Rhetorical Analysis : The Classroom

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

This semester I wrote two major papers in English class, the first was a text analysis about the novella Anthem, and the second an argument paper about a subject that each student was free to choose. The textual analysis essay asked me to explain exactly what Ayn Rand, the author of Anthem believed and communicated with her novel and how these beliefs were shaped by her childhood. Each paper also included a summary of the text and cited some arguments from individuals who were against Rand’s beliefs. The argument paper required that I pick something they felt passionate about and argue for or against it, with detailed reasons, strong support from experts, and a place to recognize and refute people who felt differently. These essays were used

Dennis P. Kimbo once said, “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” Despite the numerous obstacles of life, people can choose how they react. Today, many people are faced with the obstacle of life threatening diseases. By some diseases being incurable, the cloud of only having so much longer to live hangs over them. As a result, some may choose the option of euthanasia if it is available. In the contrasting pieces of writing, Kara Tippetts use of ethos about euthanasia is more convincing than Brittany Maynard use of logos.

In the online article found on the CNN website titled, “U.S gun violence: The story in charts and graphs” the article provides the readers with multiple graphs from bar graphs to pie charts. The graph I will be looking at critically is titled “Firearm background checks by months since 2012.” It’s important to note that this article was written in December of 2015. For this reason, the graph stops on December 2015. Before providing the graph to its readers the author states that the year of 2015 was “was a record year for background checks on guns. Some have pointed out the requests for background checks have gone up after mass shootings, the idea being that shootings cause people to worry about their safety and buy a gun to protect themselves.”

My major is Psychology, because it is an extremely broad field, I have chosen a very specific topic. I have some experience working with autistic children and am very interested in mental disorders. The topic that I have chosen is mental disorders and service animals. Many people are aware of service dogs for the visually impaired, but not for other disabilities. The articles explain how certain service animals help children with mental disabilities in different ways. Every kind of disability requires different types of unique assistance and care. I believe that the authors are trying to inform the general public of nontraditional assistance for people of special needs. I believe that the author has chosen the general public as the audience

Technology has really changed the lives of people both physically and mentally. It brings us the new experiences. Along with technology, communication has never become so easy. But the technology has certain downsides. It soon makes us change the meaning of the word "communication" to "connection". Sherry Turkle claims, "We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.". And I agree. Sherry uses of logos isn't effective enough, but by using numerous other modes of persuasion, she makes me agree with her argument.

Children need guidance to become successful in life. One exceptional man wrote about the wrong type of parenting that causes children to be unproductive. In this article, he talks about how these styles can ruin a child’s life, because they are not being taught to be survive everyday life. Throughout this piece, the audience begins to understand his argument, because he uses many examples and rhetorical questions to persuade the readers. During the reading, he also brings up that severe parents are overprotective, since they think they are helping their children become wise, but they are actually afraid of teaching them about the necessities of the world. Furthermore, he supports his idea by saying things such as the wrong type of parenting

The author states that fuel cell engines have several advantages over internal combustion engines and will replace them and provides three reasons. In contrast, the professor states that the reading argument is optimistic about the fuel cell engine and it won't replace the internal comustion engines and she opposes each of the author's reasons.

As part of the upper class in our global community, I cannot even begin to understand what living in extreme poverty and hunger must be like. While people in poor, undeveloped countries work all day at backbreaking jobs for just enough money to feed their families, I attend school to enhance my education so I can continue to enjoy the privileges of my wealth. My family is actually considered to be in the lower-middle class in the United States, but we still have two cars, a three-bedroom townhome, and disposable income we use for recreation and various luxuries. Compared to those who live in extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, I live like a king. It would be nothing for me to donate 100 dollars to a charity foundation such as Oxfam that feeds the hungry to save some lives, but should I?

In a world filled with war, violence, revenge, and opinions we are becoming a more divided society every day- an Us vs. Them society. With movements like Black Lives Matter it’s almost as though everyone has to pick a side and have an opinion on everything, every hot button topic. When two people don’t agree on something, one or both parties is going to try to convince the other that he/she is wrong and should agree with him/her. When one person does another wrong, he/she has to get revenge- he/she can’t let it go and forgive.

‘“Excuse me, Ken, but what do you qualify my talk as provocative? I just said we should treat sick people, if we have the technology”’ (Kidder, 147)

In her article “Tattoos are no longer permanent but removal can be a long and costly business,” Victoria Lambert (2015) explains that tattoos can be removed with laser, an injectable liquid and surgery. However, the process for each option is not only time consuming, expensive, painful, but can also have severe consequences. Lambert points out that most people, a while after they have been tattooed, figure out the useless of their body art, and decide to pay any price to get them removed. He affirms that the laser option, in addition, to being expensive, extensive and painful, can also cause skin disorders with the uncertainty of complete removal. Lambert also claims that another possibility, which is the liquid injectable, is not efficient

In “Class in the Classroom’’ Joshua Halberstam´s most effective rhetorical tool is the format used which maintains the reader's attention throughout the entire article. Halberstam begins the article using questions as subtitles, and making them bold, hinting at the questions he will address in the article.The first question in the subtitle is “Does attendance really count?”, which sets up the format to lead to the next section. All through the article, Halberstam continues using bolded, capitalized subtitles to format sections for the information he wants to provide. For example, he stresses that attending class is a very important components, therefore he subtitled a section “SHOWING UP”. Meanwhile, in the subsections divided by their according

Anyone can write an argumentative essay, but to be able to make the reader understand the content of the essay, it is vital to write the content in an organized way. While taking the Core Humanities course, Kritika had to write an argumentative essay about five different philosophers she studied, while making connections between them. Kritika employed several techniques to make her written communication effective. First, Kritika read the prompt attentively that helped Kritika understood the requirements of the essay. Kritika, then, began to form the outline to communicate the ideas to the professor accurately. Furthermore, Kritika wrote the thesis statement in the first paragraph and wrote five paragraphs to support the argumentative thesis.

During my process of writing the argumentative essay I had some concerns and barriers since I do not know what exactly this type of essay entails. Throughout my education life I have mostly wrote fiction stories, narrative essays, and informational essays, but I was never well introduces to argumentative essays. Having two essays introduced at the same time made it confusing and difficult. As usual starting the essay was the hardest part of my writing process. I had first planned to start with my introduction but I wasn't able to think of good ideas therefore I decided to start it until the end. In order to make my process of writing the essay easier I first took notes to gather all my ideas. When I took notes I separated each idea into a