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Last Week Tonight is a news/satire program hosted by John Oliver. During the program, Oliver discusses current events and attempts to persuade the general audience in his viewing. In the episode “The NCAA,” Oliver attempts to get the audience on his side about unfairly compensated Student-Athletes using logic, credibility, and emotion. This essay will analyze the effectiveness of his persuasive methods. In this episode, John Oliver uses evidence to back up a majority of his statements in his…

uses metaphor to show how life’s struggles are just like that of a tree, as well as using logos and ethos to persuade the audience that the tree is indeed like family. Subliminal metaphor is one figurative language tool that is used in this poem. Oliver never outright states that the old tree in the families backyard is like life, but the symbolism is fairly clear. She uses excuses in this poem, such as ,”...Roots in the cellar drain...” and “...The leaves are getting heavier...”, both of which…

Life has many wonders that are beyond the human understanding. Many people have been asking about life’s meaning and purpose while others seem to be certain about why on Earth they exist. Mary Oliver, in her poem “The Summer Day” expresses her own questions about life. Clearly, she intends to write to those who have not yet believed of established a connection with a higher being. Through her words and expression about the nature, using appeal to pathos, she tries to convince her readers to…

titled, “Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”, the host, John Oliver, successfully informs his audience about the negative connotations of a new bill that will abolish net neutrality and how they’ve been lied to by politicians and corporations. This segment was released in May of this year, and ISP companies were starting to show their support for net neutrality even though they were really backing the opposite of it so Oliver decided to make it his duty to let the public know…

the poem, The Black Walnut Tree, Mary Oliver uses a multitude of literary devices. By employing these devices in the poem, she is able to delineate that her and her mother are trying to find a way to pay the mortgage on their house without having to sell the family’s “black walnut tree.” Both the author and her mother agree that selling the tree is a repugnant idea and are both disregarding the unspoken thought. To start things off, In the poem, Mary Oliver displays the use of a metaphor in…

deciding whether or not to remove a tree that could solve all financial struggles but holds significant traditional values. Oliver used diction, tone, and juxtaposition to transmit the relationship between the tree and the family history. Through her work the poet displays the mothers and daughters actions and feelings about the hard decision they face. In particular, Oliver juxtaposes throughout her poem. She starts off her work by stating "my mother and I debate: we could sell the black walnut…

There is one nebulous, but compelling question. Why do Americans love guns? Oliver Winchester and Samuel Colt have answered this question by becoming two of the greatest gun manufacturers in the world. Both men have come up with innovations that have changed the world of guns forever. To many they are an icon of death or even mass genocide in many people’s eyes. However, the gun world classifies these two as heroes for their advances in technology. From the troubled life of textile…

where do we derive motivation? The answer is that we create the meaning which gives us purpose through sheer force of will. In her essay “Great to Watch,” Maggie Nelson discussing the pervasiveness of violence in media in our society. Additionally, Oliver Sack’s essay “The Minds Eye,” is a famous essay concerning how blind people perceive their world. Lastly Cathy Davidson, author of “Project Classroom Makeover,” an essay on the changing relationship between technology and classroom.…

research have found that the way to give treatments, children get therapeutic for 25 hours per week. When parents notice such behavior from their child, it is time to see a neurological therapist. In the research case of “An Anthropologist on Mars” by Oliver Sacks analyzes the conditions of the different autistic people. Sacks came close to opening the meaning of Autism to the readers by…

Before I Fall, a young adult novel, is written by Lauren Oliver. The novel is about a popular girl named Sam who ends up dying in a car crash. After dying, Sam relives the day of the crash seven times, each day learning more about how her and her friends’ words and actions have an impact on their fellow classmates’ lives. Some of the issues Sam encounters in high school are similar to issues also encountered at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School. However, some of the issues Sam encounters in high…