Essays on Rhetoric

Diplomacy was started in 2005 and was implemented in January 2006 by the secretary of the United States Condoleezza Rice during a speech at Princeton University, based on a rhetorical analysis of her speech. Rice came up with the initiation to influence change within the…

Fallacy is the use of invalid or wrong reasoning during the construction of an argument. Many people may think that it is true, however it is false because it is a mistaken belief based on the unsound argument. Besides that, a fallacy can also be…

As a famous American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman, Frederick Douglass, once stated, “The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.” In his article ‘Just Walk on By’, New York Times writer and publication author Brent Staples communicates his…

Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States. While there are many who can recall Reagan as both an actor and as the governor of California, younger Americans don’t know much about this man prior to his presidency. Most currently working on an…

The week before the New Year approaches has always been a funny yet battling conflict between my sister and I. All week is spent cleaning every single room in the house very diligently or else mom won’t let us have much fun before New Year’s…

How can four simple words change the world? What effect did they have on African-American history? Martin Luther King Jr, an American civil rights activist, spoke out against issues regarding race in the United States, during his famous speech referred to as “I have a…

Annie Dillard in her essay, “Living like Weasels” states that weasels live a life of freedom compared to where a human lives a life of choice. She supports her claim by first sharing her experience with the encounter with a weasel, and then she compares…

In Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods, he argues the separation of people and nature has grown exceptionally and continues to grow everyday. When the world was first discovered men used its natural resources to survive, however the society today has done the complete…

Letter from Birmingham Jail: Rhetorical Analysis Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in April of 1963 for participating in a march, which was a march fighting for the equal rights for African Americans. While confined in the Birmingham City Jail, King wrote a rebuttal letter…

In “Backpacks vs Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis”, Laura Bolin Carroll clarifies the requirement of rhetorical analysis to help with disentangling the reason and aim behind plenty of circumstances experienced every day. She elucidates the subject by depicting the means required to viably do this….

Aristotle “Rhetoric” Aristotle, in his treatise “Rhetoric,” gives his positive opinion over the subject of rhetoric, explaining the reasoning of why should be taught and spread. Starting with chapter one, Aristotle gives individual examples as to why rhetoric is important and should be used. Firstly,…

In the 1980’s, the HIV/AIDS Epidemic began, which would lead to the death of “6 Million” by 1996 and would affect millions more. The film, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, follows the activist group in their mission to procure national recognition- by…

Anna Quindlen’s “Driving to the Funeral” first appeared in the magazine Newsweek in 2007. In this essay Quindlen aims to convince her readers that we should lower the drinking age and raise the driving age. Depending on what state you live in the driving age…

Authors of informational texts use techniques to create meaning and emphasize their ideas. These are called rhetorical devices. Imagine watching someone give a speech. If the speaker is simply looking down at a piece of paper and listing facts in a monotone voice, you likely…

It is evident that style in political discourse can help politicians to reach different purposes like impressing the public or obtaining support from them. Each politician has his own style when speaking to the public or to the media: in order to get their purposes,…