Many writers have a technique to their work. One known as rhetorical appeals. The four given texts relate to the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon, all contain the same tool of writing. The four texts are effective in achieving their purpose because of the tools such as ethos, pathos, logos & soaps. Starting with the first text, Man Takes First Steps on the Moon by the Times is an article that uses these specific tools. Every text contains soaps. In this case, the speaker would be the Times of London. The occasion would, of course, be the 1969 Apollo 11 event & was written shortly after. The audience would be everyone in the world. With such big news, this article was important to all. Then came the purpose. The purpose was to show the world that NASA was able to send people to the moon, a different planet. …show more content…
The second text is a speech by William Safire.
The speech, In Event of Moon Disaster, was given in 1999, & which was prepared by President Nixon’s speechwriter, William Safire, to be used in the event of a disaster that would maroon the astronauts on the moon. The speaker referred to ethos when he said, “ These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.” He then appealed to pathos when he stated,” But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their
sacrifice". The third text is a commentary by novelist Ayn Rand. In the commentary, The July 16, 1969, Launch: A Symbol of Man’s Greatness, Rand wrote it for the purpose to put forward their philosophy of objectivism, which values individualism, freedom, and reason. The audience was set to be for everyone. Another rhetorical device that she uses is pathos. She appeals to pathos by using descriptive words that invoke awe in her readers. Rand then uses logos & concedes the argument by calling the launch a "cataclysm which, if unleashed by nature, would have wiped man out of existence". The fourth text contains an editorial cartoon known as Transported by Herblock. This cartoon would be affected by pathos because it shows that many people are focusing on events or situations that are not very tragic. Instead, they are ignoring real problems like war, poverty, & prejudice. Logos would be shown as to how many people can relate to it. Not many realize that they do this, however, it is used as an argument to prove to those who do so. In conclusion, all of these texts contained rhetorical appeals to achieve their purpose. Although some of these texts did not contain all of the rhetorical devices, it contained most & the message was still sent well. The point & purpose were all sent across with the help of using ethos, pathos, logos, & soaps.
Good literary text can communicate messages more powerfully than good informative text. 2 different texts, Moon Bear Rescue by Kim Dale, and the brochure Southern Asian Moon Bears, are chosen to represent in the argument between literary and informative. Both books are similarly capable of delivering a message, but which is more powerful? Informative clearly states the facts and provide consecutive information; raises awareness for the objective, i.e. Moon Bears, whereas the literary tends to tell more of a story, perhaps information, adapted to entertain the reader, and sometimes, to educate. Because of this, I feel that the literary is much more capable of providing a powerful message, mostly informative text lacks the friendly and heart-warming story that the literary text provides.
Remember the Titans was a film based on the 1970s, a time of racial segregation. The Gettysburg Speech, given by Coach Boone, is an attempt to persuade his players to integrate regardless their racial differences. He brings the team to Gettysburg to deliver his speech, hoping to emphasize the point he is trying to make. Coach Boone explains that they too will be destroyed like the men of Gettysburg if they do not end this feud. Coach Boone was able to successfully unify his team despite their racial differences by effectively utilizing imagery, alliteration, and pausing throughout his speech.
It must first be noted that positive connotated words are embedded throughout all of Eisenhower’s speech, which includes the following: devotion, hope, superiority, confidence, and victory. However, when referring to the opposing side,- the Germans- words with negative connotations pervade the context in order to depict the contrast between the two sides and provide a strong sense of nationalism to the American Soldiers. Pathos is mainly developed through providing these soldiers or the audience with a sense of hope. At the very beginning of the speech, he offers support by telling the soldiers that the all the world’s eyes are on them and when they march, all of the world will walk with them. Another example is seen in the quote,” I have full
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.
As a result of the successful mission that landed the first men on the moon, called the Apollo 11 mission, many people were inspired to provide commentary on this landing. Although these texts describe unique individual purposes about this landing, they all effectively support their purposes through the use of several rhetorical devices.
One day, in the early 60s the US Government discovered that the Soviet Union had a nuclear missile on the island of Cuba. So, the US government asked the Soviets to get rid of them. It was a bold thing to do because anything could have happened. Things between the US and the Soviets were already tense because of the cold war. For fourteen days, tension grew between the nations. Not knowing if this missile aimed and ready to fire at the US. Kennedy decided to give this speech the “Cuban Missile Crisis Address”. The address was used was to announce there will be a naval blockade on Cuba until the crisis is solved. This address was very effective because Kennedy did not say he was going to start
Since the presidency of George Washington, the people of The United States have turned to the commander in chief in times of distress to receive assurance and hope. Kurt Ritter comments on President Reagan’s address to the nation given on January 28, 1986 saying, “Perhaps no president could have fulfilled the country’s need to mourn and, then, to begin to heal as skillfully as Ronald Reagan (Ritter, 3).” On that morning the space shuttle “Challenger” violently exploded while the nation watched live televised coverage of the shuttle’s launch. President Reagan was scheduled to give his State of the Union Address on that date, but instead he reached out the country in this time of mourning. He spoke from his oval office to heartbroken teachers, children, NASA Space Engineers, and the entire country. President Reagan’s reaction to the tragedy of the challenger guided the United States out of despair and into a new light of hope behind seven fallen heroes. In this essay I will show that Reagan gave our country a new light of hope through his emphasis on Pathos but also incorporating Ethos and Logos in this memorable presentation.
