Just to preface this post will deal with the change of medium from paper to voice thread of my rhetorical analysis. I will go through all of the appeals and even talk of style and words chosen. How all of these have impact on how we understand the spoken language.
http://voicethread.com/#thread/7327257/39280549/40419388
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Visual Analysis of a comic Revision
This will be the revision of the visual comic analysis where i will talk in greater detail to the strengths of the comic and stylistic points. This will be voicethread format which is about The Killing Joke by Alan Moore.
http://voicethread.com/#thread/7325678/39270434/40417427
http://voicethread.com/#thread/7325678/39270434/40417427
Digital Literacy Narrative Revision
This will be a voice thread detailing what inspired me and why I write and read today.
https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#thread/7325703/39270558/40410490
https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#thread/7325703/39270558/40410490
Digital Literacy Narrative
This is the original of the digital literacy narrative. it is in a voicethread format.
http://voicethread.com/#thread/7009347/37308556/38572405
http://voicethread.com/#thread/7009347/37308556/38572405
Visual Analysis of a comic
The original version of the the visual analysis of a comic. I chose The Killing Joke by Alan Moore.
http://voicethread.com/#thread/7199831/38410568/39591963
http://voicethread.com/#thread/7199831/38410568/39591963
Rhetorical Analysis
I did an analysis of Robert Oppenheimer's speech regarding the atomic bomb. This will go into detail about the rhetorical appeals. This is the original version and in voicethread format.
Speakers the
world over employ many tactics to get their points across, appeals to reach his
audience. These appeals known as logos, pathos, kairos, And ethos all are used
as ways to reach a crowd or hooks to catch the audience. Though this is not the
only way to gain attention or to leave your impression upon. Anaphora, will
leave the impression similarly to a
comic and silly putty. The speech I chose was The Atomic Bomb by J.
Robert Oppenheimer. A brief history about Oppenheimer, he was a scientist who
was part of the Manhattan Project which gave way to nuclear weapons and even
was a scholar in the field of theoretical physics. That is all I will give as a
view into who my speaker was, but more importantly this paper will go into
detail describing how and why his speech is a good use of the rhetorical method
and why it displays the above mentioned criteria which speeches must pass
through. All great speakers have the majority the appeals and aspects placed in
them J. Robert Oppenheimer is no exception.
The First of these rhetorical appeals which I will discuss is logos which is the appeal to logic. Oppenheimer would explain the perils of Atomic weapons in comparison to that of weapons previously created, that these however are different weapons and shouldn't be viewed through the same lens. Eventually speaking to the cost of the bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how they cost two billion dollars but this would change when knowledge would grow. This is in fact a new field of study in his time of the speech. Though he only gave a couple of examples of logos in his speech he would still appeal to the sense of what is facts of the evidence. He would even talk to the destructive power of the bombs in this line of the speech, "That bomb at Nagasaki would have taken out ten square miles, or a bit more, if there had been ten square miles to take out."(Oppenheimer). Logos is entirely fact based most speeches use facts to lend to credibility. The next appeal pathos is used to elicit a emotional response to a subject.
Pathos is the appeal which most speakers rely heavily upon more likely to remember a feeling rather than a fact. Oppenheimer's speech about the Atomic Weapons rely heavily on the crisis at hand which I will later discuss in kairos, but this is also an appeal to the sensitivity we feel to fear the unknown. This change in warfare to end warfare the fear these weapons carry with them and how they in fact are much more devastatingly much more powerful. This great weapon will also lead to reconsideration of warfare this weapon would change the way we resolve issues through work and diplomatic relations. Oppenheimer would even warn us in this passage, "Nevertheless, it would seem somewhat wrong to me to let our confidence, and mind you our wholly justified confidence in the future of the peaceful applications of nuclear physics distract us entirely from the immediacy and the peril of atomic weapons." (Oppenheimer). This weapon can not be a small hope, but a great one the possibilities rendered from the bomb outweigh the actual bomb. Though it is referred to through the piece as a most terrible weapon. He would even invoke fear of it during his speech about how it can minimize the threat these weapons pose, and he would even bring up they used to say that before the tests in New Mexico. Oppenheimer would use fear because this weapon would level a city and he would explain though if properly monitored and agreed upon set of rules across international borders. Ethos is also another appeal he relies heavily upon.
