“This is water.” “This is water.”
His repetition signifies the essential point he makes at the beginning of the speech that people always have to learn more and more to have a better and broader view about the world outside them.
“This is water.” “This is water.”
His repetition signifies the essential point he makes at the beginning of the speech that people always have to learn more and more to have a better and broader view about the world outside them.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
The author uses contradiction to demonstrates two opposite things in order to help the audience have a better idea of the points he wants to make. In this contradiction, he wants to emphasize the fact that the freedom that go along with consciousness and ability to take control over the process of decision making will help people to grow strongly and understand what is really meaningful to their life.
Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.
The author manifests his take away that it is very important for people to know how to choose what is right for them and have control over their mindset because it will help them to be able to grow outside the circle and less worry about things that do not matter in their life. Life is a full of mysteries that not all of it is about us.
If I choose to think this way in a store and on the freeway, fine. Lots of us do. Except thinking this way tends to be so easy and automatic that it doesn’t have to be a choice. It is my natural default setting. It’s the automatic way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I’m operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the centre of the world, and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world’s priorities.
The author presents the audience with many different scenarios about life that seems to be frustrated and upset to get their attention toward the big idea behinds the wall. He connects back to point he makes previously in his speech that people often hold the belief of self-centering that they do not pay attention to other thing surrounding them. That way of thinking demonstrates that people have no control of what they have been thinking and it leads to whole lots of problems. His example conveys the fact that learning to control our thoughts can reduce the problem in our life and reduce the stress people experience.
Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don’t make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I’m gonna be pissed and miserable every time I have to shop.
This can be considered as a delayed sentence because he focuses on the cause and effect of the problem and then present the consequence after. His point makes a way back to the main idea of his speech that people should be conscious when it comes to make decision for their own life because it is one of the important factors that can affect people' own living life. He uses logos to persuade the audience as he creates causal and proposal argument in a small parts of his speech.
Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
The author uses ethos as a way to persuade the audience about his claim as he indicates that he has graduated for twenty years to come to this concluding thought. He wants people to learn to control of what in their mind instead of letting these thoughts flow by themselves. Having consciousness to control over our own mind is very important as it helps people to level up themselves in a way that support them as they grow up.
Given the triumphant academic setting here, an obvious question is how much of this work of adjusting our default setting involves actual knowledge or intellect. This question gets very tricky. Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education–least in my own case–is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualise stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me.
The author presents the big question to help the audience think about what he is saying and deeply looking toward the answer for the problem. He also indicates his experience to help people understand and feel that they are not alone. The word "dangerous" might affect the audience emotionally since it portrays an image of something people do not want to see. By sharing his personal thought, he also foreshadows the answer to his problem that people should focus on the current instead of trying to overthink too much that gradually lost in their own thoughts.
Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute centre of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence
This statement conveys the author's personal experience that creates meaning for the point he makes later on. His word choices demonstrate an ironic tone because he believes that it is a wrong thing to be self-centered and thinks that all the actions he has taken is always right.
Here’s another didactic little story.
His story can be seen as a foreshadowing for his key idea in the speech. It sways the audience attention to a new different point without interrupting the flow of the speech.
I’m going to posit to you that the liberal arts cliché turns out not to be insulting at all, because the really significant education in thinking that we’re supposed to get in a place like this isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think abou
He portrays his claim by stating that education is more than just thinking about everything in life and not knowing what the thoughts will lead people to which directions. Knowing what the audience want to gather insider of their mind is much more significant because it conveys that they have specific plans and ideas for all the thoughts in their mind. Education is the practicing of how people want to control their mindset.
If you’re like me as a student, you’ve never liked hearing this, and you tend to feel a bit insulted by the claim that you needed anybody to teach you how to think, since the fact that you even got admitted to a college this good seems like proof that you already know how to think.
This can be considered as a paradox because the author presents ideas that seems contradictory to convey the truth idea behinds. His words indicate that students mostly believe that they know everything and their thoughts are always true. In fact, their decisions might go on the wrong direction and they need people to help them realizing their problem. He also indicates the effect of ethos because he shows people that he has experience about the issue that he presents.
The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about
The author uses analogy to emphasize his idea that people are less likely to see things in front of their eyes, instead, they try to seek and explore for the less meaning values of life. The fish story can be compared to the students who are sitting there because they are young and their point of view about life is limited under their scopes. because of that, the auhor starts with a little story to connect his ideas together.
She doesn't have the look. She doesn't have the stamina. I said she doesn't have the stamina, and I don't believe she does have the stamina.
This is an appeal to self-evident because he makes personal statement on Hillary and thinks it is true just because he believes it.
This election’s really up to you. It's not about us so much as it is about you and your families and the kind of country and future you want. So I sure hope you will get out and vote as though your future depended on it because it does.
This is an appeal to emotion as Hillary wants people to consider about themselves and their families, which will affect people emotionally.
. I’m going to be able to do it, I don’t think Hillary will.
This can be considered as a personal attack fallacy because Trump doesn't have evidence for what he is saying and he believes that Hillary cannot make America great again, in which doesn't address the issue in the debate.
The worst part of what I heard Donald say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other countries got nuclear weapon, Japan, South Korea even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons. He even said if there were nuclear war in East Asia, that's fine, you know
Hillary demonstrates Trump's lack attention towards the nuclear weapons of other country, in which appealing to emotion because the audience might be upset since the nuclear weapons are very dangerous to human life.
Donald has consistently insulted Muslims abroad, Muslims at home, when we need to be cooperating with Muslim nations and with the American Muslim community. They're on the front lines. They can provide information to us that we might not get anywhere else. They need to have close working cooperation with law enforcement in these communities, not be alienated and pushed away, as some of Donald’s rhetoric has unfortunately led to.
