Rhetorical Analysis Of El Paso's Perimeter Of Poverty

From 1954 to 1968, African Americans fought to end segregation in the southern United States through nonviolent protests. As a major leader of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged this approach. Ten years after MLK’s assassination, American civil rights activist Cesar Chavez published an article to commemorate the great leader and what he stood for. In his magazine article, Cesar Chavez utilizes logos, pathos, and ethos to convey the importance of nonviolence.

One of the key points of an effective argument is to provide support, usually in the form of statistics, citations, and facts. While Thornburgh does give some citations from other sources, they are just quoting of events or what people had said about events. Some of Thornburgh’s facts do lend credence to his paper, such as when he quotes about the “‘Congress on Your Corner’ ” (Gooch 325). Yet this

When caught in an injustice, protesters tend to use various strategies in attempt to successfully convey their opinions. In an article published by Cesar Chavez, he describes his fight for civil rights by using Martin Luther King Junior’s methods to show how violence fails to promote victory. Chavez appeals to his audience by using ethos, pathos, and allusion to highlight how nonviolence is more of an effective form of protesting.

In Reyes’s Los Angeles Times article, “Men Are Stuck In Gender Roles, Data Suggest” posted on December 26, 2013, she discusses that there are gender roles in today’s society that has been set and learned at a young age, that men do men things and women do women things but there’s a small percentage where it’s flipped upside-down. The context of this article can be misogyny or sexist, and focuses more towards the male audience with a smaller portion of women. Reyes’s exigence comes from her own research as the “census data and surveys show that men remain rare in stereotypically feminine positions”(Reyes Par. 3). Due to her excellent use of appeals, Reyes’s article is highly recommended for the PopMatters Persuasiveness Prize. Reyes supports her claim with ethos with her usage of good credible sources; logos, using inductive logic and by providing good statistics; and pathos, like the bandwagon appeal with an attempt to sway people away from the norm, and by providing stories from everyday folk on how they’ve encountered these stereotypes regarding gender roles.

Cesar Chavez is undoubtedly one of the most influential civil rights leaders of our time. Sadly, many people, students in particular, focus only on the success of his movement and not the eloquence and character he possessed. This article gives a first-hand glimpse at the rhetorical talent Cesar Chavez made such liberal use of. Throughout this piece, Chavez uses several different techniques to impart his message of nonviolence. His use of tone and provocative word choice plays a major role in the quality and persuasiveness of the article and allows the reader to see just how passionate Chavez is about his cause. However, the most prominent and impactful rhetorical strategy Chavez used were his appeals to the fundamental values and core beliefs

Fear is also generated in this piece of propaganda in that it plays on the emotions of the viewer by making them aware of what may be left behind if they die by a thoughtless and preventable accident. This further prompts safe driving, that it reveals to the viewer real life accidents, and promotes concern to the viewer. It also gives a sense of pity for the child that has been abandon by its deceased parents.

Civil rights activist, Cesar Chavez, in his article, argues that nonviolence is more powerful than violence. Chavez’s purpose is to prove that violence is never the answer and we should all receive justice using nonviolence. He adopts certain appeals in order to describe to similar feelings in farm workers. In Chavez’s article, he uses rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos, and logos to describe the importance nonviolence has over violence.

(3).The reader believes the credibility of the sources is very much strong, because both articles gave many resources and data in which you may go find for yourself to see if indeed the facts are the facts, they also have cited were they got their information. They got books to further your reader too.

