Friday, June 24, 2016
Rhetoric in Context
All rhetoric exists in context-- what is the context or background to the piece of rhetoric you've chosen to analyze?
Discuss either the historical context or the contemporary context of the piece of rhetoric that is the focus of your analysis: I expect an in-depth exploration of all the surrounding issues that this piece of rhetoric touches on or is affected by.
Start with a brief description of the piece (this could be copied and pasted from your essay).
You are free to use this freewrite as part of your major essay.
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The contemporary context in my piece of rhetoric is about the abuse animals suffer as they are forced to test potentially unsafe materials on animals. The P.O.R here analyzes the brutality of what animals have to go through and because of this, the photo tries to convince the audience to update their dated, historical beliefs into something more modern. The P.O.R is aimed towards the people who are anti- animal testing or just open to others opinions along with people who have the power to change this situation. People like this can include politicians or CEO's of these beauty companies that allow the testing, this photo also allows the companies to open the door for boycotting, protesting, and petitioning of their products that are not tested with an artificial source.
ReplyDeleteHistoric: college was not a big deal back in the day. Not many people went to college. College was also affordable, and for the top class.
ReplyDeleteContemporary: Now in this generation, a lot of people want to go to college to get a better education. College tuition is higher than before, but now lower and middle class people are seeking that college education.
My rhetoric portrays the conflict of college debt and how it affects graduate's life. In the historical context, college was not very expensive nor needed for normal life style. College education was not as important as it is now. However, now, college education is essential for a person to get a decent job. As demand of education increased, the cost of college also raised. People now have to commit to colleges and have to perform well in academic aspect to not sink in burden of debt.
ReplyDeleteDue to the oppression of the Syrian Regime and the threat of Isis, many Syrian individuals have fled their homeland in hopes of a better future and environment. The chosen, political cartoon embodies this struggle to find freedom. Three Syrians dressed in identical, orange jumpsuits-similar to those in jail-are on their knees held in a hostage position. The first Syrian has a knife to his neck, held by an Isis member. The second hostage has a missile held to his neck by the Syrian regime and the final hostage has a no entry sign pressed against him by a European police officer. The image explores the faultiness of the immigration system and the refusal to help others. This piece of rhetoric is not only targeted towards Europe but towards other world countries that refuse to lend a helping hand to the suffering Syrians. Even though many individuals know the dangers of Isis and the Syrian Regime, they are unwilling to harbor refugees. Countries possess the mindset that their people come first. The cartoon states a different idea that there is no separate groups of people. The world needs to help each other and live coherently.
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ReplyDeleteHistorically, animals are believed to have been on the earth for human use such as in colonial times, and also modern times like now, because they live off of their animals and harvest from them whatever they need. It hasn't been, until within the last few decades, that people are becoming more animal and environmentally friendly in trying to preserve life. The increase in preferences of a healthier lifestyle without the use of animals, has spiked from what it used to be which is causing more people to consider the products that companies are manufacturing.
ReplyDeleteSince I am focusing on a Rhetorical cartoon of Donald Trump and it is being compared to Adolf Hitler. The Context/background consist of both dictators thoughts and what Hitler did back in the day and Trump is doing to this day in a similar way. For example, Hitler completely hated Jews and wanted to completely get rid of them from Germany with his party. However, in order for him to have even done that, he and his party would first have to been voted for power. And so, Trump is trying to do the same thing. Trump's mindset is to get rid of Hispanics, Muslims or any other race that isn't white. In comparison, he first must also be voted by the people into power. The Rhetorical Cartoon is pretty vague, yet has so much meaning due to both characters having an cruel background. The main difference between Trump and Hitler is that one got rid of who they didn't like by killing them. Trump just wants to throw people back to their countries and build a wall between them.
ReplyDeleteThe piece of rhetoric in a medium of a political cartoon has an obese man in a black USA shirt holding a burger in his right hand, a cigarette in his mouth, and a beer can in his left hand all the while screaming “EBOLA!!!”: along with death rates of obesity, tobacco, and alcohol. The death rates include 300,000 deaths per year for obesity; 450,000 deaths per year for smoking; and 88,000 deaths per year for alcohol. Some historical context in my essay involves the Ebola crisis 1-2 years ago. While it may be less relevant now Ebola still poses as a danger to humanity. Ebola caught Americas attention for a year or two distracting Americans from issues on obesity, smoking, and alcoholism. In historical context, America has had a problem with all of those issues.
ReplyDeletein contemporary context obesity, smoking, and alcoholism is still an issue today as it has been in the past. So the issue never went away like Ebola did in American media. But they pose a quieter fight than the ones against Ebola, zika, h1n1, etc. So the issues made apparent in the p.o.r. are still just as relevant today as they were 1-2 years ago. Their quiet fight is not what the author wants because using this p.o.r. he wants to make their threat real and to spark a rebellion against them-obesity, smoking, and alcoholism.
