Power of Words

Gandhi             The film Gandhi released in 1982 was adopted from the biography of Mahatma Gandhi and unfolds with his fateful assassination of 30 th January 1948 as a result of being the go-between on conflicting Muslims and Hindus in India and Pakistan. The film plot quickly goes back to narrating Gandhi’s early life as a practicing attorney. With the setting in South Africa, Gandhi is traveling by train and after he adamantly refuses to surrender his seat in first class coach is thrown out. He is subjected to this segregation because he is an Indian. This provokes him to organize mass protests for banning all discriminatory acts and an end to these stereotypes where all protesters are arrested and later released. In the film, Gandhi is propelled by religious virtues and believes all people are equal before God. The British rule had denigrated the Indians limiting their rights to the extent of not acknowledging their mar...

Analysis of Pathos, Ethos and Logos in Ads             The rhetorical appeals; pathos, ethos and logos are in one way or another employed in advertisements with the aims of persuasion or ultimately convincing the consumers to buy products. Everyday as you walk around cities’ streets and highways you will no miss these big billboards that are aesthetically appealing due to graphic images in captivating colors and visual information structure which captures your mind eyes. Most advertisements are poignant and appeal to consumers because the marketers do a fine work with their market research and furthermore are aware of the ideal aesthetics that endear to the people. The essence of employing the persuasion through pathos ensures that the ads appeal on the emotions and desires of the consumers in real life. The rhetoric appeal - ethos in ads is based on famous celebrities whom the people hero-worship and thus they aspire to be ...

Technology in Elementary Classrooms           Many changes have been brought forth as a result of advancement in technology. These changes have also been witnessed in the education in which technology in elementary classrooms is greatly improving the way teachers and tutors impart knowledge to students as well as helping students consequently develop skills that will in future benefit them in the competitive global job market. Technology experts and analysists have had various views concerning the way technology influences students with its introduction in elementary classrooms.             Technology is replacing the traditional instructional learning methods in the elementary classrooms in which its influence on students has been quite impressive if used well. C omputers have become integral not only in the business world but also in the education sector. Math functions have bec...

Social issues in Aristophanes comedy             Introduction Comedy was derived from a Greek word komoidia , which means song. Aristotle argued that comedy was ultimately developed from song. With the introduction of comedy people did not grasp it quickly simply because no one took it seriously. Aristophanes is considered the best playwright of comedies in the classical literary period because of his comedies that are extant. Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Cratinus were among the best playwrights who ancient critics recognized for their literary works. Aristophanes’ plays are the only surviving samples of the literary genre conventionally referred to as old comedy. Old comedies were characteristic of topical issues touching in the society and real personalities. New Comedy transcended topical issues to generalized contexts together with stock characters. The move was because playwrights had internalized the perspectives of the ...