Blackboard Discussion 1: After reviewing both the article and video, I think Jason Brennan had a stronger argument as to why he feels Capitalism is better. One of the first things he starts off with is a counter argument and a response that really strengthens his argument. Another thing that really helps him is that he tries not to be biased by saying that he is capitalist but he lives in a community. Although both the video and article provide clever examples, I feel as if Brennan provides more examples that really help persuade his audience. It is a little hard to compare them upon who is more persuasive because the article is just a short summary of a much larger book, and the video's presentation is more effective because you really know what angle he is coming from. Brennan was also well prepared in the interview to defend his side. Both Cohen and Brennan really took their audiences into consideration and made it a little bit easier for those that may not know a lot about the topic to understand. …show more content…
Brennan did a little bit of a better job at realizing that his audience has different opinions on the topic and he did a good job at discussing why he thinks his side makes the most sense. I thought more in a socialist way before watching the video, and Brennan did an awesome job at persuading me into thinking toward a capitalist thinking. I still lean more toward socialism, but Brennan was able to change my mind into second guessing it. Blackboard Discussion 2: The “monster” I chose to compare to Vampires and Zombies is a Ghoul. A Ghoul is "an evil spirit or phantom, especially one supposed to rob graves and feed on dead bodies". Ghouls are said to be failed vampires because they did not fully develop after death. Although, Ghouls and vampires do have similarities, they are both nocturnal creatures, repelled by sunlight, and both feast on the living. However, they are different because Ghouls are not in control of their bodies and are driven by their intense hunger. Ghouls also only communicate by grunts and hisses. We were scared of Ghouls more when we were children because it was said that they feast on children, dead corpses and sick adults. Ghouls came from an Arabic Origin and was used to scare disobedient children. Although Ghouls are said to be graver robbers and feast on dead bodies, there is another definition of a Ghoul which is, a person morbidly interested in death or disaster. This relates to the people that stare when they pass by a car crash or the ones that are so interested about the news of a hurricane or plane crash. Although, not all people are like this, they look away when a crash happens or become sick when they hear about a natural disaster. So, technically a Ghoul is all of the people out there that find the terrifying natural disasters or the car crashes they pass by on the highway interesting and instead of turning their heads they continue to stare. I for one am a Ghoul, every time something bad happens I read all of the news articles associated with it. Blackboard Discussion 3: There are many urban legends out there, but I chose killer in the back seat to uncover the message or moral of the story. Killer in the backseat is an urban legend that is used in many horror films. The victim (usually a girl) is driving home to realize there is a murderer in the back seat. A young woman left a bar to head home, when she realized there were headlights behind her. The car turned on the turn signal, but suddenly swerved back behind her and followed her closely all the way home. When she arrived she prepared to run inside and lock the door. As she ran inside she heard the driver from the car say, "run inside, lock the door and call 911!" When the police arrived, she found out that the man in the car behind her was trying to save her from the man in the back seat with a butcher knife trying to kill her. The moral of this story is always check your back seat, but maybe it means a little bit more than this. People are always talking behind your back, also referred to as "back stabbers", so maybe this urban legend it trying to tell us all that we need to watch our backs in general. Be aware of your surroundings because you never know who to trust. It is always the people that we do not trust, that end up saving us. Blackboard Discussion 4: I think Le Guin's short story, may speak to the social issue of child abuse.
Most people pay no attention to the small hopeless children. "In the room a child is sitting. It could be a boy or girl. It looks about six, but actually is nearly ten. It is feeble-minded. Perhaps it was born defective or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition, and neglect" (Le Guin, 3). These children most of the time go unnoticed. They are too scared to speak up about the issue or their parents beating them at home. At home "-sometimes the door rattles terribly and opens, and a person, or several people, are there. One of them may come and kick the child and make it stand up" (Le Guin, 3). These children also feel as if they speak up no one will listen because no one has ever listened to them before. "I will be good, it says. Please let me out. I will be good! They never answer". When these children finally leave they never come back to the disgust they left
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In Florence Kelley's speech to the people attending the NAWSA convention, she uses emotional appeal to motivate her audience to convince their male counterparts to legalize voting for women, and also to persuade the males to help put an end to child labor.
