Wednesday, November 12, 2014

blog 9

To start off I think this passage was a little long and boring, that is expected when you are doing college work. In the reading Rhetoric can be defined as situational and a method of altering the meaning, thought and action of reality. A rhetorical situation is mentioned as a combination of individuals, events, and objects that can produce an urgent demand, which has the power to be partially or completely eliminated if rhetorical discourse can inhibit a person’s action or choice to take the importance out of the need. This rhetorical situation, according the Blitzer, incorporates three distinct constituents which are, exigence, audience and constraints. To explain exigence is basically the argument, for example I am for abortion. My audience would be the women that are in their current situation or about to be. I targeted them because they are going through the stress of bringing life into the world. As men we cannot say yes or no to keep the child it is up to the women to decide upon that action. The constraints in this would be congress. The ones who enforce the laws are predominately males. I feel that women do not have enough say and powerful position as men. So from a political women’s point of view I believe her word would be more effective than a mans

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