Rhetorical Techniques In Billy Joel's The Nylon Curtain

The logos in the lyrics of this song are shown through the use of rhetorical and historical examples. A rhetorical example can be used to appeal to the use memories or experiences the audience has struggled through before to get to this point in time. A lyric from the song that supports this point is “overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism, but we still got terrorists her livin’ in the USA, the big CIA, the bloods and the crips and the KKK”. From a personal standpoint I can relate to these lyrics because our country has had a fair share of terrorism in the past. Thousands of innocent individuals have gone through such pain and suffering and are now stuck with such vivid memories for the rest of their lives. I can remember my mother telling me that my father was less than two blocks away from The World Trade Center moments before they were attacked. The emotions my mother was facing at the time would be indescribable, but she can recall everything and unfortunate will be able to for the rest of time. The logic and meaning behind these lyrics are the as a nation we are all trying to put an end to all the terrorism around our not only our country but around the globe were we billions of people are settled but the harsh reality behind it is that no matter how as society we advance or how hard we try we cannot put an end to it

The American Dream was a prodigious and fascinating objective, in which everyone wished to accomplish in the 1920’s. Money, social status and happiness was the ideal image. Everyone desired and craved to achieve this dream in hope to have the opportunity to acquire success and the image of a perfect life. But this dream was corrupt. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby shows us that the so called “American Dream” is in fact just an illusion everyone had but could not obtain, because everyone alway seemed to be missing something to their picture perfect life.

Many writers write books for different reasons. Some write to entertain others, entertain themselves, or to just inform people.The book Night is about how Elie and his family are taken from their home and to Auschwitz concentration then Buchenwald. Elie covers everything that was going on in camps during his time there and the cruelty commited by the nazi’s. From the preface of the book many different author’s purposes appear. The first purpose that he talks about is writing so that he does not go mad, another that appears is to leave behind a legacy of words, and lastly states the purpose could be to preserve history. He uses many rhetorical strategies to convey his purposes throughout the memoir. By using conflict, irony, and foreshadowing,

The story of an American Dream is established as an opportunity that includes a picket fence with a home , working hard and the location is at the suburbs. Although Ta Nehisi Coates states, “ The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions, on privileging immediate answers. The Dream is the enemy of all art, courageous thinking. and honest writing”[(Coates 50)]. Coates was meaning to say that dreams are questions that we answer to our beliefs to achieve on what we want to achieve. Likewise, Kim and Ma left Hong Kong and had help from Aunt Paula to live in New York to gain an opportunity. For example, “ Aunt Paula wasn 't going to help us. We were alone. Ma bent down and touched her forehead

American Literature has never ceased to reveal what this land has to offer and the idea that you get out of it what you put into it. The idea that you could have freedom, opportunity, and the ability to make money became known as the American dream. People wanted this dream to become their reality, no matter the cost or who stood in their way. On the other hand, it was obscure to those who had never experienced it before, including some within our own walls. Authors from decades past give us insight as to what both of those worlds look like.

When one thinks of the American Dream, it is often associated with a lifestyle especially for middle and upper class Americans, and it is simply a dream for anyone of the lower class. However, both Douglass and Crane introduce works that reflect characters who seek the American Dream despite the oppression that comes with being in the lower class. In both works, readers see otherwise vulnerable characters with the determination to obtain to the ideal “American” dream. By choosing to reflect characters who are driven to obtain the American dream despite the oppressive consequences that come with being apart of the lower class is bold on the part of both authors because they suggest that

The forefathers of our great nation established America with the idea that its citizens would be guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What is it to makes oneself happy? The American Dream is represented in many ways and every person lives and chases a different version of the American Dream. In these three stories we will identify with the characters as well as the authors to visualize what the American Dream is to them and if it is bigger than ourselves. “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and “Babylon Revisited” also by F. Scott Fitzgerald will go in depth so that we can truly understand the purpose.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby seeks to highlight the disillusionment of the “American dream.” Fitzgerald voice’s his disenchantment with the whirlwind pace of the post war jazz age. A decade later many art movements attached to unrest with modern American ideals. Pop arts forefather, Richard Hamilton, capitalized on this idea through his artwork as seen in Hamilton’s most enduring piece, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? (1956). Both Hamilton and Fitzgerald mock the modern idea of the American Dream, the prosperity of oneself and the ability to flaunt it by material acquisitions. It even reaches as far as to say happiness and satisfaction is acquired through possessions, be it breathing or