Ethos is the ethical matter of a piece Oppenheimer initially establishes ethics when he explains only scientists make the bomb, being part of the team which made them. Oppenheimer would say, "Because we are scientists, we must say an unalterable yes to these questions. It is our faith and our commitment, seldom made explicit, even more seldom challenged that knowledge is a good in itself. Knowledge and such power as must come with it."(Oppenheimer). Knowledge itself is not what causes such accidents or misuse of knowledge it is the user. He even gives a brief history of Physical science which this happens to be a branch, the world would often look to this as a way of removing God from the world. That this is no different from the times when physical science was to gain more understanding of the world which surrounds us. This brings to the table for anyone who may know the history a broadened view of the issue of the nuclear bombs. The arguments to minimize the threat of bombs and his retort of how they to used to say these would not be awful weapons also falls under the ethos of the piece. Development of this weapon will also lead to the stronger use of international diplomacy rather than just going to war. The last and final appeal which is left is kairos the appeal of right time right place.
Kairos is speaking of things at the right time this entire speech takes place after three months after the Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Still fresh in the minds of Americans and the tests even present shortly before this. The aspect of this type of physical science which is still vastly new and changing by the day. Even he explicitly talks of the bombs being dropped, "Some of you will have seen photographs of the Nagasaki strike, seen the great steel girders of factories twisted and wrecked. Some of you may have noticed that these factories that were wrecked, were many miles apart. Some of you will have seen pictures of the people who were burned, or had a look at the wastes of Hiroshima."(Oppenheimer) This is even before the start of nuclear power plants with the fear of creating nuclear weapons from power plants. The last part of this paper I will talk about the Technical aspects of the speech. Also while giv
A speaker often will use differentiated sentence structure and Anaphora to reach the listener. Anaphora is used throughout the work with repetitions of the hope of knowledge gained from it and the trouble may be small or great where as the hope can only be great. He also would do this often with ending the sentence with a word and starting the next one with the same word that was the last one in the previous. Raising the stakes of the discovery and misuse of the knowledge from this, "If I return so insistently to the magnitude of the peril, not only to science but to our civilization, it is because I see in that our one great hope as a further argument against war, like arguments that have always and increasingly existed, that have grown with the gradual growth of modern technology, it is not unique."(Oppenheimer). Oppenheimer would often have the use the short paragraph which would segway into the larger paragraph discussing in detail what he was explaining the group. This is a common place practice to help drive your point home and then to change the long style of a paragraph or speech to keep the audiences attention.
In conclusion this speech displays all the great use of rhetoric's and even uses language beautifully. What all great speakers must do to get their point across to even hold credence is follow similar structure of touching on all the appeals which drive all of us. This work even at the great attention to the technical conventions of the language Oppenheimer spoke masterfully, and even used points which would raise the stakes and explain to the world the threat they faced. Whether he used appeals or anaphora Oppenheimer used rhetoric to achieve success in delivering his speech.
Works Cited-
Oppenheimer, Robert J. "Robert Oppenheimer - Speech to the American Philosophical Society." Robert Oppenheimer - Speech to the American Philosophical Society. American Rhetoric, 1 Jan. 2001. Web. 06 Oct. 2015.
The First of these rhetorical appeals which I will discuss is logos which is the appeal to logic. Oppenheimer would explain the perils of Atomic weapons in comparison to that of weapons previously created, that these however are different weapons and shouldn't be viewed through the same lens. Eventually speaking to the cost of the bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how they cost two billion dollars but this would change when knowledge would grow. This is in fact a new field of study in his time of the speech. Though he only gave a couple of examples of logos in his speech he would still appeal to the sense of what is facts of the evidence. He would even talk to the destructive power of the bombs in this line of the speech, "That bomb at Nagasaki would have taken out ten square miles, or a bit more, if there had been ten square miles to take out."(Oppenheimer). Logos is entirely fact based most speeches use facts to lend to credibility. The next appeal pathos is used to elicit a emotional response to a subject.
