Rhetorical Analysis On Modern America

In the book “Decoded,” rapper and businessman Jay-Z describes the emergence of hip hop culture while sharing his childhood memories, life challenges, and passions. Along with Jay-Z’s personal narrative, he provides an explanation for his song lyrics to educate readers about hip hop’s importance, his life, and national issues. Thus, he creates several arguments about hip hop’s purpose in the music industry. Two of Jay-Z’s main arguments consisted of hip hop being a form of art and the story of a hustler. This is especially true when considering how Jay-Z defines hip hop, analyzes supporting evidence, and interprets rap lyrics.

In the article “The Coddling of the American Mind,” writers Greg Lukianoff and Jonathon Haidt address today’s college campus culture of oversensitivity and how targeting microaggressions by shielding sensitive topics from students may be modeling cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortion is a way our mind twists words to convince us of something that isn’t true to reinforce negative thinking. Since college administrators changed ways to try and block out microaggressions on campus it is actually teaching students to think in distorted ways. As a result, students are learning lessons that are bad for themselves and their mental health. However, Lukianoff and Haidt believe that cognitive behavioral therapy is the next big thing to teach good

In “Bring Back Flogging”, Jeff Jacoby addresses the problems within America 's criminal justice system. He gives many reasons why imprisonment simply does not work, and suggests that corporal punishment should be used as an alternative. Published in the Boston Globe, a newspaper well known for being liberal, Jacoby provides a conservative view and directs his argument towards those who strongly support imprisonment and view corporal punishment to be highly barbaric and inhumane. However, in order to shed light on our current situation, Jacoby discusses the dangers that we face though our criminal justice system a nd shows concern that imprisonment is doing more harm than good. In effect, Jacoby looks to the past for solutions, and

In May of 1998, Kipland Kinkel brought a gun to his school. Over the course of two days this escalated from: being sent home, to murdering his father and mother, to murdering 2 students and wounding 26, earning a lifetime sentence of 111 years and 8 months in prison. In the court case being examined, the presiding judge addresses the original case, defendants ground for appeal, and the justification for the State’s decision to deny the appeal. Judge Haselton effectively uses ethos, logos, and pathos to support the Higher Court’s decision to deny the appeal because the original sentence was constitutional and just.

The North and South both have alternate viewpoints and react differently when informed about the Emancipation proclamation. To begin, the North had a very strong desire to end slavery in the United States as a whole. Once acknowledged of the Emancipation Proclamation many believed Lincoln spoke the words that beset represented their beliefs. Lincoln states, "… I do order and declare that all persons help as slaves within said designated state, as parts of state are, and henceforth shall be free. Many slaves were abused in ways that could not be imagined and have done countless hours of hard labor and received no benefits whatsoever. Thinking of this Lincoln began to speak in the favor of slaves saying that he will not allow slavery to continue

Brown: The Last Discovery of America, written by Richard Rodriguez, tells the fascinating story of Rodriguez’s struggle to find an identity. It capitalizes on the idea and future of Brown as a whole. Brown is not race or blood, it’s culture, but also a place for people who have lost their culture. To help stimulate readers Rodriguez appeals to all types of rhetoric, but the predominant feature throughout the book is pathos. This appeal to emotions helps the reader to pity (confusing) not only Rodriguez, but the others affected as well. This strategy is vastly effective because Rodriguez utilizes pathos to create persuasive arguments which are made even more effective by his unique style of writing in short, choppy sentences and casual tone.

I, Roger Smith, am bringing this petition to light to portray how America treats its minorities. The irony of how America is lauded to be this liberal and free country meanwhile they forced and dragged African Americans into a life of slavery and inhumane treatment. Husbands, wives, even children are being taken away from their families by force to obey white supremacy. This is the kind of power that creates this sort of hierarchy and damages the meaning of what a liberal tradition should resemble.

Vann, who is a staff writer at The Atlantic, covers politics and policy. Over a decade long career, he has covered issues such as; policy, race, health care, and politics. The Atlantic is a well-known magazine, it is critically acclaimed for its writing and coverage. The audience of this essay was anyone who read the magazine, and anyone who wants to learn of the intertwined of The Civil Rights movement and the fight for healthcare for all in America. Mr. Newkirk tries to convince his audience that the fight for healthcare in this country is like the struggles faced by those who were fight for civil rights. He brings up the ‘plight’ Civil Rights leaders encountered to pass bills such as; Medicaid and Medicare. Additionally, he discussed how,

Donald Trump is our absolute last hope for not just the United States of America but the entire world.

I believe the audience McGray is trying to reach is Americas. He talks about the youth of America but I don’t think that the youth will be the main reader of this article. The style of his writing attracts higher educated personal thus attracting more towards parents and the school educators and that is why I think that is his main audience. The purpose of this article is to illuminate the importance of being able to argue in a noteworthy and professional way in “the world beyond U.S borders” by enlarging multicultural education. He continuously talks about how Americas youth is not being properly educated in countries and its effects.

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”,

When you think of America, you probably think about the money, food, “The American Dream”, but that’s not close to what it really is like. In Childish Gambino’s newest video “This Is America”, he addresses the depths of how Americans act. Childish Gambino’s real name is Donald Glover and he is a singer/songwriter. He is also an actor, he will be starring in “Solo: A Star Wars Movie” and starred in Spider-man: Homecoming. This is an important video because he subtly hints at how americans react to gun violence and how there is inequality for African Americans.

In the satire Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the author uses rhyme to reveals that one should not become engulfed in the present and scorn the past and future, because becoming blind to the past affects the future and present. Lenina repeats rhyming phrases to convince Bernard to use soma and forget his worries of the future: “’Was and will make me ill’ she quoted, ‘I take a gramme and only am’” (Huxley 104). However Lenina does not become a character worthy of emulation or sympathy which alienates her from any influences to readers or connections made should Huxley have intended it. The genre of the book implies that most of the evidence directly stated contradicts the author’s message which urges actions opposite of the depicted. The rhyming

In this analysis I will be analyzing an exercet from the Brave new world by Aldous Huxley. Starting with identifying literary elements and techniques, analyzing the author’s purpose and methods and how they affect the excerpt. And find a deeper meaning in the writing. In this exercet the main conflict and plot is the free will of the people.

In the novel, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the theme of truth versus happiness reoccurs in the entirety of the novel to discuss the values of truth and the values of happiness. In this futuristic dystopia, humankind has many advancements in technology including the technology to create human fetuses in artificial wombs they call Bottles. Since each person's "creation" he or she is trained and tampered with to be happy and have the characteristics of whichever caste (Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons) they are placed in by way of hypnopaedia, or sleep-teaching. For example, Epsilons get more oxygen in their Bottle to enforce a lesser intelligence than Alphas or Betas who get less oxygen to result in higher