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\n Once you have chosen your essay topic from last week, PLEASE start writing your rhetorical analysis essay . Type your essay, making sure it is typed in MLA format, in times new roman 12 point font, double spaced, with 1″ margins, and you should indent each paragraph 1\/2″.(it should be at least three pages, I’d say, and should be well written and definitely and openly argumentative)\u00a0The link yo the article you need to use it\u2019s here:\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Once you have chosen your essay topic from last week, PLEASE start writing your rhetorical analysis essay . Type your essay, making sure it is typed in MLA format, in times new roman 12 point font, do
\n \u201cF**k the Bread. The Bread Is Over .\u201d By Sabr ina Orah Mark May 7, 2020 H A P P I L Y Sabrina Orah Mark\u2019s column, Happily , focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. H \u00c4 N S E L A N D G R E T E L , B Y D A R S T E L L U N G V O N A L E X A N D E R Z I C K In February, as a plague enters America, I am a finalist for a job I am not offered. I am brought to campus for a three -day intervi ew. I am shown the library I\u2019ll never have access to, and introduced to students I\u2019ll never teach. I shake hands with faculty I\u2019ll never see again. I describe in great detail the course on fairy tales I\u2019ll never offer. I stand up straight in a simple black -and -white dress. \u201cDon\u2019t say anything strange,\u201d says my mother. \u201cDon\u2019t blather,\u201d she says. \u201cYou have a tendency to blather.\u201d I meet with a dean who rubs his face until it reddens, then asks me whether writers even belong in universities. I meet with anothe r dean who asks me the same thing. There are so many deans. I cannot tell the deans apart. Another dean asks me who the babies in my first collection of poems, The Babies , actually are. \u201cWe only have a few minutes left,\u201d he adds. \u201cThey don\u2019t exist,\u201d I thin k I say. I am hurrying. \u201cI was writing about voices we\u2019ll never hear,\u201d I think I say. He stands up and shakes my hand. I shake so many hands. I can\u2019t tell if everything is at stake, or nothing is at stake. All I know is that I am being tested, and whether or not I am offered this job will depend on the appetite and mood of strangers. \u201cYour final task,\u201d I imagine the dean saying, \u201cis to make a rope out of these ashes. Do it and the job is yours.\u201d On the third day of the interview, the head of the creative de partment asks me if the courses I would be expected to teach should even exist. \u201cNo,\u201d I wish I had said as I made my body gently vanish. \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t exist at all.\u201d Instead I say yes, and pull a beautiful, made -up reason from the air and offer it to him as a gift. Gold for your dust, sir. Pearls for your pigs. \u201cWho is watching your sons right now?\u201d he asks. \u201cTheir father,\u201d I answer. What does it mean to be worth something? Or worth enough? Or worthless? What does it mean to earn a living? What does it me an to be hired? What does it mean to be let go? It\u2019s May now. More than thirty million Americans have lost their jobs. What mattered in February hardly seems to matter now. My sons, my husband, and I are lucky. We have stayed healthy, and we have enough mo ney and enough food to eat. In between teaching my sons the difference between a scalene triangle and an isosceles, and moving my writing workshops from my garage to pixelated classrooms, and cleaning my house, and going nowhere, and being scared, and look ing for bread flour and yeast, I can barely remember what it felt like to plead my case for three straight days. It feels good to barely remember. \u201cYou write a lot about motherhood,\u201d says the sixteenth or seventeenth dean. In the Brothers Grimm\u2019s \u201cCherry,\u201d an old king with three sons cannot decide who of the three should inherit the kingdom, and so he gives his sons three trials: the first, that they should seek \u201ccloth so fine\u201d the king can draw it through his golden ring. The second, that they find a dog s mall enough to fit inside a walnut shell. And the third, to bring home the \u201cfairest lady\u201d in all the land. In the Grimms\u2019 \u201cThe Six Servants\u201d a prince will win his princess if he brings back a ring the old queen has dropped into the red sea, devour three hu ndred oxen (\u201cskin and bones, hair and horns\u201d), drink three hundred barrels of wine, and keep his arms around the princess all night without falling asleep. And in \u201cRumpelstiltskin,\u201d if the poor miller\u2019s daughter spins larger and larger rooms full of straw into gold she will become queen. If not, she will die. Fairy tales are riddled with tasks like these. Some contenders cheat, and some were never worthy, and some take the dreary, barren road, and some take the smooth, shady one, and some are helped by bird s, and some are helped by giants, and some by witches, and some by luck. I call my mother. \u201cI can\u2019t find bread flour or yeast anywhere.