Friday, November 24, 2017

After reading "I have a Dream: by MLK

In the speech "I have a dream" spoken by Martin Luther King(MLK below) delivers the positive and delightful emotion for freedom of block slavery occurred for decades in America using multiple rhetorical devices. MLK aims citizens of America as the intended audience of the speech, as he used the phrase "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today" in his speech, mentioning the people listening to speech and even Martin himself is great American.

Martin Luther King used various rhetorical devices throughout his speech in order to deliver his satisfying mood to citizens about the freedom of black slavery in America. MLK commonly used metaphor and Anaphora throughout his speech, he used metaphor multiple times such as "as a joyous daybreak", "Bank of justice" or "Table of brotherhood" to convince the audience to have further imagination about the topic and concentrate in more depth, and also MLK used anaphora to give multiple attention of important phrases.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Letter to the Editor

After reading "Thx for the IView" written by Sarah E. Needleman, I could see the situation going around the world that issue young people using text messages and casual tone to their interviewer, and why is it becoming public issue nowadays.
This text covers that the perspective of the interviewer on the casual tone of textspeak on thank-you email with abbreviations or smiley-face emojis. Some of the interviewers having the adverse reaction on it, as thank-you email should be formal and not sent as a form of text, which is too casual. In the same time, people are telling that the young candidates are using abbreviations and emojis to their interviewers without noticing those actions could be disrespectful, as that communicating style is natural for them to use.
Some people are saying that as technology develops and changes, language also does in the same time, therefore people need to accept the new type of communication, however, there are still people who stick to original structures of language and communication, which can cause various concerns.