Plastic Does Not Belong in the Sea “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always ourself we find in the sea” this is a beautiful phrase E. E. Cummings once said. The ocean is vital for the environment. It’s well known to be one of the most important natural resources of earth. At the same time, it’s very much affected with pollution and trash. The photograph “Polluted Sushis” shows three sushis placed in a white platter, they are wrapped around plastic in place of the usual seaweed. This
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which implies some new meanings on the original idea that are lively and vivid, in order to leave a deep impression to people. There are some common figures of speech that PSA generally adopts. \ The article will stands on the point of view of rhetoric, discussing the PSA language, and mainly on the application of the figures of speech on PSA. To some extent, every object in the world exists with its unique characteristics around us. One of the rhetorical expressions, personification is to
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In English class, students watching political commercials learned how to use logical fallacies and rhetoric. Logical fallacies are logical mistakes which means mistakes that don’t make any sense that somehow do make sense. Students made a storyboard and used a video editing website to make a political advertisement. Also, the political commercial helps you understand and choose which political party you belong to. Also, in class, students created platforms and learned how to use ethos, pathos, and
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How Communication is effective or not Reviewing Communication Communication is an avoidable act that we all do daily. There are many forms of displaying open lines of communications to people or even pets. As we come to understand people and their form of conveying information to us, it reconfirms that communication is not just spoken but it can be visual as well or expressed in tone. Commercials are great promoters of communication using visuals and rhetorical language. Other lines of communication
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“In the arms of an angel” by Sarah McLachlan, it triggers an immediate response from most viewers: change the channel. Her face as well as her voice has become one of the most influential of the ASPCA spokesmen. These commercials use a variety of rhetoric skills to provoke the audience to donate to the organization. The musical component of the commercial sets the tone and instantaneously evokes compassion for these innocent fur babies. This compassion-provoking advertisement tactically uses Sarah
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A Rhetorical Analysis of MLK Jr.’s “I have a dream” Speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which outstandingly furthered the civil rights movement. At that time, racial segregation, police brutality, and other forms of racial inequality were terribly prominent in America. The speech successfully focused the country’s attention at the
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that day as an HIV positive victim. An Aids victim that did not fit the profile of the stereotype. Behind the podium she voiced awareness through compassion. She wanted to erase stereo type and raise concern. She clearly states the reason for her rhetoric in her plea,” Set aside prejudice and politics to make room for compassion and sound policy.” Mary Fisher in her speech persuasively and successfully used appeals to achieve interest and concern to the rise of the Aids epidemic. Mary Fisher and
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5/17/2016 WEEK 3 The Essay An Overview of Essay Development The INTRODUCTION The BODY PARAGRAPHS What it contains? Background information, which attracts or ‘hooks’ the reader. What it contains? Topic sentences which follow the thesis statement. Transitions introducing each sub topic. Relevant and generous convincing support (unity) and coherence. A closing remark (concluding sentence) showing the relevance of the support. A thesis statement, which limits the topic and
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civil rights activist who organized a campaign against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. In his letter, King uses anaphora and allusions frequently. He also appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos to make his letter a paradigm of effective rhetoric. King uses allusions frequently throughout his letter. “Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul
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every media outlet possible. He also addressed the subjects of racial tension and race and inequality in the United States. From the beginning of the speech, it is evident that the most effective appeal that Obama chooses to use is ethos. As a rhetoric tool, ethos is used to establish character. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader (Examples of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos). In order to establish an effective ethos
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