Rhetorical analysis

The article I decided to read in depth was titled "Can you Hear me Now." As I read this article I felt that the author was informing the audience of how attached people are to their technology. It also seemed that he was trying to get the audience to take a break from their technology ever once in a while. In this article the writer used a lot of imagery. On of my favorite examples of this said "since our devices have become more closely coupled to our sense of our bodies and increasingly feel like extensions of our minds." I don't know about you but I read that and I just picture my mind and my phone being connected. He also had a lot of stories and examples in this article and most of everything I was reading made me imagine stuff. I am not too sure how an audience would react to this article to tell you the truth. I feel that this article had two different reactions to it, people could have been like me a thought to themselves that they do need to stop being so attached to their technology. Or they could have said that they don't need to spend less time with technology because they aren't as attached as the author said we are. I do feel that the author succeeded in what he was intending to do, and more of the audience would agree with what he is saying then wouldn't. Overall I liked this article and I am kind of excited to write about it.

Five Errors

1.

Wrong: His teacher could't bring his grade up because the department only wanted that certain amount if A's given out.

-I forgot to add the letter n in the word couldn't.

Correct: His teacher couldn't bring his grade up because the department only wanted that certain amount if A's given out.

2.

Wrong: The really reason that some departments use this safeguard and some don't is those departments only like to give out a certain amount of grades.

-I put down the word really instead of the word real.

Correct: The real reason that some departments use this safeguard and some don't is those departments only like to give out a certain amount of grades.

3.

Wrong: Other relative curving systems only go into effect if and only if a class average is lower than a certain grade.

- I didn't put commas at the beginning and the end of the bolded area and it is needed becuase it is a nonessential phrase. 

Correct: Other relative curving systems only go into effect if, and only if a class, average is lower than a certain grade.

4.

Wrong: Well the reason it can happen is that certain Departments at our school only want a certain amount of A's and B's and C's and so on to be given out.

-I should not have the word departments be capitalized.

 Correct: Well the reason it can happen is that certain departments at our school only want a certain amount of A's and B's and C's and so on to be given out. 

5.

Wrong: Well the reason it can happen is that certain Departments at our school only want a certain amount of A's and B's and C's and so on to be given out.

-There should be commas between A's and B's and C's and so on instead of all the ands.

Correct:  Well the reason it can happen is that certain Departments at our school only want a certain amount of A's, B's, C's, and so on to be given out.

Peer Review Opinion:

Well I would like to say a actually really enjoyed getting all the feedback on my paper, it was all really helpful and will make my paper sound better. At first I was a little worried about the feedback, but it all turned out well. I wish I would have know how long it would have taken before hand. If I had know that I wouldn't have started the night before at 11:00. I didn't like how we had to do 5 per page because it was kind of hard for me to find 5 things on ever page, I think I would have liked it more if we had to do a certain amount on the whole paper.

Blog Post #1

A fallacy that I see happen all the time comes from our politics. In particular would be the example of Ad Populum in which you appeal to popular prejudices. The example the immediately came to my mind was raising taxes of the rich. Now there isn’t a particular quote I wanted to put down because I wanted to focus on the idea as a whole. Now the reason I believe this is a fallacy is with Ad Populum you will appeal to popularity. The reason this makes taxing the rich Ad Populum is there are more people under the income level required to have higher taxes then above. That means the Obama is appealing to the majority of the people to get the taxes raised.

The speech that I chose to analyze was the one from Henry V. And to begin I looked for Pathos and here are some examples that I found.

“The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand

Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters”

This is Pathos because he is saying “your shrill-shrieking daughter.” I don’t know about you but if someone starts talking about my daughter I am going to get pretty emotional and become protective over here. The next example of Pathos come from the following lines.

“If your pure maidens fall into the hands

Of hot and forcing violation?”

I believe this is also a good example of Pathos because I feel he is using something innocent namely the pure maidens and then kind of saying that this is what is going to happen if they do not give up. I also feel that he is saying that this will all be avoided if you give up as well as if they don’t it will be their fault for all that happens because he gave them the choice. This is a good example of pathos because it makes them feel that whatever happens is their fault.

The next thing I looked for was things that would go under Ethos. The first example of Ethos I found was in the following lines.

“Whiles yet my soldiers are in mu command;

Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace”

I felt this was a good example of Ethos because he is giving himself credibility by saying that his men are under his command and the fact he has all these men with him gives him credibility.

The next example of Ethos I found comes from the lines.

“If I begin the battery once again, I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur”

The reason I feel this is an example of Ethos is it is showing us that he didn’t just walk up and give this speech but he started the siege and then halted it to give this speech. I feel that line shows us that he has credibility because he was probably already winning the fight. It also shows that he has more credibility because it isn’t all talk and no walk. 

The last thing I looked at was Logos and the first example of it I found was in the following lines.

“If I begin the battery once again,

I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur”

Logos is logic and it is logical that he is telling the truth and he won’t stop until it is over. The next example I found was in the lines that I used before that said the following.

“The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand

Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters”

I feel this is Logos because it is very logical that if the siege continues daughters will be defiled by his soldiers.