Leslie Ruano
March 23,2018
Final Draft
3A
“The Lovely Stones”
The Parthenon embraces its beauty in human history , however , it imprisons its misuse and abuse in addition. In Christopher Hitchens’s , “The Lovely Stones” , he builds an argument to persuade the audience that the original Parthenon Sculptures should be returned to Greece . Christopher Hitchens uses negative diction , cultural references , and the rhetorical appeal , logos , to strengthen his argument .
In the story , Christopher Hitchens uses negative diction such as the word “Grotesque” , which he uses towards the structure of the sculptures of the Goddess and one of the Greek Gods . In paragraph
In the video “An Evening With MR QUENTIN CRISP (1980)”, the main speaker Mr. Quentin Crisp begins the speech by allowing the audience to acknowledge that the ideas he is presenting are different from world-wide standards and are not accepted by the mass. As he says: this is “consultation with psychiatrist madder than you are” (Mr. Quentin Crisp).
This commercial was made by the car company, Prius, that prides itself as being the first eco-friendly car in early 2008. It advertises the toyota prius as a new innovation that helps the earth unlike other cars. It’s geared towards people who drive or will be driving, or basically anyone that cares about their environment. It wasn’t until the early 2000’s when everyone started becoming aware of global warming and the effects of pollution on earth. Therefore, this ad was created to advertise another step in conserving the earth using modern technology. Its goal is to get people to feel sympathy and buy a prius in order to save the earth.
Colonel for the army, Miles Quaritch, in his rules to pandora speech for the soldiers just landing, informs the soldiers of the rules of being on this new planet and what to expect. Quaritch explicitly states that their not in Kansas anymore they're on a new planet. He creates a serious tone in order to get it in the soldiers heads where they are and what to expect by using ethos, logos and pathos.
Anticipation is prevalent throughout The Road, which is set by the narrative pace, creating a tense and suspenseful feeling and tone.
The Shawshank Redemption is an inspiring story about Andy Dufreine and his efforts to maintain hope in horrible situations. The directors used many effective methods that displayed signs of hope in such a horrible place. Andy maintained hope by distracting his mind and always staying occupied. Andy was also inspired to survive by helping others find hope in life.
Hitchens, Christopher. The Elgin Marbles: Should They be Returned to Greece? London; New York: Verso, 1998.
Imagine the world we are living in today, now imagine a world where we are told who to marry, where to work, who to hate and not to love. It is hard to imagine right, some people even today are living in the world actually have governments that are controlling their everyday life. In literature many writers have given us a view of how life may be like if our rights as citizen and our rights simply as human beings. One day the government may actually find a way to control and brainwash people into beings with no emotions like they have in the book 1984 where they express only hate, because that’s what they have been taught by the party.
Photographs capture the essence of a moment because the truth shown in an image cannot be questioned. In her novel, The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold uses the language of rhetoric to liberate Abigail from the façade of being a mother and spouse in a picture taken by her daughter, Susie. On the morning of her eleventh birthday, Susie, awake before the rest of the family, discovers her unwrapped birthday present, an instamatic camera, and finds her mother alone in the backyard. The significance of this scene is that it starts the author’s challenge of the false utopia of suburbia in the novel, particularly, the role of women in it.
Howard Roark’s speech in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead displays the author's personal philosophy of objectivism. Objectivism is an idea that Ayn Rand had developed and promoted in her works of literature. Objectivism advocated for the rights of individual freedoms such as someone being able to do whatever that person desires with their own creations. In this case, Ayn Rand’s character Howard Roark; who had dynamited his own building . Through Rand’s persuading diction, immense detail, and powerful organization, Ayn Rand takes a stand through a fictional character to promote the idea that an individual should be able to live freely without society or the government scrutinizing him.
Duncan’s (1991) analysis of western museums is defined through the theme of “durable objects” as a criterion to judge the heritage of American and European art as a ritual of the modern state. In this manner western art museums are built like “temples” as a symbolic and figurative representation of greatness of western culture throughout the world: “[They] are more like the traditional ceremonial monuments that museum buildings often emulate—classical temples” (Duncan 90). This interpretation of American/European museums defines a dominant source of cultural heritage that ritualizes
The country of Greece has opened a state of the art museum to house the Parthenon Sculptures, just steps away from their original home on the Acropolis Hill. However, only half of these important sculptures, inscriptions and architectural columns have been placed within the museum. Due to a series of unfortunate events including an explosion in the 1600's, the sculpture and marble structures sat in disrepair for over 200 years. In 1816, an English gentleman named Lord Elgin purchased them from the ruling Ottoman Empire and brought them back to London where they have been on display in the British Museum. Although saving them from further harm and ruin in the 1800s and 1900's, Greece is now ready to take them back, embracing their all important ancient identity.
Possibly one of the greatest testaments to the Greeks passion for their gods is the Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens, Greece. “. . . temple after temple, each more gorgeous and more perfect than the one before, rose all over the Greek main land, to reach a final climax in the Athenian Parthenon . . .” (Hamlin 124). Here Hamlin explains the greatness of what was achieved in Athens at the Acropolis and how nothing beyond that point could compare.
Cormac McCarthy, an American novelist, and screenwriter attended an interview from a 2007 episode, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, an American media proprietor, actress, and producer.
Hitchens use of emotional imagery compels readers to agree with an opinion that appears to be completely logical. “The front part of the torso of Poseidon is in London, and the rest part is in Athens. And so on. This is grotesque...” To any person that is artistic or might have OCD, this kind of description and thought would be unbearable. Notice Hitchen’s language, torso and rear. By picking these two body parts, it paints a disgusting and unnatural picture in people’s minds. By logic, the entire separation of a statues parts would not be in any way pleasant. This
"Should Britain Return the Elgin Marbles?" The Week UK. N.p., 14 Feb. 2009. Web. 13 Feb.