The author opens with an image of Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid kneeling during the national anthem back in 2016. Controversy rips through our nation due to the fight whether or not kneeling is apart of our freedom of speech (or the original point about police brutality) or if it is disrespectful to the flag and the country as a whole. High School activist who understood that kneeling creates talking points which creates change. Many high schools sent out letters to parents. One high school in Louisiana said, “It is a choice for students to participate in extracurricular activities, not a right, and we at Bossier Schools feel strongly that our teams and organizations should stand in unity to honor our nation’s military and veterans.” That letter was remise as that was not the point of the protest but the skewed view of the protest that was changed by the president’s tweeting frenzy. High Schools took the stance that if student-athletes “Failed to comply it would result in loss of playing time and/or participation as directed by the head coach and principal, continued failure to comply will result in removal from the team.” NFL athletes had protested in solidarity against racial injustice not disrespect for the flag. The author's diction does not express a deep emotional attachment to the cause. The author's tone is hollow and impartial as opposed to past articles. The author appeals to logos on each side of the argument is run on different logical arguments. The purpose was to call out High Schools and The President for these orders as students are using their right to peacefully protest for what they believe in as it does not inhibit others right.
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The author uses the emotion of the survivors of the Las Vegas shooting as a vessel for their thoughts. As the story unfolds and survivors stories pile on the author adds more and more quotes and gut-wrenching tales of what people did to survive the investment for the author gets stronger and stronger. The author's tone is candid, compassionate, and formal. The author dropped a whopping load of pathos throughout the article as each survivors story is told and how those complete strangers worked together to help those who they did not know and all they knew was they were hurt or dying and they used whatever knowledge they could to help people. They triaged and got people the medical attention they needed by “borrowing” a strangers truck and asking people to use their truck beds to load up strangers to go to the hospital. Strangers who “had two arms and had two legs..hadn’t been shot .. and knew people were in danger” went and helped those who couldn't help themselves and became human shields and lost their lives and were grazed by bullets to help people they didn’t know. Anyone with a heart can feel that. The author wanted to air the feelings of the survivors and the unsung heroes who made that horrific day have fewer casualties. The author wastes no time with fluff throughout the article. They open their argument with a story from Dean McAuley who found a path out but turned back to help people as he was a firefighter and he had “to go to work”. He helped Natalia Baca that day and received a text from her father thanking him for saving his daughter’s life. McAuley’s story was the first of many that all revolved around the idea that “we all became one that night.” A community of strangers brought together by crisis work together to save lives.
The author paints a vivid picture of the scene using emotive words like battered and scarred, the horror of the attack, the quote “the memorial sought to make the void left by the destruction of the attacks the symbol of loss” drives home the pain left by the horrific attack on 9/11.The author is remorseful,candid,compassionate,and elegiac. The author appeals to pathos for the majority of the article as most people even small children know about 9/11 and its impact on the United States as a whole. The discovery of the sphere and the dedication to rebuild and salvage it worms its way into your heart as 9/11 rocked our worlds and the aftermath shook for years. The sphere got “beat up it got damaged and it carries the truth inside of it...like any artifact that survived an event like that these things carry and inherent truth and memory that cannot be replaced.” The appeals to ethos were portrayed through the name drops of different artist and the original designer of the sphere whilst using prominent people like Mayor Bloomberg to add to their credibility. The author used this article to highlight the new position of the sphere and what it means to the community and those around it. The author starts with other artifacts and their meanings to each of their landmarks.She moves to the lack of an artifact for 9/11 the “sphere for plaza fountain” originally stood between the towers as a symbol of world peace and trade. The sphere made its way to Battery Park in 2002 and was welcomed by Michael Bloomberg but it was championed by Michael Burke who lost his brother a firefighter in the attacks. The sphere had to be moved when the memorial and museum were installed as there was supposed to be an absence of vertical so the sphere was moved to liberty park. The only mark left from the attacks that were vertical inside the museum was a Callery pear tree known as the survivor tree
Look at what words create the author’s emotion towards his/her topic.
