The Awakening Rhetorical Analysis

The theme of The Awakening is centered on Edna’s journey of individual identification and independence. Chopin condemns gender roles and pleads to the public to look at women as equals and not just commodities to be married off. Women should have all the

In this passage from Chapter 3 of The Awakening, the author’s message is to explore the relationship of a married couple in order to identify the circumstances of each character, and the discrimination of women as a whole. Upon doing this, the author establishes their attitude of one of the characters, Mr. Pontellier, through the use of multiple rhetoric appeals. Chiefly, the author dispenses ethical appeal when evaluating the character of Mr. Pontellier. Paragraph one introduces Mr. Pontellier as he enters his home, evidently seen to be full of vitality, and hardly caring of his actions (2-6).

Paragraph 1- NASA is using all the money they have to keep what they have right now up and running, but if we sell the older spacecrafts and satellites the private companies can keep them running and being worked on while NASA builds bigger and better things. In Brian Berger's article “With NASA Budget Cuts Looming, SETI Eyes Private Funding”, he says, “NASA's astrobiology budget, the source of most of that grant money, is facing a steep decline. Under NASA's 2007 budget proposal, currently before Congress, the U.S. space agency would spend $32.5 billion on astrobiology in the year ahead--half of what it spent on astrobiology in 2005.” (Berger, pg 1). A survey was conducted between February 4, 2013, and February 6, 2013, by random people, the results were 75 percent believe that NASA’s budget should be doubled to 1 percent of the federal budget to fund initiatives including a mission to Mars.

Imagine a world where there is no technology, air condition, airplanes, and the only way to travel is by ship. You would pray for safe travels, but there was no certainty to whether you would live to see the next day because the ocean could be unpredictable. All you had were friends and family, the ocean, and a hope for a better future. In the early 1600s, this is exactly what the pilgrims faced as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean to reach their destination in the Americas. They left Great Britain for religious freedom and trusted that God would protect them. When the pilgrims, reached the new land they began to colonize. As time passed, their dependence on God began to fade. This is one of the reasons that caused the Great Awakening.

Good morning to you. My name is Jholar. I am a pre-dental student that came to Pittsburgh because University of Pittsburgh had the number one dental school in America. Spring of 2015, I was taking two classes which got challenging, so I made a smart move to drop the two classes. I tried seeking help over the phone from the Community College of Allegheny County, and my previous college in Atlanta, but I had no luck.

Following in Our Footsteps Our children learn from watching everything we do, from being studious to smoking. At least, this is what ClearWay Minnesota is presenting to us. To elaborate, ClearWay’s We All Pay the Price for Tobacco ad uses a not-so subtle combination of narration, causation, and pathos as rhetorical devices to assure us of the risks of smoking. To start, they present to the viewer with a short thirty second video where they show a loving mother helping her young daughter study multiplication for school. As they finish working through a problem, the mother asks her daughter to keep working while she steps away for a moment.

The idea of owning one’s destiny, to be one’s own master, remains the dream and desire for many. This very thought of obtaining a unique stroke and carving a new path from society’s traditions is a condition rooted in everyone. However, what makes an individual truly exemplary is their ability to pursue this feeling. Edna, the main character in Chopin’s The Awakening, represents the very definition of a struggle in finding one’s identity. Kate Chopin specifically points to this theme of an inner struggle to find one’s identity in Chapter XXVIII by utilizing word repetition, figurative language, and striking descriptions.

Communicating with others, especially faceless others, about a personal problem is difficult in the best of circumstances. But what if you are supposed to communicate through a medium that requires a closeness and openness with your audience? This is a problem that Monica Berlin’s essay, “The Eighteenth Week,” cultivates. The essay confronts the topic of grief in the most non-confrontational way. Put in comparison to Charles Lamb’s essay, “Dream Children: A Reverie”, the unique way in which Berlin approaches her topic comes to light.

Many things in our world go unnoticed and the people do not know the reason it started or who started them. 99 percent invisible is a small radio show, that raises attention to the things that go unnoticed in the world that shape it. Aids awareness is one of them when an art project started by a group called visual aids that created red ribbons to raise awareness for this issue. 99 percent invisible brings light to the people behind the start of a powerful movement that has affected the world. This podcast is highly effective and well done, it gives all the information needed in a very audience-friendly manner.

I believe that The Awakening by Kate Chopin symbolizes the connection of the human soul, with the outside world. Through nature a person is able to identify who he/she truly is, and what their purpose is in the universe. I believe that the passage does have some biblical inspiration as God made himself visible to random individuals through dreams or nature in order to pass on and important task or message. After the brief experience the individual would have inspiration to perform such tasks. Surviving in a world where hate and jealousy is prevalent in society, there will always be a sense of uncertainty in what action is best as seen in line 7-8 of the excerpt.

The art of quoting and summarizing an argument is one of the main skills to acquire when it comes to writing a successful piece of work. In the book, They Say I Say the art of inserting quotations is mentioned to be one of the highest mistakes made by writers. Many insert a quote that has no frame of introduction or background information which is considered a “hit and run quote.” Readers need to be able to comprehend not only the writings, but the background information and quotes from another author writing in order to have the whole work cohesive. Dire necessity for the writer is to go back to the initial text and truly understand the background from which they are quoting to make sure their audience understands the quote and why

The separation of church and state is an ongoing debate that effects everyone, even if you are not aware of it. There are many arguments to this debate, and both sides are heavily supported. I will be analyzing two sources that support the separation of church and state but used two different forms of rhetoric to support the separation.

In her novel The Awakening, Kate Chopin is an artist who paints a picture for the reader with every word:"The sun was low in the west, and the breeze was soft and languorous that came up from the south, charged with the seductive odor of the sea." (12) The inclusion of such alluring and dramatic images allows the reader to see, hear, feel, smell, and live in the scene which she creates. Chopin writes to awaken the senses, and her style is one of beauty and uniqueness. As if stroking a brush across a canvas, or playing a chord on the piano, Chopin’s use of expressive, descriptive, and poignant writing is evident throughout the novel, thus adding to its overall effect.

In her Cyberliteracy chapter “Humor, Hoaxes, and Legends in Cyberspace,” Gurak suggests that digitally literate individuals can determine whether content accessed online is authentic or not using rhetorical analysis skills. Her work focuses primarily on discerning parody and chain emails in early, unidirectional web environments (Gurak, 2001). Determining the authenticity of health information and products online have become inherently more difficult with Web 2.0, particularly due to the collaborative and interactive nature of this type web environment. Additionally, acting on untrue advice can have serious and lasting impacts on an individual’s health. However, I argue that refined understanding and application of ethos (authority) and logos

The Awakening, authored by Kate Chopin is a unique novel that emphasizes that even the strongest characters with the most free will and agency can still be overwhelmed by a situation that may seem straightforward or elementary to the reader. George M. Spangler fails to recognize this essential aspect to Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening. Spangler argues that the greatest fault in the novel the “inconsistent characterization” (Spangler, line 1) of Edna throughout the novel. Spangler incorrectly states states that Edna is an inconsistent character. Edna is a dynamic character.