On January 22, 2012, director and writer Kirby Dick released his documentary The Invisible War, arguing that the prominent issue of sexual assault in the military is continually ignored by United States military officials. The director uses the rhetorical devices of conduplicatio and procatalepsis, cinematography techniques of close-up and computer-generated, and the propaganda techniques of testimonial and plain folk to depict how the issue of sexual assault is not acknowledged by military officials, who make victims feel unprotected and vulnerable. The director’s purpose is to evoke sympathy for current and former members of the United States military who became victims of sexual assault while serving in the military yet their perpetrators …show more content…
Dick uses conduplicatio to emphasize the issue of men in the military being sexually assaulted. US Army member Russell Strand emphasizes that there is a “heavily masculine” theme and “be all you can be” stigma in the military, which leads some members to go to extremes to prove they are not “weak”. When a male in the military is assaulted, he may feel as if he has to put up a wall of masculinity to prevent being labeled as a “buddy-fucker”. Dick uses this strategy to emphasize how male victims are made out to feel ashamed because of the men they are supposed to fight with publically questioning the victim’s masculinity. In order to avoid being labeled as “scrawny” or “weak”, men will not report their assaults. The military is promoting a stigma of “masculinity”, which makes men feel afraid to seek justice for their assaults. The military is encouraging members to make their fellow servicemen, who are victims, feel …show more content…
The directors zoom in and out on different boxes of the chart, and use the pedestal technique to follow the voiceover’s description of the chart. This visualization allows for the audience to explicitly see how a process, which should be objective and take the time necessary to fully investigate a case, is short and fails to bring justice to the victims of sexual assault in the military. The visualization allows for viewers to fully view the process and how the various routes to justice are not taken. Without the flow chart, viewers may not understand the process to bring a conviction against a perpetrator of sexual assault. If so, then the audience may be under the impression that there are only limited options to bring justice to perpetrators, which is why they are allowed to face no consequences for their
Do traffic signals make a difference when drivers are conducting their vehicles? In U.K. the roads have less signs and are smaller roads than in the United States. The United States has great amounts of traffic signals and symbols all over the road to make the driver more aware. In the U.K. accidents do occur but not that often has in the United States. In the Unites States every second there is huge amounts of accidents going on over the nation. John Staddon in his magazine article “Distracting Miss Daisy” tries to persuade that traffic control is making traffic more dangerous because we do not pay attention to the road, but to the signals.
When you see a solider in his or her uniform, you are proud that they are serving this country to protect our freedom, securing our country, and defending democracy worldwide. The solider can come from different branches of the Military. The one you might be familiar with is the U.S. Army. These soldiers are well respected and prepared to serve our country whenever and wherever needed, combat-ready at all times, and trained to counter any threat, anywhere. In 2007, the United States Army department published a recruitment ad for U.S.
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.
Maybe this would open the eyes about the war in Iraq, even if you ask people on the street they usually say that the war was wrong. It really surprised me that he won the next election, at maybe he shouldn't have, and he actually cheated like the movie says he does. A lot of these clips that Michael shows in his movie, had been shown in the news and I recognized some of them, and you have to admit that Bushes behavior has been very weird. Even though some people say that this is propaganda, all lies and is stupid just doesn't want to see the facts. A lot of these things are true, and can anyone actually stand up and tell me why a war where hundreds of thousand people have died? Was it to force democracy down on a middle eastern country, how
In What It Is Like To Go To War, Karl Marlantes writes about a multitude of issues that war veterans have to deal with after coming back from war and uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos logos and pathos to try and build common ground with the audience. The opening pages to “Loyalty” are not written in the viewpoint of Marlantes being in the Vietnam War, providing where and what Marlantes was loyal to and how he viewed loyalty as, this is ineffective method t build common ground with me because I have never experienced any violent scenario let alone war; Marlantes heartache after leaving Meg behind to show how painful it was for both of these young lovers shows a strong use of pathos because everyone can relate to heartache, romantic or not, to the other rhetorical
The primary election for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is to be held Thursday, September 3, 2015. This momentous occasion happens every four years. The elected chief and officials, such as council members, can run for office for as long as they see fit, for there is no term limit. Our past chief, Michell Hicks, was in office three consecutive terms for a total of twelve years. This year Hicks has decided to step down and the new candidates for chief are Patrick Lambert and Gene “Tunney” Crowe. These new candidates must be able to fill the role of a generous and successful leader to those of the Cherokee nation. The platforms of both Lambert and Crowe are used to persuade the public to vote in their favor and are extremely versed in the
In “The Invisible War,” it is noted that “women who have been raped in the military have a PTSD rate higher than men who have been in combat” (The Invisible War, 2012). The impact that military sexual assault has on victims is tremendous. Both physical and mental trauma are common, and they play a significant role in how victims of sexual assault are able to return to their daily lives.
