In "Bistrophobia" a satirical piece by Dave Barry about the terrible quality of airline food versus how they market it to the public. He strengthens his argument by using imagery, irony, and hyperbole.
Barry begins his essay by using imagery to show what he envisions when he hears 'bistro' explaining that "I believe the French sit around their restaurants pretending to eat out of empty snail shells and making French sounds of enjoyment such as "Yumme!". In the image he creates, he exaggerates by using stereotypes such as the French pretending to eat escargot, which is a delicacy that Barry believes the French "don't actually eat". Barry begins to establish in the reader that bistros are 'fake', as the French call their snails a delicacy which they themselves would not eat, and neither would the marketers who gave the inedible airline food the title of bistro.
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He tells the reader a story, saying "Here are the items it contained: [...] (3) the greenest, coldest, hardest banana I have ever touched in my life. If I'd had a mallet, I could have pounded it straight into a vampire's heart." As a vampire can only be killed with a stake, this is an extreme exaggeration. He says that even immortal vampires could be stabbed by this banana, which the reader knows is not true. Furthermore, Barry explains, "[...] we dropped to our knees and gratefully licked crumbs off the terminal floor." Dave Barry argues that since the food was 'inedible', the people would rather lick crumbs off the floor. It shows that even though the flight passengers had access to food on the plane, it was so terrible that they had waited to lick minuscule crumbs off an extremely dirty
“The Onion’s” mock press release on the MagnaSoles satirical article effectively attacks the rhetorical devices, ethos and logos, used by companies to demonstrate how far advertisers will go to convince people to buy their products. It does this by using manipulative, “scientific-sounding" terminology, comparisons, fabrication, and hyperboles.
“Don’t Blame the Eater” is an article by David Zinczenko that explains to Americans, specifically overweight young Americans, about the risks eating at fast food restaurants and its cause of affecting one’s health. In his article, he tries to address the issue about America’s food industries by using literal devices such as tone, logos, ethos, diction, and organization in order to spread his message. He begins his article by addressing the topic and as he continues writing, he supports his topic by writing about personal experience and moves onto the reasons why his topic in a serious issue. Although he shows an overall clear progress, he does tend to have a few problems with his writing that could be improved.
I am responding to the request to analyze Radley Balko’s article, “What You Eat Is Your Business” and make a recommendation for or against publication in The Shorthorn at University of Texas at Arlington. In order to respond, I have examined the rhetorical appeals of Balko’s piece and determined why this article should be posted in the next edition of The Shorthorn. I believe that the Shorthorn audience would be interested in what is being discussed regarding of obesity, things that could potentially affect their lifestyle as well as the professors. In “What You Eat Is Your Business”, Balko claims that obesity is the responsibility of the individual not the government, and how our government is allowing American to live an unhealthy lifestyle
In “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” by Mark Bittman, argues to change people thinking on fast food because Bittman claims that healthy food is essentially cheaper than fast food. To help support Bittman’s claim he uses many different rhetorical strategies in his editorial. Bittman begins his article by giving the person who reads a few statistics about the price of fast food as of today at high quality restaurants like McDonalds. The title of the editorial correspondingly states a disagreement which he illustrates the illustration of ordering from McDonalds, where he then demonstrates that cooking ourselves is inexpensive. Furthermore Bittman lectures that Americans have made cooking a chore.
Create-a-meal, no my friend, instead you are given the tools to create-a-setting. You are presented with brilliant horses and jubilant music, bright colors and beautiful scenery, a blissful introduction, indeed. Shockingly enough, in the second paragraph it is quickly taken away from you. A dagger penetrates your balloon image. You are told that the smiles and happiness of the city are not genuine. Ursula K.
A common theme in entertainment today is the question “Just because I can, should I do it?” Usually this is applied to moral issues or controversial scientific breakthroughs. Yet, very little of the American public even bother to ask this about food science and production. As long as the food tastes good and is convenient, most people don’t really care. Melanie Warner, overall, was just like most Americans. In her book she documents how a former business journalist became infatuated with the longevity of cheese, guacamole, and other normal American cuisine. It’s a dark hole. Most readers will be horrified and confused with such production methods. While Warner’s book isn’t a scientific study, her neutral style and intriguing investigation
In a society that is facing numerous problems, such as economic devastation, one major problem is often disregarded, growing obesity. As the American society keeps growing, so does growth of the fast food industry and the epidemic of obesity. In order to further investigate the main cause of obesity, Morgan Spurlock, the film director and main character, decides to criticize the fast food industry for its connection with obesity in America. In his documentary Spurlock performs a radical experiment that drives him to eat only from McDonald's and order a super-sized meal whenever he is asked. By including visual and textual techniques, rhetorical appeals, and argumentative evidences, Morgan Spurlock was able to help viewers know the risks of fast food and how it has caused America to be the world's “fattest country”.
