Oprah Winfrey's Rhetorical Analysis

This article discusses the documentary’s focuses of the public hearing of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas and the feelings behind the facts that were stated during the hearing. The article served to be a promotion regarding the Frontline documentary airing on the PBS channel that day. It addresses the issues of gender and race as the program explains the confrontation between Hill and Thomas in the context of the struggles of both a black woman and man in a white society. The struggles between a black woman and man suggest the gender issues of the day raising awareness towards sexual harassment acts in the work place. The debate invokes the representation in the power structures of race and gender creating a topic of intersectionality. The perspective of both Hill and Thomas are portrayed in the true purpose of the allegation and

Gail Collins, an American writer known for writing under the opinion pages for the The New York Times, has turned the recent presidential debate, into something comical. In Gail’s most recent articles, “How Could Anyone Vote for Trump”, “The Dark Days of Donald Trump”, “Don’t Take Donald Trump to Dinner”, and “The Debate in One Scary Answer”, her purpose is to show that Donald Trump is not qualified to become the next president of the United States. In these four articles, her audience is the general educated reader that will be voting in the 2016 presidential election. Gail Collins has a recurring pattern of using the rhetorical modes; illustration and description. In addition, she uses the rhetorical strategies; metaphor, dialogue, and contrast

In 2017 during Trump’s first few months as president; there was a KKK/White Supremacy rally in Charlottesville. In the rally the Grand Dragon David Duke made an appearance along with other men; talking about “Taking their country back.”. Not only that but there are gender racisms among the U.S as well and no one is doing anything about it. This is a brief summary of Sophia A. Nelson’s article:”Charlottesville Is the Ugly Wake-UP Call America Needed”. As she referred to everyone ignoring the problems that are going on, and the people that are that just allowing it. Sophia took an angry/disappointed tone in her speech; a possible bias influencing this would be that she is also African American. Sophia uses a strong

This postcard builds suspense in the reader’s mind. Alex saying that this adventure could kill him makes the reader interested in finding out more. “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man.” (Krakauer 3).

Dip Lad Mr.Cartlidge ENG4U1-03 20 February 2018 Mark And Oprah Comparative Essay Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah Winfrey both with excellent speeches to the graduates and their huge accomplishments as a student. Zuckerberg and Winfrey are 2 successful billionaires and both delivering an inspirational message, but with 2 totally different speeches at commencement. Zuckerberg talked more on the side of purpose and the challenges of everyone having a sense of purpose while Winfrey talks about rising in anything in some point you will stumble and make mistakes. Zuckerberg and Winfrey both will similar and different rhetorical devices used in their speeches but Zuckerberg more on the side of the use of Pathos and Ethos while Winfrey is more on the side of Logos and Pathos.

The OP-ED piece written by Peggy Noonan on Nov. 19th, 2015 attacks the reader on several different fronts, but allows the same reader to empathize with individual aspects of the piece, or all of them. Feelings take center stage at first and Ms. Noonan challenges how the reader feels by deploying evidence; a synopsis of terror throughout the last two decades. Relentlessly she shows how just how permeable humanity is to intimidate by terror, along with the failures of President Barack Obama. Obama’s approach is belittled, even claiming the President is “barely relevant” and she does not consider his viewpoint. On a glance, she opens with a personal experience and then depicts several terrorist events, while tying them to the failures of Obama, and finishes with an example of greatness and questions who should steward this country going forward.

And for most American women who have never viewed the experiences of outsiders as anything other than a disruption to their own, their inability to contemplate the racial context of modern American politics “reflects the extent of [their own] . . . victimization” (hooks, 119). Simply put, the socialization of (white) American women shields them from “confronting the reality of racism, and not just racism as a general evil but the race hatred they might harbor in their psyches” (hooks, 122), creating an “us vs them” dichotomy that is maintained through “the right to assume the role of oppressor in relationship to black women and black men” (hooks, 123) that is granted by the (white) patriarchy that in turn, oppress them through their feminine roles in society. So ingrained is this ideology that several of the women jurors rationalized the murder of an unarmed black child by assuming that the victim was just as responsible for the tragedy as the perpetrator, that Martin was “suspect”, and therefore it was his fault that he allowed himself to be profiled in a threatening way that would result in a (defensive)

A personal ethos is another factor used in Chisholm speech, to convey women who have been discriminated of their gender. There has been unprecedented prejudice that tends to be ignored from people, since every time we think about prejudice we think about the black community. But that 's not the case, Chisholm confirms with her own personal experience that women, in general, are being prejudices in politics. Chisholm claims that “as a black person, I am no stranger to race prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black”(Chisholm, 149). Her history as an African American woman, Congresswoman makes her claim, and for the courage, she took in entering the presidential nomination in the Democratic party in 1972, the speech she has to introduce makes it believable and gives credibility to the reader.

