The short sentence describes how the CIA keeps terrorist threats a secret from the public. It is alarming as an American to not be in the loop of what occurs in your country. The passage reveals the author’s style of maintaining the CIA’s secrecy by refraining from mentioning certain people’s identities and by subtly mentioning classified intelligence. The author’s purpose in that chapter is to describe the pressure agents feel from both the president and the public to keep America safe. One of their ways of keeping their country safe is by keeping certain information from them.
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The author targets the emotions of parents who are forced to think about losing their children as result of the war. Moreover, readers are overcome with sadness due to their emotional bond established with the character in the previous chapters. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that particular chapter by providing a window into the hours after the Khost tragedy.
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The passage is special because it identifies the emotion that the families and coworkers shared the moment they realized their loved ones were murdered. The passage relates to the author’s purpose in that chapter by emphasizing that all were affected as a result of the tragedy including tough and fearless CIA director Michael Hayden. The passage reflects the author’s style of including personal and emotional events of the characters in order to have the readers create an emotional bond with them.
The passage stands out due to Osama bin Laden’s main goal for America being summarized in the words “never dream of peace”. This statement reveals the larger theme that as terrorist are killed whether it produces more. The passage relates to the author’s purpose of demonstrating that Osama bin Laden’s takedown was a result of countless lives lost, effort, and personal
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.
In 102 Minutes, Chapter 7, authors Dwyer and Flynn use ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to the readers’ consciences, minds and hearts regarding what happened to the people inside the Twin Towers on 9/11. Of particular interest are the following uses of the three appeals.
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.
Prados, John. Safe for Democracy The Secret Wars of the CIA. Chicago, IL: Ivan R Dee, Publisher, 2006.
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
Want that summer bod? Or clean out your system? Many athletes, or those trying to shed those extra pounds try to find the next diet.The next superfood. The next cleanse.To have their dream body. They have a clean diet and a well-planned exercise routine, but it is not enough. Which is why many steer towards juice cleanses. Ben Greenfield interviews athlete and owner of Organifi Drew Canole, about why juice cleanses are bad for you and the actions to take to correct your juicing.Throughout the article Ben persuades the audience using ethos and pathos, that if you are going to juice do it the right way.
Rhetorical study is the art of describing reality through language. The study of rhetoric becomes an effort to understand how humans, in various capacities and in a variety of situations, can describe reality through language. The importance of rhetoric study is that, it is a good writing tool to have in academic study that can be used to persuade others. Using rhetoric has an impact on writing for composing essays. In the use of rhetoric writers and speakers should know how to use the three modes of appeal, and know the importance of certain issues when using rhetoric in their essays or speeches. Rhetoric is commonly used when arguing rhetorical topics to persuade or to inform others about certain issues.
The author implements usage of ethos throughout his editorial column in the New York Times in order to persuade the readers of his argument. To start off with, Kristof has a very credible background to back him up. It includes the likes of graduating from Harvard and being a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He has also written as a columnist for the New York Times since 2001, meaning he is established and meant to be trusted by daily readers. This trustworthy background of the author is important because he is showing the audience that he is a credible source and is worth listening to. Statistics play a keen role in helping persuade the audience because it shows reliable information that reader trust and that he is not bias. Kristof states,
Celebrities are often used to endorse products for businesses to increase profits. Sue Jozui in her passage, explains that she believes using celebrities in advertisements is insulting to the buyer, and this action should be boycotted. The author supports her argument by first defining what using celebrities does to the consumer and how it portrays the consumer to be. She continues by stating that legislative rules should be enforced. The authors purpose is to convince the government and businesses to stop this action so that people aren't being persuaded to buy products just because a celebrity is advertising it. The author establishes a serious tone for all consumers that also support her claim. Jozui’s allegations of celebrities endorsing
In his critical article, William Golding contends that there are three grades of thinking and that “nine-tenths of the population” does not engage in the higher grades. He supports his contention by weaving in baroque syntax, featuring demiurgic imagery, and touting audacious diction. Golding’s purpose is to explain the grades of thinking by characterizing all three in order to urge the audience to think more critically in the higher grades. He embraces a cavillous tone (“conversion of the world to my way of thinking might be difficult,”) that reaches out to educated travelers and readers of the Holiday.
In the section, “Ethical Issues,” from the article, “Genetic Testing,” NYU Langone Medical Center uses logos, ethos and pathos to aide in conveying the ethical issues that arise because of genetic testing. The author mainly uses logos to support their purpose because it allows the author to efficiently demonstrate his knowledge on the topic. One example of logos is found in page 6, where the author references Chloe’s law to provide a solution to an ethical issue that arose because of genetic testing (Genetic Testing 6). In this case, a family was able to pass a law to help give positive information to those families that were “terminating pregnancies because of a Down Syndrome diagnosis” (Genetic Testing 6). In addition, the author includes a trial on the effect
The emotive language used throughout her memories, show direct contrast to her present situation, as well as her reasons for leaving home. The use of personification, in text such as ‘ the sea roared like an angry beast’, provide emphasis of emotive language, used in describing the estrangement felt. The language is so eloquent, conjuring such engagingly vivid images, of Ziba’s emotions, particularly as she feels the ups and downs of the unforgiving ocean. Through figurative and evaluative language, Ziba is able to depict her past and present feelings and memories. The strong connection between sensory experiences and memory is sophisticated and crisp, making the text straightforward and resonant. The author uses simile’s such as, ‘thoughts of home washed over Ziba like the surge of sea washing over the deck’, linking past and present, creating feelings of loneliness, whilst reflecting on her once peaceful home. The effective use of noun groups - laughter of children, cool mountain air, rich spices of the evening meal - alongside side a number of sensory verbs - thought, felt and smelled - assist and connect the reader to Ziba’s thoughts. Furthermore, the use of repetition in the first and last page of the text, places emphasis on the unstable state of their emotions, the uncertainty of what’s to
When this story is viewed through Sigmund Freud’s “psychoanalytic lens” the novel reveals itself as much more than just another gory war novel. According to Sigmund Freud psychology there are three parts of the mind that control a person’s actions which are the id, ego, and superego. Psychoanalysis states that there are three parts of the human mind, both conscious and subconscious, that control a person’s actions. The Id, ego, and
...is story, Hemingway brings the readers back the war and see what it caused to human as well as shows that how the war can change a man's life forever. We think that just people who have been exposed to the war can deeply understand the unfortunates, tolls, and devastates of the war. He also shared and deeply sympathized sorrows of who took part in the war; the soldiers because they were not only put aside the combat, the war also keeps them away from community; people hated them as known they are officers and often shouted " down with officers" as they passing. We have found any blue and mournful tone in this story but we feel something bitter, a bitter sarcasm. As the war passing, the soldiers would not themselves any more, they became another ones; hunting hawks, emotionless. They lost everything that a normal man can have in the life. the war rob all they have.
One of Philip’s greatest tactics in this piece, to convey her intense grief and desolation, is her use of promising phrases about her son’s future, and her sheer joy about what it holds for him. In doing this she is able to build an emotional connection between herself and the reader, “Seaven years Childless Marriage past/ A Son, A Son is born at last…”(5,6), “As a long life promised,” (9), and “Full of good Spirits, Meen, and Aier,” (8). The emotional feelings that are withdrawn from these phrases all resonate with the reader, and allow us to become much more sensitive to not only her and what she is going through, but also her son and his lack of life. The repetition of “Son” is very effective in showing how elated she was, and actually makes the depressing realization that follows even darker and more troublesome.