Issues paper topic

I am going to be discussing how Chernobyl hurt the future of nuclear power. I am thinking that the stance I am taking will be about how nuclear power is the best way for us to move forward, and remove our dependency on coal and other sources, despite some of the accidents that have happened. Admittedly, I think that I might change some of my argument is going to be, but I think I have a good idea, since I can't use my golden idea.

work on my analysis

My essay is coming along okay, There are a number of ways my essay can go right now, and I think I should have a pretty good one by Monday. (on a side note, I know exactly what I am going to do for my persuasive argument paper.) I am analyzing a essay on star wars written a few months after it came out. and I will say right now that the author was psychic, he hit how Star Wars was going to be well liked right on the head.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

There are three tools of rhetoric; Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Martin Luther King, Jr. uses these tools to persuade a fellow group of church ministers to take a stand for civil rights, and stop being spectators.                          Ethos is a writer’s credibility, Writing & Rhetoric states that ethos relies on the establishing trust with the reader, a “This is who I am, this is why I am qualified to talk on this subject.” Martian Luther King Jr. was a Baptist Church Minister, and he begins establishing his ethos with his opening line “My Dear Fellow Clergy-men.” This implies a connection between him and his readers so they trust him more. He is one of them. The related examples use Ethos to prove his point. Because he is writing to a religious audience, King often uses examples from the Bible, or Christian history to get his point across to his audience. Another example of ethos are his statements, “I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference” and “catapulted into leadership of the Montgomery bus protest” The last major example is how he ends the letter, he reminds the readers that he is writing from a jail cell. This shows that he is willing to sacrifice for his topic, and it lets the readers know that he really believes what he is saying; he isn’t just trying to manipulate them.                                                                                 King uses a multitude of pathos in his letter. In a long paragraph on pg. 198 there is are a number of examples that are designed to make the reader feel all the suffering segregation has caused. Specifically, pathos is used on pg. 200 by linking segregation with Hitler’s actions. This link is to evoke strong emotions against segregation. King also uses Pathos through dictation; he uses phrases such as, “dark dungeons of complacency,” to give the current state of affairs a negative hype, and phrases such as, “bright hills of creative protest” to give his plan a positive spin.                                                                                         Martin Luther King uses Logos that is tailored towards his audience. He is talking to Christians, so he uses examples from the bible that they understand. When he speaks of civil disobedience, he uses Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego as moral examples. He says on pg. 204, how early Christians were considered disturbers of the peace, because they wouldn’t back down from what they believed. These kinds of statements were designed so that his audience would understand what he was saying.

Analytic essay of "What Christians believe" by C.S. Lewis

This essay is on what beliefs Christians hold vs. other religions, and what the difference in those outlooks is.

 I would say that the essay is informational non-fiction, since its purpose is to enlighten others to why he, C.S. Lewis, stopped being an atheist. The main body of the essay is on how if you believe in god, you know that all other religions aren’t completely wrong, they’re just mostly wrong. The first paragraph focuses on breaking the view points of the world into separate camps; which are, if you believe in a deity, or you believe that one doesn’t exist.

From there, it breaks it down into Christian vs. religions such as Hindu. The major differences are the Hindu believe in a multitude of gods, Christian type religions only one. It then breaks one god religions into two other sub-sets, pantheism; god is beyond evil, and god is good; which is the view of Muslims, Jews, and Christians. The difference between the two is, while a Pantheist would look at a slum and say, “If you look at it from the divine perspective you would see god, for he is in everything.” A Christian would say, “Don’t talk dammed nonsense.” Lewis then goes on to say that his arguments against there being a god were based on the fact that the universe seemed so unjust, but then he says that how did he know the difference between just and unjust if the universe was naturally an unjust place.

C.S Lewis does a remarkable job laying out his argument, and how he ends is a note on how some people say that while Christ was an extremely moral person, he wasn’t Christ, to which Lewis builds a small argument pointing out how this argument is fallacy. In all, C.S. Lewis does a bash-up job of proving his case with logic as to why there is a just, singular deity.