In Westminster Abbey:
1. What diction choices suggest that this poem does not have a serious tone? How would you categorize the diction? How does this reflect how Betjeman targets his audience?
2. Comment on Betjeman's use of a woman speaker as a rhetorical device.
2. Comment on Betjeman's use of a woman speaker as a rhetorical device.
1. The diction choices are the fact that he is selfishness and his only looking out for him self no one else. He targets his audience with his racist remarks about saving only the whites.
2. I think he was trying to give a womans perspective of the war. Using a woman would attract readers because we rarely see women talking about war from experiences its usually about what their significant other wen through.
2. I think he was trying to give a womans perspective of the war. Using a woman would attract readers because we rarely see women talking about war from experiences its usually about what their significant other wen through.
Life Boat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
3. What is the most rhetorically effective argument Hardin has against helping those in need? What makes it effective?
4. Hardin relies mainly on the logic of his arguments, but he also uses strong connotative language. How do expressions such as "toothless tiger" (¶3), "conscience-stricken people" (¶9), and "spread of cancer" (¶31) affect the reader?
5. What does Hardin mean by "pure justice" (¶43)? Do you agree with his use of the phrase? Why or why not?
4. Hardin relies mainly on the logic of his arguments, but he also uses strong connotative language. How do expressions such as "toothless tiger" (¶3), "conscience-stricken people" (¶9), and "spread of cancer" (¶31) affect the reader?
5. What does Hardin mean by "pure justice" (¶43)? Do you agree with his use of the phrase? Why or why not?
3. "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his days." Acting on this advice, the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations have financed a number of programs for improving agriculture in the hungry nations". I believe this is the most effective because what his saying is true instead of just doing everything for other nations we should help them improve agricultural products to help them with stand their hungry. His basically saying if you give a nation food they will eat for that month but if you teach them how to get that food they will eat for months.
4. This has a big effect on the reader because no one want to be referred to as a toothless tiger or a spread of cancer because cancer is really not something to play with knowing it is a deathly disease. Many humans will take those comments as an insult and will be very argumentative of it. I personally feel as though he had no feelings what so ever even thought every thing his saying is logically true to a stand point.
5. Pure justice to me means to essentially get what you deserve. Yes i do agree with him because Americans are not fair they are just greedy.
4. This has a big effect on the reader because no one want to be referred to as a toothless tiger or a spread of cancer because cancer is really not something to play with knowing it is a deathly disease. Many humans will take those comments as an insult and will be very argumentative of it. I personally feel as though he had no feelings what so ever even thought every thing his saying is logically true to a stand point.
5. Pure justice to me means to essentially get what you deserve. Yes i do agree with him because Americans are not fair they are just greedy.