...Constructing an Argument Section 1: Big Ideas Many people believe that everything is an argument—every piece of writing, every image you see. That's because every time we write something down—with the possible exception of a private journal entry—we are anticipating that someone else will read or see it, and we hope to achieve some kind of response in that reader or viewer. So even if you are writing a description of your favorite vacation spot, you are probably trying—maybe without even realizing it—to convince your reader that your vacation spot is the most beautiful place in the world. Think about it. When did you read any nonfiction writing that wasn't, finally, trying to persuade you of something in some way? Most rhetoricians—that's people who think about argument and language—agree that there are three basic ways to appeal to an audience. You can appeal to logic. That is, you can lay out your argument in clear, coherent steps, so your reader or listener can see how you get from one conclusion to the next. Or you can appeal to authority. Here you may want to find experts or facts to support your argument—think about Tiger Woods endorsing golf clubs. (Of course, do we also trust Tiger to advise us on buying watches? Not so clear.) Or you can appeal to emotion. Emotional appeals can be extremely powerful, especially when you are able to relate your argument to your readers' values or needs. Most good arguments make use of all three appeals in some way. But...
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...I. Comparison of instrumentations In “Norwegian Wood” Lennon is playing the acoustic rhythm guitar while singing vocal, McCartney is playing the bass while singing harmony vocal, Harrison is playing the sitar and Starr is playing the tambourine, maracas, and finger cymbal. Both Lennon and McCartney are singing vocals in this song. In contrast, “Love You To” does not even include Lennon, McCartney is not playing any instruments and is just doing harmony vocal, Harrison is doing lead multitracked vocal which is different than what he usually does and what he is doing in “Norwegian Wood” he is also playing the acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and the sitar. Starr is playing the tambourine same as he plays in “Norwegian Wood”. There is also a tabla played by an additional musician named Anil Bhagwat and several other unnamed indian musicians that play the sitar and the tambura. II. Discussion of influences or inspirations that are audible in the recordings “Norwegian Wood” definitely has a more similar sound to Bob Dylan, who was one of the Beatles inspirations for several years. Like many of Dylans songs, the main music is acoustic and does not include much fancy instruments. You can hear Lennon and McCartney mimicking the similar singing style that Bob Dylan seems to always have. There was even a point where Lennon was worried that he had “trespassed into Dylan’s territory” and was worried that Dylans song “4th Time Around” was referring to Lennon making similar music...
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...In today’s fast-paced world, media texts such as advertisements aim to convey meaning with a single glance. Through using tools such as semiology, rhetorical, genre and narrative, this can be achieved, meaning that messages on advertisement can be easily understood with a quick glance. (Mick, 1986, p. 196) The combination of different signs allows messages to be conveyed through print advertisements. These tools allows brands and products to sell to the consumers. As we are now in the era of glance. Through using clever tools such as philosophical theory of signs and symbols, rhetorical, genre and narrative, this can be achieved, meaning that messages on adverts can successfully get their message more sophisticated advertisement, majority of the advertisements no longer contains much written messages and instead is reliant on using signs to produce an anchored meaning. Advertisements are all over the place. Whether they are on TV, radio, or in a magazine, there is no way that you can escape them. They all have their target audience who they have specifically designed the ad for. And of course they are selling their product. One way that is used the most and is in some ways very controversial is use of sex to sell products. The advertisement I have chosen is from Belvedere of which was posted on their Facebook page on March 2012. The target audience is both males and females in their late teens to mid-twenties. The alcoholic beverages industry is increasingly globalised, with...
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...to be sexualized for the male gaze. This control element of their own representation is crucial in understanding the theory". Baudrillard Hyper Reality: "Some texts are difficult to distinguish in terms of the representation of reality from a simulation of reality e.g. Big Brother. The boundaries are blurred as codes and conventions create a set of signifiers which we understand but in fact the representation is a copy of a copy". Uses and Gratifications Theory: "Different audiences gain different pleasures from a media text e.g. Gravity can be enjoyed via diversion or escapism, it can use surveillance to give information to audiences and can also be discussed on forums and blogs as a form of developing personal relationships(common also in video games). Personal identity can be developed with audiences who relate to certain characters more than others". Blumler and Katz (Audience Theory) Carol Clover...
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...Introduction The Gospel of John is portrayed as a very theological book. It is written from a historical and narrative perspective. The Christology in the Gospel of John is high even though I question some of the things Jesus does. One thing I question is Jesus turning water into wine. The Scripture I will be discussing will be John 2:1-11. Is there Christology in giving wine that can make one that drunk especially when drunkenness can cause one to do dangerous things? However, the Christology is not in the drunkenness. My objective is to prove that there is humanistic side to making the water into wine and a Christological side of turning the water into wine. My rationale in accomplishing this objective is if Jesus does something, does it make it right for us to do the same thing. My plan on addressing this is to research wine physically and spiritually. Social Location I am a married African American southeastern United States of American, Pentecostal female. I also consider myself reasonably educated. I look at things also based on a small town and small city background. My social location causes me to question things and not accept everything at face value. Methodology The Methodology to argue my thesis statement is Reader Response Method and the method of Reader Response Criticism I will use is individualistic criticism. Background/History/Theological Foundation The Gospel of John has 21 chapters in the state it is in now. According to An Introduction to The New...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald is in many ways one of the most notable writers of the twentieth century. His prodigious literary voice and style provides remarkable insight into the lifestyles of the rich and famous, as well as himself. Exploring themes such as disillusionment, coming of age, and the corruption of the American Dream, Fitzgerald based most of his subject matter on his own despicable, tragic life experiences. Although he was thought to be the trumpeter of the Jazz Age, he never directly identified himself with it and was adverse to many of its manifestations. The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald was deeply divided, in that his early successes in the 1910’s and 1920’s contrast noticeably with the years full of personal happenings and self doubt. It was divided, among all, between the pursuit of the artistic ideal and the continual lure of easy success. He became a victim of the myth of success and money instead of the perpetrator. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald’s incredible prose style and beautiful talent shined through his tragic, disillusioned life and he was able to successful create a beautiful world for his readers to escape to. In the early 1920’s, Fitzgerald was accepted as a symbol of youthful sophistication. He became intensely aware of the strangeness and mystery behind the rich at a young age, and tried so hard to echo their actions through sheen curiosity and characterization. It was then that he established a rich and enduring symbolic value throughout his...
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...All in the Family a show which aired from 1971-1983 was one of the most important and influential series that aired during the time frame mentioned above. This show did not shy away from addressing controversial or socially relevant issues. MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) aired from 1972-1983, this show was revolved around the 4077th MASH which was one of the surgical units stationed in Korea during the Korean War (1950-1953). The staff of a Korean War field hospital used humor to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. The issues that All in the Family addressed were religious, political, social and personal issues. Archie Bunker one of the main characters, was better known as a bigot, a prejudice blue collar backlasher against liberal and permissive values. He treated his wife Edith with no respect, always argued wit his daughter, and verbally assaulted his son-in-law. MASH addressed political and social issues. This show was mostly liberal and this show often criticized politicians who mired the United States in Vietnam (Davidson, Delay, Heyrman, Lytle, & Stoff pg. 932). Both All in the Family and MASH were condemned by the religious right because they believed that shows played a major role in corrupting the family values. Religious right considered the shows of the 1970s to being permissive, having positive portrayal of unmarried women, premarital sex along with drug use, profanity, homosexuality, nudity, violence and prejudices. The religious right was...
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...Team C, you winners, losers and personal impact need expanded, see comment below, assignment grade 31/40 I. Summary: * Founder and Promoter Chris Pook * 40th Long Beach Grand Prix * April 11-13, 2014 * 80 laps * 157 miles * 2014 Winner Mike Conway Bromley, England * Seven Racing Events * Several Sponsors * Pro/Celebrity Race * Primary Financial Contributor Toyota * Great Family Outing * How many attendees? II. Winners of the Event: * El Dorado Park Golf Club in Long Beach * Children Hospital of Orange County * Millers Children Hospital of Long Beach * Long Beach Area Special Olympics * Robert E. Leslie Scholarship Program * Vendors * The City of Long Beach, State and County government * Parking Areas i.e. parking garages or parking lots * Westin Long Beach Hotel * Hilton Long Beach * Mothers Car Polish * Security companies * Law enforcement, overtime * Tourism industry * Credit card companies * Producers sellers of alcohol and snack foods * Car companies III. Losers of the Event * Long beach convention center did not book any event for that weekend * Bad publicity for the brands of cars and tires that did poorly in the race * Long beach transit has several routes closed that day because of the event * Restaurant located on the street race were closed * DUI fines for some people who attended the race and got pulled over by...
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...As I hoped and dreamed it would be,” while they had been drinking the pick champagne (81,83). By including these details, it clearly states that Didion does not believe the occasion to be sincere nor dream worthy. She has a tone that strikes pity and disdain towards the wedding. Didion underestimates the validity of this marriage based off of the ceremony’s tastefulness, instead of the commitment to one another. Which relegates to the preface where Didion stated, “A writer’s always selling somebody out,” as means for her using her characters to make her point and nothing more. Being a journalist, she had a responsibility to the readers, which was not to force her own version of truth, even when it pertains to being a general concurrence. Although her narratives and essays are social criticisms they are then filled with opinions and individuals she then uses are not valid in the literature world, being that they have a more subjective job as opposed to objective which leads to it not being taken as a truthful image and report on...
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...ENGLISH 106 1 Narrative Essay Unit 1, Assignment 1 Jeffrey Wayne Van Egeren ENGLISH 106 2 Document Contents This document contains the author’s narrative essay involving the topic chosen for a thesis statement. The thesis statement will be on the subject “A Family Reunion”. The final page holds an outline used to perform this essay. ENGLISH 106 3 A Family Reunion With this assignment, I have chosen “A Family Reunion” to incorporate within my thesis statement. I believe that this topic is best suited for me because my family has never had a happy or joyous reunion that I can remember. The disease of alcoholism runs very deep within the family history, and for that reason, I grew up in a very dysfunctional family setting. With that being stated, I will begin by saying, “Family Reunions are nothing but chaos, arguments, and showing off. Nothing enjoyable or happily memorable ever arises from having times put aside for this said occasion.” My parents were divorced when I was only 4 years old and to this day I still see the burnt images of their final argument instilled within my mind. My mother, rest her soul, had done what she could for our family, regardless of the fact that my father had given absolutely no support for the 9 children. I remember seeing my father, maybe twice, within...
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...the United States have always experienced stereotypes from people outside of their culture due to ignorance and lack of empathy. Sherman Alexie and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie use personal narrative to depict how one can easily stereotype and fit a person into a certain category. Ultimately, broadening one's view and understanding that humans innately have the same basic wants and need can eliminate stereotypes. To start, Sherman Alexie depicts the rough and depression lifestyle Native Americans have to endure living on a reservation. Using a first person perspective Alexie starts by writing how the system on a reservation is broken. He depicts this by writing “ When I spelled all the words right, she crumpled...
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..."The Victorian elements in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё" The Victorian Era, in which Brontё composed Wuthering Heights, receives its name from the reign of Queen Victoria of England. The era was a great age of the English novel, which was the ideal form to descibe contemporary life and to entertain the middle class. Emily, born in 1818, lived in a household in the countryside in Yorkshire, locates her fiction in the worlds she knows personally. In addition, she makes the novel even more personal by reflecting her own life and experiences in both characters and action of Wuthering Heights. In fact, many characters in the novel grow up motherless, reflecting Emily’s own childhood, as her mother died when Emily was three years old. Similarly, the vast majority of the novel takes place in two households, which probably is a reflection of author’s own comfort at home as whenever she was away from home she grew homesick. Emily Brontё’s single novel is a unique masterpiece propelled by a vision of elemental passions but controlled by an uncompromising artistic sense. However, despite the relative invisibility of Victorian influence in the plot and content, the attitudes of the Victorian Era make some impact on the story, and the novel is considered not only a form of entertainment but also a means of analyzing and offering solutions to social and political problems. Brontё may not highlight the social aspects in the novel, nevertheless the indications of Victorian society’s...
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...according to a nineteenth-century history of tea, tea was such a fundamental part of everyday life that English tea drinkers often failed to notice its significance within their daily lives. G. G. Sigmond, in the opening pages of Tea: Its Effects, Medicinal and Moral, declares, “Man is so surrounded by objects calculated to arrest his attention, and to excite either his admi- ration or his curiosity, that he often overlooks the humble friend that ministers to his habitual comfort; and the familiarity he holds with it almost renders him incapable of appreciating its value.”1 By the early nineteenth century, tea had become a com- modity of necessity, forming a crucial part of daily patterns of consumption and domesticity. The habitual comfort of tea, ac- cording to Sigmond’s tea treatise, does not draw attention; it is quiet and familiar and thus goes unnoticed. Tea is represented as dependable, a frequent part of everyday life that forms a com- fortable, secure basis for the rest of life’s responses, decisions, and actions. As Sigmond declares, the English tea drinker is “in- capable of appreciating [tea’s] value” (1). What the typical tea drinker fails to recognize, Sigmond suggests, is the crucial role that tea plays in forming the foundation of everyday life. Despite Sigmond’s attempts to rectify the humble status of tea in nineteenth-century English culture, tea has remained a 1 2 introduction relatively unrecognized aspect of Victorian life. Just as Sigmond implies that...
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...Social or Political Issues Commented on by artist through Different Centuries Lorenzo Garcia Art 100 Professor Morris 25 July 2014 Napoleon Bonaparte once said “a picture is worth a thousand words” (Kirov). Words may not be enough to communicate a thought or feeling on a current political or social issue. Artist use art to give words a physical form. A well-crafted masterpiece may have a profound effect that communicates to observers on how the artist feels about a prevailing concern. Throughout the centuries, often artist have used art to produce a personal statement which sheds light on their thoughts of social or political issues faced during their time. Through the work of art, social or political issues may be commented on by artist, creating a voice to be heard by those who observe their art work. Born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol became a central figure in the Pop (Popular) Art Movement. His original name was Andrew Warhola, and was born to a middle class Slovakian family, whose father was a construction worker and his mother was an embroiderer. At a young age Andy contracted chorea that that left him in bed for several months. It was during this time Andy learned about art and photography became a pastime where he could lose himself in. With his father passing and making his last decree that Andy go to college to pursue his dreams as an artist with his life savings, Andy attended Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1945...
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...characteristic in the manner that bilateral symmetry prevails, there are harmonious proportions, and how the lines work to keep the human figure compact. It is also characteristic of the Egyptian Old Kingdom style in the manner of how the portrait establishes a standard representation of Kingship and Queenship. They carry themselves as royalty, are wearing distinctive high status clothing (Headdresses, false beard), and the female’s “womanhood” is very apparent (swollen belly, full breasts, pubic triangle). 2. The Apoxyomenos (“The Scraper”) • Materials The Greek original of this piece was a bronze. Unfortunately, like many other pieces of the time, it was melted down. What we are seeing is the Roman marble copy. • Style-period and personal (Lysippus) The Apoxyomenos follows the Late Classical Style. Lysippus employed a new set of proportions and a heightened sense of realism. His point was to engage others in the piece and make use of real space. 3. The Augustus from Primaporta • Style-period The portrait of Augustus from Primaporta...
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