Summary: The Rhetorical Situation

13th Analysis “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. Pathos, the use of emotions, is seen numerous times in the 13th. For example, throughout the film, clips of African Americans being thrown into jail or beings harshly treated are shown. This appeals to emotions because the person viewing the film gets a real life image of what African American’s are being treated like.

Introduction In the “Close to Home” commercial it is advertising cellphone use while driving through the phone company AT&T. In the commercial it shows two main drivers a male and female in separate cars. The female has a child in the car that looks to be her daughter. In the other car there is a man, he shows he has a family because he is talking on the phone to what the audience assumes is his wife.

The impact that First Lady Obama left on the world is that she and many others can be powerful and make a movement for the future of the women. However, it was initially a struggle for her as an African American First Lady. There is actually a campaign that she is running called “Let’s Move” which serves as a rhetorical attempt to overcome those problems. The “Let’s Move” campaign exemplify the strategic use of the rhetorical persona to form the image of the archetypal mother and use of identification to create a constitutive audience of American families.

“Ding!” somebody’s iPhone goes off everywhere people turn because everyone has an iPhone especially teenagers. Every year Apple comes out with a new and improved iPhone for consumers. The advertising of the new iPhone gets the audiences attention based on how well the commercial is, and it influences buyers to buy their new product.

Rhetorical Analysis My satirical piece is called “The Amazing Benefits of Being Homeless”. This comic depicts the positive aspects associated with homelessness instead of focusing on the negatives. In the comic, there are nine frames where the characters take a favorable viewpoint on this topic.

The Many Powers Of Rhetoric In this section of “The UNF Guide To Writing” different authors discuss the robust powers of rhetorical writing. Nathan Thornburgh discussed “overheated rhetoric” in his writing Violent Rhetoric and Arizona Politics (52). He discussed the shooting that took place in Arizona over a political issue of immigration in which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was killed. Thornburgh said that the over-exaggeration n that was places on the “issues” that were going on in Arizona is the reason people got angry enough and why it drove Jared Loughner, the shooter, to act out in a violent way (53).

In “This I Believe” (1952), Jackie Robinson claims that free society allows change for the better among people. Robinson elaborates by stating that when people in a free society are allowed “room to breathe and time to think” that the failings of the civilization will “disappear”, though Robinson recognizes that without being willing to “fight for it” people as a whole will not surpass these shortcomings. He writes in order to motivate people to “find the greatness of tomorrow” by impressing upon people the importance of working towards a perfect society. Robinson utilizes an inspirational tone in this speech to garner attention from the American public, encouraging people to fight against the injustices they see, and reassuring them that they

Rhetorical Analysis I alter use in the body paragraphs in order to show how Andy ( a lower class character) is an example of “heredity” since he takes over his late father’s position at the coal mine. In other words, the way I use quotes in my Rhetorical Analysis demonstrate that I have learned to take in consideration all parts of the quotes. Even though I have improved in considering all parts of the quote when using them as supporting evidence, I actually got to notice that I make arguments that are more than what I can possibly support with evidence from the text. This issue was pointed out to me in the comments left in turnitin.com by Dr. Danner. This problem in my writing was pointed out in my Rhetorical Analysis when I wrote, “under

Rhetorical analysis breaks down the parts of a certain piece of writing, picture, etc., and analyzes how each piece fits together to make it all work. A big thing that has always stood out to me was a visual. I was that person that cries at every Super Bowl commercial about drugs or drunk driving. In general, I am not a very emotional person but these visuals make me feel exactly what they are anticipated to make the viewer feel. The authors note how emotional arguments can become sappy, “yet emotions can add real muscle to arguments, too, and that’s worth noting,”(96).

An author’s purpose is to make their readers feel something or some kind of way by conveying emotions, ideas, and thoughts. This is achieved by utilizing three different appeals- pathos, ethos, and logos- in order to create a cohesive story or argument. Independently, each appeal is weak and does not make for a very convincing story or argument, but when used in unison all three are extremely effective and complement each other well. When taking into account

I have chosen this article because the tittle seems very enticing. I want to know deeper information on how we can read people’s thoughts just by looking at them. I am also interested with the psychological issue so I decided to read and learn through this article. 4. Explain briefly in four or five sentences what the article is about.