In the articles, “When Do We Become Truly Conscious” by Daniel Bor and “The Future of Consciousness” by Lance Strate, they both share similar approaches to their viewpoints by infusing emotional and scientific evidence to explain their opinions. Even though they share similar approaches, they do not share similar opinions or conclusions. They show their differences in ethics, structural, tonal, and diction variations.
In both Bor and Strate’s articles the authors draw the reader in to their viewpoints using emotional appeals. Bor draws you in immediately by including a picture of his daughter on an ultrasound machine at 20 weeks and an image of her at 2 years old. By doing this, he gets the reader emotionally invested in a huge dilemma our
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Bor makes the readers become invested in the idea of pro-life on the issue of abortion even though he in the end shocks one into being pro-choice, while Strate gets the reader invested on his actual viewpoint of the future of consciousness expanding in many more discoveries. They share similarities in the way they approach different views but Boar almost shocks you with his actual viewpoint because he presents it all in a way in the beginning that deceives you. Strate, on the other hand, directly addresses his viewpoint on each example guiding you straight to his opinions. While both Bor and Strate use similar ways to approach their viewpoints they differ in the aspect of Bor’s article is filled with ethics and morals that guide you between the theory of right and wrong while Strate includes little to no ethical appeals. Other than the ethical detailing, they’re similar in that element of approaching. Bor tries to debate on the ethical topics of when we become conscious, if animals are conscious like humans, and the right and wrong conclusions we can draw from the knowledge we discover. Strate on the other hand tries to describe and support his theory of what the future of consciousness looks like and what could possibly destroy it for us all. Yes, they both cover the topic of consciousness but hold completely varied conclusions and …show more content…
Bor starts his article with the sentence “it is easy to view consciousness as a kind of magic.” That sparks an interest in you immediately by his choice of diction and comparison of it to something so beautiful and enchanting as magic. That sentence alone makes you curious on what he could possibly state to make the comparison so captivating. Strate starts off his article immediately on the other side of the chart. “If you do not like what I have to say, it is my sincere hope that you hold Allen Flagg personally responsible for whatever defects you happen to identify.” (Strate PP 63)By including this in his introductory paragraph it gives off the atmosphere of him not even supporting his own article nor what he is talking about. By doing this, Strate immediately loses interest accreditation because no one would feel desire to read about something that even the author didn’t want credit with writing. Strate then goes into so much depth and detail that he doesn’t even reach his actual viewpoint until roughly page fifteen of his eighteen page article. He structures his article off based and data filled which makes you not even realize until page fifteen what the actual viewpoint he’s arguing truly is. While Strate guides you off track, Bor builds you up in an invested viewpoint and continuously lures you into his opinion scientifically, emotionally,
Jonathan Kozol revealed the early period’s situation of education in American schools in his article Savage Inequalities. It seems like during that period, the inequality existed everywhere and no one had the ability to change it; however, Kozol tried his best to turn around this situation and keep track of all he saw. In the article, he used rhetorical strategies effectively to describe what he saw in that situation, such as pathos, logos and ethos.
Despite there being hundreds of video game releases every year, most of these games are unoriginal and therefore unplayable. There are countless video game genres, but one of the most popular genres in the past few years have been the zombie games, also called survival games. I was thoroughly convinced that all the games in this genre were clichéd and overdone, until I played the video game The Last of Us. Even though it is a survival game, the focus is not on gruesome zombies or gratuitous violence, making it already vastly different from the others. Instead, the focus is on telling a story. Between the gorgeous graphics, serene music, and flawless acting, it already goes beyond being just another “zombie game,” but this isn’t even accounting
The All Lives Matter supporters believe that black people who were killed recently showed violence against the policemen and they were not innocents. The president of Amherst College Republicans Robert Lucido responses, “First, the Black Lives Matter group was originally titled ‘F--- the Police.’ The organizers of the Awareness week claimed that every 28 hours a black man is killed by a law enforcement officer, but they never mentioned that a law enforcement officer is killed every 48 hours in the line of duty. The organizers may have thought it clever, but such a title is utterly shameful” (Lucido). The author uses ethos by showing facts in his response that illustrates the opposite of what Black Lives Matter group claimed; however, these
Often times the message of an article gets muddled to the reader depending on the stylistic manner of the author’s writing. The style in which the author uses to write, Am I Still Here?, takes away from the actual message of the article. The author, Anthony Doerr(‘)s, uses very descriptive language which is distracting to the reader. Also, the use of metaphors can deem challenging for the reader to understand the true meaning behind the article. Finally, the use of complicated diction makes it arduous to understand what the article is attempting to get across. The stylistic choices that the author uses takes away from the message of the article.
