A Rhetorical Analysis Of David Suzuki's Essay '
This Rhetorical analysis essay was very difficult for me to get started but once I did I made many changes before I came into class with my first draft. I started by making a web trying to get my ideas onto paper so that it would eventually make it easier to organize into a paper. I have a hard time with organization so I thought pulling quotes and basic ideas I wanted to bring up in this essay would make it flow a little better. I started out by using the Faigly book to and looking at the layout for how to write a rhetorical analysis. After that I answered all the questions, which then inevitably got put into the outline to help further get my points across. The thing that helped me the most was only writing a little bit at a time rather
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David Suzuki basically uses the metaphor that the earth in this instance is an organism and also self regulated, as is the human body. The metaphor is basically saying that we should treat and take care of the earth like we would our own body because by doing that the planet Earth might actually be in better shape. One of the best examples of tone that is being persuasive that he really knows what he is talking about is “we have expanded beyond the capacity of our surroundings to support you. It is clear from the history of the past two centuries that the path we embark on after the Industrial Revolution is leading us increasingly into conflict with the natural world” (430). This line is very meaningful in the way that he shows us that we are expanding too fast and our resources are diminishing. By saying “We can’t manage our impact on the environment if we are our surroundings. Indigenous people are absolutely correct; we are born of the earth and constructed from the four sacred elements of earth, air, fire and water” (432). He points out the four sacred elements in a very creative way to get the reader to really understand that without them there is nothing and there cant be environment without us humans too. The voice and emphasis he puts in his writing makes the content he says believable and without that the writing wouldn’t come together so
David Suzuki basically uses the metaphor that the earth in this instance is an organism and also self regulated, as is the human body. The metaphor is basically saying that we should treat and take care of the earth like we would our own body because by doing that the planet Earth might actually be in better shape. One of the best examples of tone that is being persuasive that he really knows what he is talking about is “we have expanded beyond the capacity of our surroundings to support you. It is clear from the history of the past two centuries that the path we embark on after the Industrial Revolution is leading us increasingly into conflict with the natural world” (430). This line is very meaningful in the way that he shows us that we are expanding too fast and our resources are diminishing. By saying “We can’t manage our impact on the environment if we are our surroundings. Indigenous people are absolutely correct; we are born of the earth and constructed from the four sacred elements of earth, air, fire and water” (432). He points out the four sacred elements in a very creative way to get the reader to really understand that without them there is nothing and there cant be environment without us humans too. The voice and emphasis he puts in his writing makes the content he says believable and without that the writing wouldn’t come together so