Cultural Rhetoric

Theme : News Broadcast/Article Abby: Students Fight for White Male Poets Anna: T.S.A. Trains Dogs to Stay One Sniff Ahead of Bomb Makers Brennan: Outrage Over 6 Month Sentence for Brock Turner Carlos: Syrian Refugees Clayton: Kim-Jong Un Endorses Donald Trump Dean: The Paradox of Finding Motivation through Fear Eva: The Cincinnati Zoo Mother Deserves Empathy, Not Judgment Hannah: Hunting for Humans Jin: Memorial Day Hill: Jeremy Lin Tries on His Newest Label, Solid NBA Player Kyleigh: Palestinian Gunmen Open Fire in Tel Aviv Mason: Black Market Kidneys Mauricio: Owl Hugs Man Micah: Boaty McBoatface Rejected as Name for New Polar Research Ship Peter: Why is Clinton Disliked? Rachel: Teen Saves Drowning Toddler Young: Exercise Reduces the Risk of 13 Cancers Zach: Seven Year Old Unable to Maintain a Single Cohesive Storyline

Do you like your kidney? If not in New Delhi there has been an uprising in the black market for kidneys.  There is an article on CNN about a gang, made up of 5 people, who are convincing the poor to give their kidneys for a small amount.  They are luring them in, then taking them to a very prestigious private hospital and extracting the kidney and selling it on the black market for a large amount of money.  The police have conducted raids in two Indian cities, in an attempt to catch members of the gang.  They arrested five of the gang members, and two doctors.  There are ways you can use rhetoric to manipulate people and take advantage of them.  This gang is offering small amounts of money to people that need it.  They are being tricked into an illegal scam with not much benefit for them.  The risk factor is very high; they not only are doing something illegal but the procedure itself is very dangerous.  A Nephrectomy takes very skilled surg...

This blog theme of this quarter is about news broadcast or articles, so I looked through lots of articles in newspapers and magazines. Finally I found an article I like in New York Times . I was attracted by this article's name, it called " The Paradox of Finding Motivation, Through Fear ." And then I read this seems like a funny article, the author used some ethos, pathos and logos in it. The author was thinking about a question that his friend asked:“How do you stay so motivated and so excited about things."Because at first he told his friend a new book he is working on, a article he is writing and a hobby of adventure motorcycling in the desert. He had not considered that 'why'. Then he realized that the one aspect of these projects had to make him so motivated-the common thread -was the feeling of being in just a little over my head." Then he starts to persuade his opinion. I think his argument was reasonable. He used a concept called hormesis. T...

'I saw rhetoric was used in the article " Jeremy Lin Tries on His Newest Label: Solid NBA Player " on New York Times . The author of this article wanted the readers to believe that Jeremy Lin deserved his newest label as a solid basketball player, although multiple identities, such as undrafted underdog, franchise savior and overpaid mercenary, were foisted upon Jeremy Lin for the past five years. The author also wanted to convince us that Jeremy Lin has found out a new more comfortable status between the short-burst ecstasy of his time with the New York Knicks and the protracted bewilderment of his time with the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers. The argument of this article was reasonable. In order to prove that Jeremy Lin was a solid basketball player, the author provided the data that Jeremy Lin averaged 16.1 points per 36 minutes on the court during the regular season, which was his highest single-season average since his days in New York. What’s more, h...

There is a news about a 4-year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure at the zoo, and after being dragged around by the 400-pound gorilla for 10 minutes, the zoo made the decision to shoot and kill the gorilla ( Courtney Perry ). After seeing this news and people's reactions, Courtney Perry wrote an article about it. A lot of people think the zookeepers made a wrong decision, which they should not have killed the gorilla. Because they think they that the gorilla did not do anything wrong, the mom who did not take good care of her own child deserved everything. But the author Courtney Perry said, "Can you imagine watching someone you love in the deathly grip of a predator, being thrown around like a rag doll, and standing by helplessly". She used pathos here to make her readers feel empathy to the boy and the mom, and made everyone wants to save him. Her argument is reasonable, because when we put ourselves in the mother's shoes, we will understand the mom and why ...

I recently read a New York Times article titled "T.S.A. Trains Dogs to Stay One Sniff Ahead of Bomb Makers."  It caught my interest because I love animals, especially dogs.  Like every article, it was full of rhetoric techniques.  It was all about dogs being the best way to detect bombs and chemicals that could be combined to make bombs.  It expressed that training them to detect a bomb is hard enough, but now they have to be trained to detect individual chemicals that could be used in bomb-making.  The article went through how they train the dogs and all the situations that they are trained to be in. The author started by giving the reader a situation.  He set the scene by describing Ajax, a dog, sniffing around a furnished room early in the morning looking for explosives.  After a couple tries, Ajax finds the explosives and is rewarded by his trainer.  This was a good way to immediately catch the reader’s attention and engage them in the ar...

