After reading Gabriella Fulton’s response, I saw that we both had similar ideas about how we viewed the article. She explains in her response the ways to build a rhetorical analysis and how there are many ways an argument can be bettered. For example, she says that after reading Mariely Diaz’s article, she explained how Diaz explained how even though Kevin Garcia had a weak rhetorical strategy. However, he still managed to get his point across. She later explains how personal experiences are one of the most important ways to have a more persuading argument. Personally, for me, the only way I feel as though an argument can be persuasive is through personal experiences.
Aarane, Matthew, and Maggie
Barack Obama
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pKoCq1bn0
Historical situation
- Was at the forefront of key nonviolence movements in the 1960s such as being a Freedom Rider. He was recognized as one of the “Big Six” leaders in the Civil Rights movement.
Issues at stake
- Voting rights in America
- Police violence against black people
Purpose of the argument
- Obama used this eulogy to inform and persuade people issues that he felt were relevant to Lewis’s life as they were thing’s he fought for during his life and were important in the political climate.
Martin Luther King
Link:
Historical situation
- King was jailed in Birmingham after he lead a march of black protesters without a permit
- He urged an Easter boycott of white owned stores
- The statement of the case, which was published in the Birmingham News, was written by 8 moderate white clergymen,
Issues at stake
- Civil rights
- Force an en to unjust laws
Purpose of the argument
- “Constructive, nonviolent tension” to force an end to unjust laws
- “We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.” (Martin Luther King Jr.)