Rhetoric

The article in CCM begins with writing about the comfort zones of individuals. This gradually introduces the audience to the topic about prisons and gains the audience’s interest. In this article, the author attempts to speak of how prisoners should be educated and not necessarily locked up in jail. Doing this would decrease the population of prisons which have been overcrowded. However, most people are not comfortable thinking that criminals are roaming the streets. So, this may not be feasible. In the second article in Writing and Place, the author starts by telling a story about the plague to interest the reader. Here, the plague is described in great detail as is the process of cleaning up after the plague to ensure that there is no disease leftover. Also, the author speaks about how the plague in a way lead to the disciplinary system. Many logos are used in telling facts about the plague. Both of the authors use pathos in order to attempt to influence the audience’s emotions.

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