This week I noticed rhetoric in my everyday life through social media coverage discussing COVID-19. Many social media posts are either jokes about the virus, which is somehow looked upon as “lighting up the situation” or as not taking it serious. People are using rhetoric to either create panic, avoid the problems, or to give themselves entertainment. For instance, there was a “zoom raid” which resulted in random people joining zoom class discussions and screaming profanity, showing inappropriate images, etc. Overall this showed how the virus and quarantine is effecting everyone in general.

The image above reveals historical propaganda. Rhetoric was used to tell women that they were needed to work male dominated jobs during WWII. Rosie the riveter became a symbol that women are strong and equal as men. It also sparked the movement of women working male dominated jobs past the war and more women leaving the “stay at home mom” role.

This week in online class we have been working on our argumentative essay over “The Tempest” or “Hamilton”. The last assignment we worked on was creating our annotative bibliography which had 10 or more articles that would be good to use in our essay. One example of an article that I would use in my essay would be an article discussing how Hamilton is a legend in the field of the financial system. It uses rhetoric to reveal how Alexander Hamilton is considered a hero in some way, along with his success. It also supports my argument in a way to reveal how Hamilton’s part and childhood have also contributed to his success. The rhetoric overall addresses Hamilton and shows the audience how important Hamilton was and still is.