I was looking for an article on The Korea Times and I saw an interesting headline. The headline of the article is “Exercise reduces the risk of ‘13’ cancers.” The article has a big picture on top. The picture is a woman working out in a gym. The article starts with a sentence that says ”According to the National Cancer Institute, NCI, Stephen doctor’s research, exercise reduces the risk of 13 cancer.” We can see this article is using rhetoric, ethos. This means the article is trying to give credibility to the people who are reading this article. According to this article, NCI collected the research data of 1,400,000 people, their exercise habit, and the risk of 26 cancers. The result was amazing. The people who are exercising have a 20% lower chance of getting cancers than the people who are not exercising. After I read part of this article, I decided to exercise everyday because I want to be healthy. This article persuaded for me to exercise. The article also says about women. It s...

On Memorial day, Peter went to Washington D.C with his host family, Cutillos. He suddenly texted me that night and told me that Mary Cutillo had an interview today on Korean news. I was confused, so I watched the news. The news was about Memorial day in America and how they remembered soldiers in Korea too. They used rhetoric to organize informations and to attract people to visit here. First, news showed parade on Washington D.C and how people came out for remembrance. A lot of colorful decorations and people wearing costume were on the street to celebrate. Soldiers who fought for America rode tanks and people were welcoming them. By showing cool custom, this appealed attractive for people to come. Second, they were using ethos by interviewing credible people. Mary Cutillo interviewed as a visitor and showed that she has a lot of fun by visiting here on Memorial day.  By showing this, people believe that it would be a lot of fun to come here.News also interviewed instructor of t...

I read an article about Hillary Clinton, one of the most popular candidates right now, from New York Times News. The title is “ Why is Clinton disliked? ” It seems to be a reasonable and persuasive article for me, so I want to talk about it. The main topic of this article obviously is about Clinton. It said that “Clinton’s unpopularity is akin to the unpopularity of a workaholic.” And the writer used a lot of rhetoric to support this claim. In the beginning of of this article, the writer points out that there are two paradoxes to her unpopularity. First is that, she used to be popular and the second is that, she did a lot of good things such as charity and she was a dedicated public server. In order to support these two points, the writer uses statistics from New York Times and CBS News poll to state that these two paradoxes actually exist. After explaining these two paradoxes, the writer claims that because of the hardworking and dedicated role of Clinton, people will tend to sense...

We all love funny or weird names, and it’s always fun to suggest such names to others. But when we suggest a silly name for something, often times we are not being very serious. This is not the case with some of the people in London. British scientist are currently working on a polar research ship but they couldn’t decide on a name for it. As a result they did what anyone else would do: they asked people online. The scientists set up an online poll so that citizens in London could suggest and vote on a name for the ship. The result shows just how mature a lot of the people in London are when it comes to naming something. By the end of the poll, the name Boaty McBoatface was the number one voted nam e. Sadly though, this fun name was not chosen for the boat, even though it was voted on the most. The Department for Business, innovation and skills told the public that they were reserving their right to override the poll. Instead they chose to name the boat after a British naturalis...

There is an article written about albinism in Malawi and the dangers that they have to face. Those living with the condition of albinism are living with the risk of being hunted for their bones It is believed that the bones of an albino will bring wealth, happiness and good luck. This article begins with both appeal to fear and appeal to pity, starting directly with the title of the article: “Hunting for humans: Malawian albinos murdered for their bones”. As the article begins its opening, readers are met with an introduction of Agness Jonathan. The introduction goes on to describe the situation of the girl; Agness is hunted, along with the rest of the albinos of Malawi for her bones. The writer of the article uses both appeal to fear and appeal to pity in such a way that captures the attention of the reader and brings them to continue reading. Throughout the article, while still using fear and pity to attain attention, the writer of the article uses relevant information of the situa...

On the New York Times website, Isabel Kershner reported a story about a shooting in Jerusalem . Two Palestinian men open fired in a heavily populated restaurant area in Tel Aviv on Wednesday and ended up killing three people and injuring several others. One of the gunmen was shot by a nearby security guard and is currently being treated at an Israeli hospital. The other was arrested and imprisoned. The police reporting say that they believe this event was a terrorist attack. Isabel then discusses the previous Palestinian attacks at Jerusalem. During the Tel Aviv attack police searched for explosives while civilians fled the area. Isabel had five eye witness accounts included in her report. People locked themselves in stores as the gunfire continued and they called the local law enforcement. Before the gunmen started shooting, they had ordered food and were wearing black suits. Isabel then discusses an attack in March at Tel Aviv. While the story itself is a very important and shocki...

