Rhetorial Analysis

What helped for my rhetorical analysis was the blog entries, they helped by the amount of practice we put into them constant five hundred word entries. The Michael Moore films were instrumental even though he does not have a well rounded view for any of his arguments there is good rhetorical appeals in them. The English writing center has been a great help as well. The peer editing has helped me learn to point out mistakes that not only the fellow student makes but also my own mistakes. The hand outs gave good definitions of the type of approaches we needed to come at these papers.
My areas of improvement are in just beginning the paper is a very hard task for me. The introduction and conclusion stress me out constantly. I did not have the space between my last name and the page number so the small thing was that. I wish I could write a better rough draft one that is more complete. I need to work on my typing skills as well to make the paper go faster. I feel still that my writing has improved, and still has a long way to go. The workload although very difficult at times I feel it has paid off.
I wish we could use more of our personal stories in the writings to give us more of an approach from personal experience. I think it that allowing us to do that would give us something to write for. The texts we have to read sometimes become very boring and difficult to read. In the final analysis I am not an English major but this class has caused me to think a great deal more than I have before. The Rhetorical approaches reminds me of a marketing job with having to think who the audience is and what point the author is trying to get across.
I think that the rhetorical papers have helped me dig deeper into the things we are reading it helps me understand the viewpoint. The instructor meetings have also been helpful to keep me going with the input from Nick it helps me explore new ideas that I would have otherwise not have seen. In the long run this class will help me to explore through all the activities we do and help me to be a more well rounded student. The rhetorical paper has been a challenge that I feel I have overcome.

Sicko and Universal Healthcare Article

In the movie Sicko Michael Moore shows us what insurance companies are doing to the people who really need medical procedures done yet are being denied the coverage for the procedures. The insurance companies are quite literally getting away with murder there is a problem when someone gets denied care when they desperately need it. He also sheds light on the way healthcare works in other countries, and how well people get treated and efficient the system works. Insurance companies have to turn the people away because they have to answer to the stockholders, because treating people costs money and the insurance companies lose money by doing so. Doctors also get paid in the other countries as opposed to insurance companies refusing to pay.
In the article Other Conservative Problems with Voluntary Insurance talks about how people are cheating on their insurance companies and what they are getting away with. People are taking unnecessary rides in ambulances to the hospitals, and getting money they should not be. It also sheds light on hoe high deductibles are becoming, that when someone has a problem the will hike up the rates quite a bit, to the point it causes people not to be able to afford their insurance anymore. Maybe the reason that the insurance companies got so out of hand by too many cheating the article suggests or they are too focused on their stockholders.
I think that universal healthcare will benefit the public so they can stop worrying about being able to afford health care and the doctors will be paid on time but there is still a lot of kinks to work out before that is ready to go, also the general public will need to be willing to pay the much higher taxes. Universal health care will keep unnecessary spending on health care under control. People will not be able cheat insurance companies both health care recipients and the doctors, it cuts out unnecessary institutions. Maybe then congress will be controlled by people other than the insurance company lobbyist, then Washington can look into alternatives for healthcare.

Rodger and Me and Sicko Comparission

In the film Rodger and Me we see what it was like for the employees when GM was closing their factories in Flint, Michigan. The viewpoint is strictly from the prospective of the employees it is not from the view that it may have cost jobs in order to keep the jobs in other places. There is great detail on the repossession of homes from land lords, and people eating rabbits to just get by. The depressing story of the struggling town Flint is told, and how it tried so hard to become a destination, but failed.
In the film Sicko we see the American health system failing so many people. We are previewed to various cases of medical neglect done by the insurance companies, turning people down for procedures that would save their lives. The view point is from the people who have been turned down by their insurance companies or just can’t afford coverage at all. The benefits from a Universal health care system are gone over. People in many other countries are not faced with the huge bills that we face in the US. But none of the down falls of the universal health care system were brought up, probably because it would weaken his argument for Universal Healthcare. It is hard to see our country failing in something so crucial to the future of this country.
The rhetoric used the in Rodger and Me is very much trying to appeal to our sense of logos from the standpoint of the auto workers who were fired from GM. There are a lot of facts given about how the ex employees were forced to live after the factories were closed. Throughout the film pathos becomes very apparent as well, through the horrible events that happened to these people. He appeals to our emotions through the logos the facts cause one to feel sorry for the people in their disposition. One is left with the question how can someone be so cruel as to put all these good people out of work?
The rhetoric used in Sicko is a logos appeal Michael highlights the fact that insurance companies are literally getting away with murder. The logos at one point gets so vivid that it appeals to our emotional side when we see an elderly lady put in a cab from one hospital in Los Angeles to the rescue mission across town, she is pushed out of the cab and is clearly disoriented. How can someone in their right mind do something so cruel to someone so helpless? Michael also gives the facts on the way things work in several countries which use universal health care. The difference is amazing, there is no need to worry about payment, and doctors don’t have to worry about going after their patients for money.
These two films create the same type of rhetorical appeals for the audience. Michael, does a good job of putting us in the shoes of the people affected by the problems in our countries.

