Essays on Rhetoric

Contrasting Attitudes Towards Rhetoric: Aristotle and Plato Even though Plato and Aristotle shared some attitudes towards the use of rhetoric in politics, they differed sharply in most cases. Plato believed that the use of rhetoric could have serious negative impacts on the society if it were used by people whose character...

In the essay “The Prism of Race,” the author addresses the issue about race that impacted significantly to racism. The book expounds about the problem of the color line being the critical issue in the twentieth-century era (Slate 8). Consequently, it encompassed the relation of the lighter to the darker,...

The Central Park Five Documentary The 2012 “Central Park Five” documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon describes the arrest, trial, conviction and later acquittal of five American youth for the horrific crime of assault, rape, and attempted murder of a female jogger, Trisha Meili on April 19, 1989...

The song, Counting Stars is an original composition produced and performed by an American all-boy pop-rock band called One Republic that comprises Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins. Additionally, the song has received wide international acclaim as it resonates with millions of music lovers due to its message and catchy lyrics....

The main motivation or purpose of writing the final draft is to analyze some of the rhetorical skills that the author of the core source uses to explore the issue of the water crisis in Cape Town. On the other hand, on the audience, my first audience is the instructor...

Sherry Turkle's "The Flight from Conversation" Sherry Turkle’s “The Flight from Conversation” effectively employs straightforward language and rhetoric appeals. Turkle successfully conveys the message on the effects of technology on humanity to its audience; people of all ages. The use of a formal structure, appealing tone, literary devices, pathos, ethos and...

The Use of Ethos in Murray's "Breaking Dawn" and Coates' "Between the World and Me" The use of rhetorical devices such as ethos in Murray's "Breaking Dawn" and Coates' "Between the World and Me" shows why the writings have piqued the interest of many readers. In their essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates and...