Cultural Rhetoric

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...

I decided to look for a talk about technology since it is so important in our society. And I found a ted talk from Keren Elazari, a cyber security expert, on hackers.  Keren was speaking about how hackers are not always bad, and are actually very helpful to everyone.  She used rhetoric in her persuasion by using examples about how they are helpful through things we all use.  She used the example of privacy on facebook, and a wireless router.  Both things most people use she showed how they found holes in the system and were able to alter people information, and told the companies ways to fix them.  She used these small examples to build up into a bigger example of how they expose corrupt parts in government and advocate for our rights. Showing ways they are helpful, but also spoke about how some of those hackers use their skills for their benefit.  In ways like taking money or stealing identities which is an uprising threat.  The way Keren used per...

I found a sermon on sermoncentral.com from a pastor by the name of J Jeffrey Smead. The main purpose of his sermon was that God loves us. He opens up his sermon with a story, about a little boy. The little boy is playing with a boat, he made, on a lake and the boat starts to leave his hands. He loses grip and it starts to float away, he jumps in after it and gets soaking wet, but does not get the boat. A few days later he is walking down the street and sees his boat in a store, and asks to have to have it back, but the store clerk says he has to pay for it. But he has no money so he was offered a job to work for him and get the boat. And he took it, after all the work he got his boat and was very happy and he said “You were mine the first time because I made you, and now you’re mine again because I bought you. The pastor uses this as an example for how God led the people out of Egypt, and the fact that he created us, loved us, and remembered us. I think this pastor used a grea...

Every time that I watch a NFL game DirectTV is always showing a commercial for their Sunday Ticket plan.  It usually features a celebrity one of the ones I see a lot is with Peyton Manning, the quarterback for the Denver Broncos.  They usually always stay on the same story line for their commercials.  They have the actual celebrity, then usually a dumbed down version of him.  They make the celebrity look better, and he always has their Ticket plan.  The dumbed down version is usually do something unusual and they make fun of him, he always has cable.    They are trying to persuade you through using a popular celebrity who almost everyone knows, and make seem that what they have is what you need.  The watchers thoughts are that since the celebrity has it, I should too.  And they purposely make the person with cable look dumb, or not as cool. So that you feel like to be cool or sophisticated you have to buy their Ticket plan, and ge...