“The Secret History of the Women Who Got Us Beyond the Moon,” written by Simon Worrall, takes a more direct approach than its counterpart. Rather than using many quotations and pictures to drive the argument home, Worrall conducts an interview of Nathalia Holt, the author of the book that the article focuses on. Worrall most heavily uses the rhetorical device induction, particularly with the interview’s arrangement. Opening questions of the article covered the general topic of the book and the article, such as: “Who are the rocket girls?”; “Why have we never heard of them?”; and “What drew you to this story, Nathalia?” Worrall later uses more specific questions to narrow down his argument to a more definite point, but his argument turns slowly
Apollo 13, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) proclaimed “The Successful Failure”, is one of the administration’s finest hours. I decided to choose this topic because I remembered watching the movie Apollo 13 starring Tom Hanks in the seventh grade when we learning about the Milky Way Galaxy. I did not have any background information on Apollo 13 prior to watching the movie and was genuinely curious about the topic. As I researched, I concluded that these events defined one of America’s finest moments even though one of their missions could not land on the moon.
On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union, our chief rival the in Civil War, launched the worlds first satellite, the Sputnik 1 (Piddock, Zissou). Scared the Soviet Union would gain control of space; President John F. Kennedy met with NASA to discuss putting a man on the moon (Piddock, Zissou). The Apollo 11 mission wasn’t just the first lunar-landing attempt: it was a giant step for mankind that came with various consequences (SV; SV). In the NASA meeting Kennedy stated, “Whatever the cost, we must get a man on the moon before the soviets. There’s nothing more important” (Piddock, Zissou).
On 10th of April John Swigert, Fred Haise and James Lovell boarded the most important operation of NASA history. After Three days on 13th of April while carrying out a daily stir on the Oxygen supply tanks, the mission of “Apollo 13” underwent a dreadful electrical failure and was enforced to execute an emergency homecoming mission. The film has given us two sayings to our day to day cultural language, Houston we have a problem! Said by Jim Lovell, and Failure is not an option! Expressed by Gene Kranz.
On September 12, 1962 ‘We Choose to Go to the Moon’ was a magnificent, nearly eighteen minute long speech delivered by the heroic president of the United States Of America, John F. Kennedy, he was a courageous human being who had the confidence to take decisions in very little time which paved the way for Unites States Of America to be a world leader today. He stands neck to neck with one of the most renowned presidents ever, Abraham Lincoln. The speech displayed the power of American technology and their passion to stay a world leader. The speech was not only delivered to the 1000’s of Americans present that day in Rice University but to the Entire Globe. It was a message for the World.
A Wednesday morning on July 16, 1969, a fervent crew of three astronauts including Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. was launched by a Saturn V rocket into a controversy. Apollo 11 departed from Cape Kennedy into Earth’s orbit after Columbia, the service module, attached itself with the lunar module, Eagle, and continued the group’s journey towards the Moon. By July 20, Apollo 11 approached the craterous satellite after hovering in its orbit for twenty-four hours. Armstrong and Aldrin allegedly ambled over the lunar surface upon the Lunar Module’s arrival on the Tranquility Base, Armstrong reporting: “The Eagle has landed”. Upon his descent from the Eagle’s ladder, Armstrong delivered his famous words: “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” (“The First Lunar Landing”). After arriving back to Earth at a high speed of 25,000 miles per hour, Aldrin, Armstrong, and Collins parachuted to safety into the Pacific Ocean on July 24. During a post-flight press conference in the Manned Spacecraft Center’s auditorium in Houston, Texas, Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin recall the aspects of their adventure, beginning from the undocking process to the placing of the flag and ultimately the voyage back home, at the same time presenting photographs (“The First Lunar Landing”). Upon Buzz Aldrin’s return, he became a victim to severe depression and alcoholism, losing touch with his heroism and plummeting into a stage he referred to as the “downward spiral” (Aldrin & Abraham 271). As for the other men in the Apollo crew, they returned to their regular lives, amid soaking up the fame and glory by the American public. Americans across the nation tuned in to the news channels on their television sets and watche...
1968 was a tough year for all Americans and Apollo 11 boosted United States morale and helped many people get their minds off of the struggles of that past year. After a lot of failed attempts and a decade of research, the United States finally got a man on the moon. This eight-day project changed history and the knowledge about space forever. The moon landing distracted many Americans from the terrible events that occurred in 1968. This event still proves America’s achievement and power to this day and is leading to other space explorations in the future.
Landing on the moon was a momentous event for not only Americans but for the entire world. The main topic of discussion will be whether or not human beings had the capability to put a man on the moon prior to 1969. The question that will be explored will be whether scientists in the era of the Greek and Roman’s philosophers and scientists and if they had accepted scientific testing of physical ideas and had been able to accept the failures of prior scientists, would space travel had been possible in the 16th century. A person who believed that space travel was possible prior to the first moon landing would have had to go off of the assumption that scientists and philosophers of the 17th century understood how the moon worked and how the gravitational forces worked upon the moon and Earth.