TOW #6 - Political Cartoon of Trump's Wall

In a political cartoon in The New York Times by Ninan, Donald Trump is building his ideal wall that he plans on making between the United States of America and Mexico. In this political cartoon Trump states, “Yes, I want a wall. But not Made in China” (Ninan). Trump, who believes that America will become a better country without allowing immigrants into America, wants to create this wall if he successfully becomes president. These immigrants are presumably creating the danger in America and Trump thinks that building a wall will help decrease the rate of violence in America. Also, Trump wants this wall to be built by Americans and not from China even though his brands are made in China. The rhetorical devices in this political cartoon are imagery and satire. The vivid imagery in this political cartoon helps the audience view the Chinese men working hard on the wall as Trump, with a frustrated expression, complains that the Chinese are building the wall. The satire in the political cartoon shows the creator’s views on Trumps plan on building a wall. The author criticizes Trump by giving him an impolite facial expression and a rude manner towards the Chinese workers. The author shows how trump’s ideas relate to the Wall of China, by including this wall in the cartoon, as he wants to keep other countries, such as Mexico, out of America. The audience of this political cartoon is American citizens. The people who live in America are facing a difficult election with two presidents that are disliked by many people in America. The author is trying to persuade the people who either are for Trump or are undecided, to vote for Hillary Clinton because the ideas of Trump are very unoriginal and will not help America become a stronger country. This is also the author’s purpose because the author does not want Trump to be elected the next president and by creating this political cartoon, the author is able to express and show what they think of Trump. I think that the author successfully proved their purpose because with their use of rhetorical devices, they prove that Trump should not be elected the next president.

https://www.nytsyn.com/cartoons/cartoons?channel_id=127#1452836

TOW #5 - China Drops One-Child Policy, but ‘Exhausted’ Tiger Moms Say One is Plenty

The one-child policy, introduced in 1979, began in China to reduce the country’s population. However, over time this harsh policy slowed down and allowed its citizens to have two children instead of only being allowed to have one child. The one-child policy was abandoned in the beginning of 2016 when China’s economy and population began to decrease. In order for China to improve their economic problems, they had to introduce the two-child policy to their citizens. Due to China’s culture and society, many Chinese citizens did not want another child. These citizens wanted to be in control of their own lives and worked hard for their one child to succeed in life. They believed having another child would make their life even more challenging. As many Chinese citizens moved to expensive cities, the birthrate of children continued to reduce. The author’s Simon Denyer, The Washington Post’s bureau chief in China, and Congcong Zhang, writer for The Washington Post, wrote this article “China drops one-child policy, but ‘exhausted’ tiger moms say one is plenty” to share to the world China’s new child policy. “The people born in Mao’s era are growing old, and there will be far fewer people of working age to bear the economic burden” (Denyer and Zhang). The Chinese government needs more people in their country to improve China’s economy and by removing the one-child policy, the Chinese citizens are allowed to have two children instead of only being able to have one child. Even after the one-child policy was recalled, the Chinese citizens failed to have more than one child. These citizens believe they should have the choice of having more than one child and do not want the government to be making these decisions. The authors included the rhetorical devices, diction and tone, to effectively prove the purpose of the article. The author’s serious tone and formal diction provide the audience with the new policy that occurred in China. I believe that the author’s achieved their purpose in writing this article because they successfully provide information to the world about the new policy that was created in China.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-drops-one-child-policy-but-exhausted-tiger-moms-say-one-is-plenty/2016/10/14/336f1890-8ae7-11e6-8a68-b4ce96c78e04_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_chinababies-0510am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

TOW #4 - The Glass Castle

In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Walls shares her emotional life story to the world. In the section I read in the memoir, Jeannette and her siblings have moved away from their parents to New York City and obtained jobs to become independent and responsible. Due to Walls’s unstable parents, Jeannette, Brian, and Lori Walls maintained financial stability to be able to support their youngest sibling Maureen Walls, without the help of their parents. As Jeannette continues to study at Barnard University, her parents arrive to try to become closer to the rest of the family. After struggling to be accepted in their children’s apartments, they end up living on the streets but after they help Jeannette Walls out with her college tuition, Walls begins to except her parents living situation. Jeannette Walls is a writer for MSNBC and this memoir, The Glass Castle, received the award for the 2005 Elle Readers’ Prize and the 2006 American Library Association Award. Walls’s purpose for writing this memoir was to share her life experiences with her audience and express that even after experiencing a difficult childhood, the person can improve their lifestyle for a better future. Walls’s audience is anyone who overcame a terrible childhood and achieved a better life for themselves. Walls uses imagery and tone to achieve her purpose of writing this memoir.  “Occasionally, on those nights when we were all reading together, a train would thunder by, shaking the house and rattling the windows. The noise was thunderous, but after we’d been there for a while, we didn’t even hear it” (Walls 57). Walls’s use of imagery helps her share her emotion and feelings during her childhood through vivid description like during one of her experiences in a noisy home. In this memoir, Through the use of imagery and clear tone, Walls successfully shares her purpose of writing this memoir to the audience. I believe that Wells effectively shared her purpose because she proves that even with a difficult past, there are many opportunities to overcome the past and achieve a better future.

Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle: A Memoir. New York: Scribner, 2005. Print.