Pathos is the appeal which most speakers rely heavily upon more likely to remember a feeling rather than a fact. Oppenheimer's speech about the Atomic Weapons rely heavily on the crisis at hand which I will later discuss in kairos, but this is also an appeal to the sensitivity we feel to fear the unknown. This change in warfare to end warfare the fear these weapons carry with them and how they in fact are much more devastatingly much more powerful. This great weapon will also lead to reconsideration of warfare this weapon would change the way we resolve issues through work and diplomatic relations. Oppenheimer would even warn us in this passage, "Nevertheless, it would seem somewhat wrong to me to let our confidence, and mind you our wholly justified confidence in the future of the peaceful applications of nuclear physics distract us entirely from the immediacy and the peril of atomic weapons." (Oppenheimer). This weapon can not be a small hope, but a great one the possibilities rendered from the bomb outweigh the actual bomb. Though it is referred to through the piece as a most terrible weapon. He would even invoke fear of it during his speech about how it can minimize the threat these weapons pose, and he would even bring up they used to say that before the tests in New Mexico. Oppenheimer would use fear because this weapon would level a city and he would explain though if properly monitored and agreed upon set of rules across international borders. Ethos is also another appeal he relies heavily upon.
Ethos is the ethical matter of a piece Oppenheimer initially establishes ethics when he explains only scientists make the bomb, being part of the team which made them. Oppenheimer would say, "Because we are scientists, we must say an unalterable yes to these questions. It is our faith and our commitment, seldom made explicit, even more seldom challenged that knowledge is a good in itself. Knowledge and such power as must come with it."(Oppenheimer). Knowledge itself is not what causes such accidents or misuse of knowledge it is the user. He even gives a brief history of Physical science which this happens to be a branch, the world would often look to this as a way of removing God from the world. That this is no different from the times when physical science was to gain more understanding of the world which surrounds us. This brings to the table for anyone who may know the history a broadened view of the issue of the nuclear bombs. The arguments to minimize the threat of bombs and his retort of how they to used to say these would not be awful weapons also falls under the ethos of the piece. Development of this weapon will also lead to the stronger use of international diplomacy rather than just going to war. The last and final appeal which is left is kairos the appeal of right time right place.
Kairos is speaking of things at the right time this entire speech takes place after three months after the Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Still fresh in the minds of Americans and the tests even present shortly before this. The aspect of this type of physical science which is still vastly new and changing by the day. Even he explicitly talks of the bombs being dropped, "Some of you will have seen photographs of the Nagasaki strike, seen the great steel girders of factories twisted and wrecked. Some of you may have noticed that these factories that were wrecked, were many miles apart. Some of you will have seen pictures of the people who were burned, or had a look at the wastes of Hiroshima."(Oppenheimer) This is even before the start of nuclear power plants with the fear of creating nuclear weapons from power plants. The last part of this paper I will talk about the Technical aspects of the speech. Also while giv
A speaker often will use differentiated sentence structure and Anaphora to reach the listener. Anaphora is used throughout the work with repetitions of the hope of knowledge gained from it and the trouble may be small or great where as the hope can only be great. He also would do this often with ending the sentence with a word and starting the next one with the same word that was the last one in the previous. Raising the stakes of the discovery and misuse of the knowledge from this, "If I return so insistently to the magnitude of the peril, not only to science but to our civilization, it is because I see in that our one great hope as a further argument against war, like arguments that have always and increasingly existed, that have grown with the gradual growth of modern technology, it is not unique."(Oppenheimer). Oppenheimer would often have the use the short paragraph which would segway into the larger paragraph discussing in detail what he was explaining the group. This is a common place practice to help drive your point home and then to change the long style of a paragraph or speech to keep the audiences attention.
In conclusion this speech displays all the great use of rhetoric's and even uses language beautifully. What all great speakers must do to get their point across to even hold credence is follow similar structure of touching on all the appeals which drive all of us. This work even at the great attention to the technical conventions of the language Oppenheimer spoke masterfully, and even used points which would raise the stakes and explain to the world the threat they faced. Whether he used appeals or anaphora Oppenheimer used rhetoric to achieve success in delivering his speech.
Works Cited-
Oppenheimer, Robert J. "Robert Oppenheimer - Speech to the American Philosophical Society." Robert Oppenheimer - Speech to the American Philosophical Society. American Rhetoric, 1 Jan. 2001. Web. 06 Oct. 2015.
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