“People who had incurred the displeasure of the party simply disappeared and were never heard of again.
Anticipation is prevalent throughout The Road, which is set by the narrative pace, creating a tense and suspenseful feeling and tone.
“How does it feel to be a problem?” (par. 1). Throughout “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” W.E.B. Du Bois explains the hardships experienced throughout his childhood and through the period of Africans living in America before the civil rights movement. Du Bois begins with his first experience of racism and goes all the way into the process of mentally freeing African Americans. Du Bois describes the struggle of being an African American in a world in which Whites are believed to dominate through the use of Listing, Imagery, and Rhetorical Questioning because these rhetorical devices stress the importance of the topic Du Bois is talking about.
In this excerpt from Moonwalking With Einstein, Foer uses relatable examples and contrasting diction to persuade the audience of the natural brilliance of the human mind without the complexities of modern day lifestyles. Foer addresses the common business man/woman who is required to recall “word-for-word instructions from their bosses” as well as the average high school student who has been enrolled in “the Advanced Placement U.S. history curriculum” in order to provide an example that resonates with the general population. Foer’s specific examples aids the reader in remembering the struggles that modern humans deal with. This effective targeting has an impactful appeal on the audience by forcing them to recall emotions related to the stated
The article I have chosen for my rhetorical analysis is #Gamergate Trolls Aren’t Ethics Crusaders; They’re a hate group because it seemed interesting. The reason I was drawn to this article was because of the title, I was interested to know what it meant. This article, written by Jennifer Allaway, is about gamergate, an online gaming community, and the hate they show towards others. Jennifer does research on sexism in videogames and how it correlates to the gamers that play these games. She was collecting data from different organizations by using a questionnaire that gathered information on diversity in the videogame community. When some gamergate members
Jack Shakley’s “Indian Mascots- You’re Out” published on the op-ed page of the LA times, he impacted readers about the argument over professional and college sport teams whose mascots are using Native American names. Shakley is the former chair of the Los Angeles city/county Native American Commission. The author describes the history of using Indian mascots and how it hurt a group of people. He wants readers to know that it is necessary to remove Native American names and mascots from college and professional teams. Jack Shakley uses three strategies to present his argument to show his attitude to remove Indian mascots in teams.
The piece that I will be analyzing is called How It Feels to Be Colored Me. This piece appealed to me because she described her point of view through the use of anecdote. Her perspective of being different caught my attention because most articles about being colored are so clique. This one is out of the ordinary because she thinks of being colored as a good thing. The only thing that could be difficult to analyze about this piece would understand how she feels because back then, black people were treated horribly.
Looking back at my rhetorical analysis in writing 150, to sum it up, it was horrendous. It became exceedingly obvious that I had skipped the prewriting step. Forgoing this step caused choppy sentences, multiple grammatical errors, and horrendous flow. The rough draft ended up looking like a collection of jumbled up words. The first attempted felt so bad, I started over entirely. After the review in class, I used the examples to focus my ideas and build off what other people had done. For example, the review helped me to clarify my knowledge and use of Kairos. Once done, it was peer reviewed by my group again. All the other group members commented that I had good ideas, but bad flow and grammatical errors. After revising their respective points and
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In 1729, Jonathan Swift published a pamphlet called “A Modest Proposal”. It is a satirical piece that described a radical and humorous proposal to a very serious problem. The problem Swift was attacking was the poverty and state of destitution that Ireland was in at the time. Swift wanted to bring attention to the seriousness of the problem and does so by satirically proposing to eat the babies of poor families in order to rid Ireland of poverty. Clearly, this proposal is not to be taken seriously, but merely to prompt others to work to better the state of the nation. Swift hoped to reach not only the people of Ireland who he was calling to action, but the British, who were oppressing the poor. He writes with contempt for those who are oppressing the Irish and also dissatisfaction with the people in Ireland themselves to be oppressed.
I believe that the purpose of education is to produce the next generation of leaders who are intelligent and have great character. This idea is supported in the article “The Purpose of Education” by Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist who fought for black and white people to have equal rights in America. He writes about the true purpose, and meaning of education in the article by saying, “Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction (MLK1).” This quote from the article explains that being academically educated is very important. It will help people stand up, be a leader, and take charge to make the world a better place for everyone. That gallant leader will argue against the fallacy, lies,