The Battle Of War Rhetorical Analysis

C3. A quotation that stands out to me in All Quiet on the Western Front is, “But on the last day astonishing number of English heavies opened up on us with high-explosive drumming ceaselessly on our position, so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong” (14). This quote is significant because it suggests that more than half of the Second Company has been killed. Paul Bäumer’s tone suggests that various deaths are something

1) “They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment” (O’Brien 20).

“A date that shall live in infamy” (Line 2). This is a quote that many Americans have heard before. This infamous quote comes from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), in his Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation. FDR gave this speech in response to the Pearl Harbor Attack on December 7th, 1941. The point of this speech was to persuade Congress into declaring war on the Axis Powers. This speech went on to fuel a nation into four years of war. As you know, the US joined the Allied Powers in WWII. This is because FDR was able to effectively use Pathos and Ethos to convince Congress to join WWII.

During both of the World Wars, the United States was short on money and supplies for the soldiers overseas, so they made posters to gain support from the people still at home. The posters showcased government bonds that Americans could buy that were essentially loans to the United States government. In order to get people to spend the small amounts of money they had, the posters used emotions and tone to persuade the American citizens to buy the bonds. The term used for the emotional looking pictures to showcase the author’s message is pathos. Many of the posters used during the wars used pathos to get their message across.

Often times writings with the general theme of war and battle juxtapose the symbol of nature with brutal events in order to create contrast between. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich M. Remarque, the author uses the method of juxtaposition to convey the contrast of beautiful nature to war and potentially emphasizing the brutality of battle. Away from combat, down-time is given to the men fighting, where things are peaceful and no longer chaotic. As they are relaxing, their surroundings are described as a “flowery meadow” with “white butterflies...in the soft warm wind” which symbolizes peace or happiness. (Remarque 9). Although the men are experiencing a time and setting of tranquility, death is also occurring near them, ultimately

In Black Hawk's Surrender Speech in 1832, Black Hawk portrays many forms of being a courageous Indian who faced many obstacles, but was always true to his nation. He portrays this by utilizing rhetorical devices and associating to the reader through pathos.

In “The Road to Civil War” PowerPoint, it focusses on slavery from 1846 to 1860 the last slide. It begins with 1846, trying to ban slavery from and Mexican territory newly conquered. Unfortunately, the bill that some wanted did not pass, but like the power point states it was an important subject that would last years to come. In 1848 the election like was focused on slavery, Liberty party versus John Calhoun. Who would want to make Mexico new territory in to slave state or leave as a free state. The PowerPoint states Taylor won the election of 1848 but he became the president of a divided nation already in place. It displays a picture map showing the difference and divided nation between Blue and Yellow states. California in 1850 became a

Marlantes expresses the quote “The ideal response to killing in war should be similar to a mercy killing, sadness mingled with respect” (Page 42) because he wants to proclaim how his reaction to killing really is and what others expected it to be. Most of the time when he was killing in combat, he felt either nothing or a kind of exhilaration. This was not the answer most people wanted to hear, he acknowledges, and he hesitated giving it when he returned from Vietnam afraid he would appear to be indifferent or overzealous, as some protestors of the war portrayed those who fought in it. Several years later, Marlantes says that he is deeply saddened by the deaths that he has caused. Marlantes found a different feeling than every other soldier

Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, in regards to the American Civil War once despondently wrote, “It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws” (Crane). Such describes the desperate and harrowing atmosphere of the time during which Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States. As Abraham Lincoln once perspicaciously reflected upon the significance of the Civil War, "The struggle of today is not altogether for today — it is for a vast future also" meaning that the war was paramount to the survival of the union and thus, one of the most momentous occurrences of American history (Lincoln). Nathaniel Hawthorne, a transcendentalist and author of The Scarlet

I choose the first image as I believe it implies a stream of emotional values between a physically damaged child and a soldier spiritually broken because of the crushing scene. The pathos conveyed in the picture mixes the tragedy of war, the awfulness of tearing families, and the destruction of civilization. The fighter was holding the child as a mother holding her baby, the warrior forgot the mission he was sent to do and found himself a caring human for the innocent people. The man closed his eyes as a sign of misery and sorrow, hugged the child trying to give him/her love, care, warmth, and safety. I suppose that the man was thinking about how this baby could be his son, daughter, family, or himself and how lack of luck, the unfair life

Similar to point of view, Pyle uses a mixture of low and high diction to further his point. Throughout the essay Pyle places emphasis on the mass destruction created by war, whose magnitude is almost beyond comprehension. In the piece he refers to the bodies lying on the beach as “expended, sufficient men” , once again showing good men were used up by the war (2). Also, Pyle specifies that the “mechanism” used were “for a small war” (2). By the choice of these specific words, Pyle exhibits that humans nor machinery were designed for such a great, vast, and deadly war. As the story progresses he begins to write with more elevated diction, including military terms such as “LTCs” and “caterpillar treads”, by the usage of specific military terms

Faith Tested Daniel 3:16-18 Faith is something that many of us talk about but few of us have much less that we think. Some have more faith in the pews than the Lord. When we entered the church, many of us did not test and see if the pews could withstand our weight. Most of us assumed that the pews were able to support our weight. We should have that much faith in the Lord.

Conclusively, the rhetorical appeals applied in the trailer of The Aftermath created an intense persuasive appeal as well as implemented a creative aspect to the overall movie. In the trailer, the nature of the human condition is exposed through the emotional nature of the subject. With reference to the limbic system, the natural emotional nature of a human proves to be evident through certain actions individuals take. In reference to The Aftermath, Kaylov murdering the air traffic coordinator proves that his limbic system took drive. Ethically, it makes perfect sense that killing people is a negative action to take. However, the actions that transpired made this seem like it was the action option to gain due justice for his passed family members.

The theme in “Route March” by Charles Hamilton Sorely is about the intensive relationship between the soldiers and their enlistment in the war as they march to their death through a route that elicits false pride, especially when connecting it to martyrdom. Furthermore, the tone helps communicate the theme by including particular word choice and literary devices. Sorely uses irony and allusions to convey his overall idea about his attitudes towards war, the quotes, “Jesus Christ and Barabbas/ Were found the same day. / This died, that, went his way” and “'Neath the cross that Christ had, / Shall rejoice and blossom too/ When the bullet reaches you,” reveal the underlying issue he confronts about the negative realm of war. The fact that he talked

We can conclude, that the soldiers obviously knew that they were going to die, considering the orders they were given. Since these soldiers can not disobey their superiors, they had no other option, but to execute their job, and suffer the consequences in the end. Many readers would wonder why these soldiers did not hesitate to analyze what they were