The short story presents the American dream in such a way where readers can assume it will be attained. The central character, Mr. Haskins and his family, go from homeless people to hard working Americans with a goal in mind. The text explains, “There is no despair so deep as the despair of a homeless man or woman” (Hamlin Garland). For the Haskins to have such a grand opportunity of making a home and a life was everything they could ever dream of. They worked much harder than the average person to attain their goal of having the farmland as their future home. In the short story, it illustrates their hard work by stating, “Clothing dripping with sweat, arms aching, filled with briers, fingers raw and bleeding, backs broken with the weight of heavy bundles…” and the description goes on (Garland). This quote gives off the imagery of a family working to the bone and making their dream happen. The Haskins children could not even go to school because they were working on the farm, as a family they were working brutally to attain

Sharon Kennedy, I agree with your response because Amir was obviously clueless when Baba told him that Hassan is part of the family. Also, Amir was unaware of the fact that Hassan was really his own family, his own brother at that time. Instead, he thought Baba meant family like relationship. If Baba had revealed the truth to Amir earlier in the book, then Amir might not actually blame Hassan for stealing his watch and the money. Also, Assef and the two Pashtun boys might not really assault Hassan in the alley; Assef only raped Hassan because he was a Hazara Servant. Khaled Hosseini uses these various word choices such as diction to set the tone of the story. You explained very well by clearly describing about the passage you chose. I liked

Have you ever heard the phrase “The American Dream?” Do you know what “The American Dream” is? Do you think you are living the dream life? In The Great Gatsby we look into what the thought of “The American Dream” was back in the 1920’s to create an impressionable theme. By combining the motifs of materialism, lies and illusion throughout the storyline F Scott Fitzgerald portrays a very important theme.

In the play Fences by August Wilson there are many important scenes that occur during the play. One of the most prominent being the scene between Cory and Troy where they talk about everything that Troy does for Cory. The language in this scene is very strong because it targets at the importance of respect, along with showing the importance of duty. Troy believes that Cory’s duty as his son is to follow his orders and rules and to be respectful towards him. The scene begins with Cory asking his father a serious question, he is curious to know if his own father likes him.

Both the song and this article talk about the loss we suffered in vietnam. The song mentions sending your kid away and having them come home in a box. The Article talks of how long the war was and how we suffered major losses. Both the article and the song talk of how the Vietnam war was not our fight, and we had no business being there. Both the article and the song are seemingly anti Vietnam.

Dreams vs. Reality, is there a choice? In her poem, “kitchenette building”, Gwendolyn Brooks invites us to reflect upon the American Dream and how it may be disregarded when one’s environment and situation is acknowledged. The speaker of this poem occupies a kitchenette building; a kitchenette building was a tiny apartment with terrible living conditions. The people housing these apartments were mostly African-Americans in the 1930s in Chicago. Brooks recognizes all the struggles the speaker is going through; it’s these tough circumstances that make the speaker question his/her dreams and whether they are even worthy of thinking about. Gwendolyn Brooks allows her readers to recognize how their reality affects their desire to dream through

A blue house, red shutters, and a white picket fence with a border collie. Three kids are running around in the front lawn up on a hilltop. That is what the American dream is right? The American dream is truly in the eye of the beholder. One might think that the American dream is an apartment in downtown Los Angeles, but others might want the smell of fresh cut grass in a small suburb. It’s whatever the person who is working for it wants it to be. As we can see in the play, all of the main characters might be striving for an American dream, but none of them are striving for their same American dream.