Synthesis Wal-Mart and GM

In the film Rodger and Me one can see what it was like from the auto workers when the GM factory in Flint Michigan was closed. The hardships the ex employees faced were devastating everything from having a house repossessed to being forced to eat wild game. It appears that the auto giant was screwing their employees. It becomes apparent throughout the film that the auto industry will not be making a comeback in the US.
In the article Local Power Can change Wal-Mart, one sees the way Wal-Mart forced jobs overseas that were once done by Americans. The once industry leader Rubbermaid was forced to comply with Wal-Mart pricing strategies and wound bankrupting the company, another US company gone. When Wal-Mart comes to a smaller town it leaves the mom and pop shops out to dry. This causes a lot of hard feelings and anger towards the nation’s largest retailer. Leaving the question will we ever make anything in the US again?
Although we will probably never get the auto industry back, they just did too little too late. It is not too late however to make sure that we protect what is left in the US by making sure that companies that are vested in the US stay in the US. Even though GM lost to Toyota, Toyota does make a certain amount of their vehicles in the US and they contribute to the US economy. As for Wal-Mart people shouldn’t use Wal-Mart for everything like in the article there everyday low prices are hurting the economy. We can try to change the way Wal-Mart does business, by supporting the local guys more and less the corporate giant. There is no way to change the damage Wal-Mart has inflicted upon the US, but there is a way to prevent more damage from occurring.

Comparision between Wal-Mart and GM

In the article “Local Power can change Wal-Mart” there is great concern for the negative affect that Wal-Mart has on local economies. Wal-Mart has forced U.S. companies to manufacture items once produced in the U.S. over in China. Therefore, those workers in the United States have been left without a job. Wal-Mart has gotten so out of hand that at one point they almost forced Rubbermaid a U.S. company out of business, Wal-Mart would not sell Rubbermaid products unless they sold the products to them at a much lower price. Rubbermaid had to consent and it moved its production overseas, these people want to educate people on the ramifications of shopping at Wal-Mart.
In the documentary “Rodger and Me” one is given a glimpse into the life of the General Motors employee in Flint, Michigan after being laid off by the auto giant. We see the ex-employees houses being repossessed by the land lords there is even one taking place on Christmas Eve. It turns that C.E.O. was moving the jobs to Mexico. The towns where GM was doing the laying off were devastated by a peak in crime, because there was no other industry in these towns. The small business die out as well because there was no one to buy their goods, it is a ripple affect on the entire community.
In both these accounts there is a concern for the American workforce and the future. We should have a greater concern for the consequences of what we buy and where we shop, we are hurting ourselves in the long run. The affect on the community that the two businesses have had on these towns where they either were or are can be devastating. Many people have suffered from these businesses and left with no way out of the trouble.

To use pathos you are required to appeal to emotion and touch the heart. Pathos is meant to evoke an emotional response. We can get this from several aspects of the cartoon, there appears to be embarrassment form the character giving the eulogy. Which as we all know that messing up in front of an audience can make us sick and make us feel bad for the person. And appeals to our emotional side
The cartoon made almost reminded me of of a Doctor Seuss book in some parts. Which makes sense because Dr. Seuss did such a good job of appealing to kids in a pathos way, by using emotionally loaded language, vivid descriptions through the pictures as well. So this cartoon can appeal to us in the same way, the few words that are in the piece are emotionally loaded. In the beginning we have the eulogy which is emotional for the speaker to mess up in front of all those people. Also by the way it is drawn it gives off a vivid distress to it. Which is exactly what pathos is supposed to do, get right at our heart.
So weather by the vivid description through the pictures or emotionally loaded language, they both have a way of evoking emotional responses although this was a very hard piece for me to dissect there was just so much going on at the same time. There is a feeling that this person was on drugs or had a real bad dream. There was a significance to the blank page at the end which was a way of putting a stop to all the craziness in this guys head and was a symbol of death. That in and of itself has a very pathos thing to do because it leaves us with an effect of death.