Adam Weindling Gordon English 12 6 October 2008 Milo and Major In Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 he uses satire to lampoon the absurd and dangerous military life. Heller effectively mocks the corruption and the horrors of war by creating characters like Milo Minderbinder and Major Major. The way Heller goes about ridiculing the military organization can even be applied today. Milo Minderbinder is in charge of the mess hall, but is mainly known for being the ruler of the black market. Milo’s business that started out selling eggs eventually blossomed into a huge money making organization where “everyone has a share.” This all started when Milo was looking for an out to his air raid missions.
William Jennings Bryan made quite clear his position on the gold standard on July 9, 1896 at the Democratic National Convention where he delivered his mesmerizing “Cross of Gold” speech. In the speech Bryan used rhetoric masterfully to capture the audience and sway them into believing in his solution against the gold standard. ("Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech: Mesmerizing the Masses.") An analysis of the speech “Cross of Gold,” by William Jennings Bryan, reveals that Bryan employed rhetorical strategies in order to effectively influence American voters. Bryan deliberately chose rhetorical strategies while crafting the text to effectively persuaded listeners.
Journal 03: America Tony Hoagland’s poem “America” uses specific nouns and metaphors to tell readers that America is too obsessed with material objects and self-satisfaction. Hoagland uses these nouns and metaphors to hide truth from the naked eye, specific diction is also used in combination with these metaphors to expose corruption in American society. In the opening lines, Hoagland writes, “Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud / Says that America is for him a maximum-security prison / Whose walls are made of Radio Shacks, Burger Kings, and MTV episodes.” Hoagland almost lists the details of American trends by mentioning hair color and piercings, and by describing businesses like Radio Shack which sell 70-inch flat screen televisions, which are completely unnecessary, and fast food restaurants like McDonald’s that give super-sized food portions. These allow readers to immediately see the ridiculous
Wolfe's main reason for writing this book was to document Kesey and the Pranksters as he felt they were beginning a new religion. Tom Wolfe's writing style is known as New Journalism which describes the first person point of view including full dialogue and real-life scenes in detail. The main theme of this novel is intersubjectivity which places the reader in the minds of the Pranksters and their lifestyle. "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is effective in portraying the counterculture of the 1960s and the real-life experiences of a group of hippies that crossed all boundaries. Kesey and the Pranksters first begin to use LSD in 1964 at Kesey's ranch in California known as La Honda.
They were equal in every which way.” The story stays true to the first sentence of the text throughout the whole story. The dates that associate with Vonnegut seem to have a huge impact on his writing. Have fought in WWII, there are similar concepts in this story to Hitler’s ultimate plan for Germany. Both had a very large government impact that could be seen as inhumane that went to radical terms in order to create the “perfect society.” The moment where the Handicapped general shoots Harrison because of his outcry for social justice by breaking the handicaps and laws associated on originality shows the great length the 2081 United States would go to for their perfect image- similar to Hitler’s quest to terminate all Jews for the greater good of Germany. It is very clear and obvious the way that Vonnegut wanted to write this paper- through satire terms Vonnegut made a statement the seems to be around the feeling that government control blocks originality, creativity, and the right to live as a human being- being able to be yourself.
Hannity said: “He seems to adopt the exact same language being used by the hard left in this country … He talks about global warming. He demonizes capitalisms (sic) and corporations …”x93 Brooks said: ”... it’s like he’s been sitting around reading lefty blogs, and he’s one of these childish people posting rants at the bottom the page, you know, Noam Chomsky and all this stuff.”x94 But the angle these Republicans missed is that bin Laden might be using reverse psychology— he knocks the Iraq occupation and backs some Democratic-championed issues because he wants to continue the Iraq occupation and undercut Democrats who might stop it95. The Iraq invasion and occupation has been a boon to bin Laden—letting him escape at Tora Bora, inspiring jihadist recruits, and bringing funds to al-Qaeda’s leadership in Pakistan. CIA officials concluded that bin Laden used reverse psychology in his prior video address to Americans, four days before the 2004 presidential
In the book, ‘The things they carried” by Tim Obrien, there were many points and ideas. The story was about the main character; Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, who had a disturbing fantasy of a young girl, Martha. It was disturbing to me because of how he spoke of his obsession with her. How he “would sometimes taste the envelopes, knowing her tongue had been there”. (The Things They Carried, Penguin, 1990, Print, line 4) In this short story, he transforms from being almost a hopeless boy into a proud, strong, man.
Annalisa Clark ENGL 111 Sanders September 22, 2013 Rhetorical Analysis In Ronald Reagan’s 1964 speech entitled “A Time For Choosing”, rhetoric is used in attempt to persuade the audience that the government is beginning to have all control over our lives, and change is necessary for the good of their children. Rhetoric being, Ethos, Pathos and Logos are used in attempt to persuade and many times appease an audience. Reagan uses all three in order to succeed in his goal of persuasion. At the time of this speech, Ronald Reagan was merely an actor and an ambassador for the Republican Party, but his respect among the party was quite vast. He often did speeches at the Republican National Convention and at various presidential campaigns.
In the Revolution Controversy I learned some important things: One was that the Revolution was initiated by Richard Price’s sermon, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country; Price had significant influence on England’s policies and an idea that loves for one’s country should imply love for fellow cities and about the importance of liberty and education within a nation. Then a year later Edmund Burke published a reply to Price, his Reflections on the Revolution in France; where he talked about the rights of man, her view of nature and our liberties and about the illusion and power. Then Reflections had too many responses from Mary Wollstonecraft in her Vindication of the Rights of Men. Wollstonecraft was a British feminist in support of French Revolution.
Topic: Explore the theme of religion in the play. « Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? » is a play written in 1962 by the American playwright Edward Albee. The title sets the tone of the play, with on one side the intellect and the drama with Virginia Woolf who was a famous writer who committed suicide. And on the other hand, a childish atmosphere with the allegory of the nursery rime “who’s afraid of the big bad wolf”.