TOW #21- Trump's Neediness (Non-Fiction Argument)

Published March 12th, Donald Trump's Epic Neediness was written by Frank Bruni, a writer for the New York Times.  In this opinion, Bruni claims that the reason Trump is so popular and hungry, is because of his obsessive need for adulation.  Through his dark diction, and compare and contrast, Bruni successfully portrays Trump's reason as to why he is so loved, but also why he needs to be so loved.
Through using dark diction, Bruni sets up a worried mood throughout the article, making the reader feel intimated of Trump, yet also still feel as though Trump is a moron.  Bruni uses phrases like "The primaries slog on. The general election looms."  By using words like "slog" or "loom," he creates a sense of worry among the reader, as American politics become more of a game, than of running a country.  Bruni then transitions into compare and contrast, "And Trump's campaign events have become increasingly unsettling affairs, by turns ludicrous and scary."
He then remarks on how at one campaign event, Trump screams into the microphone as he advertises his own products, yet at another in Chicago, the event was canceled due to violent protests.  Trump seeks this adulation from one event to another, and the violent protests that are fueled by the words he says only make his neediness of being heard better.
American Politics has become a video game, of who can win the most points and make it to the farthest level (president).  It is not about how you get there, or what you may to do get there, as long as you get there.  Our system has gone so far off, that America's next president may be Donald Trump.  Through using dark diction and compare and contrast, Bruni allows the reader to understand why Trump seeks to go to any limits to be liked, and why he has an epic neediness of adulation.

TOW #20- Visual Argument

The news is flooded with pictures and stories of the refugees fleeing parts of the Middle East for Europe.  ISIS and other extremist groups are rapidly killing and threatening innocent citizens, which has created a mass movement of refugees fleeing the terror.  Cartoonist David Horsey illustrates here "a refugees view of the world". Horsey is a Pulitzer Prize winning artist, whose works are published in U.S. News, L.A Times, and many other newspapers around the world. In this cartoon specifically, Horsey is drawling for an audience of US News readers, or anyone interested in the immigration conflicts occurring overseas. He depictes the horrible and brutal circumstances for the immigrants, and how both sides of their world are filled with terror, and argues that the world the refugees live in, is a world where they are born into fear. 

The use of juxtaposition compares the dictators and fanatical terrorists that impact these people, forcing them to leave their own country.  He compares them as both frightening animals that are bringing hell to earth as they fight each other and the citizens that reside besides the.  As well as juxtaposition, he utilizes compelling imagery, turning the words of "dictator" or "terrorist" into a great beast that the refugees are running from.  Now that the reader sees these words as not only a compilation of letters but a chaos creating machine, they began to feel sympathy for the refugees.  Due to his use of these rhetorical devices, he is able to show that all the refugees know is violence and terror. His purpose here is clear and effective, allowing the observer to see that the refugees mean no harm; they simply are running from the horrible violence that their countries are filled with.  I believe that he does a very effective job in achieving his purpose, as anyone viewing this cartoon could not help but feel hatred for the "beasts" and sorrow for the refugees.  Through using these devices, he achieves his argument.