...Abortion is a highly controversial issue in the United States today. There are those who argue that life beings at conception and that terminating a pregnancy is equivalent to murder. These pro-life supporters have relatively immovable opinions on abortion. In the past, they have done all they could to prevent abortions, using tactics ranging from protesting and lobbying to methods as deadly as bombing abortion clinics. On the other hand, there are pro-choice supporters as well who argue that women have the right to choose what happens to their own bodies and that a fetus is not a living person, but a part of the mother herself. They propose that though abortions should always be limited, psychological, maturity, and economic issues are all acceptable reasons for women to be able to choose whether or not they want to carry a child for nine months. In April 2009, 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave a speech at Evansville, Indiana, where she argues against abortion. She fights for her beliefs, claiming that “life is ordained, life is precious” and no selfish decisions should stand in the way of a life from living. Her ethos and utilization of pathos are both tactical techniques used to argue against the practice of abortion to try and convince her audience to fight against it as well. Palin’s entire argument against abortion would not matter unless she had any credibility that would allow the audience to deem her respectable and her opinion worth listening...
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...When believe something when we believe the person who points out the information. The Author use of ethos in this article to show her fairness but yet knowledgeable and trustworthy about the topic of abortion. Janet Harris believes that abortion is not a difficult decision to make as it have been made by the politicians and media to be. The author eliminate the Consideration of the thoughts and opinions of others, but because she well rounded with the topic of abortion; we take her side of the matter. Janet Harris uses her story of how she got pregnant at 18 and found herself in between choosing what to do. Abortion was not a hard decision for her to make but denial and the solution to “How quickly can I get this over with?” the author’s story...
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...In this article, author Peter Singer argues some of his view on abortion. He states that abortion helps those in underdeveloped countries. In countries of Africa and Latin America, women and men are not as educated on sex as some American countries. This leads to 32 abortions per 1,000 women in Latin America and 29 in Africa. This is comparable to only 11 in the United States (Singer). He states that abortion is a hot topic in the United States, however, in the underdeveloped countries it seems to be an after thought. He also uses this opportunity to point out flaws in the pro-life argument against abortion. Singer addresses the fact that most pro-life people believe a human life starts at conception. He claims that a mere Homo sapiens life should not be entitled to the same rights that a living, breathing woman is entitled to. He wraps up his argument in saying pro-life people would spend all day picketing at an abortion clinic but turn a blind eye to slaughterhouses....
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...Aristotle describes and defines three main rhetorical appeals in the art of persuasion over 2,000 years ago. He argues that this is the writer’s ability to convince the audience by using different techniques. Three basic ways to move the public to your point of view are ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos refers to the credibility and authority of the speaker. Logos is the use of logical patterns to persuade the audience. Finally, pathos is the emotional component of any influencing process. All these three fundamental elements play a huge role in any attempt at convincing whether in a speech or a text. When the author works all of them properly, then the audience is more likely to be persuaded. It is...
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...Going out of order her fifth reason was because “I’m pro-abortion because reproduction is a highly imperfect process”(Tairco). Basically from reading on how I the reader interpreted that women “60 to 80 percent reproduce thousands of fertilized eggs yearly” (Tairco) and at some point in time the body natural abortion happens and the weaker,unhealthier or even healthy egg self destruct.She also using ethos by mentioning the statistics showing that she is educated on the background of abortion before she spoke on the topic. Also mentioning that even when the egg is fertilized and growing; the carrier which is the mother who goes under large amount of stress could affect the body and trigger some natural chemicals that releases toxins that...
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...Lucy Dineen Ms. Remmey Freakonomics Assignment August 2015 Argument: What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? Based on Paul Feldman’s findings, the authors of Freakonomics argue that a person, who is faced with an efficient way to cheat, will not necessarily choose to. The data involved in Feldman’s accidental bagel study proves that not all humans are corrupt. However, their tendency to cheat alters based on several factors, such as the characteristics of the person, the value of the incentive, and the impact of the setting on the person’s mood. 1. Metaphor- “He had thrown off the shackles of cubicle life and made himself happy.” (Levitt/Dubner 45) 2. Juxtaposition- “But in the big-office/small-office comparison, bagel crime seems to mirror street crime. There is far less street crime per capita in rural areas than in cities, in large part because a rural criminal is more likely to be known (and therefore caught).” (Levitt/Dubner 46) 3. Allusion- “Because many of Feldman’s customers are affiliated with the national security, there may have been a patriotic element to this 9/11 effect.” (Levitt/Dubner...