My humor consists mainly of a mix of high and low comedy, and sarcasm. One element of humor that does not appeal to is caricatures. An example of this is a terrorist joke. The terrorist was holding a pencil and saying “Where is the trigger?” exaggerating the fact that, in the news we hear about terrorism, and when the terrorists come to America they would not be able to decipher the language or the meaning of objects. The joke did not appeal to me in anyway and didn’t make sense. A certain part of an element of humor that does not appeal to is disgusting anecdotes. In the passage, Brothers by Jon Scieszka, a family goes on a roadtrip and stopover to eat. A brother drops a piece of candy and the cat eats it and yacks it up. “Tom burped a bit of Stuckey lunch back on Gregg.” The bodily functions and them throwing up and spilling out of the puke wagon had made me lose my appetite for lunch.
An example is “advocates of edible insects point out that they are related to crabs and shrimp”, this shows that insects can be treated as if they were seafood and can become desirable to consume. Another example is that “entomophagy, as it clunkily called, is becoming hipster-faddish in some maxi-trending venues.” Entomophagy is the human consumption of insects and as it’s becoming more popular, it’s being expanded into different areas; meaning more people exposed and eating bugs. Phillip Pellitteri said “if you get past factor that it’s an insect and just taste it, some [dishes] have interesting flavors”. Therefore, moving past the disgusting factor, the consumer would become intrigued with the food. The pathos appeal was in effect through the descriptive word
Throughout the essay, Berry logically progresses from stating the problem of the consumer’s ignorance and the manipulative food industry that plays into that ignorance, to stating his solution where consumers can take part in the agricultural process and alter how they think about eating in order to take pleasure in it. He effectively uses appeals to emotion and common values to convince the reader that this is an important issue and make her realize that she needs to wake up and change what she is doing. By using appeals to pathos, logos, and ethos, Berry creates a strong argument to make his point and get people to change how they attain and eat food.
Tone: The author’s tone in Fast Food Nation is very informative with also an entertainment side. Throughout the book, Eric Schlosser is always giving facts about different things, but along with the facts comes excitement and entertainment. Eric Schlosser uses this strategy to keep the audience in check. In other words, to keep the person who is reading the book interested. Many authors use this kind of tone to their story because if they don’t, then people would stop reading their work, but instead, the reader wants to get to the interesting facts and keep on
In his first month of living in Provence, Mayle experiences his first Provencal meal, in which he appears to enjoy significantly. He describes it as “a meal that [he] shall never forget; more accurately, it was several meals that [he] shall never forget, because it went beyond gastronomic frontiers of anything [he] had ever experienced, both in quantity and length” (14). The vivid phrases and non colloquial words Mayle uses to recall his first cuisine experience indicates the overall powerful influence that the food had over him. As he later finds out, the men and women of Provence have an “interest in food [that] verges on obsession” (15) and that the “French are as passionate about food as other nationalities are about sport and politics” (16). Also, Mayle notices that “the Chez Michel is [...] not sufficiently pompous to attract too much attention from the Guide Michelin” (60). In fact, the “clients of the restaurant eat very well in the back, [...] the owner cooks, [...] members of the family help at table and kitchens, [and has] no
Throughout this chapter Schlosser takes his reader through the journey of the french fry from spud to stomach. Schlosser uses his talents to educate the world about the ins and outs of the processed food and flavor industry, informing the fast food nation, “Why the fries Taste Good.”
She was able to evoke emotions by her choice of negatively charged words towards the other author, Stephen Budiansky, and his work, Math Lessons for Locavores. By the end of the article, the reader developed strong negative views concerning the other article solely on Trueman’s diction and her tone. By writing, “Throw in a bunch of dubious and/or irrelevant statistics that appear to be truly locally sourced-i.e., pulled out of your own behind,” and “What’s so maddening about sloppy op-eds like this is that they give fodder to folks who hate the very notion that their food choices have any consequences beyond their own waistlines and bank balances”, Trueman expresses her dislike of Budiansky’s thoughst on the topic. She describes his article in such a dismissive way that her audiences adopts the same views as her. As a whole, her way of writing creates an overall negative tone towards the article being criticized. While doing this, she also points out flaws in his argument and exposes his faults in reasoning. As a result, his argument becomes invalid in the eyes of the readers and they are left with a clear winning perspective on the issue of the Local Food Movement. Kerry Truman's use of pathos in her critical analysis of Budiansky’s Math Lessons for Locavores was successful in the aspect that she evokes emotions in her
To illustrate, Soto found out that Carolyn’s family would eat different foods than his family. In the beginning of the story his mom can be spotted in the kitchen as “she slapped a round steak with a knife, her glasses slipping down with each strike” (10). Throughout the story, Soto’s mother is seen cooking foods such as burgers, beans, and steak. Soto would always eat food similar to each other; he did not have any variety with food. When Carolyn takes Soto to meet her parents, they ate sandwiches, potato chips, and they drank ice tea. Carolyn’s mother eventually offered Soto a meal of sushi. Soto described it as “a plate of black and white things were held in front of me” (14) when the sushi was at his disposal. After he ate the sushi, Soto and Carolyn’s family talked for an hour while they had Apple pie and drank coffee. It was good for Soto to try the sushi because it shows him how food can be diverse just as much as race can