\u201d \u201c F**k the bread,\u201d says my mother. \u201cThe bread is over.\u201d In fairy tales, form is your function and function is your form. If you don\u2019t spin the straw into gold or inherit the kingdom or devour all the oxen or find the flour or get the professorship, you drop out of the fairy tale, and fall over its edge into an endless, blank forest where there is no other function for you, no alternative career. The future for the sons who don\u2019t inherit the kingdom is vanishment. What happens when your skills are no longer needed for the sake of the fairy tale? A great gust comes and carries you away. In fairy tales, the king is the king. If he dethrones, his bones clatter into a heap and vanish. Loosen the seams of the stepmother, and reach in. Nothing but stepmother inside. Even when the princess is cinders and ash, she is still entirely princess. I send my sons on a scavenger hunt because it\u2019s day fifty -eight of homeschooling, and I\u2019m all out of ideas. I give them a checklist: a rock, soil, a berry, something soft, a red leaf, a brown leaf, something alive, something dead, an example of erosion, something that looks happy, a dead branch on a living tree. They come back with two canvas totes filled with nature. I can\u2019t pinpoint what this lesson is exactly. Something about identification and possession. Something about buying time. As I empty the bags and touch the moss, and the leaves, and th e twigs, and the berries, and a robin -blue eggshell, I consider how much we depend on useless, arbitrary tasks to prove ourselves. I consider how much we depend on these tasks so we can say, at the very end, we succeeded. Tomorrow, on day fifty -nine, I wil l ask my sons to \u201cfind me an acre of land \/ Between the salt water and the sea -strand, \/ Plough it with a lamb\u2019s horn, \/ Sow it all over with one peppercorn, \/ Reap it with a sickle of leather, \/ And gather it up with a rope made of heather.\u201d I will tell t hem if they perform each one of these tasks perfectly, they will be rewarded with more tasks. And if they perform each of those tasks perfectly, they will be rewarded with more. Until, at last, they will not be able to tell the difference between their han ds and another boy\u2019s hands. Over the years I have applied for hundreds of professorships, and even received some interviews. I\u2019ve wanted a job like this for so long, I barely even know why I want it anymore. I look at my hands. I can\u2019t tell if they\u2019re mine. \u201cOf course you can tell if your hands are yours,\u201d says my mother. \u201cDon\u2019t be ridiculous.\u201d \u201cI have no real job,\u201d I say. \u201cOf course you have a real job,\u201d she says. \u201cI have no flour,\u201d I say. \u201cF**k the bread,\u201d says my mother again. \u201cThe bread is over.\u201d And maybe the bread, as I\u2019ve alway s understood it, really is over. The new world order is rearranging itself on the planet and settling in. Our touchstone is changing color. Our criteria for earning a life, a living, are mutating like a virus that wants badly to stay alive. I text a friend , \u201cI can\u2019t find bread flour.\u201d She lives in Iowa. \u201cI can see the wheat,\u201d she says, \u201cgrowing in the field from outside my window.\u201d I watch a video on how to harvest wheat. I can\u2019t believe I have no machete. I can\u2019t believe I spent so many hours begging unive rsities to hire me, I forgot to learn how to separate the chaff from the wheat and gently grind. If I had a machete I would use it to cut the mice, and the princess, and the king, and the stepmother, and the castle, and the wolf, and the mother, and the so ns, free from their function so they could disappear into their own form. But also I wanted an office with a number. I wanted a university ID. I wanted access to a fancy library and benefits and students and colleagues and travel money. I wanted the whole stupid kingdom. \u201cAnd then what?\u201d says my mother. \u201cAnd then nothing,\u201d I say as I jump off the very top of a fairy tale that has no place for me. \u201cYou\u2019re better off,\u201d says my mother. I look around. I\u2019ve landed where I am. I like it here. I feel like I\u2019m in G ertrude Stein territory, where the buttons are so tender they\u2019ve come undone. The whole kingdom is spilling out of itself. There are holes everywhere. To the east, a pile of impossible tasks of my own making. To the west, a mountain of broken crowns I will melt and recast into a machete. \u201cThis is so nice,\u201d writes Gertrude Stein, \u201cand sweet and yet there comes the change, there comes the time to press more air. This does not mean the same as disappearance.\u201d It\u2019s day sixty of homeschooling. Eli asks me to rem ind him how to make an aleph . I take a pencil, and draw it for him very carefully. \u201cIt\u2019s like a branch,\u201d I say, \u201cwith two little twigs attached.\u201d \u201cYou know what, Mama?\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019d make a really good teacher.\u201d \u201cThank you,\u201d I say. And then I show him h ow to draw a bet .
