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William Trevor uses the force of time to produce a stark contrast between the earlier locale of the boys’ childhood and that of adulthood. For example, the latter scenes of adulthood are during winter on a chilly November night for the greater part of the current timeline. With these subtle details about the time of day and year, a mood of coldness and faint solidarity begins to materialize. While Trevor writes that Wilby is up through the night alone, the reader can sense that is not unusual from mentions of his marital status and that he reads a lot, drinks a lot (127). The darkness of the night and repetitive detail of a blinking light suggests a metaphor for the darkness cast over the character’s life as well as the
This is a very emotional song because it is a tribute to the late Paul Walker. It is especially emotional if you have seen the movies or are a fan of Paul. However it is still evocative even if you have never seen Paul Walker before because of how the video is formatted. The director uses cars as an rhetorical tool in the video because Paul was most known for his role in the Fast and Furious series, and he was killed in a car crash because he was speeding. The cars in the video help remind us that he died doing what he loved and that even though he left this world to early he was most likely enjoying himself in the moments before his death.
The article, “Cisgender Privilege, Intersectionality, and the Criminalization of Cece McDonald: Why Intercultural Communication Needs Transgender Studies” by Julia R. Johnson is about cisgender privilege, heteronormativity, intersectionality, and heterosexuality. Julia Johnson starts off the article by sharing the story of Cece McDonald, who was a transgendered African American woman. A group of racist heterosexuals, cisgender people began to yell transphobic things at her while she was with a group of friends. She was attacked when she stood up for herself, and in self-defense she stabbed one the attackers. Cece McDonald was the only person who got arrested. Even though she considered herself as a woman, she was sentenced to serve 41 months
Richard Sherman brings up some interesting points in his argument about the players relationship with the NFL. The audience he was speaking to was intended to be fans or people concerned with the safety/ opinions of the players. His intended message was to show the NFL's true relationship to the players. Within his argument he uses a few logical fallacies. An example of this is circular reasoning, he uses this a few times explaining how the NFL just wants to make money and because of that they don't care for their players. I think this example fits because he doesn't really give a strong connection between the two he just simply assumes the audience sees how they connect. Another example was "We play a violent game that has a one hundred percent
Tiffany,
Great post! I agree with anything that you discussed. I believe it is extremely important for anyone to realize that individuals have a choice on whether or not they are happy and that they have the power over feeling disappointed or frustrated. It is something that needs to be taught in our society because there are numerous people who get caught up on little things and let one negative situation effort their whole day. It is also a great way to help those who have grown up in a negative area and have come to believe that they won't amount to anything.
Logan
I agree with half of what you wrote, I do believe that it depends on the situation where it warrants someone being killed or murder because of the situation and at that moment, of when it occur especially a particular set of conditions example: If a husband comes home and notices a man in a mask over his wife and daughter dead body, then at that moment and time the husband has the right to react on what has happened to his wife and daughter, so will it be morally wrong for him to murder that person who killed his wife and daughter? Would this be a justifiable murder? This is where moral and ethics play no part at that moment and time, where there is no rational or un-rational thought that comes to play at that moment. Now playing the
“Change happens from bottom up”( https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/705554909421121537). Every major claimsmaking group is comprised of multiple subgroups that create change at a local level. Universities Allied for Essential Medicine is one such change-making, global, claimsmaking group that advocates essential medicine as a right, not a privilege. Each claimsmaking group, like UAEM, has grounds, warrants, and conclusions, which allows the group to advocate for its cause. UAEM’s Davis chapter is a paragon of a subgroup that creates local change in the stead of its parent claimsmaking group. It strives to augment essential medicine resources for underprivileged communities using many persuasive strategies like….. Through this endeavor,
Orenstein and Stabiner use different writing strategies to develop their arguments; however, they both state a clear position that single-sex classroom settings create a better learning environment for girls because they can receive equal treatment and attention from teachers without distraction of boys. By building logos and ethos in different ways, Orenstein and Stabiner both persuasively convince their audiences that sex-segregated education is a good option for the educational institutions to deal with performance discrepancy that exists between girls and boys in coed schools. Considering their persuasive arguments, it is imperative for the government to implement necessary policies on single-sex education to minimize or eliminate the gender
The following is the first in a series of learning activities that bridge current events and the Common Core. For more Monday's Dilemma learning activities click here
Overall, I think Nixon has a more convincing argument, in my opinion. He utilizes several counterclaims, and evidence to back them up, without making Kennedy obligatorily look dissatisfactory. Although, he mentions Kennedy’s arguments and why they are in a discordance, he still mentions rhetorical questions that he answers with explicit research and statistics. While bringing up Kennedy in every few spaces, he isn’t blunt with what he says about him. Nixon says Kennedy and himself are both on the right path to assist America be a preponderant nation, but Nixon indirectly states that he has a significant mean to reach the same goals for America. He contravenes the claims Kennedy brought on him, and provides various verbalizations of evidence