Rhetorical Essays

Stegemann’s article Learning Disabilities in Canada Stegemann’s article Learning Disabilities in Canada uses various strategies to communicate to the audience. The evidence, structure, reasoning, and rhetoric strategies used by Stegemann plays a significant role in how the audience will interact and understand the argument. The essay aims at critically analyzing these...

Peter Elbow's Argument on Ignoring Audience in Writing Peter Elbow writes in his article, Closing My Eyes As I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience, how audience awareness suppresses creativity and personal intuition in writing. He notes that in most instances, his mind would go blank while trying to address an...

DNA Evidence and its Application in Forensic Investigations DNA evidence is among many scientific tools that have been provided for the investigation of forensic evidence via the analysis of DNA which is a material that makes up one's genetic code. DNA can be retrieved from their hair, blood, skin cells as...

Dickinson is an American poet who lived between 1830 and 1886. She spent most of her later days in isolation. It’s right to assert that Dickinson never lived a normal womanly life-she never married. She was quite a recluse, even most of her poems spoke of death and immortality. Her...

The Film Memento The act of using a reverse-chronological structure in telling a story shows gimmickry; it looks like the film in the show in real-time and its shot in a single take. The fact that film Memento narrative is non-linear fits Leonard Shelby's character (Schmidt). Even though he benefits from...

There are two primary concepts of the ancient Greek; Isegoria and Parrhesia, which influence the common aspect of free speech. Isegoria refers to the freedom of all the citizens to participate in public debates while parrhesia is a license for them to say whatever, whenever and to whoever they would...

Gentrification defines the gradual process of renovating and changing an area, mostly urban, conforming it to the taste of the wealthier middle-class people. Ruth Glass, a renowned British sociologist, introduced this word in 1964, after studying how the social structure and the housing market in London were changing. Glass wrote,...

Literature and Stylistic Devices Literature, as one would argue, has its unique stylistic devices that authors use to convey messages. Sometimes the message can be hidden in the play or story while on other occasions the message can be direct from the onset. One such incident in which the central theme...

Recent times have witnessed an increase in the use of social media. Platforms such as Twitter and Facebook facilitate communication and interaction between individuals from different parts of the world. Social sites act as a meeting point for people with different backgrounds and goals in life. Primarily, social media sites...

The Debate on Marijuana Legalization The debate whether marijuana or pot (as is commonly known around the streets) should be legalized or not is a debate as old as the drug itself. People for years have battled it, and it looks like, despite their efforts, the drug is flourishing, maybe even...

The two stories, ‘Rocking-Horse Winner’ and ‘The Lottery’ both uses themes, symbols, and the underlying moral lanes to illustrate how greediness is depicted in today’s families effectively. Nevertheless, the setting of the two short stories and their main themes seem to be unequivocally different as portrayed in the stories. Similarities                  The...

Throughout life, individuals have the inevitable role of making choices that influence their actions. The Swimmer’s Moment, is an open form of poetry which had been written by Margaret Avison and published in 2003. The persona in the poem asserts that there is a “whirlpool” that every person must face...