The piece of rhetoric includes both historic and contemporary context. The piece of rhetoric touches on sweatshops and abuse within Nike factories. Its historic because sweatshops have been around for a long time. Its contemporary because the issue has been recently worked on in terms of passing laws that protects employees.
ReplyDeleteI chose to analyze the background of Mexicans and what other people believe what they are worth. I also focused on the labor work they do and how conservatives blame them for stealing jobs but those jobs are ones they would not take. Also how back in their country they could have a profession but get paid less than doing labor work in America.
ReplyDeleteSo the historical context would be that before the United States would accept immigrants with open arms but now they make it harder for immigrants to migrate to the country.
This goes back to what conservatives believe about immigrants; they think immigrants come to steal jobs and just come to the U.S. to commit crimes.
Illegal Mexicans have had to come to the United States in search of a new life and to have a better paid job. The job they could of have had in Mexico is paid less than a lower wage job in America.
A man dressed as a judge with a boxing glove labeled 4th amendment walking away form a telescope labeled N.S.A uprooted with a black eye with stars around it. The context with the N.S.A data collection is that the 9/11 attacks causing the public to be in fear of a orchestrated attack on the public with the public calling for some sort of counter terrorism act be put in place to ether find or disrupt any possible orchestrated attack. The programs that allow for them to do this was started with the Patriot act that was written little after a moth of the attacks which give surveillance agencies the legal ability to find and tack any potential terrorism threats to the United States public via cellphones, email, and texts. Through the vast amount of communications taking place day to day they have developed key words that are used to siphon through the vast about of information that is being picked up on a daily basses to forces down on possible threats .
ReplyDeletethe piece of rhetoric is a political cartoon displaying Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler sitting at a conference table under the tag "Celebrity Apprentice." Trump is yelling about mandatory special IDs for Muslims and closing down all mosques while Hitler declares Trump as, "hired."
ReplyDeleteThe background of this piece of rhetoric is the historical context of Hitler's legacy in Nazi Germany during WWII. He rose to power via democratic election in a time of economic downfall for carrying the financial burden of WWI, promising Germans that he will restore order and financial security. As a way to do this, Hitler scapegoated the Jewish population which the public was easy to accept in terms of being desprate for change. He also ruled in favor of exterminate all "undesireables" from the area through concentration camps, denying them their basic human rights through the support of the majority of the population.
Hitler's rise to power parallels Donald Trump's proposed policies and support. He calls for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants and abolishment of birthright citizenship. He also calls for the marginalization of Muslims due to their assumed and alleged connections to terrorists.
Throughout history, people have had different views on whether or not health vaccinations are necessary to the child’s safety and health. For ages, people—specifically children— lived without these vaccinations and survived but they did not have a long life span compared to the children and adults in today’s age. The first vaccination was given in 1796 by Edward Jenner, a country doctor in England. Since then, parents have relied on the vaccines to protect their children from diseases such as chicken pox, polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), rubella (German measles), mumps, and tetanus. Most of these diseases are completely gone from affecting anyone but there are still a few cases, but this doesn’t mean that parents should not vaccinate their children as an extra precaution. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Nearly everyone in the U.S. got measles before there was a vaccine, and hundreds died from it each year. Today, most doctors have never seen a case of measles.” This proves that vaccinations have helped prevent and control diseases. But there have been a few cases of people believing that vaccinations are linked to autism. Studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing according to CDC. There are many different opinions on this recent controversy, but after someone looks at all the facts, it seems apparent that vaccinations help rather than harm. More recently, there was an outbreak of measles in Disneyland—one of the largest outbreaks. This is one example of a time where parents who got their children vaccinated are thankful. Disneyland is a popular place for families with children of all ages and when traveling to Disney, families try to stay as clean and healthy as possible being that it is a worldwide famous amusement park. This outbreak was a multi-state outbreak and although no source was identified, a traveler traveled overseas and became infectious, and later on traveled to the park.
ReplyDeleteThe context of the political cartoon is during Obama's presidency in which Kim Jong-un threatened to bomb America using nuclear weapons. Historically, North Korea's aggression towards the U.S. dated back to the Korean War which led to a division in the country. Then, with access to advance technology, military spending were used to craft nuclear weapons and since we're still at war with North Korea, their number one enemy is the U.S. Since then, some celebrities from the U.S. went to North Korea to visit the dictator and one of those celebrities is former basketball player Dennis Rodman.
ReplyDeleteThe cartoon states that the G.O.P. is blaming the jobless benefits for the increased federal deficit. It shows a hill billy yelling for a cat to get off of a boat because it is causing the boat to sink and a large alligator on the backend pulling the boat down.This piece of rhetoric uses the contemporary issue of an increasing federal debt to push its own agenda. The liberal side of the argument wants to focus on taking money from the rich via taxes in order to support the poor. However, historically, the conservatives are against taxes and want to get rid of jobless benefits as they create more.
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