Zadeh is an immigrant from Urmia Iran, plagued by the injustices and maddening systems of American immigration policies. In addition, once he does eventually get into the country, the blockades to starting up his business have no interest in easing off. By exposing these malpractices to a larger audience, Zadeh wants to convince readers that immigration policies are more of a hindrance than a help. Zadeh’s main rhetoric use is pathos, and his emotional ties to his experience gives the reader a very clear and thoughtful description of the horrors of immigration. However, he doesn’t shy away from other appeals, he makes sure to back up his claims with facts given by very credible sources and personal involvement. Since he is a co founder/CEO …show more content…
In the next couple paragraphs, Zadeh wants to emphasize the 3 main points. How driven he was, his’ and his partner’s (Alex Mehr) intelligence, and the unpleasantries he had to wade through for traveling towards America. Zadeh was in a country affected by war, stating he was “dreaming of moving away and doing some great with my life”. He wants the reader to understand that he was in the battered parts of the world but wanted to make the best of it, appealing to sympathy in his audience, making his hardship feel more trustworthy and sincere. Zadeh at the age of 17 moved to study computer science at a prestigious university, where he met his partner and they both were accepted to Ph.D. programs in mechanical engineering, and computer science at the University of Maryland. These facts further his claim of how determined he was, as well as implementing a sense of high intelligence of him and others around him. He wants to make his argument more tangible, that these war-torn countries DO in fact produce highly motivated and intelligent workers. To summarize, Zadeh mainly appeals to pathos, specifically the reader’s image of the successful individual, but also appeals to ethos by giving background credentials of himself for added credibility. He chooses to say these instances because he knows people will be more inclined be on his side if he
The United States, as many believe, is the land of opportunity, however, when looking at individual states, towns, and cities, this popular slogan may seem false to some. Within each state, all schools, such as middle and high schools, may not receive or offer equity. In an effort to revel inequalities within school systems, I will discuss the differences between schools in my town, the apparent lack of public concern about schooling inequality, and what changes could be made in an effort to reduce schooling inequality.
In the essay David Zinczenko wrote about how fast food chains are making it easy for people to become obese especially in children. Zinczenko makes some very good points throughout his essay. At the beginning of his paper Zinczenko stated “I tend to sympathize with these portly, fast-food patrons, though. Maybe that’s because I use to be one of them.”
In Randa Jarrar’s essay Why I can’t stand white belly dancers she bluntly addresses the predicament of cultural appropriation. Jarrar’s main purpose is to inform her audience on appropriation, whether it’s done oblivious or uncaring of the situation. There are many ways she presents the situation, the tone she takes on to convey the problem is unsympathetic and transparent.
Upon reading Zittrain's essay "The Case for Kill Switches in Military Weaponry", I found that the author used all three rhetorical appeals, which are ethos, pathos, and logos. The first one that I noticed while reading is logos. After looking for the definition, Logos is an appeal to logic and it's a way of persuading an audience by reason. In the essay, Zittrain said, " There is a reason tank operators start their vehicles with a switch requiring no ignition key or code—it is too easy to misplace or become separated from keys on a battlefield, even at the cost of unauthorized access". The author used this logic to explain how tank operators always use a switch that requires no ignition key or code to prevent hackers, same as the example of
He is able to do this by bringing along the audience into a sense of emotions with a true story regarding a worker who is an illegal immigrant. This allowed the audience to feel connected to the illegal worker. Nadadur introduces the undocumented worker by providing a background of the worker’s past hometown. Nadadur believes that the reader is more likely to be persuaded by the argument in the article when their emotions are intensified. The authors take advantage of pathos to illustrate the issue of illegal immigrants as a positive factor to the U.S. economy. The anecdote of the Illegal immigrant worker allows a likeness between the audience and the
Through the use of elongated syntax and anaphora, William Hazlitt is able to convey that the only way to living a joyful life is through the acquisition of money and materialistic wealth and to show the negative impacts it possesses. William Hazlitt defines countless ways happiness can be obtained through wealth. He says that “it is to live out of this world… Or to marry your landlady… or to be be a favorite with the public” to achieve happiness in one's life (Hazlitt 3,18, 31). In fact, by using anaphora, Hazlitt is able to convey the countless ways happiness can be achieved through wealth by using the same sentence structure. On the other hand, Hazlitt also uses anaphora to show the endless pursuit to achieve total wealth. Hazlitt does this
Zinczenko appeals to those whom perhaps do have health issues relating to obesity or diabetes since he puts himself in their situation giving this audience a more likable view on his idea. It becomes seemingly ideal to see that those with health issues like diabetes or obesity would most certainly not want to blame themselves and therefore appeal to what Zinczenko says; however, due to the logic used in his arguments in forms of data and studies he is able to appeal to more than just the people that are sick. Zinczenko asks questions beyond what the reader may think through his essay in order to communicate his arguments and in a way direct the reader to believe his perspective. Ultimately he asks the question that sets up his whole perspective
Yes, Hochswender’s essay pleads and appeals to the reader’s logos, pathos, and ethos. The writer immediately jolts at the reader’s feelings and thoughts with statements, for example, “Does that mean I’m a bad person?” (Muller & Wiener 2009 p. 154). Who likes being a bad person? Most people do not! In agreement with your discussion, from the get-go the essay initiates persuasion by using emotional innuendoes that logically affect any thought pattern. The essay also offers a great balance in suitable content that has the reader analyze his/her logical thinking (logos) then moves on to mandate attention with statements that are heartfelt (pathos), and finally pounders checking on what a person truly believes (ethos) is most important.
