Rhetorical Analysis: Misunderstood

To crave something is to have a strong desire for something: Food, shelter, and other items necessary for survival are things people commonly crave. Many people have cravings for wanted items such as vehicles, phones, clothes, etc.; however, people can overlook cravings that relate to an individual's emotions at times since you can’t physically have it. Cravings for simplistic, abstract, and symbolic things as well as the desire to have tangible wants finalize the complexity of the word. To crave something is far beyond a desire for food, but instead a symbol for nourishment.

For a commercial to work “part of the trick is that we can be wooed by the logic of the admen only if we are part of the cultural script it writes for us and writes us into” (Cathy Davidson, 30). At first glance, Cymbalta commercial viewers may see the ad senseless, as it portray how the drug is a remedy to depression despite of it listing out the negative side effect of the drug. But on closer inspection, the drug manufacturer, Eli Lilly, and the Draftfcb Healthcare, the advertiser, have carefully researched and crafted a video that specifically catches the consumer’s attention of the drug and propel them to buy the product. Davidson is expressing that if a person has a different cultural value in relation with the advertisement, the advertisement

A Not so Modest Proposal Well known, political analyst, Jonathan Swift, in his persuasive writing, “ a Modest Proposal”, coaxed for the proposition of making children of poor families be deemed beneficial by selling them as food to rich families during the Irish famine. Swift’s purpose is to enlighten the Irish and their government about the substantial poverty level through sardonic satire. He adopts a facetious tone in order to shock the readers with disturbing and morally untenable positions to reach the attention to the Irish government about the living conditions in Dublin. Swift begins his persuasive proposal by analyzing that the environment in Dublin is permeated with those living in a deplorable state.

The line of questioning I chose for the client consist of being simple, it has a purpose, and it will influence but not control. The client I chose was indecisive, he is unable to commit or make a change in his life. The strategy used was open and closed questioning. The open question presented to the client was “how do you feel about that? The client expressed his desire to make a change, but wasn’t sure of his wife reaction.

The overreaching objective of a rhetorical critic is to illuminate characteristics about a specific event or text, analyze the symbols and artifacts, and construct an argument to influence. This methodology works under the assumption that the reality we live in is socially constructed and these social events have the power to influence action (Christians, 2001). It begins with an interest in a particular area (i.e. social activism, political election, or race riot) and asking the questions about how these particular symbols are used (Foss, 2009a). Moreover, Foss explains critics seek to elucidate what the symbol teach society. The role of theory is employed differently in rhetorical criticism than in the other methodologies.

He opens the speech by telling a funny real story of him and her sister when they were little. In his story, his younger sister fell from the bunk bed and landed on both two hands and knees. She was on pain and mostly likely would have told her parents about what happened but he managed to manipulate her emotion by telling her that she’s a unicorn because of the way she landed. He knew that his sister is all about being a unicorn so a unicorn she had become. Instead of telling her parents, she climbed back up to the bunk bed happy and started playing again convinced of being a unicorn.

Throughout the story of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Oscar pointed out many oblivious actions done by the characters. He constantly used the characters to exaggerate actions of our society today. Wilde uses exaggerations to show how the characters were unable to be a complete individual without the face of the strict social expectations influencing their actions. Everywhere in the society, they are all unable to make their own decisions, and it is very hard for them to be truthful towards who they are without societal norms interfering causing them to lose all individuality. Wilde uses reversal to show how the characters actions were completely insane since they were trying to accommodate societal expectations.

There are many habits of mind that are important in thinking rhetorically. It all starts with listening. You need to listen in order to understand what is being said in a situation. If I do not hear what is being said then I will not be able to respond to the situation, and I might jump to conclusions without knowing the full story. Leading me to obtain the wrong information.

This passage intrigues me because it explains a little how a body is prepared for a funeral. As a student looking into the health community, this intrigues me because of how it is seen as similarity to surgery. “His equipment, consisting of scalpels, scissors, augers, forceps, clamps, needles, pumps, tubes, bowls and basins (...)” (2) The informative tone that Mitford possesses for this essay sounds like what a college professor would lecture, it can get a bit boring (but then again, that could be because of my generation 's attention span and my attention span) but overall informing and she makes it seem as though you need notes on these (then again, most informative writings seem that way). She also uses descriptive language to hook the readers with colorful words (not bad words, just descriptive) and her use of them boosts the readings likeability, in my opinion.

Marketing is an important aspect in regard to introducing and appealing the customer to a product. Because of this, many corporations utilize this practice, and in doing so, they present their brand in countless different ways. For instance, the hit comedy show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, has epitomized this concept. On this show, hyperbole and absurdist humor are interwoven within the plot and the progression of each episode. As a result of this, the advertisements for Fight Milk possess a similar tone as they feature a satirical take on the generic advertisements for fitness related products.