Rhetorical Analysis on Corn- Pone Opinion

     


     Corn- Pone Opinion is an essay written by a well-known novelist- Mark Twain adressing the affects of public opinion to the human society. In this peice of writting, Mark Twain tries to convince his readers that much of the popular cultures and decisions made by human is based on the public opinions. To further develope on this principle, Mark Twain implemented the use of various rhetorical techniques. Twain introduces his argument with an anecdote, which allowed him to become more approachable and understandable to the readers. Twain begins with an story from himself as teenager, he mentioned a friend who constructed the main phrase of this essay, "corn pone opinion". Then, Twain continues to elaborate on this idea, mentioning his own views and provided some examples from his own experience on the issue. " A new thing in costume appears— the flaring hoopskirt, for example— and the passsers- by are shocked and the irreverent laugh. Six months later everybody is reconciled; the fashion has established itself;"(Twain, 718). The use of anecdote, allowed Twain to establish his main idea and provided actual examples on how the public opinion may affect the choice of the society and of individuals.
     In addition to the use of anecdote, Twain also used logos. The use of logos helps to clarify and strengthen Twain's argument. " We are creaturs of outside influences; as a rule we do not think, we only imitate...We may continue to admire them, but we drope the use of them." (Twain, 219). This sentence establishes logos, which allowed the readers to clearly understand Twain's perspective and position on the issue of conformity in public opinion. Twain consider conformity as a natural characteristic of human, and showed reverence towards all that human has immitated by mentioning that it's admired althought no longer in use.
     I do agree with Twain's beliefs that human are the creatures of immitation and of conformity. We tend to follow the action, fashion, culture and even habits of others. Whether it's out of  admiration or being "forced" to follow the wills of the majority, many people does not stand a ground for themselves. However, there's also this other population of people, who brought changes to this society, changes to what it's considered popular culture, and eventually change the opinion of the public. Therefore, I do not totally agree with Twain's opinion on people always immitates the actions of one another. There's always those who caused the conformity of others and causes the change in what they immitate.

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Animal Testing

Animal testing is the use of animals in experiments and researches for the creation of medicine, cosmetics, and biological courses. During the process of animal testing animals are often treated brutally; the tested animals often suffered through the injection of medicine, poisoning, burning skin, brain damage, blinding, and in the end, death.

Although many believe that animal testing allowed advances in researches and successions in the creation of medicine, only few of these did succeed. According to an article from the Journal of the American Medical Association, most medicines developed from animal testing do not work on human, and those that do work, are not necessarily safe to consume. The PETA organization, an American animal right organization, estimated that in 2014, the United States used around 1 million animals and 100 million mice for animal testing. Nevertheless, all that accompanied the death of the millions of lives was the failed and useless products in the trashcan. Are the cost of these millions of lives really worthed for their price?

In the paragraphs, I implied some of Zinsser’s advices in writing. One advice that I used is the avoidance of the little qualifiers such as “a little” and “pretty”. In the paragraph, I did not include much of these little qualifiers because they may weaken my point and style. Another advice that I used from Zinsser was the short paragraphs.  I kept my paragraphs short because it is easier to read and it makes my point clearer. Lastly a device that I used from Zinsser is period. In the end of the first paragraph, I used period after the word death because it shows how serious the issue of animal testing gets.   

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