Cultural Rhetoric

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...

In her speech she talks about how even those kids who live in a bad neighborhood and end up in jail deserve to be treated differently. She says that these kids deserve a chance to go college and not end up jail. By putting these kids in jail, taxpayers end up having to pay for these kids to go to jail. These kids are coming home with a criminal record, which makes it even harder to get a job. Alice Goffman uses many examples to prove what she is talking about. One example is how kids in these neighborhood play games where one kid is a cop and the other run from him. If the cop catches them the cop would push them to the ground and beat them. She talks very passionately about her topic. She shows a lot of emotion, by pausing after she said something important, that she wanted the audience to understand. Alice gave many examples of what these kids go through. This speech seemed persuasive because the audience liked what she had to say. By adding emotion she made people feel bad for ...

At Christ Church of the Valley they try to relate to every age that attends this church. They do this with examples that relate to every age. Brian Jones is the pastor for the adult service. He does a good job at relating his sermon to his audience which is made up of, ages from ninth grade to senior citizens. When giving a speech a big part of it is knowing who you are speaking to, and being able to relate to them. Brian does a good job at knowing who is speaking to. During his speech he repeats important topics or main points. By doing this it makes it clear that you should pay attention to it, this is an example of style. Also an example of style that he uses he is speaking his main points clearly. Another way he relates his sermon to his audience is by relating us to the Bible. He says, “Everyone in this room has failed, and so has Peter.” When he says this he is relating us to Peter. Another example of a rhetoric, is arrangment. He starts his speech off with a story, to get th...

The commercial starts off with a man coming home with groceries. He mentions that his wife is a dentist and she only allows her kids to use one mouth wash, and that is Act. Then it shows the statistics, that by using Act mouthwash you will have 40% fewer cavities, and stronger teeth. Then the little girl says her tells her she gets better check ups. This commercial used ethos, because it mentions, his wife is a dentist, and she only lets her kids use Act mouthwash. By having a dentist mentioned in the commercial it makes people think they should let their kids use it, since she only lets her kids use Act. It also makes parents feel better, about what they give their kids to clean their mouths, when a dentist has their kids use it. Also near the end the commercial uses logos, because it shows the statistics, of fewer cavities. By adding the statistics that you will have 40% less cavities, makes people want to use Act, so they can get fewer cavities too. When people see this commerci...