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
Persuasion is a skill that can be acquired and utilized with a mastery of writing. Arguing against the popular belief is one of the most difficult things that one can do. The following essay rhetorically analyzes an article that is written about why the legal drinking age should stay at 21 years old in the United States. The author of the article attempts to argue against the popular opinion that the drinking age should be lowered and is successful by using appeals to one’s logos. The author is an experienced writer and knows how to convey their ideas to convince people of his argument. Understanding why someone is writing a piece, what their motivation is, and how they try to convince the reader of their argument helps gain a more comprehensive grasp of what the subject matter itself is. Personally, I look to argue against popular opinions because it enables me to critically think of a sound argument that can not easily be disputed. This essay helped me
War has always been so merciless, so bloody, and so disastrous. In war there always dead, injuries, and overall is how much the soldier has satisfied. There are war that people can clearly see with bare eyes, that they see soldiers lost a part or more of the whole physical body, but there are war that the soldier fighting with their mental and that is the “invisible war” that nobody can see, but them, soldiers. The “Invisible war” by Kirby Dick 's “brutally shocking documentary argues that rape in the US military” is not an aberration, but a shameful secret epidemic. Victims are expected to suffer in silence and the issue is regarded as an occupational hazard. The US army is known as one of the best army in the world with all the “great” weapons and “strictly” rules that is the place for no mistake and the soldiers are always receive all the best for their satisfy for this country. However, the fact is so many of them were threatening for sex assault, many of them suffer their lives after their join army and in many cases, there are no actions from the government in general. The “ Invisible War” is a fantastic documentary showed the viewer of the other side, the dark invisible war, that the soldiers have to fought for when they are on duty and even after they services are due.
“The most shocking cover up in the United States Military is not what you would expect (The Invisible War),” reports of sexual assaults over all branches of the military have tremendously increase every since women have been allow to take part of the military. According to the Secretary of Defense, over 500,000 male and female soldiers have suffered of sexual abuse from senior peers and commanders. During the past years, many women reported a variety of cases of sexual abuse. Sadly, the victims were only ignored, blamed and punished for the events. Sexual assaults are considered a scandalous subject which our military has decided to avoid, but by doing so, the number of rapes has increase even faster. Rape is a repetitive criminal;
Calvert’s is an award winning photojournalist who created a project known as “The Battle Within… Military” where she photographed many victims who were raped in the military. This journal helps many victims say their story and find peace within themselves. Each photo has its own caption, which has a details the description of what happened to them. They describe how the raped lead them down many more traumatic events in their daily lives. This is a good source for my final paper because it gives personal descriptions of victims who have been raped in the military. I will be able to provide a picture and give a victim’s story so the audience can understand how much the rape affected them.
In response to Geoffrey Shepherd's article “It’s clear the US should not have bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki”. Shepard tries to pull us into his claim by using pathos, logos, and ethos. He uses estimates of 500,000 Japanese soldiers died from the atomic bomb. Then Geoffrey begins to state that we had an alternative spot to drop the bombs, the alternate spot we could’ve dropped the bomb would have been Tokyo Bay. It was idle and estimated that less lives would’ve been taken and would showed more of a threat to the Japanese leaders.
Advertisements are everywhere. From billboards, to magazines, to newspapers, flyers and TV commercials, chances are that you won’t go a day without observing some sort of ad. In most cases, companies use these ads as persuasive tools, deploying rhetorical appeals—logos, pathos, and ethos—to move their audiences to think or act in a certain way. The two magazine ads featured here, both endorsing Pedigree products, serve as excellent examples of how these modes of persuasion are strategically used.
The historical, monochrome images that flash on the screen, coupled with Motss’ asyndetic list, “Naked girl, covered in napalm. Five marines raising the flag, Mount Suribachl. Churchill, V for Victory” suggests that the public’s understanding of events is often defined by single photographic representations, rather than factual evidence. Followed by Motss’ antithetical, parallel phrases suggest that the understanding individuals gleam from such representations is shallow and fleeting: “You remember the picture, fifty years from now, they'll have forgotten the war” where these images that transpire come to embody and represent the entirety of military events. The imperative “Put the village behind her” and “Gimme some flames”, followed by the blue screen being replaced by a smoking Albanian village, reveals the degree to which the representations upon which the public understand political events may be subject to doctoring and manipulation by the composers in the media. Moments later, Levinson includes film, styled as raw news footage, of a television journalist vouching for the authenticity of the clip to reveal that fabricated representations may appear virtually indistinguishable from the clips shown on mass media. Thus, Levinson reveals the extent to which the public’s understanding of political