Nicholas Kristof’s, New York Times article, “I Am Very Afraid I Will Die Tonight”, covers the nightmares that are going on in Syria and why the USA should be taking action to put it to an end. Civilians are currently being terrorized by their own government as they are intentionally dropping bombs on on them. They are doing this as a method of attempting to fight back against the extremists. According to Kristof’s article, the United States has put minimal effort towards stopping these horrors, and there is much more we can do to stop it. To carry out his argument, Kristof uses different rhetorical appeals. In the start of the argument, pathos is used to set a certain mood. Pathos is a rhetorical tool in which writers use to set a personal …show more content…
Kristof’s starts out by proving to the readers that Syria does indeed have a serious problem and that the civilians are not only struggling to live but are scared for their lives. “ ‘I am very afraid I will die tonight’ ‘This bombs will kill me now’” (Par 3). These quotes are from victims and they are clearly explaining that are unsure if they will even survive. Showing examples like this made me, and potentially other readers feel a sense of sorrow that makes you realise something needs to be done in order stop what is happening. Kristof continues to give real life examples of what the living conditions are like, and how the government if negatively affecting them. Kristof gets in contact with Fatemah and Bana who are current civilians and victims of their own government. Kristof shows that even simple communication for them is complicated and difficult. “ I interviewed Fatemah and Bana by email, which they access on a cellphone that they recharge with a solar panel. The examples shown do a good job convincing me that the argument is valid and make me side with what he is
“The community’s blunt outrage over the children’s arrests and mistreatment, the government’s humiliating and violent reactions to their worries and the people’s refusal to be cowed by security forces embolden and helped spread the Syrian opposition.” This notion demonstrates that the killing of the four protestors was only the first of many deaths to occur continuing into an on-going war that has: “…triggered nationwide protests demanding President Assad’s resignation.” Because of this, the Syrian government decided that in order to handle the issue they must crush this nationwide dissent. This in return only allowed the protestors to push harder for a change within the country of Syria, in hopes of it becoming the wonderful country that it was in the years prior to the war. “Syria’s conflict has devolved from peaceful protests against the government in 2011 to a violent insurgency that has drawn in numerous other countries.” “With neither side able to inflict a decisive defeat on the other, the international community long ago concluded that only a political solution could end the conflict in Syria.”
Syrian Governmental Problems and Refugees: In “For Those Who Remain in Syria, Daily Life is a Nightmare” (2015), Maher Samaan asserts that the Syrian government is creating more chaos for their country than the actual insurgent groups are. Samaan illustrates his view of the Syrian government (they are doing a terrible job of keeping their citizens safe) by citing statistics that illuminate how the governmental air strikes are causing significantly more deaths than the terrorist groups they are supposedly fighting, accomplishing practically nothing aside from killing their own citizens. The examples he gives help to demonstrate the gravity of the situation and provide a sense of reality to his claims.
The sharing of the horrifying image across social media of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi’s dead body washed up on a beach in Turkey has brought the Syrian’s plight into the eyes of the entire world. Thousands of desperate men, women, and children make illegal and unsafe journeys across entire oceans just to get away from the ongoing conflict that is occurring in their home country. In view of the root of this horrible situation, one observes events dating back to 2011, when pro-democracy protests began throughout the country of Syria. These protests displayed the anger prevalent among the Syrian people against President Bashar Al-Assad’s authoritarian government. The attempt by President Bashar Al-Assad to suppress the numerous protests with
At the young age of 11 years old the world is still a very scary place, but learning to go outside of your comfort zone will be the key to success. Overcoming your fears and living for yourself rather than trying to please everyone else will have a very positive effect in the end. You’ll think that life is great at the time because all of your friends are in your class and you all will be able to convince Mrs. Wadkins to let you sit at the same table. Every day after school a group of you will ride your bikes to tFor many years you’ll play basketball for many different leagues and you’ll enjoy playing it so much that you switch to a travel team at Spiece. As the year’s progress, and teams change you’ll grow to hate basketball because of a
A group of rebels started an uprising called the “Arab spring” in the middle east. They were overthrowing dictators in many countries and eventually spread into Syria. The Syrians decided that they didn’t want to be controlled by a dictator that was using his military to keep them under his control, anymore. "We are going to kill them with our knives, just like they killed us," she continued, as the children and adults around her nodded in agreement.” (Brown, 12). This quote from Brown’s article is about a little girl that had been tortured by the chemical weapons that Assad had been using on the citizens. Even the children hate them and don’t want him to be in power anymore. The rebels organized and made an army. “In the fighting, a patchwork of rebel groups calling themselves the Free Syrian Army has sought to overthrow Syria's President Bashar al-Assad”. (Brown, 12). This rebel army has been fighting Assad for quite a while now. With both sides fighting for control of the country, neither will stop until they have what they
After reading the news this entire semester, there is a series of horrific events that have stood out for the shear amount of violence and bloodshed that has occurred thus far. This being the war in Syria that has taken over 500,000 lives thus far, this estimate including the deaths of civilians, fighters on all sides, and those that have lost their lives as a result of fleeing the conflict. In more recent news, Eastern Ghouta in Syria has received the blunt of the conflict as a result of anti-government and terrorist groups stationing themselves in the area. Although Russia has ordered a five hour ceasefire five that occurs every day , this has done little to stem the violence as Syrian civilians have feared leaving their homes to risk fleeing
Thesis: As American citizens, it is crucial to comprehend the circumstances evolving in Syria and its wide-reaching impacts
"You go to schools where Syrian refugees are, and you see that their drawings are mostly of houses being bombed, or people being killed or bodies on ground," "This trauma by violence is the biggest threat for the future of Syria,” says Guterres. "Girls are driven to prostitution by their own families. It’s a tragedy," (Abdo). The Syrian civil war was started by the lack of responsibility Assad and the Syrian Government had for their people. Assad was not supposed to be ruler at all. Assad doesn’t understand the true human emotion that the Syrian people feel. His ruling has only increased the civil war and hatred between the two groups of people, those rebelling and the leaders of Syria, and Enlarged Syria’s crisis. The people of Syria have rights just like every other human on this earth.(Zisser) Therefore, the government should take care of their people, instead of his position of power.
