Rhetorical Analysis Of The Great Influenza

The purpose of The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is to protect the health of America and to “promote the quality of life through the prevention and control of the disease, injury, and disability (CDC, 2013).” The CDC has a concern about a growing disease that is normally found in children to young adults called Attention- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, also known as ADHD. This Rhetorical Analysis will be focused on ADHD. The CDC’s Website is trying to inform current or future patients, parents and care givers, and teachers on how to handle this illness.

The quote delivered by the intelligent and insightful John M Barry states, “To be a scientist requires not only intelligence and curiosity, but passion, patience, creativity, self-sufficiency, and courage” (Barry 5). Scientists endure a great amount of adversity than most people think. They have to retain a wide variety of skills to assist them in different circumstances that form in their laboratory. Scientist need to have persistence, so that when they fail, they will be willing to try again. As well as, acceptance to come to terms with the fact that an experiment turns out the opposite of their theory. In John M Barry’s passage,“The Great Influenza” he utilizes direct diction and powerful punctuation to characterize scientific research.

“The harder the conflict, the most glorious the triumph” (Paine 1). 1783 a year of divide for the Colonies and Colonists in North America. The Tories and the Loyalists fought for British control and rules. While the Whigs and Revolutionaries fought for the Independence of America. They all feared the inevitable. War. Thomas Paine uses Pathos in his writing of Crisis No.1 the first of seven pamphlets. Paine does this to appeal to the struggles and fears of the Colonists.

In 1891, Voltairine de Cleyre wrote The Philosophy of Selfishness and Metaphysical Ethics, critiquing the selfish and egoistic mindset of society. This same mindset is critiqued by Mary Fisher in “A Whisper of AIDS”. She uses rationally emotional rhetoric in order to criticize this “self-ism” that exists in the world.

Imagine sitting on a plane and a passenger sneezes--where do those germs go? The inventor of the Global Inlet Director, Raymond Wang realizes that germs spread easily on planes. In response, he is interested in providing a solution by finding ways to reduce the spread of these pathogens. Although Wang is clearly able to demonstrate his main idea, he shows weaknesses for example, repetition, when presenting it to his audience. In the speech, “How Germs Travel On Planes – And How We Can Stop Them,” Wang uses chronological organization, logos in the form of statistics, rhetorical questions, and an informative purpose effectively to engage and persuade his audience that the prevention of spreading pathogens is important.

In this passage from The Great Influenza, by John M. Barry, figurative language, imagery, and different forms of syntax and diction are used to characterize scientific research as a dynamic, tedious, and calculated field of study that requires a variety of personality traits including: Curiosity, patience, and creativity.

Lyndon Johnson was persuaded that liberal patriotism and the force of the government could change society. His confidence developed out of his energetic encounters with destitution levels in Texas, his political apprenticeship amid the New Deal, and his longing to go even further than Roosevelt’s legacy. When he became president in November 1963, after John F. Kennedy’s demise, Johnson acquired the early initiatives to deal with destitution that the Kennedy organization had been considering for some time now. With high energy and extensiveness, Johnson announced a war on poverty in 64 and pressed enactment through Congress to build up the Office of Economic Opportunity. In his speech, LBJ traces his vision and objectives for “The Great Society”,

In “The Road to Civil War” PowerPoint, it focusses on slavery from 1846 to 1860 the last slide. It begins with 1846, trying to ban slavery from and Mexican territory newly conquered. Unfortunately, the bill that some wanted did not pass, but like the power point states it was an important subject that would last years to come. In 1848 the election like was focused on slavery, Liberty party versus John Calhoun. Who would want to make Mexico new territory in to slave state or leave as a free state. The PowerPoint states Taylor won the election of 1848 but he became the president of a divided nation already in place. It displays a picture map showing the difference and divided nation between Blue and Yellow states. California in 1850 became a

