Rhetorical Analysis Of Drunk History

A 1800 Tequila television advertisement from June 1, 2014 titled, "Perfect Match", demonstrates a handsome caucasian man walking into a boxing match after the main audience has taken their seats. After sitting in a front row seat, a waitress with a bottle that says "1800" serves him a glass of tequila. He stands for a few seconds while holding his drink in his hand, while he and a attractive female create an instant attraction towards one another. The boxing match is completely ignored while the two gaze upon one another. He sits down, still having a complete sense of awareness of the female. She beams at him and rubs her legs with her hands slowly as if to show him. Raising his glass as if to cheer, the glass of tequila is fully visible to her specifically. With the boxing match in the camera angle, the female promptly vanishes. The man is in disarray and wonders where she has gone, but swiftly she appears to be sitting right next to him. In one hand she has the same glass of tequila the man has. The two raise their glass to toast as he stares into her eyes. The camera then focuses on the muscular

First, you did a wonderful job describing the different events in the three videos. You present the information well and effectively. However, I would have to disagree that the “Drunk History: Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks” video better demonstrates the rhetorical strategies. I agree logos is portrayed by the woman describing the events of Claudette that result in the Bus Boycott in a logical order, and I agree pathos is presented when the woman describes the unfairness experienced by Colvin and Parks on the bus. However, I disagree that ethos is demonstrated in this video. The woman is intoxicated as she presents the events, and this can take away from her credibility. The viewers believe someone they trust, and the “perception of the speaker”

The tone the is what the author puts in the story in order to help you get a mood from the story. The tone that the author puts in this whole book in mainly pain,sadness,depressed, and a lot fear. Even though they have all of these there are many more tones that the author puts out in this story.

After watching two episodes of Drunk History and one episode of Happening Now, I noticed they both appeal to all parts of rhetoric. In each of the videos, the narrators describe an incident from their point of view. There is some truth in the stories with a lot of opinion because it is told in the perspective of the individual who is telling the story, but all the stories appeal to rhetoric to an extent.

Between memoirs and history textbooks, two very different approaches to historical matters are dealt with: one appeals to emotion, while the other to reason and logic. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, he discusses his life during the Holocaust and what life in a prison camp was like on an emotional level. The treatment of the Jews at the hands of the Nazi guards is more appalling through the emotional description of a survivor like Elie Wiesel than through the contextual and fact based evidence found in a textbook. One such example of this is when Wiesel describes how when the Jews were herded onto the cattle carriages to move them from Geiwitz to Buchenwald, and how the Nazi’s distribution of rations led to the Jews eating snow off one another’s backs:

The basic elements mentioned in Drunk History are supported by the outsides sources. These include Bly’s search for employment as a writer in New York, knocking on the door of every newspaper

Our younger generation is hooked on pointless media to escape our everyday life issues. The Drunk History videos and Bullshit Happening Somewhere are videos used for learning with some entertainment to get the point across. The creators of these videos demonstrate the concept of entertainment through rhetorical strategies and with the use of humor.

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" this is an old phrase used to inspire hopefulness and an encouraging, positive can-do attitude in the wake of hardship or disaster. Lemons symbolize the inevitable sourness or difficulties in life, while lemonade is the sweet drink that is the product of the lemons. Often life offers trivial disappointments with almost no explanation and sometimes it seems almost impossible to break the misfortunate spell. However, for some people, each mishap in their lives leave them not only perplexed but eager to see the glass half full rather than empty. Beyoncé is a prime example of making the best out of a bitter situation. On April 23, 2016, Beyonce released her groundbreaking fully visual album “Lemonade”. Lemonade debuted as number one album on the billboard charts and allowed Beyoncé to have the biggest first-week sales count. Nevertheless, with greatness comes a few flaws and “Lemonade” was no stranger to faults. To some, “Lemonade” was the cultural awakening that they needed but for many it was the conversation starter that would strike both emotionally and politically which is why it is such a powerful album but an even more important conversational piece.

Nakae Chomin wrote A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government in 1887. It is a work of debate literature that presents us with multi-dimensional characters with very specific and indefinable beliefs about how Japan should be run. Nakae Chomin studied in France for some time and this certainly must have influenced his thoughts and writings.

“Thanatos, Drunk” is the best work that the director Chang Tso-chi ever made, because it deals with extremely complex emotions through a delicate plot. The beautiful story of this film feels just like a knife that slowly stabs into audience’s heart and reveal everyone’s deepest feelings. The story is about Rat and his elder brother Shanghe, who live on the edge of Taipei City, trying to live their lives and handle their own personal relationship. Rat worships his cousin’s boyfriend Shuo, because he is a fancy guy with great personality. So, Shuo naturally steps deeper in the lives of the two brothers’

Satire is a specific classification of writing that occasionally makes utilization of realistic and performing expressions with the aim of scorning society into self-change. With social criticism being its fundamental objective, it uses dark sarcasm as its primary device to get the point across. Satire impacts people to reconsider themselves so as to alter senseless thoughts and behaviors. Different techniques are utilized in delivering the satirical impact, those of which use wit as their primary weapon. These methodologies mix the acing of matching unimportant and authentic matters as one joke, demonstrating compliment yet meaning the contrary to show ambiguity, and asking rhetorical questions. Moreover, the creator may downplay an issue keeping in mind the end goal to move the group of audience towards the genuine significance of the theme, antagonistically; distortion is utilized to bring down the effect of an issue to its lesser quality. Aggregately, these procedures are practiced to draw out the human follies and vices in society. In Molière 's Tartuffe and Jonathan Swift 's article A Modest Proposal, both diagonally condemn and criticize human conduct and the discernment we have towards others. Through a comedian conveyance, these creators offer an understanding past the apparently self-evident, and expect to enhance this flawed custom of one sidedness as opposed to disposing of it.

Cliff sat down next to Jensen watching the other alpha down two whiskey shots in a row. “Slow down alpha, or I’ll be taking you home in about twenty minutes.” Cliff admonished.

When the truth hurts we tell a joke, and Ms. Adichie does just that. She develops a rather comedic sense throughout her discussion through her stories and references that becomes a powerful tool in her arsenal. Comedy allows its user to provide social critique with little

This year in Funny Pages, I have learned a considerable amount about the art of Comedy. Some of the stories we read were such classics as: Twelfth Night, The Lull, Handful of Dust, and the Unrest Cure. Each of these stories are brilliant and amusing in its own ways. These stories also have a likeness in the types of humor practiced. There are several elements that seem to be repeated throughout such as: satire, characters that represent the spirit of comedy or its enemy, and

I understand that, at least for me at the time, drinking was a way of connecting with friends, to socialize with strangers, and to alleviate the shyness. But in hindsight, I noticed there was a change from wanting to needing a drink.  It was a way to deal with the tree of work and life itself. Years later now my wife and son are in the picture, I do my best not drink "that much" at home, but still finding a myriad of excuses to do so.