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...The Rise of DIY Abortions is an article adressing the issue of a young girl named Jennie Linn McCormack who at 14, got pregnant for the first time and had many kids after that. The last time she got pregnant, Jennie took abortifacient drugs she bought online and after delivering the dead fetus the next morning. She then decided to hide the aborted fetus under her bed. She then faced felony charges and her case could change the course of abortion law in America as it is known of today. The author uses rhetorical strategies of pathos, logos, and ethos to help argue on why abortions should be illegal or not. The author opens the article with mainly pathos paragraphs by trying to get the emotional appeal of the readers. She does this by sharing the sob story on how Jennie McCormack got pregnant at a very young age and how her life went downhill after that. The author says things like, “She started spending time with an 18-year-old boy in her group of friends. Because he was older and she was a virgin, she trusted him when he said nothing bad would happen if they had sex.” to get you to think that she was peer-pressured to have sex for the first time as if it was not her fault. The author uses Ethos by using a credible source like a case that is well known in the United States. This was to help make the decision of laws on abortion more persuasive to the court. This is a big impact on the article since it has ethical appeal. The logical part of the writing is stated when the article...
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...Hillary started out the discussion by introducing a young girl named Carla, who is worried her parents will be deported. Immediately, Clinton uses pathos to appeal to her audience. Next, she referred to a word Donald Trump stated previously when debating the topic of abortion. Trump abrasively used the word “rip” to describe the abortion process. He stated,”… rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.” Clinton then uses the word “rip” in a more sensitive way. She said, “I don't want to rip families apart.” This shows the difference in speech and maturity between the two candidates. Clinton then continues to talk about strong border control and a path to citizenship. She then goes back to using “we” by saying, “So I think we are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and that we can act accordingly.” Again, this makes the audience feel included and connected. After, Trump then begins to make false accusations about how Hillary voted for a wall in 2006. Hillary Clinton then explained there...
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...not a torture technique that involves forced simulated drowning. Less remarkable, perhaps, but possibly more relevant for most of us, we’ve heard the term “downsized” used when someone is fired or laid off. “Ethnic cleansing” covers everything from deportation to genocide. What we have to say may be important, but the words we choose to say it with can be equally important. The examples just given are cases of a certain type of linguistic coercion—an attempt to get us to adopt a particular attitude toward a subject that, if described differently, would seem less attractive to us. Words have tremendous persuasive power, or what we have called their rhetorical force or emotive meaning—their power to express and elicit images, feelings, and emotional associations. In the next few chapters, we examine some of the most common rhetorical techniques used to affect people’s attitudes, opinions, and behavior. Rhetoric refers to the study of persuasive writing. As we use the term, it denotes a broad category of linguistic techniques people use Moore−Parker: Critical Thinking, Ninth Edition 5. Persuasion Through Rhetoric: Common Devices and...
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...exploration of war-related literature, this school year, the majority being anti-war statements, brought us to a letter written by Sandy Kemper. Within the letter written by Sandy, about his involvement in Vietnam, he shows us the contemptuous nature of war and conveys a hateful attitude favoring his surroundings. Kemper employs sarcasm, strong tone, asyndeton, and other sue of rhetorical devices, to tell "Mom, Dad, Shrub, the Egg and Peach", and in the aftermath, the rest of us, the truth of war. Early Greeks and Romans wrote of war, along with many others over centuries and centuries of time. This letter has made an enormous impact on me, and my thoughts on war. The firm, angry tone of Kemper has brought about many anti-war feelings within my soul. The books, A Fable, Catch 22, and Company K all contain anti-war themes within them. Sandy's letter has all the components and characteristics to fit right in alongside these writings....