These days I read a news about Syrians refugees from Syria, and that costs lots of casualties. In order to show audiences how bad situation those refugees have, editor put many pictures of refugees escaped from Syria. Especially the picture of a gone boy on the beach, which is very famous recently. Then news shows number 4088099, which is roughly estimated of refugees of Syria. Then it shows there ways that refugees used to have three pathways to get to Europe, but they are facing tons of hinders. First they should pay traffickers huge fees, or they can not go to Europe, and they have to elude flames of war, many of their family members got lost during that time, then news gave an example of refugees, his name is Mohammed, he used to be a businessman in Syria, because war he has to carry his family to flee from calamity. On the way to Europe, he ran out of all money, finally his family got on the boat to Europe, but when they almost got on land,the boat sunk, eight of his family member...

News broadcasts use rhetoric by grabbing the attention of the viewers by making the news clips short. Also they get your attention with the heading, they put very little information to make you want to read the story or watch the video. In the video of the teen who rescues the drowning toddler they keep the words going across the bottom of the video to show other news. During this short video of one minute and twenty seconds, they quickly show the girl going into the pool. The reporter makes you feel bad for the child, when she says that the child has been underwater for over two minutes. This is a serious problem, and should not happen again. Although the reporter stresses the fact that this child almost died. This is a good thing, since child should not swimming without adults watching them. This child almost died, because of the lack of care of someone to watch them. Towards the end of the video they show one of the teens who helped save her life, this makes it seem more real...

Today, while making cupcakes for my birthday, I was watching Fox News (only because my father left it on). I overheard an interesting story that I could write my blog post about, so I looked it up. The Broadcast I watched was on a program called On The Record, and it is about Yale University. What happened is that a bunch of students taking a year long English course which is about ‘eight great poets’ got offended that all of these poets are white. They created a petition to get signed and give to Yale, in order for the class to be abolished entirely. The students want the course to be abolished because they think that because they only study white authors, that it creates a ‘hostile environment’. On the show, they bring on a student who is against the petition named Zach Young to further talk about the issue at hand. The host of the show goes on to ask him many questions. He seems to be very prepared. He speaks in a very logical order and uses rhetorical devices and skills so th...

I read a New York Times article about a man called Doug Pojeky or better known as “the bird whisperer.”  There were forty pictures of him hugging a owl on facebook.  Their photo was shared more than a thousand times all over the internet. “They” have expanded a small rescue group for the whole world.  Mr. Doug Pojeky said “my phone never has rang so much.”  He is retired from the navy and works as a volunteer for the nonprofit “Wild At Heart Rescue.” They used rhetoric when they talked about the man rescuing the owl (pathos).  They appeal to feelings because society hates when animals are being abused.  They used pathos because they talked about their work and how they care about animals that are in danger; showing us how they care and that animals are important.  Logos was used when they mentioned the popular picture of the owl hugging the man, making us notice that he cares about the animals. This persuaded me because I like animals, especial...

Since it is the last day of school and I still needed to do my blogpost, my natural reaction was to go on CNN and find a story. I saw stories about the presidential candidates and how Kim Jong Un was smoking during an anti-smoking event. Then I saw a story of a Stanford girl who was raped. I didn’t hear about the story until Wednesday when I overheard a group of friends talking about it. I won’t go into detail about what happened to the girl, but I will talk about the main controversy over the whole situation. The average time for rapist being convicted is 9.8 years and the average time served is 5.4 years, but the man who committed the crime was only sentenced to 6 months and can get out on 3 months for good behavior. Once he gets released he will be a registered sex offender and won’t be able to live within 1,000 feet of a school or childcare facility. There are two different sides to this story, the story of the man and the story of the victim. A lot of news stories were using pa...

I was scrolling through Facebook one afternoon and saw a video that talked about Donald Trump being endorsed by North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-Un. I thought this was strange, so i found a news article about this topic. In this news article , it starts saying that Kim Jong-Un closely watched the GOP and Democratic debates. After watching these debates he concluded that Donald Trump would be a good leader of The United States. Later in this article it goes on saying that Kim admires Trump’s concept of building a wall between the United States and Mexico. Towards the end of the article, the writer of this article writes about how they do not know what it will do for Trump’s stands in the polls, but time will tell. In this article it does not specify much about the source of their information. How are we supposed to trust this article if we do not know where this information is coming from? When the information of where the source does not come from, it is a major fallacy in th...

I was recently surfing on the interwebs and decided to visit America's most trusted news source, The Onion . Out of all the different articles(all of which are completely true) that popped up, one in particular caught my interest the most. The article was titled 7-Year-Old Unable To Maintain Single Cohesive Storyline While Playing With Action Figures . The story grabbed my attention due to the fact that I love a good action figure showdown, and that this child could not tell a proper story with them somewhat bothered me. The author of this article is not stated, but the entire article consists of them criticizing the seven year old Brendan Milner, and describing how all onlookers did as well. Of course it is proper to critique someone who is not able to maintain a coherent storyline, especially while playing with action figures. This is especially true if those action figures are Iron Man and John Cena. However, Milner is only a child and therefore is likely to jump from ...