The author’s emotion toward the subject is displayed rather quickly as they start with a “quiz” asking “Which country was the first in the world to ban government discrimination against gays in its constitution? A) Norway B) New Zealand C) South Africa Answer: It’s the so-called s-hole country, South Africa. It also bans discrimination based on gender and disability.” It is easy to see the author like most disapprove of the statement made by the president. With each fact about the African countries that are outdoing the united states, it is like a hammer of emotion into your conscience counteracting your previous bias’. The author’s tone is candid, facetious, factual, incisive when speaking about the African countries doing well whilst being contemptuous when talking about Trump's comment. The author appealed to the rhetorical device of pathos specifically to drive their point home. People of the LGBTQA+ community connected with the fact with South Africa's constitution not allowing for discrimination based on gender, sexuality, or disability much earlier and stricter than America's. Future Mothers and women, in general, connect with the fact that Sierra Leone is committed to providing free health care to children under 5 and pregnant women (prenatal care and deliveries) and how Rwanda eliminated cervical cancer much earlier than u.s. scientists. Any American sees the joke made at Trump's expense about Botswana asking the U.S to clarify if they were a s*hole or not without bluster, military threats, or no rude tweets. The author’s goal was to disprove trump's statement that African countries were s*holes to those who believed it or those who have bias’ already. The author packed his argument well and full. He used 12 facts to bring home a conclusion that We Can Learn From ‘S-Hole Countries’ The authors are invested in the cause. They emulate the fight for gun reforms and side with the student activists like David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, and Delaney Tarr. The authors emotional attachment is invested through there words you can feel the swell of pride as they talk about the “crowd that filled blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and Capital Hill. Thousands more rallied at about 800 “sibling” marches around the country and abroad where students made eloquent calls for gun control.” The authors used words like filled blocks, seas of people, soaring speeches, emotional chants. To convey their stances and tones about the subject. The authors utilize the rhetorical device of pathos to add to their piece. The signs held by marchers with phrase like: Graduations, not funerals!,I should be learning, not protesting, Fear has no place in our schools, If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress?. All the signs stir up most people's inner cry for justice and change. The authors used an excerpt from Delaney Tarr’s speech ““Today, We march,We fight. We roar. We prepare our signs. We raise them high. We know what we want, we know how to get it and we are not waiting anymore.” The rallying cry presented by Mrs.Tarr emboldens those in support of the movement and presents a talking point to those who don’t. The purpose/goal of this article was the inform and extend information across a major news network as you can’t have a movement without staying in the news stream. The authors collaborated to organize all of their thoughts and personal styles into one coherent article. They open with the defiant message delivered by the speakers in front of vast crowds across the USA and abroad “that they are done hiding from gun violence and will stop at nothing to get politicians to finally prevent it.” The authors move into the description of the march then the masses of those gathered in the name of #MarchForOurLives. They close with the celebrities who came out to support and the quoted by Delaney Tarr, “Today, We march, We fight. We roar. We prepare our signs. We raise them high. We know what we want, we know how to get it and we are not waiting anymore.”
The author takes a fact stating yet intrigued by Adam Rippon and Michael Boitano’s stories.The author is attached but it the same time distant as they remain objective in the presentation of the statements made by Rippon and Boitano and the facts of the women who dropped out of the Olympics due to their eating disorders. The author's tone is candid whilst clinical but incisive about the roots of their eating disorders and diets.The author implored rhetorical devices like ethos and pathos. Karen brought in pathos by using the emotional connection of when Boitano asks Rippon how he was doing and Rippon doesn't respond with how his jumps are going or other figure skating jargon but talks about his weight. It builds a connection with anyone who has struggled with body image and especially with those who have overcome or are recovering from eating disorders. Ethos is displayed through the quote “According to the National Eating Disorders Association, 20 million American women and 10 million men will at some point struggle with a clinically significant eating disorder.” adds credibility to the “quiet starvation” to the credibility that men aren’t as open to their struggles but they still do struggle to add to the significance of the title. The writing is supposed to impact the reader to those struggling it's like hey someone else whos big and famous went through this too. To anyone who has ever dealt with it small hand, it is a like me moment. The goal is to inform the reader that struggles happen to everyone here's an example nobody is perfect.The goal was of the article was to inform people that just because you don’t see it. Things still happen and people still struggle. The argument is solid as the author weaves the pieces of evidence about the diets of male figure skaters, the statistics from the national eating disorder association, and the personal stories from Adam Rippon, Kelly Rippon, Michael Boitano, and Johnny Weir.
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AuthorKennedy Fitch AP English and Language Composition Student. Archives
April 2018
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