\nOnce you have chosen your essay topic from last week, PLEASE start writing your rhetorical analysis essay . Type your essay, making sure it is typed in MLA format, in times new roman 12 point font, do
\n ENC1102 Essay Two Guide : Rhetorical Analysis Overview of the Essay: For this essay you will be asked to write a rhetorical analysis of a published argument, explaining the arguments of the article (main and secondary), how the article makes those arguments (its methods), and how effective it is at doing so. It will need to be at least 1, 100 words in length, and to follow the formatting requirements presented in this handout. You are provided 12 different articles to choose from (posted below ). However, you are free to search and find an argumentative text that you would like to write about and analyze on your own. If you choose to choose your own article, please be sure to email me the article you find, as well as at least 2 full paragraphs explaining why you want to use the article. If you want to try to find you r own, try searching library databases or the internet in general for op -ed pieces or for opinion or editorial pieces, preferably more than 3 pages in length , and less than 15 . Important Note : Your Rhetorical Analysis should not address the content of the essay as its main focus. Your essay instead should focus on the rhetorical strategies used to create the author\u2019s text and argument. To understand the difference, consider the movie Thank You for Smoking. Also consider the idea that even though you think something is true, you might not feel able to argue it effectively, meaning that the different ways you might argue or explain your point effect how credibly you are able to convince others to agree with you. This is what we are looking for with regards to rhetoric. Your job is to choose an essay, and then analyze that essay for its argumentative strategies and rhetorical effectiveness. Analyzing rhetoric means to analyze how the different portions of the text work \u2014 individua lly, and together as a whole \u2014to produce a certain effect on the audience \u2014 both the intended audience, whoever that might be, and the more general audience, of which you are now a part. Through this assignment, you will become familiar with and use the lan guage of rhetoric. You will also become more comfortable with digging into texts, and with critiquing texts and authors to discover their meanings \u2014both surface level and hidden. We will work to realize how we can use the fact that everything is an argumen t to better understand all that is going on in the world around us. Purpose of the Essay (for you, as students) : The purpose of the rhetorical analysis is simple: to help you become a better reader and writer. It will do this in a myriad of ways. First, it will to help you further learn to analyze texts to discover how the text affects audiences. This can help you become a better writer, in learning how to apply t he techniques you see to your own writing. It will also help you, very much so, to become a much better reader, as it will show you how to better read texts, actively interrogating them and their many possible meanings and interpretations. Beyond this, it will help you to become a better critical thinker, as you learn to read both what a text says, and also, even more importantly, HOW they say it. Finally, it will allow you to further realize and navigate the world of argument we all live in, realizing, finally and fully, that in the world we live in, EVERYTHING is indeed an ARGUMENT :\u263a. Purpose of the Essay (for the reader): You should notice that I\u2019ve given you the purpose of the essay for yourself, to show you some of what I hope you will gain from writing this essay. Keep these things in mind as you complete your drafts, to see if you are getting what I hoped you\u2019d get, fro m writing it. However, just as important as what YOU should get from writing the essay is what your reader should get from reading the essay. That\u2019s your main goal, your purpose, in writing the essay. For the Rhetorical Analysis , your essay should very c learly evaluate the essay you\u2019ve chosen, in terms of how it presents its argument. This does not mean tell us whether or not you believe the article, but instead what the article meant to accomplish, how it went about doing so, and how well it did so. You want a reader of your rhetorical analysis to walk away from it with the following: 1) an understanding of the article itself, even if they haven\u2019t read it, 2) an understanding of how the article presented its argument, and finally 3) an understanding of rh etoric itself, which should help