Thursday, March 5, 2009

What is the nature of good?

Everyone believes what they’re all actions is right or good because people always find out the best way for themselves. So different have different opinion about good and evil.
Every people have some nature of good. Nature of good means always telling truth, always be honest and obey the rules. It also means respect the authority, doing work on time but some time we can’t be too honest. Nature of good means bring happiness in the society, make others happy.
Sometimes for too respecting the authorities peoples become too depended and if from time to time they realised their authority is wrong they can’t change it.

Is it subjective or a universal truth about what constitutes “good” and “evil”?

Good and evils are decided individually. A different person has different opinions. Sometimes good and evil depend on cultural and age. What I think evil may be my neighbours never think evil; what my parents believe evil, sometimes I believe the different. So, we all decide “evil thing” and “good thing” in our own points of observation.

If we think about the independent war of Bangladesh, on that time Bangladeshi people thought Pakistani peoples are evils who ruled them and on the other side Pakistani people thought Bangladeshi people are evils because they are fight against them. It as well depends on the decision of majority as an example, in a corporation the employees and the owner can have different estimation of the evil and good things but in this case the workers opinion will be good and the owner’s opinion will be evil because majority peoples are employee and they all have same points of view. Some time cultural separate good and evil things. In Indian cultural love marriage is evil but in our culture it’s not evil.

Some universal truth are, every cultural, every religious people believe that all kind of crimes are evil.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Media violence in informal tone

It wasn’t really a persuasive essay. The point and the facts are good but how the way the writer explains those points it’s not goodly explain. This essay is really hard to understand and it’s kind of dull. The author presents a range of points that attempt to induce that reader that media violence is in fact a harmful influence.

At initial the author talked concerning Media Violence was a cause of all the violence in this world and he used the example of the Virginia Tech Killer. He said how he possibly got mainly of his sick plans and information from some Korean or Asian films. The writer also prearranged his piece in an understandable and organized way.

I think this essay is more look like a formal essay but the quality of his writing as in devices, structure, etc make it effective.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Debunking Media Violence

This article was very clear on its opinion regarding how the media influences adolescents and youths. This editorial was not very well done, for one written in the formal tone. It uses too many informal devices, such as reader inclusion, as it constantly refers to "We, our" among others.
Travis Ryan kept a consistent formal tone throughout his persuasive writing essay. He brought up several points, which amazed me. He brings up Hollywood, which barely comes into the spotlight when talking or relating the consequences to violence.
Even though this piece was written in formal tone it seems more informal. For a formal tone author does not address the audience directly. However, in this essay he addressed them directly.

Adolescent and the media (informal tone and structure):

This informal toned persuasive writing seems much longer that the other one, but compared to the formal tone version of it, it was done better. It more like a fact/information paper, rather than trying to persuade the reader or audience.

He quoted extensively throughout this work, meaning that his work can be is legit and the information can be true and persuading. He also brings evidence using the violence portrayed in Disney's cartoons, to show the extent of violence in today’s media, and to show that we consider violence has a broad meaning. Each of his paragraphs is almost equally important and he successfully used the informal tone through his paragraphs.The essay was clear in thoughts and well organized. It was riches with different rhetorical and literary devices, which made it stronger, affective, and attractive to the readers. The author mainly used repetition, allusion, rhetorical question, anecdote, cause and effect.

Comparing with the previous essays where the authors haven’t quoted their work, as many as Victor has, his work seems well researched. The content compared with the previous samples, they were more essay written than this one.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Media Violence in formal tone

Writer completes it motivate, strong and effective and it also explain many aggression. There are lots of rhetorical and literary devices used in this essay .At the beginning of the essay the writer mainly used allusion, rhetorical question and definition. The author used formal tone and formal writing which does not addressed the audience directly. Even though the author used different rhetorical and literary devices through in the essay and it did not use anecdote and reader inclusion. Therefore, we can say the author defiantly used formal tone through it. The proofs given were excellent, but the manner in which they were presented was lacking a bit.

This easy has nice wording and effective rhetorical questions and the author explain every fact which makes it straightforward.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Reflection

A persuasive piece is difficult for some reasons. The writer has to make their piece interesting and convinces to the readers. There needs to use rhetorical techniques and they also needs to be followed (s.e.e.i.c.u) processes. Its really herd to support the opinion and explain to the reader in an interesting way.

Facts need to be found for supporting the opinion, need to edit the writing, have to careful about punctuations, spellings and grammars. In a persuasive piece have to use terms of lack of logical fallacies and also need to write an outline before writing. Each of those paragraphs should have a statement, supporting opinion, and conclusion.

Student should use their time to edits their work. Follow the class discussion and for any specific question they should ask the teacher.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Obama's Inauguration Speech

Obama’s all speeches have some similarity and differences. His first speech was candidate speech when he wanted to communicate with people, second speech was victory speech he was happy and in his inauguration speech he had responsibility and he focused the past problems and what he will take actions.

This speech is little bit different than Obama’s last two speeches because it is an inauguration speech. In his this speech he said about what kind of problems America faced in the past, economics, job, Afghanis war etc what he didn’t say in his previous two speeches.

