Rhetorical Devices In The Company Man

“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.” This quote was stated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Coming to our Senses. Coming to our Senses was published in 2005. The main idea of Coming to our Sense is that our senses are limited and that we need technology to enhance it to better our world. Tyson is effective in delivering the main idea by using rhetorical devices found throughout his essay.

Moreover, Phil’s youngest son said about his father, “My father and I only board here.”. This further conveys the amount of time Phil spent at the office rather than at home; his own family didn’t even consider him in permanent residence at his own home. Other than anecdotes, Goodman additionally uses varying syntax to illustrate her annoyance at Phil’s choice of lifestyle. When describing Phil’s daily routine, her sentences are short, definitive, showing her distaste for Phil. “To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk….On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit, because it was the weekend.” Goodman contrastingly uses lengthy, detailed sentences and phrases when describing Phil’s family, to convey her pity for them and show that Phil should have been spending more time at home rather than at work. “The youngest is twenty, a boy, a high school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like a lot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home.” Although Goodman describes Phil’s family with sympathy and care, she does use sarcasm as a means to criticize the obituary’s description of the family. “She would be ‘well taken care of’.’”, Goodman quotes from the obituary, in reference to Phil’s wife, and she says “His ‘dearly beloved’ eldest of the ‘dearly beloved’

In the essay Ground Zero by Suzanne Berne writes about her very personal experience visiting Ground Zero the place where the twin towers stood prior to the tragedy of 9/11. She uses rhetorical devices throughout her essay to make the piece feel incredibly intimate and emotional to the reader. She specifically uses imagery, tone, simile, and metaphor to explain her experience to Ground Zero in a deeper and meaningful way to her readers. Berne uses rhetorical devices in her essay Ground Zero to let her readers feel the same emotions and imagine the same things she saw on her visit to make the essay very intimate and realistic.

To further express her disdain, Goodman, throughout the eulogy, utilizes syntax to imply how frivolous Phil’s life was. Goodman utilizes repetition to emphasize the insignificance of his life and the death of phil was hardly a tragedy because he devoted to his work rather than having a meaningful existence. She repeatedly states that it was “precisely at 3:00 am” when he died and that “one out of three” men are considered for the “top spot” and repeats this same number for Phil’s “replacement. Throughout the passage Goodman The repetition of this phrase articulates how he was wasted because that was the only thing he had going for him. Essentially, the author’s syntax points out the irony of being perfect in craft when, in fact, he worked so hard on the job that he never really had a life.

The insurance company Geico, which stands for Government Employees Insurance Company, uses many rhetorical strategies in their film advertisements to successfully attract viewers and convey positive messages about their company. By developing senses of ethos, pathos and logos, creating symbolism, and using effective cinematography in their ad campaign, Geico attempts to attract young businesspeople to the company. Their use of rhetorical devices in the commercials helps to send the message that Geico relieves stress in tense situations and is the logical choice of insurance.

Joey Franklin makes masterful use of rhetoric in his essay “Working at Wendy’s” to construct an entertaining and compelling argument in favor of recognizing that the workers of the service industry are more than just undistinguished drones, but rather complicated people, each with their own desires and stories. To this end, the author utilizes the effective rhetoric device of pathos, logos, and ethos. Franklin demonstrates an excellent use of imagery that serves as a conduit for empathy, which is vital for the use of pathos, the emotional appeal. In reference to logos, the appeal to logic, he paints the picture of a hard-working father that needs to provide for his family. This is a clear representation of common logic and ties into ethos, which is the rhetorical appeal to authority and ethics, in the sense that many people can relate to caring about and working to support family. For ethos, he establishes himself as your everyday working man — part of the working class. This shows that he’s clearly apt for speaking of the position he’s in, and allows the audience to relate to him through pathos.

Joey Franklin makes masterful use of rhetoric in his essay “Working at Wendy’s” to construct an entertaining and compelling argument in favor of recognizing that the workers of the service industry are not just undistinguished drones, but rather complicated people, each with their own desires and stories. To this end, the author utilizes the effective rhetorical device of pathos, logos, and ethos. Franklin demonstrates an excellent use of imagery that serves as a conduit for empathy, which is vital for the use of pathos, the emotional appeal. In reference to logos, the appeal to logic, he paints the picture of a hard-working father that needs to provide for his family. This is a clear representation of common logic and ties into ethos, which is the rhetorical appeal to authority and ethics, in the sense that many people can relate to caring about and working to support family. For ethos, he establishes himself as your everyday working man — part of the working class. This shows that he’s clearly apt for speaking of the position he’s in, and allows the audience to relate to him through pathos.

