In the passage the author addresses who Ellen Terry is. Not just an actress, but a writer, and a painter. Ellen Terry was remembered as Ellen Terry, not for her roles in plays, pieces of writing, or paintings. Throughout the essay the author portrays Ellen Terry in all aspects of her life as an extraordinary person by using rhetorical techniques such as tone, rhetorical question, and comparison. The author depicts Terry as an amazing person in all facets of her life. The tone the author uses throughout the essay is strictly positive. “It never struck her, humble as she was, and obsessed by her lack of book learning, that she was, among other things, a writer”. This quote allows the readers to see that the author thought Terry was talented
The film is about the death of Alice’s husband and the hardships of the working class. Alice learns to live her life out of the shadow of her abusive husband and makes a new life for herself and her son. Her character is of a real woman who struggles and faces failures and successes. Film critic Robert Hatch did not consider Alice successful
According to Helen Sword (2012 pg.48), “A carefully crafted sentence welcomes its reader like a comfortable rocking chair” and “helps its reader navigate tricky terrain like a well-hewn walking stick”. Therefore, varying styles and methods of sentences are an important construct in the written language. Hence through examining Julia Gillard’s and Rebecca Sloan’s use of sentence structure and grammar, this rhetorical analysis will attempt to explore how differing mediums and cultural contexts of writers portrays their credibility which are effectively used to convey a particular agenda to their intended audience.
Barbara Ehrenreich conducts an experience about people in poverty. Barbara could not imagine how these people survive off $6-$7 per hour paying jobs. She wonders how anyone could survive off a low wage job. Her main focus is to see if she could handle all her expenses just as the poor do day to day. So Barbara goes out her way to perform an experience using her Ph.D. in Biology. She created three rules for her experiment. 1). Accept the cheapest housing or place she could find, 2). She must also try her best to keep a job; especially the job that pays the most and 3). She cannot use her degree or anything from her professional/regular life to get by if something happens to fail. As hard as she tried to follow the rules, she broke them anyhow
Despite the current scrutiny that her race faces she asserts to the reader that her race and color define her as a person and does not determine her identity. Despite the mindset that most of her peers keep about the inequality of race, she maintains an open mind and declares to the reader that she finds everyone equal. Thus proving herself as a person ahead of her own time.
Gorgias’ use of rhetoric in the Encomium of Helen helps even more to prove Helen of Troy is innocent. He uses a type of speech called epideictic speech. Helen eloped with Paris of Troy which ignited a destructive war between Greece and Troy. Gorgias attempts to take the blame off Helen in the Encomium of Helen. The reasons Gorgias gives for Helen being innocent are will of fate, the wishes of the gods, the votes of necessity, by force reduced, by words seduced, and by love possessed. Gorgias lays out the reasons for Helen fleeing Sparta, disproves each reason, and reproves Helen of the blame towards the end. He borrowed some of his techniques of persuasion from Socrates.
Eliana Dockterman persuades her readers to believe that early exposure to technology is beneficial to children by presenting evidence and statistics, providing counterarguments to opposing views, and providing trusted and valued opinions.
She uses adequate vocabulary to establish her ability to write and communicate effectively. She even mentions that she is careful about each word she expresses because she doesn’t want to support the professor’s claims of her inadequacy in word choice. She uses strong, emotional words like “debilitating and painful”, and “bitter”, “doubt”, and “criticized” to allow the audience to feel empathy. She transitions between her ideas with short simple sentences to keep the audience focused on the important items. “Today is different”, begins the specific account of her professor’s words on her paper. “In reality, I am tired and exhausted” is a simple sentence with powerful, honest words. This sentence transitions into her ideas of what should be done to stop stereotyping. Lastly, she uses the pronoun “I” throughout the paper, but shifts to the pronoun “we” in the final sentences of the article. This shift targets the audience and challenges the reader to be responsible for making changes in academia and stereotyping. The simple statements, “We all have work to do. Academia needs work” are strong and
Mary Fisher is a political activist who contracted AIDS from her husband. She has become the HIV/AIDS advocate for prevention after giving her speech “A Whisper of AIDS”. It is a commonly known stereotype that AIDS is transmitted by homosexuals or drug users, and this speech was given to suppress this stereotype, spread awareness, and help defend those with HIV/AIDS. Mary Fisher effectively exerts the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos throughout her speech and uses specific wordage to emphasize the equal risk of AIDS for all individuals. With this being said, her intended audience is all of America, and especially parents so they can teach their children early on.
In the essay ¨Silent Spring¨, Rachel Carson, a noted biologist address the argument of those who poison the environment, shouldn't hurt the others. Using diction and strong word choice throughout the text, Carson develop connections and explain the reason individual's position towards the environment. Carson appeals to American to help transform their attitudes towards the environment. Carson speaks in mixed tones of objectivity and anger.
Imagine living with an incurable, harmful disease for the rest of your life, feeling scared and embarrassed to even talk about your situation or getting to know new people. One who will never get to experience certain things again or at all for the rest of their life. Well, Mary Fisher a mother of two young children who had worked in Gerald Ford’s White House, addressed the delegates as someone who was H.I.V. positive herself. On August 19, 1992 Fisher spoke out to an enthusiastic crowd at the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas to inform people about AIDS and her beliefs. In her speech she talked about three major topics. One of the topics she expressed was the way people felt about being infected with AIDS.
Those of us who are readers and critics, she said, can be complicit in pigeonholing such writers with our expectations. We want them to write—in Shafak's case—of, or as, a Turkish woman. Her argument, however, is that this expectation is unfair both to the writer and the reader. Fiction is fiction—it is stories, imagination. It is, Shafak says, the chance for a "transcendental journey into other lives and other possibilities."
Virginia Woolf gave a speech in 1931 to the Women’s Service League about her life as a professional woman. Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882 and became a professional novelist which was rare for a woman in this time period. She struggled with a mental illness and drowned herself in 1941. Her talk emphasizes that in order to be successful, you have to overcome your own personal obstacles and work hard at what matters to you the most. Virginia Woolf uses many rhetorical strategies to convey her message about women in the professional world, these rhetorical strategies include, appeal to logic, appeal to emotion, and an ethical appeal.
In search of Our Mothers’ Garden essay and from the Beauty in Truth film, Alice Walker proves her qualities of being an author in different ways. First of all, she uses literature elements to present her idea. For instance, she use the image of prostitute to express the marriage without contentment in which her mothers and grandmothers were involved. In addition, as an author, Alice Walker gives her point of view about the life of black women who live in the world where their ability are not acknowledge. Finally, Walker shows her spirit of revolution and her desire to see African American women earn their freedom and justice.
The writer of this novel, Alice Hoffman, is commonly known for her well developed characterization, her choice and use of language and realistic plot events. Born in New York City on March 16, 1952, Hoffman has become a very distinguished novelist. She attended Adelphi University and later the Stanford University Creative Writin...
Ellen DeGeneres is a famous actress, writer, comedian, producer, and talk-show host. She is most well-known for her talk-show, self-titled, The Ellen Show. Before The Ellen Show, she did stand-up comedy and also had her own Sitcom. On May 11, 2009, Ellen was presented with the opportunity to give a commencement speech to the Tulane University Graduating Class of 2009. Ellen, having lived in New Orleans herself, happily agreed. In this speech, Ellen tried to persuade that group of college students who were about to begin the next chapter of their lives to be themselves and to be nothing but who they truly are. She was successful in doing this with her use of humor, storytelling, and the future tense.