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...Ronald Reagan speech analysis In this assignment I will be examining a speech brought by Ronald Reagan. I will put the speech in the rhetorical pentagon and afterwards analyze it. I will especially focus on Ronald Reagan’s use of language, cause it’s really relevant when it comes to speeches, and also the choise of composition in the speech. The speaker of the speech is of cause Ronald Reagan. Reagan was the 40th president of the United States in the time between 1981 to 1989. He preached this speech in March 1983, at the Annual Convention of the National Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals. As said, the time was 1983, and at this time, the cold war was continuously going on, and the relationship between the Americans and the Soviet Union with its communism were therefore extremely bad, which also reflects in this speech. So the communism is a huge topic in this speech, and Reagan accomplishes to compare America to goodness, while he attacks the Soviets by comparing them to evil. The other major aspect in the speech of Ronald Reagan is about the increase in illegitimate births and abortions involving under aged girls. He mentions the clinics that were established in well-intentioned faith are offering different kind of services to the girls, without their parent even knowing it. He wants to change that, and maximize parental participation. This is the other major aspect of the speech, which of course is being told to the evangelicals of Orlando...
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...factors that play a role in how we view education and it’s motivation. The theory of rhetorical perspectivism was introduced by Hikins and Cherwitz. They formulated this notion in response to a claim that believed that discourse and rhetoric should enjoy epistemic status. Moreover, discourse shouldn’t be used informatively of insights, but rather used to discover such insights (Hikins & Cherwitz, 1983,1986). Rhetorical perspectivism aims to bridge the gap between rhetorical objectivists and rhetorical subjectivism as a work in epistemology. Objectivists think that knowledge exists first, then is discovered through discourse. Subjectivists think that knowledge is constructed by the discourse and does not exist until it is built, that is the search that creates knowledge. Perspectivists, such as Hikins and Cherwitz, come along and say that everything takes place from different contexts- meaning knowledge exists, but we see it from our lens- essentially to reconcile two seemingly contradictory ideas as ‘two sides of the same coin’. Perspectivism says ‘that reality is independent of human attitudes, beliefs, and values’. In essence, Hikins and Cherwitz’s claim says that while an independent knowledge may exist, we all see from our own context and these all contribute to a better understanding of the knowledge that exists independently of us, but is also influenced by us. This essay will illustrated rhetorical perspectivism in my high school and college educational experiences and the application...
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...| True Intentions Behind Absurdity | | | Erik Rivas Engl. 1302.02Prof. Maria Morales21 Sep. 2014 | Jonathan Swift, Irish author and Dean of St. Patrick Cathedral in Dublin, applies satire in his arguments to get his message across. In one of his works, “A Modest Proposal,” he uses rhetorical devices such as irony, ethos, and pathos to try to open the minds of the Irish in order to bring awareness to the people who are starving and living in poverty. Throughout his argument, Swift uses irony. The title itself is ironic as it claims to be a modest proposal only to be the total opposite. He states that his solution about eating infants is absolute yet, gives various other examples that can be much more logically applied. Swift says that solutions such as “curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity idleness, and gaming in [the] women” (613) to prevent the overpopulation of babies born into poverty or that “teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants” (614) are not really the answers the people need. However, he uses irony to help them understand that in fact these are the solutions they need and yet they choose to let themselves to fail. Swift also incorporates ethos into this work. He tries to minimize the cruelty into eating babies by mentioning different ways of eating them “whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled” (610), and giving them other purposes such as “gloves for the ladies, and summer boots for the fine gentleman”...
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...would reduce the rate of abortions, the...
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...The 1960’s and 1970’s sparked a sexual revolution in modern countries throughout the world that consisted of the birth control movement, the fight for the legalisation of abortion, as well as educating the public about safety precautions when engaging in sexual activities. These acts were working to send a message to society that engaging in sexual activity did not only serve for the purpose of procreation, but to satisfy a pleasure-drive as well. A majority of these movements focused on the issues women faced with contraception, but what role did men have? Unfortunately, the revolution caused men to put the responsibilities of protection during sexual intercourse primarily on women. This led to sexually-active men to become carefree and the issue of contraception to increase. The London Family Planning Association created the infamous black and white advertisement of a pregnant male to send a message to men engaging in unprotected sexual activities about the consequences of their careless actions by putting them in the shoes of countless women and led to the prevention and decrease of...
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