Over five years ago, the middle-eastern country of Syria was plunged into the worst civil war of its history, culminating in large scale death and destruction nationwide. As at October 2015 the devastating death toll of the war exceeded half a million people, over 100,000 of those being civilians. Approximately 18 million people still live in the war torn country, with over 7 million of those people being internally displaced, meaning they have been forced to leave their homes (Gardner, 2016). Now, with more than 4.2 million refugees fleeing into neighboring countries and further into Eastern Europe, the Syrian war has been classified as one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time (Khawaja, 2016). With nearly half Syria’s population now displaced or made refugees by a protracted and chaotic conflict, it is clear that the world is seeing an unparalleled breach of Human Rights issues in Syria. The forces of ISIS and the Syrian government are causing untold damage to the lives of innocent people within the region, as well as impacting on neighboring countries who are struggling to accommodate the influx of refugees.
During the persuasive speech I was really nervous. I know that this is the third presentation that I had to do, but I really had a hard time talking in front of everyone. That was very weird for me because I thought that I would already be used to speaking in front of the class since I’m always talking in class and participating. In my opinion, I feel that I did more wrong than right during this presentation. I know for a fact that I kept repeating myself. The reason for that was because I was really nervous. I am a hundred percent certain that I knew my topic very well because I feel really strong towards this topic. I don’t think that your SAT score should determine what school you go to if you have four years of high school to prove you are certain college material ready.
The crisis in Syria is seemingly endless. There are two main forces in Syria. Syrian rebels against President Bashar al Assad’s regime abruptly emerged due to the discontent of the dictatorship and demand for democracy, and the government forces has been tried to suppress the furious rebel in order to maintain Assad’s dictatorial regime. Because of the collision between two antagonists that seem to never agree each other, people in Syrian are suffering from the devastating and nonselective bombing. Approximately, 250,000 people have died from the conflict, and over 4.5 million Syrians have migrated to different neighboring countries in Middle East and Europe (BBC News 2016). The civil war has been gone for years and years; however, the devastating war and inhumane government attack on people do not seem to be terminated. Because of the enlarging scale of the civil war, the global society considered the severity as one of the international affairs, and the United Nations eventually came up with a plan for resolution.
I wanna talk about the Syrian refugee crisis going on around the world but lets begin with an old saying by Joseph Stalin. “When one man dies that’s a tragedy, when thousands die that’s a statistic.” Large numbers can feel cold and distant and even kind of comforting because they don 't feel like people, and I think that’s the reason much of the world was able to ignore the years old Syrian refugee crisis until recently. But then after thousands of refugees died this year trying to get to Europe, one three year old boy washed ashore in Turkey. His name was Aylan Kurdi and he drowned with his five year old brother and his mom trying to get to Greece. His father Abdullah has now returned to Syria to bury his wife and children and when offered the opportunity to resettle in another country Abdullah said, “Now I don 't want anything. What was precious is gone.” To talk about the refugee crisis we need statistics but let us not forget what is precious.
President Obama’s victory speech and Martine Luther King’s speech are two of the most famous discourses that everybody is discussing today, which they delivered 50 years apart. Both are a representation of racial progression, which starts from the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement to the election of the first black president in the American history. Both speeches are a symbol of hope and a new start of the upcoming changes. In fact, both speeches called for unity and inclusion to achieve the American dream. Furthermore, both occasions had loud voices echo not only in the United State but also in the global level. Despite the similarity of Obama’s and King’s speech in the persuasive and inspirational tones, their goals were for different purposes and audience, also the effects on the audience were different.
Ten bodies stood in the town center, surrounded by tears of joy and grief. The Council took their seats, some looking forlorn, others ecstatic.
The following paper with prove education is threatened and diminished by excessive politically correct rhetoric in schools across the nation. A meaningful debate or conversation requires both parties to understand one another and listen to each other’s arguments. Recent years have turned public debates in to contests to see who can voice their opinion loudest and who can be the most offended. The free exchange of ideas has been traded for over-sensitivity and yelling matches.