Blog Post 35

               The purpose of the political cartoon is to get the United States to rethink accepting refugees. To understand the cartoon the viewer needs to understand the context. The context is that many countries are closing their borders following the terrorist attack in Paris. From viewing the cartoon the message is that Native Americans aren't accepting refugees. However the viewer must know the Thanksgiving story where the pilgrims were in bad times and then the Native Americans accepted them and they had the first Thanksgiving. After understanding all of this the viewer can understand the purpose which is to reconsider accepting refugees because at one point Americans were just refugees who were accepted by the Native Americans during a bad time. Americans should consider accepting the refugees or help them similarly to how the Native Americans helped the pilgrims.

Thesis Statement For Rhetorical Analysis

I argue that the most effective way for convincing high school baseball players to delay their journey to Major League baseball and attend college is an informational powerpoint presentation composed of shocking statistics and emotional personal stories.

Blog Post 33: Background Research

Here is a link to my background research.