A group of six strong men, participate in a passionate game of wheelchair basketball. The soft, beautiful notes in the background, ascend into the air and stay there. As the game ends and the group of men leave the gym together, a man’s deep, determined voice says, “ dedication, loyalty, and friendship”. “Guinness:Wheelchair Basketball”, by director Noam Murra, incorporates all the sounds and emotions that show above. This commercial was released September 2013 on tvs everywhere across the country. The message of this commercial makes it clear that Guinness believes in the idea that friendship and great character qualities will help you live a better, peaceful life in the long run. To convey Guinnesses message across, Murra establishes ethos, exhibits word choice, and demonstrates pathos. First of all, Murra demonstrates ethos in this song to convey Guinnesses message across. Murra first demonstrates his credibility by using all the men in the commercial. All the men in this commercial seem to be very trustworthy because they appear to have such great character qualities by doing something nice for their friend. Another way he demonstrate credibility in the commercial, is by having written words appear at the end of the commercial. This demonstrates credibility by letting people know how long Guinness has been around, and change everyone’s opinion of the beer to say that it must be great to be around so long. A quote that also establishes their credibility is, “The choices…
Character Analysis of Mama in the “A Raisin in the Sun” The play, “A Raisin in the Sun” describes a few months in the life of an African-American family, the Youngers, living in Chicago in the 1950s. When the play begins, the family is about to receive insurance compensation amounting to $10,000. This compensation is as a result of the deceased Mr. Younger’s life cover policy. According to the play, each of the grown up members of the Youngers has an idea on how to spend the family fortune.…
Change is a part of life everyone must deal with. Change not only applies to individuals, but also to organizations. An organization typically approaches change from one of two perspectives. One of those perspectives is the organizational learning perspective. A company operating from an organizational learning perspective learns from problems and adapts to respond to outside issues (Akin, Dunford, &Palmer, 2006). In her article, Managing Change Successfully, Eileen Brownell shares her insights…
Taking a Risk To take a risk is to do something that may be considered hard or outside the normal for an individual. To have a child is a tremendous risk to undertake. There is risk to one’s lifestyle, financial well-being, and overall outlook on life. There can be countless rewards to all this risk as a child grows up in a father’s life. The risk involved can also make a man a better person as it may lead one to seek higher education and a more stable work environment as he will have more than…
believes Terry will react to negatively towards her Aesthetic difference (19). This is demonstrated during the preporations for Terry’s surgery and Aunt bea, anticipates the future problems revolve around the purple birthmark. However, the doctor doesn't react with major interest towards the birthmark, this is because people in the medical field would recognize the birthmark as irrelevant, because it doesn't directly impacts Terry’s health. Rather the doctor responds that Terry will have to…
For possibly decades now, there has been fighting in the middle east and I am not sure it will ever stop. One particular story of fighting stuck out to me, however. A man named Emad Burnat filmed activist protest of Israel taking land from his small Palestinian village. The documentary he created is called Five Broken Cameras. He is a peasant farmer who lives off of the land he owned. He has a family consisting of his wife and his four sons. He films to show their side of the fighting and riots…
Jennifer Zarate Yoshida World Lit 2 December, 2015 Lord of the Flies The places and experiences that humans go through create who each person grows to be and what they learn to believe in. Over time, people tend to reveal who they are, whether it be good or evil. William Golding, the author of the novel Lord of the Flies, believed that humans naturally portray evil. This is due to his upbringing and understanding of the outside world. Golding grew up causing harm to others as a way of…
Congressman Lewis’s graphic memoir March Book One and March Book Two, by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, expresses the importance and effectiveness of nonviolent activism against the white privileged society. Violent acts such as terrorism, wars and physical abuse in history has debilitated the citizens economic, political, and mental circumstances of society as whole. African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement have proven that forms of nonviolent activism is effective to fight injustices…
In this essay I will present an argument that The Room attempts to portray an engaged couple about to get married through multiple symbolic actions, and to demonstrate this notion that the majority of society believes a purposeful and achieved life comes through the ritual of uniting individuals through marriage. Also using the theorists, I will be able to provide insight as to why the term ‘ritual’ could be considered fluid. I will begin to support this argument by discussing multiple…
Lydia Davis is a well-known short story author who has her readers’ question whether or not what they are reading is what she meant. In her short story “What She Knew Davis writes about a woman who believes she is an old fat man and does not understand why a young man is flirting with her. A woman is questioning why a young man is flirting with her when she is clearly an old fat man. The setting is not clearly stated one can say that this interaction takes place in an outdoor setting. The theme…