Tone The passage stands out due to the ominous tone the author creates when he states, “disappeared behind tinted glass”. This quote leaves the readers curious as to what the man would endure from the CIA agents. The passage reflects the author’s style of chronologically telling the event that lead Balawi into the hands of the CIA. Moreover, the passage reveals his larger theme of lies and deceit due to Al-Balawi’s father being unaware of his double life. The author’s purpose in that chapter is to give the readers an insight into the monitoring conducted by the CIA and an insight into the life of a perceived normal pediatrician and father who made an impact on the global war on terror. Idiom The language stands out due to the figurative explanation of the doctor not being noticed even though he was standing out online. The language is richer due to the hidden meaning behind “under its nose”. The author emphasizes how an ordinary man in person persuaded thousands of terrorists online. The passage relates to the author’s purpose by demonstrating the motive behind Al-Balawi’s attack. He did this in order to finally be recognized by the terrorist group he spent his entire life attempting to gain entry to. Moreover, it reveals the larger theme of creating terror to get recognized. This passage is interesting because it explains the tactics used by the CIA to mentally break a terrorist to gain information. The author’s purpose in this chapter is to explain how the CIA humiliates a terrorist by keeping them in fear and how the officials determine whether or not the terrorist will die for what they believe in. The author used evidence to describe the barbarity of the punishments. Moreover, the officials put pressure on Al-Balawi and got him to talk and as a result of this, he seeked revenge. This passage is distinctive from the rest because it demonstrates how the women are as much in involved in engaging in global terrorism as the men. In the previous chapter, Al-Balawi’s wife was described of not know anything about her husband’s secret online life. But, this text demonstrates that they fell in love due to their common interest in terrorist organizations. The author’s purpose with this text is to disprove the domesticity of women and prove that women engage in the movement as much as the men. This passage reveals the larger theme of what is Al-Qaeda’s secret agenda. Foreshadowing The author’s purpose is to convey the struggle the CIA faces of trusting someone. This passage foreshadows the Khost tragedy because it references a CIA official who repeatedly has miscalculations, which is the same cause as a result of the CIA trusting Al-balawi which led to the deaths of individuals. The larger theme of this passage is to show that Americans make rash decisions in order to have fast results which results in tragedies. The humor and irony makes the passage distinctive. Most individuals regard CIA agents to where black suits and black shoes. It is ironic and surprising to read that a CIA targeter is going into work with flip-flops and pigtails. The larger theme behind Hanson’s attire is that agents dedicate and sacrifice their personal lives in order to keep America safe. Women especially, did not care what their colleagues thought of them as long as they got the job done. The agents are forced to dress comfortably because they know they will be up all night working, while America sleeps peacefully. This passage relates to the author’s purpose of acknowledging the men and women who spent their entire professional lives devoted to bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. The passage stands out because it is comparing the humming of the drones to mosquitos. The language causes the readers to faintly picture the buzzing of a mosquito they can't swat away. The passage reveals the larger theme of the tactics used by the CIA to take down Osama bin Laden. The CIA encapsulates the terrorist groups with helicopters, government moles, and tapping into cellphones to press them into making a mistake. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that chapter of demonstrating of how the jihadist’s cannot run from the CIA. The language stands out due to the author describing the Taliban chief as a hollywood celebrity. The passage demonstrates how the jihadist groups solely commit crimes for attention and fame. The larger theme of this passage is that as old terrorist are killed, new terrorist arise due to the attraction from the public. The passage relates to the author’s purpose of demonstrating the motives behind Al-Qaeda's grand crimes. The terrorist want to be remembered and talked about. The language is mysterious and alarming that causes it to stand out.
The short sentence describes how the CIA keeps terrorist threats a secret from the public. It is alarming as an American to not be in the loop of what occurs in your country. The passage reveals the author’s style of maintaining the CIA’s secrecy by refraining from mentioning certain people’s identities and by subtly mentioning classified intelligence. The author’s purpose in that chapter is to describe the pressure agents feel from both the president and the public to keep America safe. One of their ways of keeping their country safe is by keeping certain information from them.
