In “ Anatomy of a Fake Quotation,” an article by Megan Mcardle, talks about a fake quotation from Martin Luther King Jr. The quote did not sound quite right which made Mcardle to think. Mcardle explained she saw a quote that was on her twitter account and she found it to be fake. She was wrong though. Mcardle acknowledge everything except for the first sentence was found in King’s book. It then can be easily assume to be from him. In addition, he points out that many the quote went viral throughout twitter and facebook. I think the reason why we were given this article to read because it can help us in our writing or using the right way to use quotations. We should not take shortcuts when it come to writing. It can either confuse the reader or make the reader to believe the quote is fake just like Mcardle did at first. Instead we should write the whole quote out or quote it in two quotations instead of quoting the whole quote. …show more content…
When you think something is fake, you will need further information to state it is whether real or fake. The internet can shorten quotes if people choose to change it and post it. This person did that and got Mcardles believing it was fake at first, but later she learn the quote was shortened. She wants not to jump into conclusion and think about it. Whether something is fake or real, it can go viral so easily due to the internet. Internet really change how videos or quote go big. Everyone who owns a computer can look up anything and they can stumble upon your quote and retweet it or even steal it. Social media like Facebook or Twitter is where you can find these things at and how things get viral is by famous people retweeting random stuff to others where millions of fans will retweet because that quote really much meant something to
In the passage the author addresses who Ellen Terry is. Not just an actress, but a writer, and a painter. Ellen Terry was remembered as Ellen Terry, not for her roles in plays, pieces of writing, or paintings. Throughout the essay the author portrays Ellen Terry in all aspects of her life as an extraordinary person by using rhetorical techniques such as tone, rhetorical question, and comparison.
However, the good is outweighed by the bad in that this article has almost no factual support. Worley seems to be venting her thoughts without any outside factual support. It is difficult to label this article as effective due to the lack of any factual support and evidence to back up her arguments. That is exactly what needs to change in the article. Worley must use more sources for information to back up her points, then the article may be more convincing and worth
Samir Boussarhane During the early 20th century in the U.S, most children of the lower and middle class were workers. These children worked long, dangerous shifts that even an adult would find tiresome. On July 22, 1905, at a convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, Florence Kelley gave a famous speech regarding the extraneous child labor of the time. Kelley’s argument was to add laws to help the workers or abolish the practice completely.
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer that fought for woman’s suffrage and child labor laws. Her speech to the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association initiated a call to action for the reform of child labor laws. She explains how young children worked long and exhausting hours during the night and how despicable these work conditions were. Kelley’s use of ethos, logos, pathos, and repetition helps her establish her argument for the reform of the child labor laws.
Sure enough they were right. He mentions how he wishes that students would use their taught knowledge to do their papers and put an author’s work into their own words. He ends the article with how he believes that a person who plagiarizes a paper is not
On August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the Lincoln Memorial concerning the Civil Rights movement. His speech resonated throughout the nation as his passionate and commanding voice resounded over the fields that lay before the Lincoln Memorial. Many consider this speech the “epitome of modern Rhetoric.” In his speech, King utilizes the three disciplines of Rhetoric, ethos, pathos, and logos, with finesse and skill.
Dr. KING: "My goal was to draw on traditional American values and deep traditional Christian values in the cause of civil rights and to use the mass media. I knew that television was now putting daily events right into people's living rooms every single day, and if I could shape the way the black movement was presented it would have a powerful effect on public opinion. I used television, in effect, to force white America to think, to face up to what it really wanted the country to be. I knew that Americans are not willing to stand by with all this injustice existing?
King’s role in the civil rights movement cannot be underestimated. Known as one of the most influential writers and orators of the 20th century, in his Letter from Birmingham jail King used his aptitude as a persuasive writer to address the criticisms posed by the clergymen. There are several persuasive devices in rhetoric that classify a speaker’s appeal to their audience: the use of emotional appeals, appeals to authority and appeals to logic as well the all important call to action that mobilizes a social movement. King adeptly utilizes these strategies to justify his role and methods fighting long-standing prejudices against blacks in Americ...
Martin Luther King Jr. uses many rhetorical devices to make his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” a masterpiece. He uses ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to the Clergymen in a credible and trustworthy manner, appealing to the logic and reasoning behind his arguments, and to appeal the Clergymen's emotions. King uses other rhetorical devices that support his appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos that add effects to the letter. Other devices he uses include: allusions, parallelism, illness and health contrast, irony, imagery, anaphora, and personification. He creates a complex writing that respectfully, but critically corrects the Clergymen's statements from their letter to King entitled “Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen”.
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.
Analyzing or moreover critiquing statements written by icons such Martin Luther King is an apolitically sensitive undertaking. Almost any conclusion could be even offensive for some people. Anyway is a necessary task. To understand this fact, we only have to realize that since Luther King has been one of the most important player for some of the humanity´s most important political advances ever, he has become into a symbol and his words have become almost into mantras. This is exactly the reason why we have to submit his opinions to a constant revision. I am pretty sure that if he were still alive, he would want us to discuss his ideas in order to get better results and not to allow his work to become in something unlinked with the present
In the well known book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it discusses the theme of deception within a numerous number of characters. This theme can be explained in Chapter 20 “The Minister in a Maze” Hawthorne wrote “ No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true”. I believe this quote means, within this book there are individuals that seem to be one person but end up being a totally different person, those individuals can only be that different person for a period of time before someone out..Within this quote the two characters who certainly explain this quote are Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. The major characters
In the letter his rebuttal is “they" had no other options, except to prepare for direct action,” and, Dr. King has many logical pieces of proof to support his point. When proving his point he used several different strategies, one strategy he used is including historical evidence in his letters, like when he writes, "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal. "(King 1963) He also used some logical fallacies, when he is appealing to the authority, like when he writes, “Thomas Jefferson: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...”(King 1963) This is an appeal to authority because he is including a well respected name of someone famous, and saying that this well respected person agrees with him, so his idea must be correct.
...King, Jr. also used allusions from credible sources, such as the philosophers Socrates, the reformer Martin Luther, and Abraham Lincoln to emphasize how his view point is widespread. He also included Jewish Rabbi Martin Buber and Catholic St. Thomas Aquinas to show how members of his audiences’ faiths have even supported his viewpoint.
Nicholas Carr has many strong points in his article. He successfully proves that what he has to say is worthy of his readers time, and that maybe we should all take caution to how much time we spend on the