would be most excited to share my thoughts with you on the play. Though I enjoyed the play and hold it in high regard‚ it seems to me that the artistic ambition of the director may have led to incoherence with its purest essence. Director of the play‚ Mark Sutch‚ made a questionable decision in his application of aerial silks‚ used to construe flying motion. During the play‚ the actors and actresses would hang on to their aerial silks as they seemingly “flew” across the stage. When the songs came on
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Not all writers are as convincing as you may think they are. With the help of Aristotle’s three rhetorical modes: ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos‚ most writers succeed at persuading their readers. Ethos is used by the writer to display his/her professionalism and trustworthiness. Similarly‚ logos is the use of logic and reasoning to make the writer’s statement stronger which makes the writer seem more educated. Pathos is persuading the reader by stirring emotions in the reader through the writing. Writers
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In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar‚ Decius Brutus and Mark Antony‚ both Roman Senators‚ eulogize Julius Caesar‚ each using a different technique and approach. Brutus‚ in a somewhat arrogant‚ to the point‚ eulogy‚ attempts to sway the people. He justifies conspiring against Caesar by stating that Caesar’s ambition would have hurt Rome. However‚ in Antony’s eulogy‚ he focuses on Caesar’s positive traits‚ and cunningly disproves Brutus’ justification for killing Caesar. The fickle Romans waver between leaders
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Hunter Hodges AP English 3-2 10/31/11 RFK Speech Rhetorical Analysis Robert Kennedy’s speech on the Vietnam War on March 18‚ 1968 addresses the dire consequences of the war. His speech criticized the actions taken by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson. RFK’s speech uses parallel structure and other rhetorical devices to appeal to the audience’s emotion‚ logic‚ and ethics. The use of parallel structure throughout the speech contributes to RFK’s views of the Vietnam War. “.. a year when we choose not simply
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Dating sites have caught the eye of plenty of people in this generation. In a recent experiment done by “OKCupid”‚ the Co-Founder‚ Christian Rudder‚ takes multiple people who would be good for eachother and tells them they are not good for each other‚ and vise versa. The goal of the company’s experiment was to test the compatibility against “like the kind of like‚ uh‚ null hypothesis” (Rudder 765). Christian Rudder is interviewed by Todd Zwillich‚ whom asks complex questions about his business‚ the
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McDonalds is one of the world’s most well-known fast food restaurants. It is the world’s leading food service with more than 30 thousand restaurants‚ throughout the world‚ serving 46 million customers each day. McDonalds tries to display their trustworthiness to consumers through their commercials. For example‚ the videos Grandmother and Granddaughter‚ New Dad‚ and ChaCha slide show how McDonalds commercials attract viewers and identifies McDonalds as a “trustworthy friend”. McDonalds has developed
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Rhetorical Analysis: Allegory of the Cave The text I have used to do my rhetorical analysis is the “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato. In this text‚ Plato gives an explanation of his idea of the situation of humans in respect to knowledge by telling us an allegory. In his allegory‚ Plato says that there are a few prisoners seated in a cave behind a small wall facing a big wall. The only thing they can do is looking at the wall in front of them and listen‚ they cannot even move their neck or the
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the world‚ people have argued all sorts of positions in regards to its benefits or detriments to their health. Kris Gunnars’ article‚ “13 Health Benefits of Coffee‚ Based on Science” argues that coffee is indeed healthy‚ and provides thirteen reasons why. Jim Dillan’s article‚ “7 Negative Effects of Coffee & The Healthy Drink You Should Replace it With‚” argues the opposite‚ claiming that coffee is overall harmful to the human body. Although coffee has both positive and negative side effects‚ Gunners’
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Stephen. Food intake analysis. Yesterday morning is when I started my food intake analysis by writing down what I ate for the whole day an then go back to my work at night to figure out which foods I ate belonged to what food group. I entered my information to the BMI calculator and heres what my results are Based on the height and weight entered‚ the BMI is 18.6 ‚ placing the BMI-for-age at the 31st percentile for boys aged 14 years 10 months. This teen has a healthy weight. Eating healthy
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differentiate itself. This is why this phrase may be understood universally: ‘I don’t know why I feel like this’. Such questions are deemed threats by the ego‚ cause anxiety in feeling‚ and are confused as servile feelings‚ malignant thoughts‚ malicious interlopers of rhythm and reason‚ when they are the matter-of-fact‚ the actual questions that are meant to steer the ego toward a centre‚ are perceived as questions directed towards death. ‘Why do you not kill yourself? Why do you matter? Why will you
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