Like his other speeches this speech was also well organised and very effective. He uses clear voice, many rhetorical devices like; he used many similarities with rhetorical devices such as rhetorical climax, anecdote, reader’s inclusion, repetition, and chiasmus. Obama saw dream to change America, in his all speech he mentioned the American people who worked together to build a better country, labourers and the people who toiled because they envisioned a better nation for generations to come. In his this speech he gives the sprite to the people. He use effective vocabulary, strong voice and like his other speeches he use sort, simple and phrase. In this speech the audience didn’t applause after every time he said a phrase or a sentence what they did before but in this speech I see in people’s eye their seeing more dream for America.

In this speech Barack Obama become the precedent of us that why in his Inauguration Speech I find more interest than the previous speeches.

Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago

Obama’s victory speech is so grate. He uses same stagy in his two speeches. On his victory speech he uses clear, loud vices and many rhetorical devices. He uses rhetorical questions, reader inclusion, repetition and anecdotes, repetition, anecdotes etc.

In his speech each issue he use a lot of real life examples that helped the audience understand the message of his speech. I like when he said he is not only speaks to those who votes for him, but addresses all Americans. “It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black - Americans who sent a message to the world. From the first to last of his speech he uses lots of rhetorical devices to make his speech more effective, strong and interesting. He also makes his speech effective to saying “I know you didn't do this just to win an election and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead’’. Using all the technique he make his speech interesting, effective, strong and attractive to the audience and use rhetorical devices he makes his speech power full.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Obama's speech

It is a long and interesting speech. It is my frist time i read and lessen a politicians speech in pacain. When i read it i was kingd of bored but when i lessen his speech i really like it. His voice is clear and he prounce word to make people interested. In his speech all Amarican find out their dream. I think he use many rhetorical devices make his speech more interesting to all. He used effective vocabulary for example compassionate and everytime he wanted to emphasize on a word, he would say the word louder.Obama has great character and style and really knows how to get a message across to people just by the way he talks, his jesters, pauses etc. Obama is exceptionally confident and this really get’s the audience interested in what he going to say.

I feel really impresses that he is giving dream to all Amarican. He give presure in changing the country. when i read the speech i didn't feel the main point he was saying i got hard time to fnding the rhetorical devices. But when i lessen the speech, it was easy to get the concept and the wht king of rhetorical device he use. I didn't get the emotion of this speech when i read it but when i lessen the speech i get the emotion.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_device
Rhetorical Devices
A rhetorical devise is a technique used to get a emotional reaction from their readers, listeners or odience.
Alliteration: Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence. Anacoluthon: Lack of grammatical sequence; a change in the grammatical construction within the same sentence.
Anadiplosis: The rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next.
Anaphora: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.
Anastrophe: Transposition of normal word order; most often found in Latin in the case of prepositions and the words they control. Anastrophe is a form of hyperbaton.
Antistrophe: Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.
Antithesis: Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. Aporia: Expression of doubt by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do.
Aposiopesis: A form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion or modesty.
Apostrophe: A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present.
Archaism: Use of an older or obsolete form.
Assonance: Repetition of the same sound in words close to each other.
Asyndeton: lLack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
Brachylogy: Ageneral term for abbreviated or condensed expression, of which asyndeton and zeugma are types. Ellipse is often used synonymously. The suppressed word or phrase can usually be supplied easily from the surrounding context.
Cacophony: Harsh joining of sounds. Catachresis:A harsh metaphor involving the use of a word beyond its strict sphere.
Chiasmus: Two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels but in inverted order.
Climax: Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of ascending power. Often the last emphatic word in one phrase or clause is repeated as the first emphatic word of the next. Euphemism: Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant.
Hendiadys: Use of two words connected by a conjunction, instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea.
Hypallage: Transferred epithet; grammatical agreement of a word with another word which it does not logically qualify. More common in poetry.
Hyperbaton: Separation of words which belong together, often to emphasize the first of the separated words or to create a certain image.
Hyperbole: Exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect.
Hysteron Proteron: Inversion of the natural sequence of events, often meant to stress the event which, though later in time, is considered the more important.
Irony: Expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another.
Litotes: Understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed. Metaphor: Implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it.
Metonymy: Substitution of one word for another which it suggests.
Paradox: Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict an assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it. Paraprosdokian: Surprise or unexpected ending of a phrase or series.
Paronomasia: Use of similar sounding words; often etymological word-play.
Personification: Attribution of personality to an impersonal thing.
Pleonasm: Use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought.
Polysyndeton: The repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses. Praeteritio : Pretended omission for rhetorical effect.
Prolepsis: The anticipation, in adjectives or nouns, of the result of the action of a verb; also, the positioning of a relative clause before its antecedent.
Simile: An explicit comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'.
Syllepsis: Use of a word with two others, with each of which it is understood differently. Synchysis: Interlocked word order.
Synecdoche: Understanding one thing with another; the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part.
Synesis: The agreement of words according to logic, and not by the grammatical form; a kind of anacoluthon.
Tautology: Repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence.
Zeugma: Two different words linked to a verb or an adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
MLA Citatation
In mla citatation used ahores, tital, published date, publishers name.

An Structuring an argument
In your essays, two important concerns for lecturers are:
whether or not your essay actually answers the specific question that has been set
whether or not the essay has a clear line of a topic.
http://mrbraiman.home.att.net/lit.htm
Literary Devices and Narrative Techniques
literary devices help people to understand the play complexit. literary device like irony, symbol, etc.
Dramatic Devices
A dramatic device is a of literary technique.