Argumentation #24+ Commentary

Life is about making decision, sometimes good, sometimes bad; there is no way to avoid them. Excuses can be made for a bad choice. However, there is always a reaction to an action. You can choose your actions but you cant choose your consequences. The captain was put in a situation that most would break down and dont know what to do. He was courageous. He was like Moses in "The Bible" were he was in the desert for 40 years and was told by God that he would lead the people to the promise land. There were some that wanted to turn back or questioned Moses decisions. But he stood and made decisions that needed to be made in order for the people to achieve the promises. The captain made a decision to sacrifice some so that other may live or else they would of all died. He made the right decision and should plead "not guilty"for saving life's. 

When citizens life's are in risk, people have to be careful about the choices they make. In the captains situations it was they all die or some die and some live. There isn's truly a right way to judge this situation. However, there must be a judgement for every action. There is a son that is grateful for the captains decision. There is some loved one that is getting a chance to see there lover once more! All because of the captains decisions. There is more oppourtinty for life than there was death in his decisions. 

Some might argue that there are some that wont see there mom or dad again. However, you got to look at the situation there wasn't anyway there were going to see them it was going to have the same result. The captain just made something real negitive into something a little positive. In addition, the jury should rule him not guilty. He had to make a decision and made the right one. There was either bad or good and he chose to make bad into good!

Rhetoric Analysis #23 + Assertion

      Many spectators in the sports of football never truly know what the players go through. While they only see the touchdown and the big hit, they never pay attention to the dedication and sacrifice players put it. Foreign Countries see the American live and wonder if that is really true. They key in on the certain aspects of America's achievement, but never see the true heart of the "American man." Mr. Douglas states that in this beautiful country there is ugly side to it as well. Slavery. The chains and shackles that wraps around the dark man. He expresses his feelings about the downfall of America.
      Mr. Douglas uses many rhetorical devices in his quote but the main one that is expressed is syntax. He uses many small ideas to combine and compare to the overall theme of his assertion. There are many flaws in Americas system. Therefore, he needed to wrap them all somehow; so he uses syntax. He kept the reader interested by making a spider web style to grab many ideas and still have the reader on the same page. The Hard worker, the mistreated slave, and the hopeless servant; all bring the despicable taste in Douglas's mouth.
     He was very successful in making his audience respond to his call. A call of freedom. It must have been hard to influence a white man while the color on your own skin is black. Many tried and fail. However he persisted. Passing many. Through his rhetoric language. Back to back with the president Lincoln, they both strive to end slavery; by any means necessary. The new generation of African Americans dont have to work on the fields nor serve a white man; a change in society. He changed the society of America and overcame the challendges the white man brought

Rhetoric Analysis #22 + Practice

In "The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln he speaks to the people on the battlefield on Gettysburg. There are many rhetorical devices Abraham uses in his speech. They all were good strategies to get the people going, but there was one that made them emotional. Pathos. While he was speaking to the people, they were looking round at the rotten bodies sinking into the ground from were it came from, decaying right in front of their eyes. Fly's, bugs, and maggets eating every bit of the dead "honored" soldiers. He states "that these dead shall not have died in vain" which proclaims to the nation that they will win the war for the dead soldiers. As for me, i know were he is coming from and how the people were so stirred to fight till the end. My mother past away four years ago and every day I think of making her proud, for that everything she instilled in my life will also not go in vain!