Here with you

“…i’m sorry that your self-esteem was shattered by the mouth of someone who instead of building you up chose to tear down the skyscraper in your soul

i’m sorry they left you behind after promising to stay

i’m sorry that forever has never been long enough

i’m sorry that your eyes have been drowning in the ocean of your own emotions 

i’m sorry that your heart doesn’t know what it means to be held in the hands of someone who truly cares for it…”

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In R.H. Sin’s poem he uses PATHOS to catch the readers attention. He is expressing sorrow to those who have been hurt making a deep connection with them immediately. This is the first poem in the book, when I read it the barrier between author and reader completely dropped. It felt as if a close friend was comforting me. It made me reflect more and understand my own issues in a deeper level because I felt as if he cared and understood the pain that I was going through. While  writing this post I realized that he was a he, I assumed that it was a she, but all this time it he spoke so well and his targeted audience was people who hav been hurt not just women. The purpose of this book was to help people realize, understand and heal from their trauma. 

“President Trump has a clear vision for our healthcare system: a healthcare system that’s affordable, personalized, puts you in control, and treats you like a person, not a number.

He has promised a system that protects vulnerable patients, and provides you with the affordability you need, the options and control you want, and the quality you deserve.”

These two sentences are from a speech given by Alex M. Azar II at the White House Mental Health Summit on December 19, 2019. In these two sentences, Alex uses pathos to appeal to the emotions of the audience. When Alex says that President Trump’s plan will treat the people under this program as “a person, not a number,” the common audience will feel important and awaken because they will feel that all this time they weren’t seen as a person in need of healthcare and because of President Trump, they now are. In the second second sentence, Alex points out the care Trump has for the “vulnerable” people and that can make one visualize the lack of care for many people that can’t afford proper health care. This is effective as it can reach out to people that are indecisive as to whether they should support Trump as president or not and make them feel as if Trump is concerned for the general public. This can be ineffective to people that are already enjoying the benefits of existing health care. From the tone of the speaker, we can safely assume that they are in support of Trumps work in the medical field.

“While there have been deaths, most patients have had milder symptoms and have been discharged after treatment.” (Griffin, 2020)

I recently came across this article about the testing for the Coronavirus of two people in the New York Presbyterian Hospital in Flushing, New York. What drew me to this article is the fact that this hospital is extremely close to Queens College. Going into the article I thought that Allie Griffin would be fear mongering trying to generate more clicks for other articles on the Flushing Post website, but to my surprise she seldom did.

In fact she attempted to reassure the public about our safety, she acknowledged the fact that there have been people who have died due to the Coronavirus, but she emphasizes many more people have been treated and sent home safely. The author’s use of numbers to create a mental image for the reader in the sentence beforehand appeals to the readers logos, “There are now 11 confirmed cases of novel Coronavirus in the U.S. and more than 14,000 worldwide. At least 360 people have died from the virus, which has symptoms of fever, cough or shortness of breath.” (Griffin, 2020) She effectively put the readers unrest to ease by showing only a small percentage of infected people have actually died.

“When you can do the things that I can, but you don’t, and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you.” Peter Parker “Captain America: Civil War (2016)

What’s interesting about this quote is that it has so much meaning, not within a superhero itself, but within anybody in a universe. It’s so relatable to anybody. You may think, “so what?” or “I really don’t care.”, that kind of thing. But once you hear someone say it, you might do.

In Captain America: Civil War, Tony Stark meets Peter Parker and Stark found out Parker is the Spider-Man and wants to recruit the young teenager to go to Germany and have him by his side. Before that, Stark asks Parker why he became Spider-Man? Parker, without going into many details, replied his responsibilities are to stop the bad things from happening. If he doesn’t, bads will happen because Parker didn’t do his job. Hence, where the quote above comes from. Rhetorical speaking, this speech used all Rhetorical strategies (Logos, Ethos, and Pathos). But how?

Logos are claims/ arguments that support a reason. In the speech above, Parker supports his reason of being Spider-Man as a responsibility due to having actual powers. This meaning doesn’t specify in the movie, but in the comics, they do. After Parker had these powers, he used him for selfish reasons. But his selfishness caused his Uncle Ben’s death. He warned Parker that “With great power, comes great responsibility.” This is here Parker started to be more responsible. Back to the speech, the “things” Parker is claiming are his responsibilities. When he stated “but you don’t”, he’s stating that he wasn’t being responsible, and the bad things happen because he was doing his job.