Throughout Oprah’s interview, Rowling uses many movements to either suggest pressure and regret or confidence and hope. During the first question, Oprah phrases a statement as a question though; Rowling is still able to identify it as a statement and makes this obvious. “Yeah, it was, yeah. You’re good” even though she laughs during “You’re good” she also looks to the ground and touches her hair. This shows how she felt uncomfortable with the question and she may have done this stall her answer while she thought of an appropriate one.

Skillfully, Truth’s argument, both the organization and use of rhetoric’s are effective. In her speech, Truth first presents her argument by describing scenarios of different tasks men can do to which she is just as capable of doing herself. Truth evokes emotion and excitement through continuous repetition of her infamous question “and aint I a woman?” Her exclamation of this fact states her belief in her own self deserving rights to equality. With the repetition of this profound question, Truth continues to build on her audience as they too should feel equally deserving of rights and freedom from prejudice and discrimination. She allows her audience a chance to try and connect with her feelings and understand her trials especially as a black woman.

In a 2013 incident, she reported that she was not shown or even sold a hand bag in a boutique in Switzerland due to the saleswoman assumption that she couldn’t afford the handbag – an incident that infuriated blacks in America. Following the incident, Winfrey commented, “I could’ve had the big blow up thing and thrown down the black card and all that, but why do that?” Oprah, thus, views racism as a personal mindset, similar to Caribbean Americans, where she is less affected by racism and is able to move beyond that moment. However, this reaction contrasts with the reaction of many black Americans. Were a young black female or male to be followed around in a store by a store clerk, that black person would rail against the store clerk and call them out on their prejudice. I know I have, as a black female who has stopped shopping at stores where this prejudice occurs. Oprah didn’t see the value in doing that. She moved forward and continued on with her life, refusing to let the moment get to her. For many black people, including myself, these personal attacks are more or less an example of the systemic nature of racism. We are troubled by these experiences.

Live at Oprah Winfrey’s final show, “Oprah’s Secret Spectacular”, Beyoncé staged a striking artistic performance that was viewed as an amazing piece of entertainment. The simple yet effective jazz-funk choreography perfectly complimented her live rendition of ‘Run the World’. The eye-catching costumes created a powerful atmosphere, showcasing the females on stage as strong and independent. The performance presents the ideas of women being commanding, in control and powerful individuals who, in Beyoncé’s eyes, “Run the World”. The key message of Beyoncé’s performance is that females have become so empowered, that they are equally as good as men at anything they set their minds to, which is continuously shown through the lyrics, costuming and

Oprah’s life was tragic, filled with death, rape, and loss. However, even when all the odds were stacked against Oprah Winfrey, she was always able to turn her loss into strength and hope for a better future. Oprah’s better future has arrived now, she is a wealthy talk show host who wants to share her happiness with the world. Oprah’s horrible childhood would have left many scarred and ruined as people but that was not the case for Oprah. Oprah has stood as a symbol of hope, while putting effort, time, and money into benefiting those who need it most, and in her efforts to help others, Oprah has demonstrated what a wonderful person she is, and for that she deserves her own holiday.

Many women are empowered by the words of Bell Hooks. They can also be empowered by Beyoncé’s lyrics because they affirm and support what their lives have been like. Beyoncé uncovers the diversity of black women through history in her video. Visual images of slaves, mothers, young women, and working women combating struggles of being a black woman. In Don’t Hurt Yourself, a speech by Malcolm X is inserted where he said, “The most neglected person in America is the black woman. Similarly, Hooks wrote about the dismissal of black women in the feminist movement, “the utopian vision of sisterhood evoked in a feminist movement that initially did not take racial difference or anti-racist struggle seriously.” This comparison suggests that both Hooks and Beyoncé aim to improve the representation and political liberation of black women by making their narratives heard.

As an ironic and gentle moralist; Horace’s “Ode I.11” relished an irony in his poem by him leaving a portrait of a man from every reader to reader by asking him not to hold hope in his mind , but just to live the right moment and to run out from the thoughts for the future.But in contrast to what Horace said, Oprah Winfrey’s “Commencement address” strongly support the need to be hopeful for tomorrow, where she addresses her audience, the graduates for being an inspiration for others by changing our lives and fate through our hard work. The inspirations she spread through her speech clearly depict the significance of hope she holds in her which change her life from a black Mississippi girl, to the titles of an actress, philanthropist, publisher and producer. Even though both of them shows their own perspectives about the ideas of holding hope by thinking about the endless opportunities offered by the life and to worthy ourselves by being an inspiration for other lives, I agree with Winfrey because I believe her words are stronger about the relevance in holding hope in each of these aspects of our life in our way to destiny; and I found her words have an enduringly instituted powers on one who hear her!