Month: September 2021

1.  “While putting for-ward the argument that one needs to be white to be truly successful, he adds, in an aside, that this might not work for blacks because if ‘a ninja paints a flower it becomes a slavery flower…’”
   This line struck me. It very much caught me off-guard. Regardless of whether it’s true or not this line packs a punch. It also feels to be like the essence of the entire text. It paints the point about “dehumanization every brown or black person lives simply because of skin color.”
2.  “I know this is not proper tennis etiquette, but this is the first time I’ve ever played here that the crowd has been behind me like that. Today I felt American, you know, for the first time at the US Open. So I’ve waited my whole career to have this moment and here it is.”

This is clearly pathos. The author is building up the character of Serena to make us want to cheer for her as if she was a main character of a movie or something.
“As offensive as her outburst is, it is difficult not to applaud her for reacting immediately to being thrown against a sharp white background. “
This quote shows the use of logos. It is appealing the act of putting emotions aside and try to look at the full picture.

3. I remember in 8th grade I communicated with a classmate without using words. At the time I wasn’t confident in my English and all of my friends from previous years were assigned to a different class. I don’t know why he didn’t communicate to me verbally. During class, when we would get bored we would draw pictures on a piece of paper to each other and giggle. Thinking back at it, it was a very surreal experience. At the time Harambe was a big internet meme and I remember us giggled at it a whole bunch. It’s crazy how friendly you can become with someone even without using words.

1. Ethos: An example of ethos in my literacy narrative is, ” My mother, who moved with my father from Pakistan, gave birth to me in the Bronx. Being the only male child in a family of 5, I was forced to grow with a lot of responsibilities around me. With a father who was out all day working and a mother who was only home to take care of me and two of my sisters, the expectations were high.” I believe this is an example of ethos because it entrusts the reader that I bounce backed from a difficult minority background.

Pathos: An example of pathos in my literacy narrative is, ” The definition of “feeling lonely” was something I could not relate to. Grades being higher than ever and becoming the most popular student around, life for me was going great. But there was always a feeling of emptiness that was inside me that I could not explain.” I believe this is an example of pathos because it describes how I felt a pity of emptiness through my journey, which is attaching a feeling to those people who can express themselves due to the judgements of other people.

Logos: An example of logos in my literacy narrative is, ” What I have learned from Islam is that it is not that religion changes your life, but it changes you to stand up against the difficulties that life throws at you more efficiently. Islam taught me to realize that I am not perfect as a human and that my value lies in how much effort I put into doing the right things. Ever since I adapted this faith into my life, I have improved myself mentally, physically, and spiritually.” I believe this is an example of pathos because it gives the viewer a result of how coming to my faith made me a better human being. 

2. In the movie The Lion King, one of the most heartbreaking scenes that occurred in the movie was when the king of the animals, Mufasa, was thrown off the edge of a cliff into a stampede of wildebeest by none other than Scar, his own brother. To top it all off, Simba, the cub son of Mufasa, watched his father fall to his death. The intentions behind why Scar killed his brother was because he was simply jealous that he was not given any value in the kingdom, and he wanted to be the ruler. Scar lured Simba into a canyon and told a few of his hyena friends to cause a stampede in the direction of the canyon. From they’re Scar rushed to Mufasa and told him that Simba was stuck in a wildebeest stampede, causing Mufasa to go rescue his son. Mufasa risked his life and jumped straight into the stampede, and found his son hanging onto a small tree branch. After catching Simba right as he let go of the branch, Mufasa climbs the side of the canyon and gets his son to safety. But right as he did so, Mufasa got caught into the stampede himself, but jumped out of it and started climbing the wall of the canyon. Right as he reached the top, Scar watched his brother struggle up, and when he asked for help, he grabbed his paws and threw his brother into the canyon, causing Mufasa to fall to his death and his son there to witness it.

3.What I noticed about this analysis activity was how much detail you need to use to make the reader feel the scene you are describing. Imagery and description seem to be the strongest elements of an analysis. Another thing I noticed while doing this activity was how descriptive detail can really catch the audiences eye and make them feel like they were apart of the scene. Overall I also better learned how important detail is in an analysis.