Ethos is how the speaker connected themselves to the topic being discussed. In other words, the tone. In this case, the tone of the speech used is very is upsetting but understanding in a way. Parker was upset about his uncle’s death. He wished he could have prevented from happening. But he understood that his actions comes with a price.

Pathos are examples or details used to connect to the audience. I left out something before starting writing this blog. This speech relates to me so much in many ways. I was never a responsible individual before. I never cared about my education causing me to fail. I use to be rude and disrespectful, and karma bits back to me. I always had karma because I doing bad things. So when I started to be a bit more responsible, good things started to appeal. Bad things can happen to me when I’m not doing my job as an individual. But it’s not me that can relate to this speech. It’s everyone else. When we don’t do our job responsibly, bads will happen.

I recently had to read a book called “When it Rains it F-N Pours” by Mirian, and a sentence I would like to highlight is ” I hope that you will not judge me for the mistakes in my grammar and syntax in my writing , but judge me instead for the content and meaning behind my life experiences.” At first when I read this sentence I thought of it as a de-briefer, If that make sense. As if the author was telling us to read at our own risk. However, after really looking at it, I realized for me this sentence made the book feel real. For me, this sentence meant the author was stripping away her professionalism, her formality; which sometimes create a barrier between the reader and author, and she made me feel as if I was there in the moment with her. Through this sentence I gained a sense of normalcy with the author, which let me know that this probably was not going to be the best piece of writing I have read but probably more inspirational and forward telling then most.

The piece I choose to discuss is an expert from the book Milk and Honey by Rupi Kair.

” Did you think I was a city

big enough for a weekend get away

I am the town surrounding it

the one you’ve never heard of but always pass through

there are no neon lights here, no skyscrapers or statues

but there is thunder here for I make bridges tremble …”

There is a lot of literary devices used within these sentences. The author uses imagery and personification to develop strong visuals. The author describes herself not as a city where it can be busy, large, fast paced but more over as the town nearby, safe and sacred, quite even. This allows readers to have a different perspective of the kind of person she can be characterized as. The symbolism of the town creates a visual representation. She also uses Juxtaposition to contrast the two elements of the town versus the city in order to emphasize the play of words.

THEREFORE URBANIZATION IS THE GODZILLA AND THE CITY POPULATION IS FACED WITH TASKS THAT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AFFECTS THEM TO SAVE THE CITY. IN URBAN AREAS THERE ARE HIGHER VOLUMES OF PEOPLE THEREFORE THE HUMAN POPULATION IS HIGH AND MAN MADE FACTORS SUCH AS EMISSIONS CAN THEREFORE BE HIGH WHICH AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE . TO ADDRESS THIS AIR POLLUTION  WATER POLLUTION POPULATION GROWTH  AS WE URBANIZE WE SEEK GREENER MEASURES TO BECOME MORE SUSTAINABLE.”

In this conclusion statement of an presentation.The writer of the text displayed his manner of rhetoric to persuade his audience that “Urbanization was the monster” This is also personification although the monster character of Godzilla is a  fictional character the author includes it to emphasize the enormousness of the problem. This is more of an LOGOS Rhetoric. The writer makes clear and specific statements. What was effective in this text was that the the writer repeatedly mentions city in the first line and the repeated use of “high” in the second lines. Also the topic of pollution was repeated several times. This was additionally good to the argument of the huge noise the argument was making.  The text makes it a LOGOS rhetoric because the argument was supported by closely connected evidences. The argument seems logical and presented in a well-reasoned order. The ineffective part of this text was the data   was not supported by facts or figures for example the devastating pollution impact in the city of …  The only part that seems to be an EtHOS rhetoric is the writers direct tone and the word choices the author used all focused on one topic. PATHOS rhetoric is supported in the text the author says “as we urbanize, we seek, to become”  he appeals to the audience. It is fairly logical to assume that the author wanted to show his support to take action against climate change. i In my opinion he was implying climate change being a topic some may know very well and some do not think of as a bother. The assumption “we week to become more sustainable” in the text states that the author implies like him the audience should seek greener solutions to the current topic of climate change as being part of the urban population.