TOW #13- Kitchen Confidential (2nd IRB)

As Kitchen Confidential moves along, Bourdain continues to provide an in depth look into the restaurant world.  In the second half of this book, more specific stories are told about his own career as a chef, along with examples of what being a chef is like.  For instance, in the chapter "Level of Discourse," Bourdain touches on the various slang terms that are used in the restaurant world, along with how it impacts the workers on a mental level.  He explains that although a waiter may yell at you in very profane language, that it is nothing personal.  And in another instance, in the chapter "Sous-Chef," he describes his experience when he was working at a Jazz club restaurant that sat over two-hundred people.  From the figurative language that places you in his shoes, to the sarcastic toned rhetorical questions, Bourdain gives his audience the viewpoint of a chefs world.
As Bourdain was describing a restaurant in Manhattan that he cooked at, his use of very descriptive language allows the reader to know exactly what the restaurant was like, giving them first hand insight.  He writes, "The main dining room sat about two hundred, with private banquettes and booths along the walls, a dance floor and a stage from which a twelve-piece orchestra played forties swing music" (Bourdain 206).  The reader now has a much better vision of the restaurant, which is exactly what Bourdain wanted to provide.
Additionally,  Bourdain uses a sarcastic tone when asking rhetorical questions to engage the reader.  When addressing the slang and dialect that goes along with the restaurant industry, he says "Insensitive to gender preference, and the gorgeous mosaic of an ethnically diverse work force? (Bourdain 221).  His sarcastic tone adds to his purpose of trying to get across the point of how chefs and workers talk to each other, which adds even more to the rhetorical question stated.
From figurative language that paints a picture in the readers head, to the sarcastic tone used when stating rhetorical questions, Bourdain successfully provides an in-depth look of the restaurant world.

TOW #11- Muslims in America

It seems as though every time we turn on the news there is a another terror attack that has happened in the world.  It also seems that behind each of these attacks, the news focuses on the religion of the attackers, rather than their inhumane minds that prompted their actions.  Muslims in America have never been more on edge after the recent Paris, San Bernardino, and other Middle Eastern terror attacks.  Writer for the New York Times, Laurie Goodstein writes a piece on how American Muslims condemn extremists, and they are not the ones to be blamed.  Goodstein is the Time's main religion reporter and has wrote everything to little columns to front page articles on the Pope's visit to the States.  In this piece, Goodstein spreads awareness of the discrimination that American Muslims face by using quotes and current events.  

To establish her cause first, she quotes Nabihah Maqbool, a Muslim who is also a Law student at University of Chicago.  "It all becomes collapsed into these senseless acts of violence being committed by people who are part of my group" (Maqbool).  She uses this quote to not only to establish that her cause is credible and real, but to show how it personally effects one.  It places the reader of the Times in a new position which allows them to think differently.  It implies the rhetorical question as well; "What if a Christian committed an attack and the News portrayed all Christians as horrible people?"  Once she has the audience intrigued, Goodstein moves along and lists off current events to further her point that discrimination is happening to these innocent Muslims.

Goodstein names current evens that have happened to show that Muslims in America are constantly getting battered by ignorant Americans.  "Muslims have report a spate of violence and intimidation against them: women wearing head scarves accosted ; Muslim children bullied; bullet shot at a mosque in Meriden, Conn,; feces thrown at a mosque in Pflugerville, Tex" (Goodstein).  These events appeal to pathos, in that they give something the reader can emotionally react to.  If a church in Philadelphia was shot at in an act of prejudice, then the nation would surely mourn about it (as they should), but yet only few know about the constant acts of ethnocentrism that occur in our country.

By using quotes and current events, Goodstein is able to spread awareness of the discrimination of Muslims in America.  It is important to know that just because they claim to worship Islam, terrorists that practice these extremist views are not the same as the innocent American Muslims that hate ISIS just as much as white Christians do.