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.
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.
One Child’s Courage to Survive. “ A Child Called It ” Abstract This is one of the best, yet saddest books that I have ever read. There are so many bad things out there that are happening to good people. We just have no idea.
During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the fight for equal and just treatment for both women and children was one of the most historically prominent movements in America. Courageous women everywhere fought, protested and petitioned with the hope that they would achieve equal rights and better treatment for all, especially children. One of these women is known as Florence Kelley. On July 22, 1905, Kelley made her mark on the nation when she delivered a speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association, raising awareness of the cruel truth of the severity behind child labor through the use of repetition, imagery and oxymorons.
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.
In his essay entitled “The Rhetorical Stance,” Wayne Booth describes how rhetorical stance is imperative for good writing. I agree with Booth that by using rhetoric stance in our writing we can produce and powerful and well-written argument. How then do we know if we are using the art of rhetoric in our writing? According to Booth, “Rhetoric is the art of finding and employing the most effective means of persuasion on any subject, considered independently of intellectual mastery of that subject" (199). In making this comment Booth urges us to be knowledgeable on the subject we are writing about and use passion and emotional appeals to strengthen our argument. Booth gives his readers a good explanation of what the word means and how it is portrayed in essays.
Every child, upon reaching the age of understanding, is ushered into the room to see it with the situation being explained to them. They feel angry, outraged and would like to do something for the child, overwhelmed by the injustice of the situation. But as time goes on, they begin to convince themselves that even if the child were released, it would not get much good out of its freedom, for it is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy and respond positively to humane treatment. To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement; to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of happiness of one: to them that would be a greater sin indeed. They, over the years, come to the terms with this unwritten social contract and accept it as a sacrosanct part of their
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.
poor”( Papalia et al. 295). Thousands of children around the United States sit on street corners
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.
The spirits of children are shattered, tender hearts broken with words, and precious bodies riddled and limp from abuse. Eyes that should glisten with wonder and excitement are enveloped with dismay and destruction. Fathers physically beat their little girls. Mothers leave newborns in locked cars, and some parents degrade their children with verbal daggers. Child abuse is much more serious than people want to believe. Child abuse comes in different forms: neglect, physical, and verbal abuse. But what are even more serious are its effects: inability to properly function in society, fear of trust, and a broken self-esteem. We should all be there to help these children, by holding their hands, or even giving them a sincere smile.
The lone child in the story represents starving, homeless, and suffering people in society. All the members of society are aware of the less fortunate people in society. Just like in Omelas, people look at them and do nothing to help them out of their misery. It is not uncommon for the privileged people in contemporary society to feel disgusted at the sight of the dirty, starving, homeless people on the streets. Such people receive awful treatment from the other people in society. In the story, Guin states that “one of them may come and kick the child to make it stand up” (3). Is this the way the less privileged people should be treated? Although Guin uses a utopian society, she manages to bring out the picture of the injustices committed in society. Many people do nothing to help those suffering in society. Some people continue leading their happy privileged lives without any care about the less privileged, while others simply pity them and walk away, claiming that there is nothing they can
The children couldn’t accept what they thought was so horrible. There was a lot of ignorance and carelessness portrayed throughout this short story. The theme of ungratefulness was revealed in this story; The author depicted how disrespecting someone can inturn feed you with information you may wish you never knew and how someone can do one wrong thing and it immediately erases all the good things a person did throughout their
Child abuse over is happening all around the world to many young children. Many of the victims tend to keep the abuse silent because of the fear that the situation at home could only get worst. Persons from the community sometimes have an idea that something is wrong in a particular household and refuses to speak out to the authorities because the situation is not affecting them directly.