In a time of celebration for his presidency, President Kennedy brings up making a change in our country. He highlights the importance of making relations with other countries in the world as well as the United States’ role in the world. He utilizes anaphora to establish his opinion on the changes America should make in the upcoming presidency in order to make the world a better place for all.
He begins his speech by addressing how America should help fellow nations--he begins each paragraph with “to” to show a list, emphasizing how many areas are in need of our help and how we as a country can help them. The audience therefore understands how large-scale and prevalent problems around the world and outside of our country are. With the help from the United States, it is not only making another country better, but making a “sister” or “brother” better.
Kennedy continues to use anaphora when discussing the left and right wing conflicts within the United States. He uses “let both sides” in the beginning of both sentence to once again emphasize the compromises and amends both sides have to make in order to keep a unified and continuously patriotic country. By utilizing anaphora, he not only allows the audience to make the logical connection, but he also touches the audience’s hearts, for he shows the American people the greater, more unified place they could all live in as long as these compromises are made.
Although the previous years leading up to Kennedy’s presidency were not ideal, Kennedy switched around to a more positive perspective during his inaugural address, giving hope to all Americans to the future in his presidency. He uses anaphora in order for the audience to understand and take to heart his message of bringing not only the American people, but the whole world together to make the a better place.
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Monday, January 16, 2017
TOW #15 | Visual - Global Warming
These days, many people question or are skeptical about the concept of climate change, otherwise known as “global warming.” Despite scientific evidence showing that climate change is real, people still refuse to accept the issue as a problem growing in our world. The artist in the visual text, “Global Warming” utilizes an hourglass and detailed drawing of the Earth in an effort to portray the severity of climate change and how people should act upon it through preserving the environment.
The concept of time can be portrayed in a multitude of ways. Clocks, timers, and watches are all examples of things that are used to keep time. However, the artist chose to portray time passing with an hourglass to show that as time passes, the Earth will be flooded due to climate change. Instead of sand, the hourglass uses water instead to portray the melted ice caps as a result of global warming. The drop of water about to drop onto the “world” which is shown on the bottom of the hourglass is the artist’s effort in showing how close our world is to being directly affected by climate change.
The “world” in the visual text is extremely detailed to emphasize the actions that humans take to speed up the process of climate change and destroy the environment. The tree and tree stumps portray deforestation. Deforestation is one example of many that the artist draws to show the things people do to further destroy the Earth. Other details such as roads, the gas sign, and the great number of cars are drawn for the same purpose.
Through the imagery the artist gives the audience, the artist attempts to inform and warn the audience of the dangers that come with destroying the Earth and its environment. Although cutting down one tree or burning fuel in one car does not seem like it would affect the environment much, with many people making the same careless actions, global warming and its dreadful effects are right at the fingertips of people and may drip on them at any moment.
The concept of time can be portrayed in a multitude of ways. Clocks, timers, and watches are all examples of things that are used to keep time. However, the artist chose to portray time passing with an hourglass to show that as time passes, the Earth will be flooded due to climate change. Instead of sand, the hourglass uses water instead to portray the melted ice caps as a result of global warming. The drop of water about to drop onto the “world” which is shown on the bottom of the hourglass is the artist’s effort in showing how close our world is to being directly affected by climate change.
The “world” in the visual text is extremely detailed to emphasize the actions that humans take to speed up the process of climate change and destroy the environment. The tree and tree stumps portray deforestation. Deforestation is one example of many that the artist draws to show the things people do to further destroy the Earth. Other details such as roads, the gas sign, and the great number of cars are drawn for the same purpose.
Through the imagery the artist gives the audience, the artist attempts to inform and warn the audience of the dangers that come with destroying the Earth and its environment. Although cutting down one tree or burning fuel in one car does not seem like it would affect the environment much, with many people making the same careless actions, global warming and its dreadful effects are right at the fingertips of people and may drip on them at any moment.
Sunday, January 8, 2017
TOW #14 | IRB - Civilization and its Discontents
In one of Freud’s most famous texts, Civilization and its Discontents, Freud analyzes the factors that push the creation and development of a civilization. From sexual desires to a craving for power, he compares the relationships between civilized and savage humans in an effort to portray the true meaning of a civilization. Freud utilizes counterarguments and allusions to Christianity and God to highlight the effects of human nature and function on the creation of a civilization.
Freud begins his essay by describing how all religion is based off an “oceanic” feeling that unlike Rolland, is not a human urge to feel united with the outside world, but rather an “infantile helplessness” (21). By using this method of bringing up a common misconception of humanity and their nature, analyzing it, and utilizing his views to show how it is a misconception, he portrays the true, savage nature of human beings that masked their true selves in an effort to form a civilization.
Later in the text, Freud states how "'little children do not like it' when there is talk of the inborn human inclination to 'badness', to aggressiveness and destructiveness, and so to cruelty as well. God has made them in the image of His own perfection" (79). Though Christianity shows how humans are born with original sin but also in the image of God, many disregard the negative, evil aspects of humanity in their religion and only focus on the Godly part that makes them seem like they are “civilized” human beings. In fact, Freud uses this allusion to highlight how people try to mask the savage parts of humanity with the civil parts, just as how Christians ignore their original evilness and sin.
As one of the most influential and famous psychoanalysts of all time, Freud brought up themes in Civilization and its Discontents that no one considered before. Through his use of counterarguments and allusions to Christianity, Freud truly reveals the dark nature behind humans and their “civil” societies.
Freud begins his essay by describing how all religion is based off an “oceanic” feeling that unlike Rolland, is not a human urge to feel united with the outside world, but rather an “infantile helplessness” (21). By using this method of bringing up a common misconception of humanity and their nature, analyzing it, and utilizing his views to show how it is a misconception, he portrays the true, savage nature of human beings that masked their true selves in an effort to form a civilization.
Later in the text, Freud states how "'little children do not like it' when there is talk of the inborn human inclination to 'badness', to aggressiveness and destructiveness, and so to cruelty as well. God has made them in the image of His own perfection" (79). Though Christianity shows how humans are born with original sin but also in the image of God, many disregard the negative, evil aspects of humanity in their religion and only focus on the Godly part that makes them seem like they are “civilized” human beings. In fact, Freud uses this allusion to highlight how people try to mask the savage parts of humanity with the civil parts, just as how Christians ignore their original evilness and sin.
As one of the most influential and famous psychoanalysts of all time, Freud brought up themes in Civilization and its Discontents that no one considered before. Through his use of counterarguments and allusions to Christianity, Freud truly reveals the dark nature behind humans and their “civil” societies.
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