I choose the first image as I believe it implies a stream of emotional values between a physically damaged child and a soldier spiritually broken because of the crushing scene. The pathos conveyed in the picture mixes the tragedy of war, the awfulness of tearing families, and the destruction of civilization. The fighter was holding the child as a mother holding her baby, the warrior forgot the mission he was sent to do and found himself a caring human for the innocent people. The man closed his eyes as a sign of misery and sorrow, hugged the child trying to give him/her love, care, warmth, and safety. I suppose that the man was thinking about how this baby could be his son, daughter, family, or himself and how lack of luck, the unfair life

One can claim that influenza is an infection that has victimized people from just about every generation that we have known. The term Influenza comes from the Latin word "influentia", first used by the Italians in the 1600's. It is a highly contagious infection particulary of the respiratory tract.In addition to us humans, influenza can occur in pigs, horses, and several other mammals as well as in certain wild and birds. It can also jump from specie to specie as observed in late 1997 when influenza from chickens was having its effects on people in Hong Kong. Because influenza is highly contagious and spreads easily, it has appeared in our history many a times as epidemics. Influenza is caused by an

In The Crisis Number 1, Thomas Paine, a sympathizer of the revolutionary war, tried to motivate the troops to fight and build morale. His goal was to motivate the troops to fight the British, even though they were enduring harsh conditions. On Christmas Eve, Washington asked Paine to read The Crisis Number 1 to the troops. This was to build morale before they crossed the Delaware River into New Jersey to fight the British. In Paine’s speech, he uses the three appeals; ethos, pathos, and logos, to convince the troops to continue to fight for what they love.

In the speech, A Whisper of AIDS, delivered in 1992, Mary Fisher, A thirty year old mother with blonde hair, talks about her expirience with the republican party about AIDS and how to raise awarness. Her goal is for people with AIDS to not feel like they have to hide what they are going through. Especially since many people steryotyped what kind of race and sexuality could get it. She includes facts, emotions, and her credibility to get her point across that people with AIDS or HIV should not feel quarantined from society. She also mentions her personal expiriences with her family and her lifestyle.

I cannot believe the recent speech given by our Führer! He mentioned about his visions of war for race and space, and also the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe (Bergen “Chapter 5”). Yet, I do not understand a single word that comes out of his mouth. Is he really intending for a second world war to occur? Have the Germans not learned their lesson from the First World War? The moment I heard his speech, my entire body went numb. I can no longer despise our Führer, for I am more frightened of the war. Few days ago, he has attacked Poland and has caused great destruction among the people. I received letters from my friend in Poland who described to me the complete demolition of the cities there. She witnessed the sky full of Luftwaffe,

For example, In Pope’s poem, while describing several complexities of humanity, he exclaims: “Go wondrous creature! Mount where science guides” (19). This quote highlights the ability that scientific knowledge has to inspire an individual. The phrase “Go wondrous creature” connotes a glorifying identity for those who choose to accept and participate in the inspirational world of “science.” However, if the knowledge is pursued to an extreme, it can begin to have disastrous.

As the author states, "We live in an age of scientific triumph. Science has solved many of nature’s puzzles and greatly enlarged human knowledge. Yet despite these proud achievements, science today is increasingly mistrusted and under attack. It is attacked more often because it is misunderstood" (Bishop 304). He believes the solution and invention that science provides to us are more than we think; However, people start to focus on the side effects of science instead of the advantages it brings, and the criticism seem like a common practice now. The main cause of this is not only the blindly follow by the ignorant public, but also the fear of find out the truth."Resistance to science is born of the fear. Fear, in turn, is bred by ignorance. And it is ignorance that is our deepest malady"(Bishop 308). The main anti-science sentiment is the religious community, because they need to protect their belief. They might afraid of the truth that science can find out, because it will shake their base of religion. In the other hands, if those people still criticize science by their fears, our society is going to be a ignorant society. Even though science have been feared, mistrusted, and despised, the author still want readers to understand the importance of science in the future of our world. Therefore, people should try to study more knowledge and face the truth, and help science to