Garrison Keillor writes for the Washington Post, in which is one of his columns “Beauty is truth and truth is factual” written September 12 2017. Via his column Keillor criticizes President Trump for ignoring reality and facts. He utilizes a narrative style throughout his column with cause and effect, parallelism, and he employs a cautionary tone. Keillor uses cause and effect to tell how ignoring the truth can have dire consequences and how the truth can make things less grandiose, allowing it to be easier to ignore. Former President William Henry Harrison delivered his inauguration speech on a rainy day in March despite the fact it could make him ill; and healthcare was not the best in 1841. However historians now believe that he died from drinking water contaminated with excrement. In a way Harrison died because he ignored the reality of catching pneumonia. But the true cause affects how his death is perceived; being killed by poop water feels worse than dying of pneumonia. Interestingly, the name Trump is not mentioned in the column. However it is clear whom …show more content…
While Harrison was being treated for pneumonia, Keillor speculates that Harrison was dreaming of the time when he was a war hero. He may have been delirious from treatment, but all the same, he disconnects from reality. Keillor does not go into great depth about events that Trump has denied. However the concept still applies, even when Keillor does not mention it. For an example outside the text, scientists have argued with Trump regarding global warming. But instead Trump disregarded what they said, no matter which party is correct, and said that global warming was made up by the Chinese as a conspiracy. Trump repeatedly passes blame onto any scapegoat within the proximity of his thoughts. If Trump continues to deny facts then sooner or later “Harrisondom” will arrive. Reality always catches
Eugene V. Debs, the United State’s most influential union leader and avid socialist gives light to many issues including presidency, systems of society, and most importantly the unemployed in his speech “The Issue”. Debs was imprisoned in the 1890s for illegally encouraging a railroad strike, he also was sentenced to 10 years for his discouragement to the United States’ involvement in World War I. Debs has been a remarkable figure in the socialist party and had influenced so many. In Eugene Debs’ speech, Debs’ uses rhetorical appeal to relate to and convince his audience of the “issues” in the United
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.
“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.
The chapter, Church, has the troop hold up in a church for a few days. In the church, the monks take an immediately likely to the troop help with food and weapon cleaning. A few of the soldiers discuss what they wanted to do before the war. The troops learn more about each other and insight into what faith can be to them.
… Men and women who wear the political label stitched with the idiocy of a Truman, rotted by the deceit of an Acheson, corrupted by the Red slime of a White.”
Cole, Allen F. "ASSERTING HIS AUTHORITY: JAMES BUCHANAN'S FAILED VINDICATION." Pennsylvania History Winter 70.1 (2003): 81-97. JSTOR. Web. 14 May 2014.
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
President Barack Obama has been a well-known political figure for just over 8 years; he has served two terms as the President of the United States. There has been controversy surrounding the first African American president, after his first term Obama failed to prove to America that he would fix all the things he promised to fix upon election. With his second term he has set in place his views and goals for the country. Obama’s views have been trying to benefit the overall population of American, from the poor all the way to the rich with a few subclasses in-between. During the Inauguration of his second term, won against Mitt Romney. His opponent stood for many things that were conflicting to Obamas platform, while Obama stood for rehabilitating the poor after the recession, Romney wanted to focus on tax breaks for the rich. Throughout the speech given by President Barack Obama, he outlines necessary changes in the system to benefit the people and the need for people to come together as one to have an effective country.
Each and every loss Burr had, he continuously blamed them on Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton constantly drug Burr’s name in the dirt through the media. He thought Hamilton had ruined his reputation. “A newspaper reported that Hamilton had described the vice president as “a dangerous man and one who ought not to be ...
Our nation is plagued with problems, and we look to one man to solve them all, president Barack Obama. He plans to solve these in his address to the United Nations General Assembly given on September 24, 2014 in New York City. President Obama gave this speech in response to major issues that were taking place at that time. Some of the issues he talked about were Ebola, which was a deadly disease running rampant through West Africa, the conflict in Ukraine having to do with Russia, and the issue of ISIL terrorist groups. Obama talks about all of these issues to bring up one major goal of this argument. The goal is for the international community to come together to sort out and overcome the problems. He tackles two questions in this argument, “whether the nations here today will be able to renew the purpose of the UN’s founding; and
level of news media. He accuses them of exaggeration and lying, and believes that they all
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made… I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child” (187-188).
Patrick Henry’s speech is very powerful and yet emotional at the same time. There is an urgent need in reacting to the British as there is “no time for ceremony,” and the Americans must resist their “insidious smile.” Henry is appealing to pathos because this is not the time to let down their guard and to pay attention to what the British are really doing. He is also referring to the lack of positive responses like “a snare to your feet” from the petitions that were sent to the British, an image of a trap ready to capture the
... when the grocery store owner called him a thief William began to lose faith in the system. After that there was the Nazi surplus store owner who thought the two were so much alike, the restaurant that wouldn’t give him breakfast because he was three minutes late, the plastic surgeon that made abundantly more money than he made saving people’s lives, and the highway construction that was a result of greed and not necessity.
Tom Buchanan’s unfaithful characteristics led to weak interpersonal relationships which can be attributed to his arrogance. The first essential trait which is found in all moral people is devotion to their friends and family. By developing unfaithful characteristics, one quickly becomes forgetful and disregards the ones they had once cared for. Despite his claimed love for Dai...