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language stands out due to the Matthews life experience arising sympathy and saddens in the readers. The passage reflects the author’s style of describing the characters appearances, past experiences, and current life in order for the readers to make an emotional connection to them once the Khost tragedy is re-stated in the end. The author’s purpose as a whole is to present the effects that Al-qaeda caused as a result of 9/11 on CIA officials. Imagery and Diction The language stands out due to the vivid depiction of the scenery. The author uses words such as “dry”, “swept away”, and “last traces” to illustrate Amman, Jordan. The passage reflects the author’s descriptive style of engaging the reader's senses. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in chapter 10 by setting the scene for the moment in which the CIA realized that Balawi could become the greatest double agent for the United States. However, this is also the moment in which Balwai plays the CIA. Foreshadow The passage stands out because the wife of the agent, Darren LaBonte was anxious that the informant, Balwai, was going to be a suicide bomber. This passage foreshadows the tragedy in Khost, Afghanistan. The passage reveals the larger theme of personal sacrifice for your country. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that particular chapter by identifying how the lives of agents in the terrorist-catching field are constantly dangling by a thread while their families live in constant fear. Aphorism The passage stands out because it illuminates the theme of the entire book. Balwai one moment was begging to come home while in the next he was ready to betray the Jihadist. The passage reveals the author’s purpose of emphasizing that the United States was too quick to trust the spy. They never showed doubts and were too rash in their decisions regarding Balwai. The passage reflects the author’s style of convincing the readers that Balwai should have never been trusted from the start. Irony The language stands out because the readers by this time know that the ending will be different than what LaBonte had anticipated. The readers are forced to recognize that their death is around the corner. The passage reflects the author’s style of chronologically recounting the events even though the readers already expect the tragedy. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that particular section of recapping the final moments of the agents. The language stands out because it demonstrates that Balawi yearned for a more righteous death but his Al-Qaeda commanders thought that one obscure doctor would not be missed. The author arises a nightmarish and stressed mood within the readers. The passage reflects the author’s larger theme of demonstrating loyalty through self-sacrifice and courage. The passage stands out as a result of the diabolic tone portrayed by the words “small enticements”. The passage reveals the larger theme of blood feud and careful planning to guarantee the ultimate slaughter. The passage relates to the author’s purpose of analyzing Balwai’s underlying agenda for his cause. The passage is distinct due to its window into Balawi’s personal thoughts and fears about the suicide. The pasage reveals the larger theme of courage. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that particular chapter of describing Balwai’s fanatical drive for destruction. Anecdote The passage Logos Pathos The passage stands out due to its somber and tragic tone.
The author targets the emotions of parents who are forced to think about losing their children as result of the war. Moreover, readers are overcome with sadness due to their emotional bond established with the character in the previous chapters. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that particular chapter by providing a window into the hours after the Khost tragedy.
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The passage is special because it identifies the emotion that the families and coworkers shared the moment they realized their loved ones were murdered. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that chapter by emphasizing that all were affected as a result of the tragedy including tough and fearless CIA director Michael Hayden. The passage reflects the author’s style of including personal and emotional events of the characters in order to have the readers create an emotional bond with them.
The passage stands out due to Osama bin Laden’s main goal for America being summarized in the words “never dream of peace”. This statement reveals the larger theme that as terrorist are killed whether it produces more. The passage relates to the author’s purpose of demonstrating that Osama bin Laden’s takedown was a result of countless lives lost, effort, and personal
sacrifice. Diction The passage is distinct due to the author's use of colorful words to create a picture in the reader's minds. The words entice the readers senses. The passage illustrates the memorial of the agents and depicts an optimistic attitude. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that chapter of expressing the memorial of the fallen soldiers and the emotions shared by their families and coworkers.
In 102 Minutes, Chapter 7, authors Dwyer and Flynn use ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to the readers’ consciences, minds and hearts regarding what happened to the people inside the Twin Towers on 9/11. Of particular interest are the following uses of the three appeals.
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The emotive language used throughout her memories, show direct contrast to her present situation, as well as her reasons for leaving home. The use of personification, in text such as ‘ the sea roared like an angry beast’, provide emphasis of emotive language, used in describing the estrangement felt. The language is so eloquent, conjuring such engagingly vivid images, of Ziba’s emotions, particularly as she feels the ups and downs of the unforgiving ocean. Through figurative and evaluative language, Ziba is able to depict her past and present feelings and memories. The strong connection between sensory experiences and memory is sophisticated and crisp, making the text straightforward and resonant. The author uses simile’s such as, ‘thoughts of home washed over Ziba like the surge of sea washing over the deck’, linking past and present, creating feelings of loneliness, whilst reflecting on her once peaceful home. The effective use of noun groups - laughter of children, cool mountain air, rich spices of the evening meal - alongside side a number of sensory verbs - thought, felt and smelled - assist and connect the reader to Ziba’s thoughts. Furthermore, the use of repetition in the first and last page of the text, places emphasis on the unstable state of their emotions, the uncertainty of what’s to
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of several civil rights activists who were arrested in Birmingham Alabama, after protesting against racial injustices in Alabama. Dr. King wrote this letter in response to a statement titled A Call for Unity, which was published on Good Friday by eight of his fellow clergymen from Alabama. Dr. King uses his letter to eloquently refute the article. In the letter dr. king uses many vivid logos, ethos, and pathos to get his point across. Dr. King writes things in his letter that if any other person even dared to write the people would consider them crazy.