1. What shocked me the most was that Serena Williams is an excellent tennis player. The referee made five wrong calls and she lost the match. Because everyone in the audience knows Serena Williams didn’t make mistake. But in spite of that, Let’s just say she is unlucky to have a racially and sexist referee, even if everyone thinks it’s unfair. “The serves and returns Alves called out were landing, stun-ningly unreturned by Capriati, inside the lines, no discerning eyesight needed. Commentators, spectators, television viewers, line judges, everyone could see the balls were good, everyone, apparently, except Alves. ”  Apparently she’s black and and a black woman, Serena Williams wagged her finger feebly, as if what tennis required was not perfect technique, but a suitable skin color and gender.“Serena, in her denim skirt, black sneaker boots, and dark mascara, began wagging her finger and saying “no, no, no,” as if by negating the moment she could propel us back into a legible world. ”

 

 

2. Rankine applied patho to move or persuade the audience, “Serena, in her denim skirt, black sneaker boots, and dark mascara, began wagging her finger and saying ‘no, no, no,’ as if by negating the moment she could propel us back into a legible world. ” Rankine describes how Serena Williams was dressed, giving the reader the impression that she was very excited about the match and that she had dressed up for it. But there’s a stark contrast to shaking the fingers and say “no, no, no”, denial and feeling like it’s all unreal, in trying to bring everyone back to reality. It’s a phrase that captures Serena Williams’ sense of loss and powerlessness. So that’s a good example of Patho. Rankine also applies lenses I recognize from Blankenship, Graves, and Eickmyer’s list that involved Gender studies  and Critical race theory. “What does a victorious or defeated black woman’s body in a historically white space look like?” It’s a critique of entrenched white supremacy and male chauvinism. This simple line illustrate the idea of debasement of the female image and the idealization of the male image, also racial bias in critical texts.

 

 

3. We can rhetoric thing in many ways, without using words. One of my jobs was to help take care of children who were born with disabilities. I went to pick up the kid from art class, but at the same time I saw another kid with swollen eyes, about six years old, looking for his mother on the street. I went up to him and asked him what was wrong, how I could help him. But he just took a look at me and turned his head down, so I crouched down to calm him down and asked him again. But then I saw the hearing aid on his ear, and I suddenly realized that this little kid couldn’t hear me. Then I began to gesture, I first touched my hair, because I think mothers should have long hair. Then I pointed to the other parents who were picking up their children. He seemed to understand what I was trying to say, and he nodded. I immediately called the teacher of the art class. I was worried that it was not safe for children to be on the side of the road. The teacher saw me and hurriedly said: “Tommy is here, finally found him, his mother has been looking for him for a while. “I pointed inside the building, and the child understood and smiled at me. For the first time, I felt that the world could communicate without words. It’s subtle for being able to understand by touching your hair and pointing to objects was very effective, even more effective than using words.

1. Ethos: the characteristic spirit of a culture. From my essay, I think an example of ethos is.  “From Bengali to English, CRB street to faded Manhattan Time square road, and thirty-nine degrees Celsius to thirty-nine degrees Fahrenheit, I found a new environment and a new culture, a culture that not only reminded me of my old culture but perhaps influenced me to adapt to this new culture”. This is ethos since it constructively demonstrates two different cultures.

Pathos: A language that draws out feelings or emotions. From my essay, I think an example of Pathos is  “You have it hard, I know. Remember, your entire family is here to help you. ” This is pathos since it portrays my dad’s inner feelings about me and his emotion with me.

Logos: a rhetorical or persuasive appeal to the audience’s logic and rationality. From my essay an example of Logos is “Even though I was in isolation from COVID, I always met with my teammates in zoom and we discussed our next year’s plan. Then we tried to maintain a routine to keep ourselves fit since fitness is very important for cricket. Most surprisingly, this year we won for the first time in the PSAL tournament and we became a champion team after 6 years of losing the last two finals”. This is an example of logos because this is how I logically keep the bond with my player during this pandemic.

