Rhetorical Essay Conclusion

“Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott, is a hilarious must read for junior high school students and any other aspiring writers. Her essay inspires comfort and confidence in writing a first draft. It concretes that all writers experience the “shitty” first draft. Anne Lamott wrote this instructional information in 1995, but it is timeless information. She blows the idea of writing an immaculate first draft out of the water. Anne supports the idea that bad first drafts will almost always lead to better second, third and final drafts. She symbolizes the first draft to be like a child. Where you put all your thoughts and emotions out there in words on paper, you go all over the place, you say all kinds of ridiculous things, and all with the

A college education is valuable and its quality is of the highest importance to most Americans. In his essay, “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students,” Mark Edmundson utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos to effectively deliver his argument that the current educational system, especially in college, revolves around consumerism which in turn has negatively impacted students, teachers, and universities in general. However, although Edmundson presents an overall logically sound argument, there are few instances throughout the article that may hinder the reliability of his claims to the audience.

Thoreau views being individualist is essential in life and important for people to adopt. Further, Thoreau states that the only way to not conform is to follow individual eagerness, and not necessarily living in the woods "as simple and natural" as he once did, but carrying out the simplicity of personal will (Thoreau, Walden 195). He believes people must listen to themselves more than others and not be ashamed to aid to callings different from the majority. The over arching idea of nonconformity is pursuing and "[advancing] confidently in the direction of [one's] dreams" as not everyone can succeed following the same path, there must be individuals willing to branch out and stand alone (Thoreau, Walden 204). Individualism in Thoreau's world is just as it is today, Transcendentalists share the opinion that living

Steve Jobs for example, Jobs was in a sense a pioneer in the tech field. He had no

Thoreau’s point in this is that man should go beyond conscious purpose, moral instinct, and spontaneous freedom. He suggests, “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” The drummer mentioned in this quote is symbolic for ones’ intuition. The

In his article “If Technology Is Making Us Stupid, It’s Not Technology’s Fault,” David Theo Goldberg effectively informs the reader about the effects that computers in the home and school environment could have on the future education of the coming generations. Goldberg achieves this by executing defined organization and adding unique comparisons about the potentially crippling effects technology can have on a society when put into the wrong hands.

In the essay, “What You Eat is Your Business”, Radley Balko writes to tell his audience about how the government is trying to control people’s health and eating habits by restricting food, taxing high calorie food, and considering menu labeling. Balko includes in his essay that government restricting diets and having socialist insurance is not helping the obesity problem, but it is only making it worse because it not allowing people to take their health in to their own hands so they have no drive to lose weight or eat healthy. In his essay, Balko is targeting society, including those who may be obese, he is trying to show them that the laws our

Many people in today’s society tend to believe that a good education is the fastest way to move up the ladder in their chosen. People believe that those who seek further education at a college or university are more intelligent. Indeed, a college education is a basic requirement for many white collar, and some blue collar, jobs. In an effort to persuade his audience that intelligence cannot be measured by the amount of education a person has Mike Rose wrote an article entitled “Blue Collar Brilliance”. The article that appeared in the American Scholar, a quarterly literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, established in 1932. The American Scholar audience includes, Company’s , Employees,

Advertising is all around us. Companies of all sorts rely heavily on internet, television, print, and various other types of media outlets as means to reach their audience. Advertising aims to bring in more customers and thereby, more profit. All of this is complicated by the fact that, out of the vast number of products and services available, companies want to prove that theirs are the best. From this is born the tricky and unique language of advertising. In their respective articles, With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything and The Language of Advertising, both William Lutz and Charles A. O’Neill discuss popular ploys used by marketing advertisers to rope in the most customers. Lutz takes a

In ‘Here’s Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense’, Alex Newhouse, a lawyer who resides in the area of Sunnyside, Washington addresses the controversial issue of the legalization of cannabis. The sole purpose of Newhouse’s article is to persuade readers and voters that marijuana should be legalized. Throughout his article, Newhouse focuses on the use of ethos and logos, while also slightly focusing on the use of pathos, to help persuade his audience. The incorporation of such rhetoric strategies allows Newhouse to change the opinions of individuals with views opposing the opinions he, himself, holds.

Logos: It is an appeal to the mind with the use of logic, rationality and critical reasoning to persuade the audience. The author uses logos in his article to make a logical connection with the topic. For example, the author uses the explanation of ideas in the article and employs lots of diagrams in each parts of the topic to show the visualization to support his evidence which is very informative because the visuals give lots of information about what the article is about and that to get attention of the audience.

For Thoreau, the escape from society was a way to deeply learn about himself and human nature. He writes, “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself” (Thoreau 72). This simple way of life allowed Thoreau to analyze himself and tendencies within society. He explains the effects of this solitary life on a person: “In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness” (253). Thoreau was able to discover flaws in society. He states, “... men establish and conform their daily life of routine and habit every where, which still is built on purely illusory foundations” (78). Unlike Hester and Sethe, the societal norms Thoreau experiences are not painful punishments or dehumanizing treatment. However, the “opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe … through poetry, philosophy and religion” (80), can still have a profound and often negative effect on individuals and society as a whole. Thoreau is able to overcome these societal norms because he separates himself from them. Thoreau explains of humankind, “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,-that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the

I also think, through a lot of the writing, that he makes us out to be robotic go about your day in a monotonous way. And he's pretty much correct in that sense. We all have our own routines that we follow throughout our week that we hate to change. The only thing I didn't understand completely was his talk of trains, sleepers, and people that line the track, or buried under the track. "…if some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon". What I think he is trying to say, due to the time period when this was written (1854), was that there are those who are better off and wealthy enough to ride on the new trains and the new tracks that are traveling all over the country, and there are those who can't afford it, and have to walk or ride their horses to their destination with is more of a hardship in those times compared to a fast comfortable train ride, and those who can't venture into the expanding west and have to stay put in their lives. But I don't know the relationship between this and simplifying your life, so maybe I still do not understand what Thoreau was trying to

A quote on non-conformity that relates to American life right now is "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." I think what Thoreau means by this is that just because someone is not doing what others are does not mean that what he is doing is wrong. Many people agree with other even if that is not their true opinion in order to not stand out. However, these people’s ideas may not be likes others and that may be a good thing. I also think that Thoreau means that if people get side tracked not to look at that like a problem, but rather that a person simply has a different interest.

Thoreau establishes the statement to create a sense of individuality and independence. One should be able to suggest another individual, but no be able to force an individual. Learning how to be flexible and not forced will help one maintain low stress and feel independent. -72 words