Hillary's statement is lack of evidence support and she expects all her ideas are true, but it seems more like an assumption.
have said that Donald is unfit to be the commander-in-chief. It's comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.
This is an appeal to authority because all these comments are based on personal statement and it doesn't mean that their words are true.
He has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it.
Her tone is strong and assertive as she demonstrates how Trump persists the false statement for years to accuse President Obama as if he is not born in America. She uses an appeal to emotion to affect the audience emotionally since she demonstrates how Trump doesn't believe in Obama.
I was the one that got him to produce the birth certificate, and I think I did a good job. Secretary Clinton also fought it, I mean, you know -- now, everybody in mainstream is going to say, that's not true.
This is an appeal to ignorance because Trump doesn't logically explain his answer, instead, he is turning around the problem that make the audiences think he tries to help President Obama.
And we've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them. The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together.
This statement has lack of evidence support to be valid. Hillary doesn't indicate how it affect the race problem in America.
When we look at the budget, the budget is bad to a large extent because we have people that have no idea as to what to do and how to buy. The Trump International is way under budget and way ahead of schedule. And we should be able to do that for our country.
This is an appeal to ignorance since Trump has lack of evidence support for his claim to be true. The fact that his system is doing something good doesn't mean that other people are bad.
But you will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the federal elections, where I filed a 104-page essentially financial statement of sorts, the forms that they have. It shows income -- in fact, the income -- I just looked today -- the income is filed at $694 million for this past year, $694 million. If you would have told me I was going to make that 15 or 20 years ago, I would have been very surprised.
He doesn't clearly address the reason for releasing his tax return and immediately change the subject into his income to sway away people' attention.
Typical politician. All talk, no action. Sounds good, doesn't work. Never going to happen.
This is a personal attack fallacy because Trump uses his personal statement to blame on Hillary, in which is not in the context of the debate
See, you're telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting -- no wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.
This is ad hominem fallacy because Trump is attacking Hillary as a person and not what address during the debate itself.
In fact, Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse
This can be seen as an appeal to emotion. Trump's statement back in the time period makes people upset since it is a hard time for everyone.
I can only say that I'm certainly relieved that my late father never did business with you. He provided a good middle-class life for us, but the people he worked for, he expected the bargain to be kept on both sides.
Hillary uses juxtaposition to show how good her father is comparing to all the actions Trump has done as a businessman.
And, indeed, I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald. I've met dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers, like my dad was, who you refused to pay when they finished the work that you asked them to do.
This is an appeal to emotion because Hillary only indicates the half story told from the workers who had work for Trump to impacts the audience emotionally,, in which Trump is treating these people poorly even though they have finished their job. She doesn't know the story from Trump side.
First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be.
This is an ad hominem fallacy because Hillary attacks Trumps by a personal statement and, she doesn't address the issue regarding to the problem with the tax return.
I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their -- their debt from college at a lower rate.
She says it will help boosting the economy by giving benefits to the middle class, but she doesn't indicate how it will help change the economy. This can be considered as slippery slope fallacy because there is no evidence to support the statement
What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses. What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.
Hillary uses anaphora to persuade the audience that her plan is better by emphasizing how it will help raising the economy.
And people have looked at both of our plans, have concluded that mine would create 10 million jobs and yours would lose us 3.5 million jobs, and explode the debt which would have a recession.
This is appealing to authority because there is no evidence whatsoever that support the statement, instead, there are personal opinion that conclude the whole idea of this statement.
When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent. So I know how to really work to get new jobs and to get exports that helped to create more new jobs.
Hillary uses logos to convey the idea that she is capable to create new jobs for people through exporting to foreign country by demonstrating the fact that the percentage of exporting goods to the world was increasing when she was secretary of state.
but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.
She restates the recession that happened 8 years ago to strengthen her points and reminds the audience that Trump's plan can ruin the economy of the country just like that time period.
They've looked at my plans and they've said, OK, if we can do this, and I intend to get it done, we will have 10 million more new jobs, because we will be making investments where we can grow the economy.
Hillary uses the appeal to authority to persuade that her claim is true. She states that an expert say that her plan will help the United States, however, there is no evidence to support the claim. The experts might predict the future, but it doesn't mean that the statement is true since it is just a hypothesis.
I don't buy that. I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where he pulled out those fabrics and he went down with a silkscreen and dumped the paint in and took the squeegee and kept going.
Hillary generates her opinion from a perspective of a middle class. She is clearly showing her bias toward the middle class by stating this personal experiment because this conveys a one-side opinion and leaves out the other side of the country.
He started his business with $14 million, borrowed from his father, and he really believes that the more you help wealthy people, the better off we'll be and that everything will work out from there.
This is an ad hominem fallacy because Hillary is attacking Trump's personally by inferring that his asset is building from his dad money, and states that he only helps the wealthy wealthier.
We're going to do it by having the wealthy pay their fair share and close the corporate loopholes.
This is unfair for wealthy people because they also work to earn the money and because the unequal distribution of the classes in the society, they have to share their work and effort to others.
I also want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.
Hillary demonstrates the bias toward the working class in the country and she wants everyone to have an equal opportunity, but not everyone work hard equally. Her idea just benefits a group of people but not for all.
I want us to invest in you. I want us to invest in your future.
Hillary Clinton uses logos to persuade the audience by giving them hope toward the future. Her words of choice also place an impact to people since the word "invest" means that she wants to give them opportunity to be better as the future generation of the country.