2. For the analysis, I want to analyze one of the old songs named ‘The nights’ by Avicii. I think this song is best to annalyze Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. His father his idol who inspired him to live the life as it was remembered in his whole life. Also, this song demonstrates the good bond between son and father where the singer remembered his father while singing since his father had died. This is a good example of Pathos where emotions and feelings can be seen in the singer’s eyes in the video. However, this song also mentioned some ways how you live your life with fascinating things. And finally, Avicii’s father’s inspiration helps him to go forward in life with joy and happiness. His father was his childhood hero and his father is his idol when he became an adult. At the beginning of this song, we can find a bit example of ethos where he mentioned some characteristics of a culture. This song tells me and anyone who listens to live life without fear, not to care what others think, to live life the best you can, even in the kind of world we live in today. Others may try to put you down, but don’t let them get to you. No Matter what they call you, gay, four eyes, psychopath, retard, shorty, slut, bitch, it doesn’t matter. They are only putting you down because they feel like they are better than you.

3. I noticed one difference between annalyze and summery and that is summery is retell the whole story using a shortcut format while analyzing is a deep explanation of a text which help me to know more about it and clarifies the whole thin. Summery is a basic idea and analyzing I think a deep knowledge about the text we annalyze.

1.A moment in Rankine’s excerpt that moved me was learning about Serena Williams’ outburst at the 2009 Women’s US Open semifinal. The text states, “Serena’s behavior, on this particular Sunday afternoon, suggests that all the injustice she has played through all years of her illustrious career flashes before her and she decided to finally respond to all of it with a string of invectives.”(page 121)  Her outburst was not just from anger in the moment, it was built up from years of injustice. To think of someone as professional as Williams to have an outburst like that, truly shows how upset she has been and that there is more to it than just this one incident. It shocked me that she was fined almost $82,000 for this and given two years of probation. I can see how officials are trying to set an example, but the fine was ridiculous and uncalled for. Although she was unprofessional, you have to look at the bigger picture and injustice experienced. 

 

2.One moment in Rankine’s excerpt where she applies the lens of “audience” to her work when she says “In one of his many videos, he addresses how to become a successful black artist, wryly suggesting black people’s anger is marketable”. This shows that Jayson Musson believes you can target a specific audience of black people by using the tool of “anger”. He thinks that the anger many black people feel is marketable.

Another moment in Rankine’s excerpt where the lens of “genre” is applied is racism shown. According to the excerpt, “Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context- randomly rules everyone else gets to play by no longer applying to you…” (page 123). This shows the genre of racism. The writer is targeting a specific genre that will attract a certain group of people- people who feel oppressed.

 

3.It is around 6 am on a Saturday morning- the one day I get to sleep in. My little sister came barging in my room, jumping on top of me because she needs a ride to soccer practice for 7 am, and my father had an emergency and couldn’t take her. Without using any words, I just looked at her and she knew how mad I was. This is the one day I get to sleep in and I have to work the night shift at my job later that night. I point up the stairs, indicating my brother’s room. Why couldn’t she ask him? He had off from school yesterday and spent all day in bed. My sister then ran out of my room and repeated this same scene of jumping on the bed with my brother. This is an example of how I expressed my feelings and thoughts effectively without speaking. From the angered look on my face and the notion to go upstairs, she understood to ask another sibling. 

 

Ethos – “At the age of 13, I found my identity, and now is the time for me to become the member of the Jewish community I always wanted to be. I started to participate and lead weekly prayers, volunteer at fundraisers, and continued to assist with community initiatives. Over time I truly felt that I belonged and was a part of the community. “

pathos -“Although I was about to start the next chapter of my life, I was upset that I wasn’t continuing with any of my friends.”

logos – “I learned that vast numbers of Jews attend Baruch.”

2. Suits episode one season 1 – During the first episode suits Mike who is the lead character is known for his talents of reading, memorizing information, and test-taking. During college, he would dress up as certain students and take their exams for payment. Mike ended up taking an exam for a girl and it happened to be the dean’s daughter. His actions ended up getting him expelled. Mike’s roommate Trevor offered Mike to deliver drugs to a hotel that happened to be hosting a major law firm’s job interviews. Once he arrived with the briefcase of drugs he happened to realize it was a setup and ran away and ended up in the interview room. He walked in acting as one of the people who were waiting to get interviewed and happened to impress the interviewer with all his knowledge and received the job. Although mike never graduated college or even made it to law school he learned all the knowledge and more to be a qualified lawyer.

3. I realized while writing that I had to go into deep descriptions and details on my topic. I started by introducing the main charchter. continued to speak in detail about the main events in the first episode that include Mike. last I went in the main even the climax of the episode. since this was my first shot at analyzing I enjoyed the fact that I was able to speak about m,y favorite tv show.