Many colonias do not even have sewage systems, but instead they rely on septic tanks which if they burst or overflow if not installed properly, in turn could cost thousands of dollars to fix. These people live in fear everyday knowing their families aren’t safe in their own homes and are more accessible to contracting deadly virus or diseases due to unsanitary housing. Their homes are poorly constructed making it a hazard to be living in a colonia, on top of that they lack proper electrical installation. Their homes are made with water material they can afford, often not being in great condition. The roads they have are often caliche and they do not have the proper drainage system so when there is heavy rain water gets collected causing flooding. On top of all this, the water is not safe to drink or use for cooking, so many people are forced to buy water by the gallon or use wells that might be contaminated. These are no conditions a human should be living in especially when our tax dollar should be going to improve neighborhood like these, instead it the government uses it for what they think is more important. The whole way of living for the colonias is problem that needs to be

The New York Times includes important sources thato help the reader feel more secure about the information given. The type of propaganda that the journalists Mark Landler and Jonathan Weisman often used thewas Testimonial device. The New York Times’ quotes in the article were by people who are well- known by the populace. A quote stated by someone who is well recognized generally helps the reader believe what is being said versus a quote by a person who is not well recognized. This is why Landler and Weisman decided to include President Obama and Secretary of¬ State John Kerry in for quotes in their article. By using these individuals, it also links the story and helps verify the information that was given to the targeted audience. End The Lie’s article had numerous quotes, but some were by recognizable people and others were anonymous. Having an anonymous source in an article is skeptical because anyone could have said it, and that person may not know much about the Russian proposal or the any other diplomatic path that is trying to be focusedsolutions. Also, on or the journalist could have easily added their own opinion by quoting themselves and hiding behind an anonymous source.

In “Hope Beneath Our Feet” on the chapter 8: Hope in challenging times, the articles Little by Little was wrote by Margaret Trost. She is a founder and director of the What If? Foundation. It is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing hope and opportunity to impoverished children in Haiti. The articles talk about Margaret Trost; she came to visit the food program for children. A hundred children gather come to received a hot meal. The program has once a week, children very happy when they have a food. Then, the next day, the priest of Church, Father Gerry, tells her about his plan to building an outdoor cafeteria, classroom, and library and health clinic for children. Especially, they could serve for the children fives meal per week, she very excited about his plan. Over seven years pass, the plan has grown but did not complete. But, she still believed that one day it could be done. Margaret always said that “piti piti n a rive”, it’s means little by little we will arrive. Her idea is “ every small step we take towards change makes a difference”. We are living in the environmental crisis, we have to do something do protect our life and save the earth. The problem of environment is global warming. It’s the climate changing, occurring many strange phenomenon which harmful to their life. For example, one of result of global warming is ice melting. When the ice melts, it will become water then it flow to the ocean and river. The amount water on sea will higher, when they

Across the globe, companies and people flood our lives with information that could be perceived as true to the naked eye. While most articles hold up to a fact or credential check, there are those out there who are written by morons on the subject. People often agree with articles despite knowing nothing about where the information is coming from. Having the ability to fact check an article could prevent someone from having misinformed opinions from less than credible publishers or people. Looking at the publisher, writer and ability to reference facts and examples is the simplest way to determine if the information in the article can be perceived as believable. The articles in question, How to End Hunger and Feats of Will, are

Some people will be surprise to see that innocent children are affected by globalization. If we refer to France 24, it says that the kids are affected by globalization at their schools because they have no money to do activities, field trips and 'etc.' As we can see a child life purpose is to have fun but they can’t have fun with no money coming into the house and they can’t go on field trips and birthday parties at school. It is unfair for child to face this problem at young age because he can get bully at school just because he is poor. But it not only at school they get affected most of these children don’t have any health insurance. In the article “How has the economic crisis affected low-income families in Spain?” it says that their have been budget cuts have happen in education, health and social care for families and children. As we can see most low-income children aren’t only affected in school but affected their health are also affected with no money coming in the insurance company can take away their health care and social care. When globalization hits the low-income

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The earth is facing a lot of environmental crises today; which humans have caused. To make life more comfortable, Humans have advanced in technology to such extent that it has reached every corner of the world. Bent on improving the conditions of life for humans without giving attention to what affect this development will have on other types of life on earth. Everyone is so caught up in paying attention to the growing industries and the growth of the community that they don’t realize how the things that are good for us as humans can also be harmful to all forms of life on earth. All aspects of life on the earth have been affected, as well as the sources of water. The contamination of water has affected life everywhere due to the fact that water is the essence of life. Contamination to water of any kind is altering life itself.