter, he finds something on Dimmesdale’s chest while he is sleeping, which he is overjoyed by. This mark is a permanent mark, Dimmesdale’s own scarlet letter, except it is part of his skin, not a detachable letter. While leech can be used to represent physicians as physicians commonly used leeches, the idea of the leech

In the story on one of the very first pages Tim O’Brien was talking about how in your childhood everybody always thinks that they will amount to be a hero and maintain all of those qualities, however, all he felt was shame. Following this he was talking about how he felt as if he was a coward and how he didn’t assume that he had the courage to go against the grain. From all of this I was envisioning that he didn’t have enough guts to go to Canada for the reason that if he did, I don’t feel that he would have regretted his decision. Tim O’Brien would have done not only what he wanted; on the other hand, what he felt was right for him. Then later on in the story when Mr. O’Brien was expressing how horrible his job was at the meat packing plant was and how the pigs were en route to the slaughter I took it as is was of foreshadowing. I saw this as foreshadowing as a result of him being sent to war, it was as if he was the pig, the soldier, going to be slaughtered, at war, as if he had no chance or say in the situation he was about to be forced into.

A key example of a strong rhetorical device was climax ordering. When speaking about the success he achieved from his book “Liar’s Poker”, Lewis claims, “I had a career, a little fame, a small fortune and a new life narrative.” (Lewis 2). This is a perfect example of climax ordering, because Lewis states all of these new components in his life from least significant to the greatest piece to evoke a suspenseful theme for inspiration. A powerful example of a logical fallacy was glittering generality, Lewis uses this item when he says, “you are the lucky few. Lucky in your parents, lucky in your country, lucky that a place like Princeton exists that can take in lucky people, introduce them to other lucky people, and increase their chances of

In Hawthorne's description of Hester on the pedestal he paints this shameful picture of Hester. He describes her in a guilty manner and emphasizes the pain Hester is feeling from this shame. Hawthorne expresses all of this guilt and pain in his first set of parallel phrases. For instance he repeats "a fixed gaze" twice in order to show the reader the intenseness of this part and then goes on to say the sun is "lighting up her shame" and making her "sin" clear to everyone watching her. He also refers to the "midday sun" as lighting up her shame and therefore making it more visible to the "whole people." He even goes as far as to describe her child as "sin-born" when she makes eye contact with the stranger, who is found out to be her husband. This adds to her feeling of guilt as Hawthorne makes it clear the baby in her arms is not her husband's child. Yet when he gets to the second set of parallel phrases he has this complete rhetorical shift and this whole guilty look of Hester disintegrates into one of almost sympathy. He goes from shaming and making Hester look guilty to describing how her privacy has kind of been torn away from her because of this whole situation. For example, he makes note of private affairs and compares them to the event taking place, he says things such as "features that should have been seen only in the quiet gleam of the fireside."

The Vietnam War is one of the most controversial wars the United States has ever been involved in. This is due to the lack of reason for the United States’ involvement in the conflict; it was not necessary to have Americans fighting in Vietnam (Cornish). Regardless of the lack of need for soldiers, young men from the United States were still drafted to fight and were shipped off to Vietnam, despite not knowing what they were fighting for. While there, most of them experienced horrific events that ended up following them after Vietnam, resulting in a condition called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which would weigh on the veterans’ shoulders for the rest of their lives. Tim O’Brien, author and Vietnam veteran, is not an exemption to

Through Cady’s subjective narration, the audience is able to experience how Cady transformed from a sheltered, homeschooled girl into a girl in the world of mainstream schooling. This helped to shape the subject of egocentrism throughout the film by showing how often times the pressure to fit in causes one to become vain. For example when the film begins, the audience hears how Cady is confused in the “world” of public school. She does not understand the social norms or how there is a sort of “hierarchy of classes” within the school due to the different levels of popularity. As the film progresses and she tries to fit in with the popular group of girls, the plastics, the audience notices how she begins to become self-absorbed. Cady tells the audience that she could feel herself getting more and more annoying and that she knew that the things that she was doing, such as ditching her friends and family for the plastics, were wrong but

When analyzing the rhetorical situation of the Callahan Auto Parts memo there are six elements of the situation to be discussed: topic, purpose, speaker, audience, context, and culture. The topic of this memo is informing the employees of the upcoming retirement of the CEO/founder. The purpose is to inform the staff kindly about the upcoming change to head off any hesitation from the staff about Tommy Boy taking over and ensure a smooth transition occurs. The speaker is the founder and long-time CEO of the auto parts store. The audience is the staff and employees of the store, after they read the memo the goal is that they feel a little bit more at ease and less hesitant going into the change. They should also know how to handle the change over and what will partake while it occurs. The context of the memo is that me the founder is leaving and someone else is taking over that has less experience. I know before writing the memo the employees are probably going to be hesitant about the change because of Tommy Boy's lack of experience. The culture of the group is that they are a close community that feels comfortable with what is going on now.

In chapter 11, “The Man I Killed,” O'Brien lists characteristics of the man he had recently killed with a grenade. O'Brien examines the wounds he inflicted on the man; his teeth were missing along with his upper lip, his jaw was dislocated, and one of his eyes were swollen shut(86). O'Brien makes up story about the man's life and tells us his war mates reaction when they saw the man. Azar, being the person he is, makes jokes saying the man reminded him of oatmeal, shredded wheat, and rice krispies(87). Kiowa on the other hand, sympathizes with O'Brien and tells him to go ahead and grieve then get over it(87). Kiowa suggests “just forget that crud, no sweat man, what else could you do? (O’Brien 87).” O'Brien can't help but stare at the body