In "Black Hawk's Surrender Speech," the author uses rhetorical devices to make his claim stronger. The author claims that even though Indians lost against the whites, they are still warriors. He gets his claim across by using many figurative devices such as smilies and atmosphere. The speech contained clear and strong similes to help the audience understand the text. He states, "The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzled by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter," making a comparison between weapons and nature. The use of simile here helps the reader infer that bullets were flying across the sky freely and the Indians were in danger. Comparing the two shows that battling with the whites was extremely
Martin Blumesfield's writing of this book is a very interesting book. His way of writing really gets the point across and makes you think like you there. He uses many rhetoric devices to enhance his writing and get what he's trying to do. He uses many similes and figurative language to back up his point of him being there. He has many of Patton's paper and he actually can relate to whats going on through his interpretation of the "Patton Papers." Many say this is the greatest Patton book out there and I agree. The way Blumesfield makes you feel is so real, you can appreciate a good writer when you find one like Blumesfield.
On January 28, 1986, Ronald Reagan, the President who takes on the grievances of America and establishes hope, in his inspiring speech entitled the “Speech on the Challenger Disaster,” is able to guide the United States to prosperity. He guides the United States. by emphasizing the courage and bravery of the Challenger crew, then he drives the focus to the good that NASA allows us to accomplish, and finally tells the people that the crew dies doing what they loved. Through Reagan's use of Aristotle’s rhetorical appeals, tone, and rhetorical devices, he is able to inspire hope in the people instead of the failure of NASA.
In the beginning of this speech, he talks about how the “fight” between the Indians and whites was unfair because of the weapons the whites possessed. Despite this, the Indians still believed they had a chance to defend themselves, unfortunately they were no match for the guns. What initiated this fight was the land, belonging to the Indians, that was taken with no regards to the inhabitants. He wanted to explain that Indians were of no harm to the “white society” and wanted to carry on with their own way of life. He feared that Indians will lose their culture and will become similar to whites in a negative sense. Some similarities he lists include lying and hypocrisy, adulterers, lazy, all talk, and
Ronald Reagan was one of the most liked Presidents. When being elected for his second term, he won by a landslide—winning all the states minus Minnesota and Washington D.C. Reagan addresses the people of the United States of America. He wants the American people to reflect on his presidency, and as all presidents do in their farewell addresses, he wants to say goodbye to the nation that he's led for the past eight years. Ronald Reagan uses repetition, parallel structure, and allusion to reflect on his presidency and to say farewell to the American people.
Rhetor’s since the days of Aristotle and Isocrates have been using their rhetorical situations to deliver messages with a sense of urgency and persuade others to see their point of view. In 1933, Luther Standing Bear published his book “Land of the Spotted Eagle”. In this book, he talks about the terrible conditions under which his people live and how it needs to change. He speaks specifically to this in the excerpt “What the Indian Means to America”. Here he is referencing the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Standing Bear talks about how the European Americans caused these disasters and how the Native American could be the solution to these problems. He uses his rhetorical situation to try and convince the American government to listen
Works Cited Shakely, Jack. “Indian Mascots-You’re Out!” Everything’s an Argument, Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz, Keith Walters.
In today’s society, one of the most natural human traits is selfishness. David Foster Wallace incorporated this idea in his commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005. Wallace aims to persuade his audience that, “the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.” Although the intended audience of his speech is the graduates and staff, along with their friends and family, the piece has become quite popular since its delivery. Wallace offers, “nothing less than the truth” and captivates the listeners with his complete honestly. His personal tone lets the audience feel like they are a part of the conversation, rather than just receiving it. Wallace successfully conveys his message that society is blind to the world around them through the use of logic, humility and emotional appeals.
“The Indian Wars” troubles me because of (a) its pronounced bias, seemingly intent to distract from the history and implications of mascots as it derails efforts to challenge them; (b) its use of polling and representations of opinion; (c) the impression it undoubtedly leaves on its audience that mascots are unproblematic, particularly because indigenous people say so; and (d) the legacies of such inappropriate and inaccurate renderings for public debate and social justice.
Lincoln cleverly uses the rhetorical devices of juxtaposition, parallelism, and repetition. Juxtaposition is the comparison of two ...
Four and a half months after the Union defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. He gave the Union soldiers a new perspective on the war and a reason to fight in the Civil War. Before the address, the Civil War was based on states’ rights. Lincoln’s speech has the essence of America and the ideals that were instilled in the Declaration of Independence by the Founders. The sixteenth president of the United States was capable of using his speech to turn a war on states’ rights to a war on slavery and upholding the principles that America was founded upon. By turning the Civil War into a war about slavery he effortlessly ensured that no foreign country would recognize the South as an independent nation, ensuring Union success in the war. In his speech, Lincoln used the rhetorical devices of juxtaposition, repetition, and parallelism, to touch the hearts of its listeners.
Rhetorical Analysis of Woodrow Wilson's War Address to Congress. With the status of the country’s belligerency heavily in question, an. apprehensive President Woodrow Wilson prepared to request from an unmotivated and unprepared country, a declaration of war against Germany. After exerting every attempt possible to retain the peace and honor of the United States, the President was finally forced to choose between the two. in which he opted for the latter (Seymour 26).
Lear argues "the Crow were able to leverage for themselves a better outcome than they could have done by pursuing any other strategy" (Lear 137). But how is the reader to know this for certain? Surely it is possible for not only the Crow but all Native Americans to have held their ancestral lands and kept their culture alive, at least for a time, had all plains Indians temporarily laid down their differences to war against the whites in lieu of tribal warfare: this is illustrated on a smaller scale in historical and oral records of the battle between the three Indian peoples led by Sioux chief Sitting Bull who exacted victory over General Custer and the two Indian societies who acted as little more than supplementary cavalry to American troops. Lear is smart enough to assure multiple times that he cannot be certain about what might have happened in any event had circumstances been different, so why does he stray from his established uncertainty in this case? This is done because it is necessary for Lear to ensure the reader formulates no truth other than the one which he provides: the Crow's cultural plight was inevitable no matter the response to the white encroachment on the land. It is only in this scenario that Lear's notion of radical hope holds significance. Without it, the book is simply a waste of nearly 200 pages printed hundreds of thousands of times centered around an obsession with the diction of a rather vague
Truman Capote uses a simile in order for the readers to visualize what the scenery looks like. He compares the country to a lake using the word “as.”
In Black Hawk's Surrender Speech in 1832, he uses many rhetorical devices to address the ending of Black Hawk. He uses these devices to express his emotions and thoughts of his ending.
The history between literal cowboys and Indians proves to have broken Indian culture. The narrator mentions his “favorite uncle was only one degree away from slavery, the Indian Wars, the Battle of Wounded Knee and genocide” (Alexie 2-3), and makes perfectly clear that some form of real violence is the reason for loss of his people, their culture and now Hector. He utters, “I imagined that all my aunts, uncles, and cousins, [and his father] were buried in Hector’s empty coffin” (Alexie 3). Hector and his grave become a symbol in the story for the “broken” life and culture of the Indian man. However, every group has aspects it’s not proud of. Though Indians could blame tensions between whites for their losses the narrator tells the story through an authentic lens and admits its own people could be partially responsible. Now, years later, although racism and prejudice still exist the white man is not necessarily primarily destroying the culture or the people. This is why he says, ‘metaphorical’ versus