Inmate Rhetorical Analysis

Abuse and violence never solves anything. Animal abuse is a very serious problem in today's world. The ASPCA is an organization that is against animal abuse, its acronym stands for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The organization is very known for their long, sad, and emotional commercial. Throughout the commercial, it contains the three rhetorical appeals: ethos, logos, and pathos.

Liberty Mutual creates an ad to persuade viewers to switch to their insurance. The first rhetoric technique used is pathos when Liberty Mutual says, “You totaled your brand new car. Nobody’s hurt, but there will still be pain.” People have either been in an accident and understand the emotions involved, or they have not and worry about what will happen in an accident. The emotional response is fear over the rising payments, and regret over being in an accident. They then combine logos with pathos by stating, “It comes when your insurance company says they’ll only pay three quarters what it takes to replace it [the car]. What are you supposed to do? Drive three quarters of a car?” The logic is that someone can not replace a car for less than

In A letter from Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King Jr writes to the clergy men and his supporters as “A Call for Unity”. King had been put under arrest from partaking in a peaceful march against segregation on property that he did not have permission to be marching on. In the 1960’s segregation laws and policies were under the Jim Crow regulations; separate racial schools, colored-only bathrooms, separate places for the colored to eat and they would have to sit in the back of the bus. The letter King wrote was critical because he reaches out to the Clergymen from Birmingham Prison and uses the rhetorical appeal of his own character to establish his credibility on the subject of racial discrimination and injustice.

Escape from Camp 14 is the true story of Shin Dong-hyuk, who is the only known person to have been born in and escape from a North Korean labor camp. After numerous interviews, the book’s author, Blaine Harden, details the reader about Shin’s life both inside and outside the camp as he assimilates into different societies. As critical information is revealed, Harden uncovers the corruption in the political landscape in North Korea. Shin’s life in Camp 14 accentuates the struggles to gain basic human freedom and elucidates food as an even more precious commodity. The straightforward diction and intriguing combination of rhetorical devices effectively expresses the brutality and oppression in the North Korean prison camp.

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Throughout the book, Escape from camp 14 there are several rhetorical strategies used by the author. Blaine Harden starts off the book with a shocking statement, “His first memory is an execution.” Which makes the readers instantly curious about who the author is talking about, why that had happened and what's next to the story. As Harden explains about the story being in the point of view of a young kid, he does not clarify when or where this scene is taking place or why the execution was happening. Although, Harden tried to make his readers experience the execution through the eyes of a clueless young child. Harden also explained how the young boy, Shin has been trained to be obedient to authority and accept violence as a part of his life. And he went through talking about Shin's life and experience and how he ended up in the US from the North Korean labor prison camp.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which is an organization operating in every Southern state with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. He came to Birmingham, Alabama because injustice lies there and helped protest about it in a nonviolent demonstration against racial discrimination. The eight clergymen of the South did not approve of these demonstrations happening which caused Dr. King to be confined in Birmingham Jail cell, writing a letter to them men explaining on why he was in Birmingham and what his reasons were for these protests. He begins to talk about and explain the four basic steps that needed to be followed for any nonviolent campaign. He also gives the audience a better understanding by giving a visual glimpse of what the black community had to endure.

Martin Luther King wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail’ in 1963 while African Americans where fighting with the whites for equality. He was one of the most influential civil rights leader ever in America. He was also an American Baptist minister that had very strong Christian beliefs. What he was best known for is his acts with using nonviolent disobedience actions to lead his civil right movement due to his beliefs. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” that was by Martin Luther King it was written in the border of a letter posted by the clergymen in Alabama it began to draw in his interest. While in jail due to marching without a permit he had the time to put his whole heart into this one letter. In his letter he began to point out some specific points directed towards the clergymen’s and this response Martin Luther King had showed that he had some very strong points in his very powerful writing. He started to begin stating his different view and also his defending ideas. While doing this he used very caviling and persuasive tones that would draw in the reader and make the reader agree with what he is stating. Martin Luther King provides

In Martin Luther King Jr’s argumentative letter, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” King argues his position on his nonviolent protests, segregation, and his disappointments with the church and Birmingham’s city officials. This letter was written to clergymen that called King’s peaceful protesting “unwise and untimely” (para.1). King explains his positions by providing examples that strengthen his argument. Overall King makes it clear that little has been accomplished in the civil rights movement to end segregation and the hatred Caucasians have towards African Americans. His points are based on logical and emotional positions as well as positions from authorities.

Johnnie Cochran's closing argument during the O.J Simpson uses all three rhetorical appeals to try and convince the jury of O.J Simpson's innocence. To begin with, he uses Ethos by bring up a quote by Frederick Douglas that discusses the equality of all men and implying that if they vote O.J Simpson guilty it would be unethical because of his race. Next he appeals to pathos by using the statement "We haven't reached this goal yet, but certainly in this great county of ours, we're trying" to give a sense of both disappointment and pride first by showing that we haven't overcome discrimination yet but then that we still live in a great place that is striving. Finally, he appeals to logos in the first and last statements stating the fact that

King’s tone in the opening paragraph was very sarcastic towards the situation. He is sarcastic because he talks of secretaries but at the moment he does not have any but he chooses to reply and help with the situation. The ironic part is the fact that he is in jail and has nothing better to do. King starts this paragraph with sarcasm and irony to show the clergymen his status or authority. He basically gave them false appraisal because he he 's the one who decided to even help.

The average person spends 18,720 hours in “prison”- I mean school , and that's not including the 9360 spending doing homework. That means a person spends almost 28,080 hours of their life dedicated to kindergarten through senior year. That gives a student a lot of time to learn and develop as a person, but do the students really learn? In the essay, “School is a prison-and damaging our kids”, author Peter Gray poorly argues that the school in our society has not helped, but hurt its students. In doing so Gray weakens his piece by using invalid arguments, a lack of appeals, and informal writing structure .

Humans were created to all be different. Different means that views are not the same as the person next to you or across the world from you. These views then lead to opinions. Opinions that often time led to change. Change is where a voice comes in. A voice in which is strong and advocating for an individual or group. In reality, can one voice be strong enough for a nation to hear about change? That voice is only strong enough if they have the point of view similar to the others they are advocating for. The similar views will lead to more voice that is supporting your idea. This will become a voice that a nation will be able to hear. The voice that will be able to be heard for years to come. Even if everyone has different

This news story describes a falsified “third prison escape” perpetrated by the infamous Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. In addition to the outright fabrication of a third prison break, the article utilizes a host of rhetorical strategies and takes some extreme liberties with facts to support their case. Although this story is certainly fake news, a variety of strategies are used to lend the article the appearance of “truthiness”. This concept of truthiness rests on the idea that making something sound plausible is the only important aspect, even if the actual facts must be pushed aside in the process. In this essay, we will analyze these strategies, which include visual elements, audience appeal, validity of claims, and use of language.

Georg Gugelberger and Michael Kearney’s article, “Voices for the Voiceless: Testimonial Literature in Latin America,” first discusses the development of testimonial literature as it relates to contrasting the misrepresentations of marginalized groups of people in canonical literature. The article then explains the current importance of testimonial literature in “transforming objects into subjects” (8), moving away from normative Western discourses that inherently maintain power in the Western white man. Gugelberger and Kearney also write about the content of testimonial literature, emphasizing the central common theme of “the violation of human rights of members of the community by agents of the state” (11), as well as countering the dominance of Western ideals and literature, giving power to those who have been historically and systemically powerless. Overall, the article defines testimonial literature as resistance literature (11), differentiating it from conventional literature – a reinforcement of