Summary Of Why The Revolution Will Not Be Retweeted By Malcom Gladwell

Vivid imagery in his speech have affected listeners because he describes how African Americans like him were inferior, how they were treated and how they were consider less than humans. For example, “Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear

to argue against the media that caused fear to erupt in the public. To begin his essay, he explains

The author uses pathos, the appeal to emotion frequently. One example of pathos is when he says, “The Cold War threatened total annihilation, a hot war killed a hundred servicemen each week,

The issue of racism in the mid twentieth century played a huge role in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Throughout the 1960’s he gradually became a civil rights activist, participating in multiple boycotts and riots against

He also includes a lot of emotional parts throughout the speech this is effective as it may get an emotional response from the audience this happens when he says “Your loved ones were daring and brave” and “It is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen” this is a good use of pathos as it does connect to the emotional feelings of the viewer.

These events of protest occurred in 1999. Protesters around the world gathered in places like Seattle, India, and all over Europe p rallied against capitalism. At these events, people asked for a peaceful change from capitalism to communism. Even though these places stayed capitalist, many people still believe that there should be governments using the communist ways. Although these protests didn’t reach their goal, the debate is still fought over(Patricia Levy).

Gladwell uses strong anecdotes and studies to prove all the claims he presents throughout his book. He explains he evidence well and ties everything back to the point he is trying to prove. This helps further understand Gladwell’s argument. But, even though Gladwell uses multiple anecdotes and studies to support his claims, the problem that is faced is that he merely suggests his sources are correct but never

In the speech your could actually see his face and see his different expressions and emotions, you could also hear the different tones of voice that he used when talking about different things. During the speech he said a lot of meaningful things, I like when he said, “Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response.” I think that a lot of people can take this message in very different ways, but his is his opinion and this is what he thinks, and he is trying to get his point across to everybody in that room. When he is speaking he is speaking in his own opinion he doesn’t care what other people think, this is his opinion and he wants other people to try and see in his point of view even if only for just a short time. I think that even though this is what he is thinking he still connected with a lot of other people, he made big connections, even world-wide connections. Also when speaking it is easier to get your point across to the people instead of having to write a book about it, it’s way

shows that authors use multiple techniques to help the reader relate and further empathize with the characters. Empathy helps us better connect to the world and people around us, and often times sparks the need for change within people. The most effective of these tactics is the use of appeals. These examples further prove the argument that authors use appeals such as ethos, logos, and pathos to evoke empathy in their

In President Obama’s “Osama bin Laden Killed” speech he dives right into using pathos. He reminds the country of what happened 10 years ago on 9/11 and who was responsible. This is such an effective strategy because 9/11 wasn’t an event that only affected a few people, it was a day that shocked and enraged a nation. Everyone in the nation was affected. By bringing it back up, Obama rekindles that fire of anger, sadness, and desire for justice in the audiences hearts. Due to this, everyone is drawn in to everything he says after.

King creates an enforced emotional appeal to the audience by using pathos, and he makes the audience feel empathy for the way that whites have treated non-whites for over a century.

The strongest of Obama’s points reside in his use of pathos, or emotional appeal, to connect with his audience. The audience and appeal are blatant from the beginning of the essay to the final word. Americans. Due to the loss of American lives, the emotional charge within the audience is almost palpable. Obama highlights this when he states:

A perfect example of how media charges toward a topic is as simple as the time that a bird landed upon Bernie Sander's podium while giving a political speech in Portland Oregon. As the 2016 presidential elections thrive on, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders states, "Now you see, this little bird doesn't know it ..." (Diaz 2016) Before Sanders finished his sentence, the bird flies into the podium to meet Sanders. As the senator smiles, Bernie supporters burst in applause and rejoice to the very unlikely turns of events. First off it is shown how the power of the Internet is able to bring in very popular media sources to reporting a story. The media outlets then begin to show examples upon how the Internet responded to this event, having

author will create a character’s emotions to demonstrate their point to help the reader understand

When it comes to schemes employed in the introduction of Gladwell's book, rhetorical questions take the cake. Upon countless instances, Gladwell used this rhetorical device to force the reader into staying engaged and seeing all sides of his argument. As mentioned earlier, the first subsection introduced an extensive story about the Getty museum's purchase of a forged Greek statue. In order to keep focused on the purpose of the novel Gladwell placed well-spaced out questions, asking the reader “ Who was right?” and “Why ... did the museum buy [the statue] in the first place?”, compelling one to pause and reevaluate how Gladwell’s notion, was in fact possible (Gladwell 7,14). To further excitement and engagement in his message, Gladwell prompts the reader with questions that poke at what the world could be like if humans put more trust in their instincts and “stopped scanning the horizon with our binoculars and began instead examining our own decision making and behavior through the most powerful of microscopes” (Gladwell 16). Open ended questions such as these give the reader a broader understanding of what Gladwell’s aspirations for the book were, allowing them to better comprehend his newfound ideas.