them feel better able to present their own arguments. Requirements: Length : Your essay must be a minimum of 1, 100 words in length. If it is short, it will be penalized, and the penalty could range from 5 -20 points up to failing the assignment. However, PLEASE do not write for filler. Don\u2019t write wordily just to meet the word count. I set the limit because I believe it the minimum needed to be successful. If you\u2019re having difficulty meeting the limit without adding words which signify and add nothing, come see me . There is no maximum word length; however, if you are approaching 8 or more pages, you should try to reflect if you might be too b road in your focus, or giving extraneous details. Formatting : Your essay should follow the following formatting guidelines: \u27a2 Typed \u27a2 Double Spaced \u27a2 Times New Roman 12 point font \u27a2 1\u201d margins \u27a2 Cite anything using MLA formatting (with accompanying Works Cited page) \u27a2 Have Last Name and Page number in upper right hand corner of every page. \u27a2 Not have a cover page \u27a2 Have on the first page on the left hand side, the following info: o Name o Inst. Adam Pri demore o ENC1102 CLASS DAY AND TIME o Day Month Year (that you last modified the text) Grammar : Your essay should have correct grammar. For every grammatical error, your essay could be penalized anywhere from 0.5 to 3 points. 12 Possible Articles to Write Your Rhetorical Analysis On (NOTE the first four are MOST current) : 1) Martin Luther King Jr. and the White Delusion of a ‘Non -Racist’ America \u2013 an article a rguing MLK was a radical who ha s been co -opted and sanitiz ed for White America. Article is ALSO linked as a PDF without the anno ying ad content https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/martin -luther -king -jr-and -the -white -delusion -of-a-non -1831910328 2) Seductive Fascist Style \u2013 an article arguing that Disney \u2019s origina l car toon versio n of B ea uty and the Be ast present s a clear argument for how fascism works via Gaston https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/blogs\/4430 -seductive -fascist -style 3) The An xiety of Influencers: Educating the Tik -Tok Generation \u2013 an article about how social media has changed stu dents and education. https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2021\/06\/tiktok -house -collab -house -the -anxiety -of- influencers\/?fbclid=IwAR0yPsrYPXT -cah8f3xGVm6XoXgkKCXewRcOkVIKokSulfXD1v_71Fq f-nE 4) F* *k the Bread. The Bread Is Over. \u2013 an article that argues that the Covid -19 pandemic has shown the inequalities of motherhood, and the fairy tale of what it means to be a working mother. NOTE \u2013 there is a linked PDF docu ment EDITED to excl ude the profanit y in this article . https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/f**k -the -bread -the -bread -is-over\/ 5) In the Basement of the Ivory Tower – an article arguing about college professors, specifically adjuncts https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2008\/06\/in -the -basement -of-the -ivory -tower\/306810\/ 6) The Terror and Tedium of Living Like Thoreau – an article arguing about being alone in today’s society https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/09\/the -terror -and -tedium -of-living -like -thoreau\/402358\/ 7) An Introduction to It\u2019s a Wonderful Loaf: Understanding Emergent Order in Our Daily Lives – article arguing about the power of the “Free market” and against government regulation https:\/\/shift.newco.co\/an -introduction -to-emergent -order -a20a9aa025f 8) Kareem and OJ: Crime and Punishment An exclusive excerpt from I Wear the Black Hat – article arguing about how two black men were treated by America. http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/an -exclusive -excerpt -chuck -klosterman -new -book -wear -black -hat -kareem -oj\/ 9) The Original Underclass: Poor white Americans\u2019 current crisis https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/09\/the -original -underclass\/492731 10 ) President Trump’s Inaugural Address https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings -statements\/the -inaugural -address\/ 11 ) President Obama’s Inaugural Address https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/president -barack -obamas -inaugural -address 12 ) White America’s Greatest Delusion: “They Do Not Know It and They Do Not Want to Know It” https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/white -americas -greatest -delusion -they -do -not -know -it-and -they -do -not -want -know -it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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