Essay 3 Reflection:

  Being able to apply my knowledge of terrorism and its widespread effects, helped me grasp and gain a deeper understanding when researching of Al-Qaeda’s militancy towards the foreign world, its influence, how counterproductive their attacks were in the long run, and its lasting effects on terror within the Middle East and Western nations. Using the useful tool of hypophora, the rhetorical device, posing a question that the reader/ intended audience may be perplexed about and responding helped me engage back lingering questions and provided clarification within the commentary of the responses within my analysis. Which also may have carried any weakness or shortcoming, or not have been able to include before, to provide a full description and justification of its significance to the inquiry questions. This is expressed with how exactly the Jihad movement carried out by the extremist Islamic terrorist group (Al-Qaeda) became the resulting factor of leading aggression to the U.S, and Western nations, and how the U.S. embassy and Western nations responded and retaliated to Al-Qaeda as a result after falling from its initial status, and reverse the misfortune that brought distress upon many people to overcome any future cases. Using another different rhetorical device, through the helpful gadget of analogy, I was able to implement the idea of comparing two partially similar events to show the intended reader/ audience the resemblance but also its recognizably different aspects of both the devastation of 9/11 and the attacks the World Trade Center has encountered. Illustrating these commonly popular, and familiar events has hindered the primary objective of Al-Qaeda the extremist terrorist group, and its attempts of bombings and attacks being publicized actually lead to being counterproductive towards its initial intention in the first place, and sub-consequently proceeded to put Al-Quaeda in a position where they had created a huge target on they’re back, that was irreversible. Lastly, given the opportunity to use the antithesis of pairing opposite ideas in a parallel manner I was able to show the contrast of the links between terror, and the war on terror, and how it directly correlates to its negative impact on employment rates.

 

Essay 2 Reflection:

Coming across the opportunity to explore and dissect the Civil rights movement due to sectional divisions rooting from the North and South leading up to the outrun, of segregational tensions after the failed attempts of reconstruction following its environmental influence in schools, churches, voting, and unfortunately most places of being employed with typically a white boss. A notoriously known politician that aided support continuously to the prominently radical Civil rights movement with a lasting effect was MLK who led and fought for peace, inspiring people to act by persuading and informing people through his self-imposed speeches and rallies referring to pathos in several instances of  “I have a dream” for his four children connecting toward a stance of what our future will look like and forcing people to think outside the box for the next generation that is in store for the sake of the livelihood of children suffering from racial discrimination. MLK initially operated off of trust and connections with his intended viewers by sharing his first-hand experiences of racial segregation by which he also approached his stories with well throughout solutions creating a foundation of a new sense of freedom.   MLK has also branched out a different rhetoric of ethos, by informing his audiences of his credential of being a member of the clergy or otherwise known as a baptist minister alongside being a Civil rights leader, additionally, the American-Australian political cartoonist demonstrated through his art that the majority to all of African Americans are putting up with an intentionally unfair system that has no regards for their life, and should refuse to accept a corrupted system. Finally, the last compelling rhetoric strategy notably used repeatedly was logos which engaged many people to gravitate to him when the provoking idea of insisting on historical events and a collection of clear logical connections that would sway the opposing viewer’s attention insisted a logical argument to be confirmed peacefully and serenely.

 

Essay 1 Reflection

 For the first, “This I no longer believe” essay I utilized imagery and metaphors to demonstrate an experience that formed and influenced my original belief that once a person’s life was headed in a certain direction that they were destined to be hopeless. I recalled what I saw and what I felt seeing my mother in that room, in a way that not only invoked my emotion but would invoke the same emotions in the reader to help them understand my original belief. After my initial belief, I went on to describe how my life went on with this belief, not trying in school, not attempting to do it even for my family, using chronological order to explain this belief. I spoke of how my resulting failures from this downward spiral belief were only limited enough to let me get to the 6th grade, this helped me build up a certain tension through recollecting the events to my eventual perspective-altering moment. Then I introduced the class and teacher in which I had the realization. My use of dialogue and emotional statements of course helped portray my feelings just before the change but also perfectly set up how I was to talk about the assignment she gave me. Firstly I made the assignment seem insignificant to highlight again my old thought process, then flowered upon an epiphany that I had when I had been completing that assignment. I described the connection I discovered between Newton and me which led me to gain this sense of free will in life again. I believe having chosen this life epiphany is what made the essay the most improved after the imagery, because of its logical alignment. Finally, what truly topped the essay was the use of the witty Apple connection at the end of the paper, this is so great as it not only connects precisely to Isaac Newton’s iconic story but because it symbolizes sudden and momentous realization. The critical parts of Unit one used to enhance this essay included imagery, metaphors, pathos, and logos. The pathos is used to convey an emotional transformation to the reader, and the logos to make the reader logically sympathize with my younger self’s ideals.