Gerald Graff's 'Hidden Intellectualism'

Lauren Hutchinson LIT 220 Section 1 9/28/2014 “Self-Reliance” by Emerson An analysis of “Self-Reliance” by Emerson reveals how he uses rhetoric persuasion such as pathos and ethos, as well as metaphors, poetic diction, enthusiastic diction, parallel structure and other literary devices to make it easier for the audience to understand the struggles of individuality but also to understand the importance of being independent from the surrounding society. When Emerson gives his speech on Self Reliance, he states “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” The meaning behind this aphorism and pathos is that Emerson believes that all people must escape from the society and ideas that surround them to have a peaceful and successful

The ‘break his goddamn jaw’ sentence is one complete thought. The next sentence begins with ‘only’ as if it is a continuation of the last, however the period makes a break. We see from this the chronology of Holden’s thought process. He introduces what would, under normal circumstances, be a lie, realizes what he was about to do, and then tacks on an explanation of the truth. A similar attempt to stifle his habit of lying appears later as he makes an excuse for never confronting the man who stole his gloves “I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I’d care too much.

Golding has reportedly said that he wrote the novel in response to his personal war experiences. “(The war)... taught us not fighting ,politics or the follies of nationalism, but about the given nature of man is negative.As he describes the happenings, he put out an idea of humanity based on some of the happening of the past allowing the reader to set his mind on that specific happening throughout the incident and comparing parallel ideas that Golding describes in his metaphoric writing in Lord of the Flies. He clearly identifies our basic negative side within us, present in our society making a clear focus of it, symbolizing it to be very important,resulting us thinking about a big happening down in the pages of

It is having a sense of purposefulness rather than hopelessness. This theme is seen in The Glass Castle, as well as in the article “Rethinking the American Dream” by Davis Kamp, which supports these ideas. In his essay Kamp talks about how Moss Hart was able to believe in his version of the American Dream the same way the Walls children did. Hart aspired to be more than what those around his would expect, and through his belief in his dream he was able to achieve his dream. In his article Kamp also mentions that fact that some people think that the AMerican Dream is dying, but reveas that this is only because society was becoming hopeless.

In the Introduction, Jay Heinrichs provides the reader with a foundation about the upcoming concepts on rhetoric, persuasion, seduction, and argument used in our everyday lives and in writing. Throughout this section, he discusses rhetoric that he encounters throughout life and without rhetoric it is merely impossible. He tries to go through a non rhetorical day, but it turns “out to be pretty darn rhetorical, but nonetheless agreeable” (11). Rhetoric prevents fighting, because without an agreement, people use fighting as a way of arguing. So, although people may see rhetoric as manipulation and/or seduction, it provides an agreement, within an otherwise violent, aggravating argument.

We Americans like to go to the developing world and tell them what to do. That wasn't the Lansdale way," said Boot. Boot said Lansdale worked in a subtle way to gain trust, rephrasing Diệm's ideas, but injecting his own ideas in a way that made Diệm believe he had thought of them

O’Brien is trying to teach the readers to be more open minded and think, ask questions, and verify. O’Brien is not trying to give the readers a story of war; he wants to give an accurate telling of particular stories, teaching readers the truths and lies to a story, and finally the way people fail to accept the truth and decide to take a lie, no matter how accurate the story

By Antony asking that question, the people are reevaluation everything they knew about Ceasar and are being swayed to believe that he was not ambitious. Antony also claims that he has the will of Ceasar and then says he would not read it, but it would be great for the people. When he says, "you will compel me then, to read the will", he is discretely reminding the people of something that would help his case and then twisting the situation so the people think it was their idea all along. Once the people get onto Caesars side, he reminds them about the people who killed Caesar by asking them "wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your love" (58) They phrase is reminding the people that Ceasar was wrongly killed and that they should do something about

With that being said, you must be able to redirect them to someone who has the answer. Another thing he made sure we received from the conversation was that you should never let you own judgement cloud the way you think or teach you students. He gave us an example of when his students asked him what he thought about the presidential candidates and his response was not his opinion but a redirective question such as, “I do not have a thought that comes to mind when I think about the candidates but how do you feel about them.” Mr.Fine put the craft of teacher into the perspective that I can explain to people that ask why I would like to become a teacher. Everyday is different day, a creative day, a day where I can act and be myself with my students. Mr.Fine also made it known that if we chose to become educators that we will not be paid as must as we deserve and deal with, but the reward of teaching our students the truth will be best rewarding feeling that is possible.

The second quote I picked for Nick was also in the beginning of the book. The quote is “In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores…” (1) This quote outlines how Nick is aware that being non-judgemental can be a bad thing for him, and not assuming things about people sometimes causes issues in his life, which leads me on