Prados, John. Safe for Democracy The Secret Wars of the CIA. Chicago, IL: Ivan R Dee, Publisher, 2006.
O’Brien’s unique verisimilitude writing style fills the novel with deep meaning and emotion. Analyzing the novel through a psychological lens only adds to its allure. Understanding why characters act the way they do helps bring this novel to life. The reader begins to empathize with the characters. Every day, the soldiers’ lives hang in the balance. How these soldiers react to life-threatening situations will inspire the reader. Life has an expiration date. Reading about people who are held captive by their minds and who die in the name of war, will inspire the reader to live everyday as if they are currently in the
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
...is story, Hemingway brings the readers back the war and see what it caused to human as well as shows that how the war can change a man's life forever. We think that just people who have been exposed to the war can deeply understand the unfortunates, tolls, and devastates of the war. He also shared and deeply sympathized sorrows of who took part in the war; the soldiers because they were not only put aside the combat, the war also keeps them away from community; people hated them as known they are officers and often shouted " down with officers" as they passing. We have found any blue and mournful tone in this story but we feel something bitter, a bitter sarcasm. As the war passing, the soldiers would not themselves any more, they became another ones; hunting hawks, emotionless. They lost everything that a normal man can have in the life. the war rob all they have.
Rhetorical study is the art of describing reality through language. The study of rhetoric becomes an effort to understand how humans, in various capacities and in a variety of situations, can describe reality through language. The importance of rhetoric study is that, it is a good writing tool to have in academic study that can be used to persuade others. Using rhetoric has an impact on writing for composing essays. In the use of rhetoric writers and speakers should know how to use the three modes of appeal, and know the importance of certain issues when using rhetoric in their essays or speeches. Rhetoric is commonly used when arguing rhetorical topics to persuade or to inform others about certain issues.
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.
Celebrities are often used to endorse products for businesses to increase profits. Sue Jozui in her passage, explains that she believes using celebrities in advertisements is insulting to the buyer, and this action should be boycotted. The author supports her argument by first defining what using celebrities does to the consumer and how it portrays the consumer to be. She continues by stating that legislative rules should be enforced. The authors purpose is to convince the government and businesses to stop this action so that people aren't being persuaded to buy products just because a celebrity is advertising it. The author establishes a serious tone for all consumers that also support her claim. Jozui’s allegations of celebrities endorsing
In the section, “Ethical Issues,” from the article, “Genetic Testing,” NYU Langone Medical Center uses logos, ethos and pathos to aide in conveying the ethical issues that arise because of genetic testing. The author mainly uses logos to support their purpose because it allows the author to efficiently demonstrate his knowledge on the topic. One example of logos is found in page 6, where the author references Chloe’s law to provide a solution to an ethical issue that arose because of genetic testing (Genetic Testing 6). In this case, a family was able to pass a law to help give positive information to those families that were “terminating pregnancies because of a Down Syndrome diagnosis” (Genetic Testing 6). In addition, the author includes a trial on the effect
In his critical article, William Golding contends that there are three grades of thinking and that “nine-tenths of the population” does not engage in the higher grades. He supports his contention by weaving in baroque syntax, featuring demiurgic imagery, and touting audacious diction. Golding’s purpose is to explain the grades of thinking by characterizing all three in order to urge the audience to think more critically in the higher grades. He embraces a cavillous tone (“conversion of the world to my way of thinking might be difficult,”) that reaches out to educated travelers and readers of the Holiday.
One of Philip’s greatest tactics in this piece, to convey her intense grief and desolation, is her use of promising phrases about her son’s future, and her sheer joy about what it holds for him. In doing this she is able to build an emotional connection between herself and the reader, “Seaven years Childless Marriage past/ A Son, A Son is born at last…”(5,6), “As a long life promised,” (9), and “Full of good Spirits, Meen, and Aier,” (8). The emotional feelings that are withdrawn from these phrases all resonate with the reader, and allow us to become much more sensitive to not only her and what she is going through, but also her son and his lack of life. The repetition of “Son” is very effective in showing how elated she was, and actually makes the depressing realization that follows even darker and more troublesome.