In the online article found on the CNN website titled, “U.S gun violence: The story in charts and graphs” the article provides the readers with multiple graphs from bar graphs to pie charts. The graph I will be looking at critically is titled “Firearm background checks by months since 2012.” It’s important to note that this article was written in December of 2015. For this reason, the graph stops on December 2015. Before providing the graph to its readers the author states that the year of 2015 was “was a record year for background checks on guns. Some have pointed out the requests for background checks have gone up after mass shootings, the idea being that shootings cause people to worry about their safety and buy a gun to protect themselves.”
Children need guidance to become successful in life. One exceptional man wrote about the wrong type of parenting that causes children to be unproductive. In this article, he talks about how these styles can ruin a child’s life, because they are not being taught to be survive everyday life. Throughout this piece, the audience begins to understand his argument, because he uses many examples and rhetorical questions to persuade the readers. During the reading, he also brings up that severe parents are overprotective, since they think they are helping their children become wise, but they are actually afraid of teaching them about the necessities of the world. Furthermore, he supports his idea by saying things such as the wrong type of parenting
This essay is about the Atoll. Filled with fish, the strongest trees in the world, and even crabs that can crack coconuts. One person, Thomas P. Peschak, got to go to Aldabra, a remote island of the East Coast of Africa. I have personally always wanted to see animals on a faraway island.
As the quarter progressed, these ten weeks had been a great and excessive adventure for me. As a writer, I learned a lot of new skills and techniques which helped me a lot to improve my writing. I am writing this cover letter to you to demonstrate how much I have improved throughout the quarter as a writer in 39B class. In this course, I feel like I have made an enormous improvement in writing different genre and rhetorical analysis related with the high fantasy. The method, I learned in this class is how to relate the text and secondary sources with the high fantasy which has been one of the most beneficial sources for me to improve my writing, not only that, but also my rhetorical, creative skills, and critical thinking about high fantasy.
Zadeh chose to conclude his op-ed piece on a happy note through detailing the process of how he finally became a United States citizen following 13 years of immigration limbo. His pieces illustrates how contrary to widespread belief, immigrants can provide towards the American job industry and economy versus taking a toll on it and he does so through a personal narrative. A fact that Zadeh expresses yet fails to elaborate further upon on is those "friends of [his who] decided it was too difficult here [in America]", he mentions that he had friends who chose to pursue careers in more accepting areas such as Canada and the United Kingdom. For a future piece, a expanded story on the journey of these certain individuals could be beneficial as it
1 And now there was no more contention in all the land of Zarahemla, among all the people who belonged to king Benjamin, so that king Benjamin had continual peace all the remainder of his days.
Zak demonstrated that he struggles in written expression, which is the ability to express his ideas and thoughts through written communication. In written expression, he specifically showed that he lacked the skills in planning and organization. Planning is the ability to generate and organize ideas along with the formulation of goals for the task when writing. Zak claimed to dislike writing, and as a result, he typically began writing without doing any sort of planning. This caused him to write any information relevant to the topic without having any regards to organization, goals, or the audience. In other words, Zak demonstrated poor metacognitive control when he writes. Additionally, because he paid little attention to what he wrote, his writing composition contained numerous errors in grammar and spelling, and at times, he failed to indicate a specific goal. In organization, Zak has demonstrated a weakness in employing strategies specific to the writing domain that were meant to assist him in organizing his written composition and in interpreting and negotiating the meaning of text.