In 1994, Rwanda plunged into war and genocide, with over 800,000 people killed in a mere number of 100 days. Mark Doyle, a BBC journalist recorded and described these events, where he talks about Captain Mbaye Diagne; a UN peacekeeper in Rwanda. In his writing Doyle is claiming that Captain Diagne is a hero. Doyle supports his claim by providing many rhetorical appeals in his writing to convince the readers how Captain Diagne may in fact have been a hero. By writing “I was there in 1994”, Doyle indicates how he has lived throughout the war as a reporter, therefore providing reliability as an observer. An example that showed the credibility of Doyle is riding with Diagne in the white UN car on a visit to an orphanage in a suburb called Nyamirambo (Doyle). Doyle may have included this example to explain how he was there with Diagne, making the readers believe that he was in fact an eyewitness. On their way there, they stopped at a militia roadblock, during which …show more content…
In his writing, Doyle uses the children of Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana to gain the readers’ sympathy. Doyle explained how these children were hiding behind a brick-built bungalow to take refuge from the soldiers. By pointing out how the children were frightened while occasionally looking out of the window at soldiers searching for their parents, Doyle may have been aiming to make the reader feel a sense of sorrow for their situation. Following that event, their mother had been killed. By stating what occurred, Doyle is probably aiming to provide the readers with a feeling of depression. Soon however, after finding the children, Diagne was able to save their lives by transferring them using his car to a safe hotel. Writing about this heroic event, Doyle possibly aimed to change the readers’ feeling of sorrow to a feeling of
Jared Diamond makes a great and compelling argument about how inequality across the entire globe originated. The main components that were agreeing with this argument were guns germs and steel. Guns meaning the advancement in weaponry, military warfare and military sophistication. Germs meaning the harmful disease and other foul illness that wiped out humans throughout History. Then the third and final point steel, which was about the advancement in societies and the complex sophistication with their technology, which lead to building great architecture and devices that were completely impactful.
Patrick Henry was known as “the Orator of Liberty” and created his name with his speeches. When colonists were divided in 1775, some were hoping to work it out but not Patrick Henry. He thought the only choice was to go to war with Great Britain. Henry uses ethos, pathos, and logos to show his clause for going to war with Britain.
I chose this word because the tone of the first chapter seems rather dark. We hear stories of the hopes with which the Puritans arrived in the new world; however, these hopes quickly turned dark because the Purtains found that the first buildings they needed to create were a prison, which alludes to the sins they committed; and a cemetery, which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves.
Chief Red Jacket uses a variety of techniques in rhetoric in his quote to the “white men.” When he starts out by saying, “brother” he establishes a close relationship by showing respect to the white men. Moving on, the next two sentences both start out with “you say that you are…,” which shows the technique of parallelism and repetition. What he did there really pushes his point forward and makes his point, if you will, “sticky.” In the second sentence, he uses, “Great spirit,” instead of the White men's God. By doing this he makes the White men understand that his people and he will not accept the white men's religion. In the second sentence, Chief Red Jacket uses, “you white people teach,” to distance himself from them. This quote is ended
It was not until 1919 that women had the right to vote. If it was not for the hard work, determination, and perseverance from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women today still may not of had the privilege to vote. Because of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her hard work, women are now treated equally in our society today.
Isocrates was parallel to sophists in a sense they both sold their intellectual prowess for a fee. Comparable to the Sophists, Isocrates assumed that arête could be taught. Isocrates did not see the Sophists use of rhetoric completely Unwarranted. Isocrates viewed the processes of deception as the necessary tool in the deliberative development in Greece society’s academies. During Isocrates lifetime he did not always side with the Sophists views of teaching. Unlike sophists, Isocrates was not a public speaker; Isocrates was seen more as an educator. Isocrates states, “ better afterwards and at the end”. Unlike the Sophists, Isocrates wanted to teach his students rhetoric and ethics so that he could produce more ethical leaders for the future of Greece. Isocrates
On March 23, 1775, history was made. However, this was not the typical type of groundbreaking history. It was the beginning of a revolution so profound, that it altered the life of every person in America. In his speech to the Virginia Convention in 1775, Patrick Henry insists that it is time for the Americans to rise up and fight back against the British powers by invoking anger through descriptions of their past oppression, and by unifying the delegates through ideas of the potential enslavement of their people.
