Rick Steves

This quote on page 5 is an example of ethos, “I was grateful to have had the good luck to write a book that connected my own experience to that of women everywhere- indeed, to the experiences of women in seventeen countries around the world.” The provides the reader assurance that the author knows everything to do with the topic they are writing about and they know what they are talking about from their own experiences. Another example, on page 15 says, “Recent research consistently shows that inside the majority of the West’s controlled, attractive, successful working women, there is a secret ‘underlife’ poisoning our freedom; infused with notions of beauty, it is a dark vein of self-hatred, physical obsessions, terror of aging, and dread of lost control.” This quote uses two techniques, which are pathos and logos because people all over the world deal

What I mean by this is that when people look at the statue, they pretty much getting the whole picture. They can see what the sculptor was trying to accomplish. Another reason why I think this statue is a good work of art is because of all the stories that come with it. Nobody knows one hundred percent what story the statue is actually portraying or if it’s even one of the stories that people suggest. It could be portraying a totally different story. That’s why I like it and find it very interesting because it leaves it to the person to interpret it as they

Using descriptive diction such as “eerie” and “swamp” readers can imagine an unpleasant city rustling with filth and crime. Larson exposes that Chicago had “auras of mosquitoes” in its midst. Readers automatically see Chicago as a filthy and troublesome town when they associate it with mosquitoes. This view of Chicago created by Larson further achieves his purpose to show the downside of Chicago during the time the World Fair was being constructed and attended. When the World Fair was finished, Larson described the nights, “the lamps that laced every building and walkway produced the most elaborate demonstration of electric illumination ever attempted” (254). Larson says the lamps “laced” the walkways in the white city which allows readers to picture the city in a whimsical way. The feeling of the word “laced” sits with readers in a positive way. Thus, Larson can achieve the purpose of forcing readers to see the white city in a luxurious fashion. Also, Larson mentions that the lighting was “elaborate.” Readers see the white city as a sophisticated and lavish place rather than how they see the black city. Larson again is able to persuade readers into believing the magic of the white city. Larson calls upon imagery to construct the two sides of Chicago.

The content of the two essays is completely different: Sedaris writes about being an American in Paris, whereas Jordan writes about being an English teacher in America. Sedaris's essay is about how hard it can be to acquire mastery of the French

The two takes on the building are different in a multitude of ways. First off, the take by Samuel Bowel was more of an explanation just facts about the building and what they did and where they stopped, things you could just look up in a history book, no stories about what it was actually like. The first hand account told of how there was a long wet rainy period and what they had to do as they went through it. Not only

Then there is a sculpture called ‘Kouros/statue of Standing Youth’ which represents the meant back in the day and age. The sculpture is a very young, athletic, toned man. This man has the body every man wants. This sculpture is desirable to every women. This man represents power, and desire. Unlike the sculpture of the woman this man has a face and a very powerful looking

In Stephen Mays’ essay “What about Gender Roles in Same-sex Relationships?” published in They Say I Say, the author discusses how people often assign gender roles automatically, even with gay and lesbian couples. Mays stresses the concept of femininity and masculinity, and also shows the difference in their roles, supports them with vivid imagery, and gives a rare example of gay male preferences, all while using the correct diction when referring to personal experiences. Although the author reiterates gender roles and their effect on same-sex relationships, he gives clear examples that support the idea of masculine or feminine qualities.

In Charles Rearick’s book, Paris Dreams, Paris Memories, he describes the various ways in which Paris is “represented” through various images he identifies as the City of Light, Old Paris, the Capital of Pleasures, and Paname. Rearick further writes how and why these images of Paris came of importance and how they shaped the geographical layout of the city we know today. All of these images together have likewise produced the city of Paris while also providing the framework of Parisian events and experiences.

Barbie herself is the quintessential model of female beauty; however, she represents both the oppression and liberation of women. She is a “jack of all trades” encouraging children, especially females, to pursue whatever profession they wish. Romo states that what comes to mind when we think of Barbie “is white, physically appealing, not poor, heterosexual, popular, fashionable, and forever young. In sum. Barbie has come to represent the ideals and values of the social class that dominates our society.” (Romo 127). Barbie portrays women as objects of beauty, not of power. Cisneros piece is unique because she counters the idea that women must be perfect. In fact, she raises the idea that they are quite the opposite, the idea that everyone has hidden imperfections.

a. Thesis Statement: With different motivations, but similar intentions the word choices and poetic rhetorical devices of the speakers reveal their attitudes toward women.

She uses her writing to express her ideas on women being significant figures in the world, or at very least the field of writing. She makes note of the history of writers and how strongly women have been involved in the process for a number of years, “But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild / Else of our sex, why feigned they those nine / And poesy made Calliope’s own child” (Bradstreet 31-33).Bradstreet includes this line to establish the belief to her readers that women have been and should continue to be significant figures in the world of writing and the arts. With the muses of the famed Greeks being women and successful poets themselves, Bradstreet hopes to argue that women were important and proficient in the trade that men laid claim to in her time. In all of her piece, Bradstreet’s main idea that she hopes to convey is that since women have been such staples in the art for so long that it only makes sense for them to be allowed to still.While both authors write in ways that express “radical” ideas for their respective time periods, they were sure to write in methods that did not serve to be inflammatory to their largely opposing audiences. This is the point in which their differences truly shine: their execution of this

What you are about to read is a work of fiction, produced in the mind of a skillful storyteller. Any similarity between anyone living or dead is purely coincidental.

An allusion is a reference to another piece of art work, literature or some other object without directly mentioning what that object

An example is that of headlines in the news. In such headlines that use visual metaphors, there is usually a visual image and the point is to turn the analytic content of the headline into something sensual. The image is merely used to confirm the puns of words that are being used in headlines and other things. Bolter says, “The dialectic of word and image in… advertisements can be commonplace or sophisticated, but in each case there is a changed relationship in which the image is magnified at the expense of the prose. Words no longer seems to carry conviction without the reappearance as a picture of the imagery that was latent in them,” (Bolter, 54).

To be feminine is to be pretty, sexualized, and passive. “Marked Women” by Deborah Tannen, “Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language” by Alleen Nilsen, and “A Woman’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?” by Susan Sontag are three essays that show these negative connotations of femininity. Together, they exemplify that females are “marked” as pretty, sexualized, and passive.