In “How to Make the Best of Life”, Samuel Butler depicts life as a narrative in progress. “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on”. In life, our story is our violin solo and our instruments are our lips. We each tell or perform our own stories. We learn from our lives, as we live them. In the excerpt from this speech Butler uses metaphors and similes to relate life as a positive narrative, he often used rhetorical questions to open the minds of his audience to show that like can have various feelings but you only get one.
Butler also depicts life as a feeling, whether it’s good or bad. “Life is not life unless we can feel it, and a life limited to a knowledge of such fraction of our work as may happen to survive us is no true life in other people; salve it as we may, death is not life any more than black is white”. Butler encourages his audience not to sleepwalk through life, but to take action. He trying to get through his audience’s head that life is what you make it but in order to have any affect you have to take risks, make decisions, and explore options. His quote should inspire, us as individuals to take control of our lives. To go beyond the idea of what we have limited ourselves to accomplish or believe we can achieve.
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Rhetorical questions serve as a method to open the reader’s mind and prove a point.
Throughout the speech he states questions such as “In whose consciousness does their truest life consist–their own, or ours?”. The question above basically means who are you living for? Are you holding back because you are worried about what the next person thinks? Butler wants to prove to the audience that no matter how good or bad life is it is not worth failing to
live. In “ How to Make the Best of Life”, Butler elaborates on how even after death a person should still live. “I do not deny that we had rather not die, nor do I pretend that much even in the case of the most favoured few can survive them beyond the grave. It is only because this is so that our own life is possible; others have made room for us, and we should make room for others in our turn without undue repining”. Butler is stating that others have paved the way for us, therefore we should not be afraid to pave the way for future generations. One decisions we make could affect the life of others, so even if we do not make decisions for ourselves we could consider others. A decision we could make, could simply be wearing weird clothing that people say does not match. This could influence others to express themselves through fashion and wear whatever they want, even if it is not appealing to the public. In the speech, Butler is influencing us to make decisions like these. He wants us to take risks and break barriers. We should not care about being criticized or critiqued because it is our own lives and no one else has to live them.
Advertisements are constructed to be compelling; nonetheless, not all of them reach their objective and are efficient. It is not always easy to sway your audience unless your ad has a reliable appeal. Ads often use rhetoric to form an appeal, but the appeals can be either strong or weak. When you say an ad has a strong rhetorical appeal, it consists of ethos, pathos, logos, and Kairos. Advertisers use these appeals to cohere with their audience. Nike is known to be one of the leading brands of the sports shoes and apparel. It holds a very wide sector of followers around the world. In the Nike ad, Nike uses a little boy watching other basketball players play, and as the kid keeps growing, his love for basketball keeps growing. Eventually, he
Scientists are constantly forced to test their work and beliefs. Thus they need the ability to embrace the uncertainty that science is based on. This is a point John M. Barry uses throughout the passage to characterize scientific research, and by using rhetorical devices such as, comparison, specific diction, and contrast he is able show the way he views and characterizes scientific research.
Mothers always want the best for their daughters, it’s a given feeling for a mother. Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom is written in her perspective as the mother. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy tan writes the novel through her eyes as the daughter of the relationship. Both passages portray the harsh emotions between the mother and her daughter. These emotions are caused by the mother pressuring her daughter to achieve expectations. The two excerpts have similar stressful tones but Amy Tan’s novel is much more intense and displays a uglier relationship.
Over fifty years ago, in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., a Civil Rights leader, wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail addressed to eight clergymen. In his letter, King uses language tools to convey his concerns to the clergymen. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. manipulated language by using rhetorical devices to effectively transmit his message to readers. King uses methods such as repetition, anaphora, syntax, and more.
Frantically reliving and watching her previous life, Emily inquires to her parents, ““Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?” (Wilder, 182). Emily is terrified on Earth because she knows her future. She is not disappointed with the actions she made on Earth, but she is disappointed that she didn’t appreciate the little actions in life. She carried herself through life like it would never end and she never needed to acknowledge the importance of those little actions. Being an example of the theme that life is a series of thoughtless events that make up one impactful life, Emily wishes she appreciated her small actions instead of taking them for
This is a sophomore from Cleveland, Ohio. As a Politics and Government major and Spanish minor, she hopes to eventually become an immigration attorney. Her hobbies include traveling, reading, and participating in 5k races. Elizabeth will be presenting the speech A Time for Choosing, by Ronald Reagan. This speech was Reagan’s political debut and his endorsement of the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater. In this speech Reagan discusses why he supports Goldwater as well as the Republican Party. This is one of the most famous American political speeches because it explains the platforms of modern Conservatism.
In the excerpt from The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert this was shown to us by the Alma, Henry Whitaker's daughter. She observed something that was more thrilling than anything she has ever seen and because she asked to be apart of, she was allowed to be a part of something meaningful to her. An individuals has the power to create a meaningful life if they strive for what they value in life, because if they don’t try as hard as they could they will not be able to live a purposeful life.
In other words, to produce this ambition, we must take into account the affects that connections provide us. That being said, Butler voices that the ability to let ourselves become vulnerable, helps clarify our purpose of humanity, and while accepting the uncertainties, we abolish the isolation of ourselves while releasing our true, individual characteristics of what constitutes us as human.
"Born The Hard Way" is an efficient ad because it uses ethos, pathos, and kairos. This
In Robert Waldinger’s What Makes a Good Life speech, he grabs the audience's attention by at the start of the speech by asking them a question, thus engaging them into what he about to say. The question is what makes they healthy and happy and where they would invest their time and energy as they go through life which is ultimately what his speech is about.
Steve Jobs is trying to say that you should live every day like it is your last. He knew his life had value to him and his family. He felt like life was worth living even though once in a while a hard choice would come along to toughen his life. Making a choice is very hard, but when making a choice it should be one that you will not regret later in life. Making choices is one of the hardest things in life so you must see all the good and all the bad to the outcome of your options. Live everyday like it is your last. Ebert says that life is a very precious thing. Hamlet wants to die, but him not knowing what is on the other side scares so he decides to live. Even though Ebert had to get surgery, he got through it and learned to still live his life with no regrets.
In the text “Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle, he explains the meaning of life. Doyle infers that all hearts, minds, and souls are different. Doyle’s message is that people should be prepared that life will throw things at them that will make them somber or broken, but eventually everybody in our world will have to have to accept life and live life to the fullest.
Director Steven Spielberg and auther Markus Zusak, in their intriguing production, movie Saving Private Ryan and book The Book Thief, both taking place during World War II. However , in Saving Private Ryan Spielberg focus on a lot of complications that occur during war , but guilt was one difficulty that stood out to me. Zusak, on the other hand , showas that having courage during war can be a advantage and also an disadvantage depending on the situation. Both director and author grabed the audience attention with emotional and logical appeal.
...toward life rather than seeking revenge for injuries or slights, acting toward others from altruistic rather than self-centered motives, retaining a capacity for wonder and delight in the genuinely good and beautiful things in life, finding a purpose for one's life and expressing one's individuality in fulfilling that purpose and, keeping a healthy sense of modesty about one's goals or achievements” (Selye, The Stress of Life, 1956).
Many individuals have different aspects as to how life should be valued. Some individuals live life a day at a time while attempting to make the most as if their last breath was upcoming. In a Stanford Commencement in 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs quo...