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The Klondike Gold Rush was a hard time for the miners. Many of them set out on a dangerous route to find nothing in the end. The two passages and the one video tell about the gold rush very well, from different point of views. The first passage called Klondike Gold Rush, which tells about how hard the journey was to Dawson City. It states how steep, dangerous, and hazardous the trails were. Many people ended up heading home when they got there. The second passage called A Woman Who Went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan, is about how the government had lots of rules and laws for the miners. Lastly, the video called City of Gold, talks about how their father was a miner in the gold rush. Many of the miners went through

“13th”, a documentary produced by Anya DeVernay, is about racial inequality. To strengthen the argument about racial inequality, DeVernay uses pathos, logos, and ethos in the documentary.

In her article, “All’s Not Well in Land of ‘The Lion King’”, Margaret Lazarus tells of the time she took her children to see “The Lion King”. Throughout her essay she explains what she thought of the movie and how it affected her. She explains how the animals in the pridelands are paying tribute to the “infant son that will someday be their king”. Margaret sees them basically as lion food and that they all live together in “supposed harmony in the ‘circle of life’”. She goes on to explain how outside the kingdom there’s a dark gloomy and impoverished elephant graveyard full of hyenas that she feels are stereotyped as African Americans. In Margaret’s point of view, this is the ghetto. Reading further into her essay, she goes on to tell how Scar

Langston Hughes' "When the Negro Was in Vogue" brings light to the issue of racial inequality and cultural appropriation. These topics remain relevant in our modern society, and are present in current cultural trends. Racial inequality is a problem that has always been around it seems; white is portrayed as "good" and black (and every other color for that matter) is portrayed as "bad." The title "When the Negro Was in Vogue" makes the point that during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, it was actually "good" to be black; that was because white people liked what black people were accomplishing and creating at the time. This is something that continues to be an issue, even today. While our society has made a significant amount of progress in terms of racial inequality, there is still much more

Behind the Swoosh is a documentary about sweatshop labor. As a class we watched the documentary and as I learned more about how Nike was running their business; I felt bad for the people that were working. I could not believe that those people were working hard making that company so much money and was getting nothing in return. Then again, I really was not shocked because I know that they are people that put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into a company and do not make enough money.

It shows the baby kangaroos floating in baskets in the air being pulled my black war planes. This is symbolic, of them proclaiming their ‘rights’ to take these children from their parents. It shows he parents on the ground reaching up for the sky but not able to grasp their children. They used the conventions of color, using calm colors like blues and whites but the scene displayed was the exact opposite. These examples only reinforced my values on the topic shown, as it shows the violent attack being covered up by law and ‘rights’.

After reading Laura Bohannan’s Shakespeare in the Bush and Horace Miner’s Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, a common theme presents itself between the two articles. Ethnocentrism, particularly within the U.S., is elucidated through the actions of Bohannan while in West Africa, and the reaction of any American reading Miner’s piece about the “magical” Nacirema culture. In Bohannan’s piece, she struggles to prove that Hamlet is a universal story that any culture can easily understand. She speaks to the elders of the Tiv people, and is shocked to conclude that they do not understand Hamlet the way Americans understand it. In Miner’s piece, he cleverly presents the idea of the culture of the Nacirema people who are sadistic in nature, and lack logic

Perhaps the most significant event that occurred on October 7, 2015 was the exclusive screen of Finding the Gold Within in the W.V.M. Fines Arts Center. This film touched my soul because it revealed the concerns of young, black males at predominately white institutions. Although the students encountered similar problems as students at historically black colleges, their struggles differed due to the fact that racism was one of the greatest obstacles during their college experience. In addition to the discrimination and the racial undertones in the academic institution in which the males attended, the youths had to learn how to balance their internal conflicts as well. One of the greatest conflicts that continue to affect the African American

It was around 7 on a hot August afternoon in 1965, in a Los Angeles south central neighborhood; when a twenty-one year old man named Marquette Frye was on his way home after a few beers to drop off his Brother. Not far from his house they were pulled over by an officer Lee Minkus who then proceeded to give Marquette Frye a field sobriety test. As Mr. Frye stumbled along the curb his brother Ronald Frye walked a few blocks over to the Frye residence and shortly returned with their mother. As the events unfolded the number of curious onlookers grew.

In the novel the Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, Holden's perspective of society and what life is about relates to the song “Chasing Cars,” by Snow Patrol. Both show how everyone is constantly taking their lives for granted so worried about the excessive and unnecessary things in life, which is obstructing them from appreciating the true beauty of life. In the beginning of the novel, Holden goes to visit his history teacher, since he will no longer be attending the school. Mr. Spencer begins to lecture Holden and talks about what life is, he says, “If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game... but if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. no game” (Salinger 11).

Logos is the primary rhetoric in this visual with a tremendous of data and graphs presented to the audience. The bar graphs can be easily interpreted without looking at the specific numbers, but there is a scale available at the bottom for readers who seek the specific numbers. Pathos is conveyed through color schemes, font, and the design of the visual. The color scheme used is dark red, with a grey background and black texts appeals to the pathos of the viewers. The font use is not conventional, and gives a grotesque and unsettling feeling for the viewer. Additionally, the arrows used to connect the subtitle to the data are comparable to that of a police investigation board showing different connections, which is a subtle yet intentional design. Ethos is not expressed through the identity of the author, but through the source of the data, which is stated to be from “FBI data on more than 13,000 killing incidents in the U.S. in 2010.” The credibility of the visual is based on the readers’ trusting and believing the legitimacy of government

The use of one of the rhetorical appeals; ethos, pathos, and logos, can help influence the intended audience. In the book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger and the podcast “The Problem We All Live With” narrated by Nikole H. Jones, both effectively use logos to discuss racial tension. Both argue that blacks are not the sole reason that causes agitation between the two races, but the combination of both blacks and whites who need to learn to work together in order to live in a non-racial environment. Bissinger and Jones create a serious tone by providing factual numbers to support their reasonings. Bissinger highlights the blacks in his novel as simple minded football players who are only useful on the field with the use of logos. He describes

Copy a short passage that you found to be interesting and explain why you found it interesting/why it is an example of good writing.

This video was all about exposing white privilege in our society today and how and why white people are still blind to it, as they have been throughout history. Systematic racism started near the beginning of our society, when poor white people and poor black people banded together to fight for justice against the elite white people, but the elite whites weren’t about to have that, so they told the poor white people that they had more in common with them, the elite whites, than their poor black peers, even though that was a complete lie. But that lie still permeates our society today. However, today that racism is less on an individual basis and more on a systematic basis, where everything from housing to healthcare to law enforcement is racist. And white people don’t see it because that racism benefits us; we sometimes see that people of color are downtrodden in our

Can a story really change the world? Every October I volunteer with the Washington West Film Festival, which raises money for a different cause each year. The motto of Washington West is “Story can change the world.” What they mean by this is, we as people are able to relate to one another through universal stories. Sadness and joy look the same in every country, and there isn’t a language barrier in the world that can prevent a filmmaker from sharing a story. The stories in the festival come from local, international, and Hollywood filmmakers; however, where they come from doesn’t determine their worth. We can use these stories to exchange cultures, ideas, political messages, smiles, tears, or knowledge. But could I truly change the world