After depositing her gear into one of the cage’s lockers, she ascended into the rafters with Vic who was seen grinning from ear to ear. He invited himself to watch Owen Grady demonstrate the contributive abilities of his velociraptors. Omorose remembered working with one pack but only briefly. Vic had them put down for ripping the stomach from one of his subordinates. Truthfully, she was hurt by it; she and Barry developed a bond with them. Although Barry trained them, she worked diligently to see that they were protected and grew fostered an almost matronly bond with them.

Corporation life consists of putting work and your career in front of everything else, and author Ellen Goodman uses her writing to warn others of its downsides. In the passage “The Company Man”, Goodman uses many rhetorical devices to illustrate her displeasure and irritation towards Phil. Goodman incorporates a unique style of diction, repetition, and anecdotes in her writing to achieve her emphasis on Phil’s lifestyle and to caution the reader about prioritizing work over personal health and family. In the brilliantly written piece of satire, "The Company Man", Ellen Goodman discreetly attacks the atypical hard-working middle class men in the 1980's society, who tend to be blinded by the illusion of wealth and prosperity and forget what is truly important – their own families and their own values. It seems that almost everyday on the news there is a new death mentioned of someone taken far too soon. There are always different stories behind them

Michael Gerard Bauer’s moving novel The Running Man is set in Ashgrove, Brisbane during the early 2000’s and tells the story of the unlikely friendship that is established between Tom Leyton, an enigmatic recluse, and his young neighbour Joseph Davidson. Several characters in the story exemplify that our initial perception of someone and what we see and hear about them is in no way an accurate reflection of who they truly are and all there is to see and know about them. As a child, Joseph saw Simon Jamieson as the mysterious ‘Running Man’ despite not being aware of the tragic past that caused him to be this way. Likewise, Mrs Mossop is perceived by the Davidsons to be somewhat of sticky-beak until she reveals the reason for her excessive caution.

S.L.O.: Determine and use effective approaches and rhetorical strategies for given reading and writing situations.

Diction and syntax play more prominent roles in the formation of the piece, but the satirical references add interest and further advance Goodman’s conveyal of her feelings. The Onion, a humorous newspaper, uses satire to make fun of society humorously and ironically. Goodman uses this same technique to mock the harshness of the workforce and poke fun at Phil’s “perfect Type A” life. This straightforward article makes fun of fake obituaries and the typical businessman’s lifestyle. Goodman makes it very apparent that Phil lived the life of a typical businessman. She cleverly mocks his relationship with his family, calling them “dearly beloved,” likely taking that form his obituary, then continuing to explain the distance between himself and his family members. His “dearly beloved” children either say “had nothing to say” to him or asked others for clues on their father’s life. Goodman includes another line of satire in the seventh paragraph. A colleague of Phil gave his regards to Phil’s wife, Helen, saying “I know how much you will miss him.” She answered, “I already have.” Phil was likely “dead” to the family long before his actual death from coronary thrombosis. What did he have to live for besides his uber-important job and the family he barely knew? Maybe the “egg salad sandwiches at his desk” and “monthly game of golf helped him survive his workaholic lifestyle a little longer than seemed

In this fully developed advertisement created by the company Give an Hour, the organization engages the appeal Pathos in an attempt to convince the reader’s that the military should be provided proper medical and PTSD treatment. This particular advertisement is effective because the colors of the ad gives off a sense of sadness and sympathy towards the veteran’s problem, the words catches the attention of the military audience, and it generates awareness of this growing problem involving the military and healthcare.

In the writing “The Company Man”, the author, Ellen Goodman, gives us a brief, yet, fulfilling summery of a big company man’s attributes, life, and death. In this work, the author uses referential writing as her primary purpose of writing, while she also uses narration as her primary pattern for the analysis of the writing. She begins, opening up with “He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 AM Sunday Morning.” in order to grab our attention. She then goes into the different aspects of his life, starting with his devotion to his company and some of the different characteristics about him. Next, she lists, in chronological order, the different people in his family, and analyzes what he meant to each person listed. Finally, in closing, the author repeats some of her work, reflecting her writing in her introduction, closing with more elements about him and his work ethic, but also reminding us of how he sacrificed work for family. She then finishes her writing with “So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 AM Sunday morning, no one was really surprised”

Managers should employ workers with the view that they should be trained to perform tasks they were not capable of doing at the time of employment. Jobs should be enriched progressively to allow factors that motivate be satisfied. This idea of job deign is crucial to the successful use of Herzberg’s ideas. Salaries must be able to do, not what they are capable of doing before training. In the own words, ‘if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys’