...Comm 301 May 8, 2014 A Pentadic Analysis of Hillary Clinton Interview The artifact we are analyzing for our study is a live television interview that Hillary Clinton was giving to San Francisco’s KTVU-TV in late February of 2008. This interview was broadcasted via television and is also available on YouTube and other video media sources. The interview was being hosted by a man named Ross McGowan of KTVU-TV to senator Hillary Clinton, and that within itself makes it a significant artifact. The live interview about healthcare that Hillary Clinton was giving had to be cut short when the New York senator began having a coughing fit. Prior to the cough attack, the interview was directed but not limited to the subject of health care. Senator Clinton was speaking of issues such as the pulling troops from the Iraq war, California’s mortgage crisis, Americas current health care system, and the idea of a universal health care system. In the end of the interview Clinton fails to answer the question regarding her husbands role in her campaign by coughing for the remainder of the interview abruptly ending it. Whether or not the actions by Clinton were intended, speculation of this interview arose. In 2000, Hillary Clinton became the first women to be elected a seat in the United States Senate. At first glance, Clinton’s aggrandizement to such a respectable political position seemed like a victory for herself and the ongoing women’s movement effort. However, the continual reminder of...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of The Perils of Indifference by Elie Wiesel As part of the Millennium Lecture Series hosted by the White House, notable author, Noble Peace Prize Winner, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel delivered the speech The Perils of Indifference on April 12, 1999. He delivered this speech in order to inspire the American people to take action in times of human suffering, injustice, and violence, in order to prevent events like the Holocaust from happening again in the future. Through the use of the modes of persuasion, his rhetorical situation, and word choice, Wiesel successfully appeals to his audience of President Clinton and his wife, the members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, his “excellencies” and the rest of the American public. Wiesel’s main point in his speech is that of indifference and what can come about because of it. In order to successfully define indifference to the audience and persuade them to never be indifferent in the future, Wiesel defines its etymology, as “no difference” and uses numerous comparisons on what may cause indifference, as “a strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur” in circumstances like light and dark and good and evil. To prove that indifference is both a sin and a punishment, Wiesel appeals to logos and ethos, stating that he is aware of how tempting it may be to be indifferent and that it can be easier to avoid something rather than take action against it. He believes that indifference benefits the aggressor...
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...and some places, polygamy has under certain circumstances a valuable function. In some situations it may be considered as the lesser of two evils, and in other situations it may even be a positive beneficial arrangement. The most obvious example of this occurs in times of war when there are inevitably large numbers of windows and girls whose fiancés and husbands have been killed in the fighting. One has only to recall the figures of the dead in the first and second world wars to be aware that literally millions of women and girls lost their husbands and fiancés and were left alone without any income or care or protection for themselves or their children. If it is still maintained that under these circumstances a man may marry only one wife, what options are left to the millions of other women who have no hope of getting a husband? Their choice, bluntly stated, is between a chaste and childless old maidenhood, or becoming somebody’s mistress—that is, an...
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...SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSEWORK CANDIDATE’S NAME: PRISHITA CHANDARIA CANDIDATE’S NUMBER: - CENTRE NUMBER: 94130 CENTRE NAME: JALARAM ACADEMY ASSESSOR’S NAME: MR. OLANDO CANDIDATE’S SIGNATURE: TASK: How successfully does the writer present the close family relationships in A Hero? You should write about the following relationships: * Swami’s relationship with his father. * The relationship between Swami, his grandma and his mother. * The relationship between Swami’s mother and father. * The writer’s use of words, phrases and techniques. You should refer closely to the text to support your answer. You may use brief quotations. R. K. Narayan was born on 10th October 1906 and died on 13th May 2001; his full name was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami. He was an Indian writer, best known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early Indian literature in English (alongside Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao), and is credited with bringing the genre to the rest of the world. Narayan’s first four books include; the semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends; the Bachelor of Arts and the English Teacher. Narayan’s works also include Expert, hailed as one of the most...
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...UNIVERSITY OF LVIV THE FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES LINGUISTIC MEANS OF POTRAYING MAIN CHARACTERS IN “THE CANTERBURY TALES” BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER COURSE PAPER PRESENTED BY LILIA YAREMA a fourth year student of the English department SUPERVISED BY SPODARYK O. V. an assistant professor of the English department LVIV 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………… 3-4 CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS…… 5-16 1.1 Linguistic analysis……………………………………………… 5-8 1.2 Discourse and Text analyses….…………….………………….. 9-11 1.3 Stylistic analysis ………………………………………………… 12-16 CHAPTER II. LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHAUCER’S CHARACTERS 17-28 2.1 “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” ……………………………………… 18-22 2.2 “The Pardoner’s Tale” ………………………………………….. 23-28 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………. 29-30 REFERENCES...… ………………………………………………………….. 31-32 INTRODUCTION The theme of the course paper is “Linguistic means of portraying main characters in “The Canterbury tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer”. This paper intends to make an analysis of the language in the collection of stories “The Canterbury Tales”, written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of 14th century. We will analyze the language used to describe characters. It was based on the idea that every choice made by the author of a sentence is meaningful. Therefore, once we understand the choices the author makes when describing a character, we are able to have a better understanding of...
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...Ali Mousavi ENG 102 9/11/14 Rhetorical Analysis of an Apology Draft Kobe Bryant the 6-foot-6 guard was a member of the Lakers team that won three straight NBA championships in the 2000-2002 seasons. He was named most valuable player in the NBA All-Star game in the 2002 season. In 1998, Bryant became the youngest player to appear in an NBA All-Star game. On December 16, 2003 Professional basketball player Kobe Bryant was charged Friday afternoon with sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman in a Colorado hotel where she worked. The 24-year-old Los Angeles Lakers star, who is married and the father of a daughter, was charged with one count of sexual assault, a felony. If convicted, Bryant could serve four years to life in prison or 20 years to life on probation. If Bryant was charged he would be charged with the $750,000 fine. "I'm innocent," Bryant told a press conference Friday evening at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, where the Lakers played. With his wife and attorney by his side, Bryant took long breaths and said quietly, "You know. I didn't force her to do anything against her will, I’m innocent. You know. I sit here in front of you guys furious at myself. Disgusted at myself for making a mistake of adultery. I love my wife with all my heart. She's my backbone." The woman alleges she was a victim of sexual misconduct by Bryant on June 30 at the Lodge and Spa at Cordillera in Edwards. No details of the victim's allegations was made public, and a judge sealed...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Scott Schmidt ENG 112 1/31/15 Robert Zacny Rhetorical Analysis Just picture that you are flipping through your favorite magazine, and all of a sudden an advertisement catches your eye. In the ad, a family stand together, smiling, Christmas tree in the background, each one holding their very own Winchester rifle; well everyone, of course, except mom. Could you imagine the lawsuits that would ensue, (no pun intended)? This particular ad was used in a Sears Catalogue book. My personal interest in guns, coupled with the absolute absurdity of this advertisement, is why I chose this particular ad to study. The following is a rhetorical analysis of this 1937 advertisement placed in a Sears Catalogue. How this ad appeals to the logos, ethos, and pathos are topics this analysis will further examine. This ad was printed in 1937, which was a very dark and dangerous time for America. The nation was facing a great depression, American icon Amelia Earhart disappeared, and the Hindenburg is blown up while docking, killing dozens and completely destroying American’s faith in passenger carrying airships, thus; successfully destroying the airship era. People were desperate, afraid, and for many, their futures were, at best, utterly uncertain. In the ad, a husband, his wife, and their three sons are standing in a group together depicting a red wall behind them. Part of a Christmas tree can be seen peeking on the lower right corner of the frame, while the dad holds...
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...at Stanford and their guests, Steve Jobs desired to provide the new graduates advice and motivation as they began to go into the “real world”. No matter where, why, or when a speech is given, in order for the speech to be good, it must use contextual and textual rhetorical analysis such as ethos, logos, pathos, and have proper structure and style. Structurally, Steve Jobs had an extremely well formed speech. Jobs related three stories he felt had taught him major life lessons which helped form who he has become today. These stories are related by him in chronological order of his life. His first story was about “connecting the dots”. He explained some of his struggles in regards to the successes of his early life and ended this first anecdote by saying, “Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever -- because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.” Jobs’ second story is about “love and loss”. He shared about his love for his work and how work lead him to meet his wife, but Jobs went on to tell about losing his job and how the love he had for his work is what kept him going. He ends this narrative by saying, “Your work is going...
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...An Approach to Corpus-based Discourse Analysis: The Move Analysis as Example THOMAS A . UPTON AND MARY ANN COHEN Abstract This article presents a seven-step corpus-based approach to discourse analysis that starts with a detailed analysis of each individual text in a corpus that can then be generalized across all texts of a corpus, providing a description of typical patterns of discourse organization that hold for the entire corpus. This approach is applied specifically to a methodology that is used to analyze texts in terms of the functional/communicative structures that typically make up texts in a genre: move analysis. The resulting corpus-based approach for conducting a move analysis significantly enhances the value of this often used (and misused) methodology, while at the same time providing badly needed guidelines for a methodology that lacks them. A corpus of ‘birthmother letters’ is used to illustrate the approach. Biber et al. (2007) explore how discourse structure and organization can be investigated using corpus analysis; they offer a structured, seven-step corpusbased approach to discourse analysis that results in generalizable descriptions of discourse structure. This article draws on the themes in this book, but focuses in particular on analyses that use theories on communicative or functional purposes of text as the starting point for understanding why texts in a corpus are structured the way they are, before moving to a closer examination and description of...
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...A Plan To Save Mike Huckabee’s Candidacy I. Analysis Ever since the idea of a democracy has been implemented in modern government, the political races have been filled with slimy tactics, harsh words, and lies solely for the purpose of defeating your competitor and winning a position in the local, state, or federal government. Federal elections though, are on a whole different level. Wealthy individuals donate millions to whichever candidate they would like to see in the oval office. These candidates walk on a metaphorical tight rope, with no safety net twenty-four hours a day, and seven days a week. From the day they announce they want to run for president, the public eye will be on them. The media will be listening to every word they utter,...
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...I Call Myself a Feminist Rhetorical Analysis Virago 1. A domineering, violent, or bad-tempered women: ‘that virago of a wife of his needs locking up’ 1.1 archaic A woman of masculine strength or spirit; female warrior, quoted from the, Oxford Online Dictionary. In the book I Call Myself a Feminist twenty-five women came together to write a book on their experiences with feminism, how they are female warriors themselves, and how it has shaped them over the years. Each writer uses pathos to appeal to the readers emotions; whether it’s something exciting or something heartbreaking. The contributors of the book also include ethos in their chapters because the events that occurred were personal events that couldn’t be told from another perspective. The writers all came together to prove that all women should understand what feminism means and have some of it in their daily lifestyles. The writers show pathos, ethos, and logos in order to appeal to a wide audience of women and girls, the authors want to do...
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...(Unconditional Love)- Definition How Do I Love Thee- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love is More Thicker than Forget- E.E. Cummings Biographies Epilogue Storge Affection Affection- is the love through familiarity, especially between family members or people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance. It is described as the most natural, emotional feeling because it is outcome of love due to family ties. Fatefully, it is the strong point what makes it the most defenseless. The affection is “built-in” and as a consequence people expect it. Prologue This poetry anthology is a collection of poems, which shows the people's view of love. As I am a hopeless romantic, I chose this topic. I think the journey that life takes us all on is one filled with many adventures. I believe to truly live life to the fullest would be to love. If a person can say that he or she has never truly been loved or loved someone then he or she has never really lived. The feeling of love is so euphoric. The closeness and love that a truly spiritual person has for God or any other religion is a “gift-love”. The love a mother feels for her child is a “need-love”. There are other types of love: Affection, Friendship, Romantic, and Unconditional. I wanted to bring together poems that would reflect all types of love. I rearranged those poems the poems by the type of love it is a reflection of. I...
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...Nwobi 1 Odera Nwobi AP Language & composition September 21, 2014 CRR #1- The Crucible I. Author/Introduction Arthur Miller; an American playwright, born in the early 1900’s, 1915 to be precise. He was born into a very wealthy family. He was not very wealthy for a very long time, after the stock market crash in 1929. He had to do odd job to be able to pay for his college. After college, he career was a little rocky after his first play The Man Who Had All the Luck closed after four performances. After a while, his show All my Son earned him his first award. He wrote over 50 different works ranging from plays, novels, articles. His best play was Death of a Salesman which earned him a lot of fame. Another popular play he wrote was The Crucible. This play was a reflection of the Salem witch trial back in 1692. He was considered a communist because he advocated principles of equality among the classes, and social justice. He was married three times. He was once married to the popular actress Marilyn Monroe. Arthur Miller died in 2005 at the age of 89. II. Vocabulary Gibberish- meaningless or unintelligent talk. Trepidation- trembling or quivering movement. Subservient- serving or acting in a subordinate capacity. Shudder- to tremble with a sudden convulsive movement as from horror, fear, or cold. Calumny- a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something. Titillated- to excite or arouse agreeably. Sniveling- to weep...
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...RESEARCH and WRITING CUSTOM EDITION Taken from: Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide, Eleventh Edition by James D. Lester and James D. Lester, Jr. To the Point: Reading and Writing Short Arguments by Gilbert H. Muller and Harvey S. Wiener ISBN 0-558-55519-5 Research and Writing, Custom Edition. Published by Pearson Custom Publishing. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Custom Publishing. Taken from: Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide, Eleventh Edition by James D. Lester and James D. Lester, Jr. Copyright © 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc. Published by Pearson Longman, Inc. New York, New York 10036 To the Point: Reading and Writing Short Arguments by Gilbert H. Muller and Harvey S. Wiener Copyright © 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc. Published by Pearson Longman, Inc. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Custom Publishing All rights reserved. Permission in writing must be obtained from the publisher before any part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system. All trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, and registered service marks are the property of their respective owners and are used herein for identification purposes only. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 0-536-97722-4 2005240359 AP Please visit our web site at www.pearsoncustom.com ISBN 0-558-55519-5 PEARSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING ...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Assignment: Mammogram Radiation The misinformation in this wakeupworld.com article may lead to some preventable deaths. After analyzing the “How X-Ray Mammography is Accelerating the Epidemic of Cancer” article written on wakeupworld.com, I believe this website is misinforming the public about mammograms which may lead to preventable deaths. After reading this article and information on cancer.org and breastcancer.org, I decided to write about how wakeupworld.com is wrong. Females and males can get breast cancer so I want to inform the reader the right information about mammograms. In my paper, I will explain the author, message, audience, and context of the Mammogram Radiation article. The author of this article is Saver Ji. His credibility is that he is a, “Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), (and) advisory board member of the National Health Federation” (Ji, 2014). GreenMedinfo.com is the website he created (Ji, 2014). He is also is a “Patient advocate...
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