The media is a unique institution in American society. They are mostly for-profit businesses, but they serve a public purpose- informing the American people about newsworthy events (Lenz and Homan 142). They are the only private business to be protected by the 1st Amendment (143). The media- specifically the journalists that comprise it- are expected to be unbiased and neutral in their news reporting (Clark). This is to create an informed public; the bedrock of a functioning democratic society, as
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On January 20th, 2009 President Barack Obama made an inaugural speech in front of millions of people all over the world. His purpose was to inform others that he would help change the world if others would too. In order to make his vision stick in the minds of his audience, Obama speaks about the country's past history, and how we should join together as a country. Obama uses rhetoric to present his message of creating hope and change together in America while fixing the economic and social issues
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In an excerpt from “Serving in Florida,” a chapter in Nickel and Dimes: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001), Barbara Ehrenreich suggests that the low-wage American workplace strips people of their courage and character until they are nothing but a shell of themselves, working shift after shift in a Zen-like emptiness. Ehrenreich supports her claim by describing her experience working at Jerry’s under stringently cruel management to illustrate how she felt “stripped naked by [her] crazed enforcer[s]”
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whites were preventing the rights of the American people by creating impossible tests for minorities to take in order to vote. After a week passed on March 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke out in response to the Selma-to-Alabama March. His purpose was to unite the American people in the task to get equal voting rights for all races-- according to the Constitution. He is addressing his ideas to Congress, but he intends to convince the citizens
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Charlie Brooker’s article on "The Voice" was writien for a purpose. 1 purpose. To mock and ridicule the T.V programme “The Voice”. As he writes in an iconoclastic theme which essentially means he RANTS about whatever ANNOYS him. This article being one of many… Throughout the humorous article Brooker bombards the piece with sarcasm and humor of all sorts, for any audience to be as happy as a clam in high water. Brooker is able to grab hold of the reader from the very first sentence due to the way
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Traditional On Campus Class Welcome to the Traditional On Campus version of Speech 103 Oral Communication! I look forward to getting to know each of you. Over the years, I have learned that many of you dread taking this class (don’t worry I felt the same way when I had to take this class) but I hope that you will find your worries to be unfounded. I work very hard to try to create a comfortable learning environment, primarily because I need you to participate in order
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The audience could also be anyone who has grandparents and uses computers. The essay’s purpose is to convince computer users to reach out to their grandparents through more traditional methods of communication. The author wants her audience to write on paper instead of email. Doing this, she argues, will reach the elderly on a level familiar and comforting to them. I wouldn’t change much in terms of the audience , but the purpose could be made a little more focuses
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Virtual University CIIT Course title: Business Communication Course Code: 400 Instructor:Attiya Siddiqi (Assistant Professor) Introduction:Ms.Attiya Siddiqi has done her masters in English language/literature from the university of the Punjab. She has been associated with CIIT since the last 10 years and is teaching Business Communication, Report Writing Skills and courses of literature to graduate and undergraduate levels. *************************************************************************************
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accounting department, for the purpose of a possible acquisition of another company. The different scenarios includes examples from various channels to deliver the message for its intended purposes. The assignment by Team B was an exercise to give practice to team members, to write business communication and to review and learn from the feedback from the instructor. It also allow the team members to analyze the completed work and use as a learning tool. Each communique had a purpose which focused on the
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World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Pitts’ purpose is to impose a sense of strength and unity among the American people and to encourage us to give the terrorists a taste of their own medicine. He adopts and abhorrent tone in order to inspire the people of America to come together and take action. Pitts implies throughout his speech that America must lock arms and retaliate against the terrorists. He appeals to the ethical side of the audience by asking, “Did you want to tear us apart?”, then
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