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered the infamous speech at the Virginia Convention. Not only did his speech influence the push of the American Revolution; but it also includes literary genius. What makes it genius is the way he effectively utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos.
In Derricotte's essay the first rhetorical foul utilized is the inflexible insistence on the rules. In essay XI the narrator blatantly breaks this rule by using the voice of god to justify their irrational behavior towards attempting to command flies and then killing any infidels. Derricotte’s main downfall is when he tells the reader “Sometimes I believed that the things in the world hear your thoughts, the way god heard your prayers” (47). By using this rhetorical foul Derricotte discredits the narrator and makes the reader question what in the story is not an exaggeration or pure fantasy.
Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali once said, "We were not realizing that with just a machete, you can do a genocide." To be candid, nobody anticipated the Rwandan Genocide that occurred in 1994. The genocide in Rwanda was an infamous blood-red blur in modern history where almost a million innocent people were murdered in cold blood. Members of the Tutsi tribe were systematically hacked or beaten to death by members of the Interahamwe, a militia made up of Hutu tribe members. In just 100 days, from April 6, 1994 to mid-July, 20% of Rwanda's population was killed; about 10,000 people a day. Bodies literally were strewn over city streets. Genocide obviously violates almost all articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; however, the article I find most important is Article 3 - the right to life, liberty, and personal security. In just 100 days, one million people were denied the most basic privilege granted to every human – the right to live, simply because they were born to the wrong tribe.
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“The sweetly sickening odor of decomposing bodies hung over many parts of Rwanda in July 1994: . . . at Nyarubuye in eastern Rwanda, where the cadaver of a little girl, otherwise intact, had been flattened by passing vehicles to the thinness of cardboard in front of the church steps,” (Deforges 6). The normalcy of horrible images like this one had cast a depressing gloom over Rwanda during the genocide, a time when an extreme divide caused mass killings of Tutsi by the Hutu. Many tactics such as physical assault or hate propaganda are well known and often used during times of war. Sexual assault and rape, however, during times of war is an unspoken secret – it is well known that rape occurs within combat zones and occupied territories, but people tend to ignore, or even worse, not speak of the act. There have been recorded cases of rape and sexual assault in almost every war in human history. Genocidal rape was used as a gendered war tactic in the Rwandan genocide in order to accomplish the Hutu goal of elimination of the Tutsi people in whole, or part.
In conclusion, the 1994 massacre in Rwanda deserves attention. Many will argue that use of the term "genocide" is incorrect in describing the war of 1994. They argue that there were only two, true genocides in the twentieth century, of the Armenians, and of the Jews. This is only a matter of opinion. As the Webster's College dictionary defines "genocide", we can conclude that the Rwandan War of 1994 was truly genocide. It was the systematic planning to carry out the extermination of a people.
History was repeated in 1994, when decades after the Holocaust, terror, disaster and ugliness surrounded the people of the Rwandan genocide after Hutu forces began the mass killings of the Tutsi people. The predicted response to an ugly time is simply to survive. Given that one’s own survival is often prioritized over the needs of others under these circumstances, the actions of one individual, Captain Mbaye Diagne, were shocking. Amid the horror of the Rwandan genocide, Captain Mbaye Diagne demonstrated exceptional action in sacrificing, despite the barriers, to save the lives of countless others. Diagne’s actions took place, during the brutal and cruel Rwandan genocide.
Rwanda was the main scene of the brutal events that occurred in the 20th century in which about 800,00 people were killed in 100 days. The Rwandan genocide was erupted when the Hutu president was killed in a plane that was shot down by the Tutsi in 1994. The BBC journalist Mark Doyle clarified and recorded the demolishing events he had witnessed. Doyle wrote his article “A Good Man in Rwanda” to spread the information to the readers and inform them about the vital role of captain Mbaye Diagne. Diagne is a UN peacekeeper from Senegal who develop himself to save people’s lives during the genocide. Mark Doyle successfully convince the readers of Diagne heroism through effective use of images and testimonies of witnesses