IB Lit

Nonny de la Peña: The future of news? Virtual reality https://www.ted.com/talks/nonny_de_la_pena_the_future_of_news_virtual_reality/transcript?language=en Nonny de la Pe ñ a, at the beginning of her talk, identified herself as a journalist who has worked in print, documentary, and broadcast. The mention of her background was a use of ethos, and it immediately gave her credibility to talk about the journalism industry because of her experience. She said her purpose of becoming a journalist was to inspire people through stories and make a difference. She argues in this talk that virtual reality can achieve that by increasing one's capacity for empathy. She provides three examples to support her argument. The speaker mainly relies on pathos in her examples.  In the first example, she started a project to document hunger. This project created an evocative scene of a diabetic man having a seizure while waiting in line at a food bank.  The speaker described the reactions to the...

Hyde: "He had in his hand a heavy cane ...the maid fainted ." (Stevenson 17). Jekyll: " To this rule ... we had agreed to drop." (Stevenson 15). I n the excerpt about Hyde, Stevenson uses violent diction when he describes him. He uses verbs like "stamping," "brandishing," "broke out," "clubbed" "trampling" and "hailing." The words that Stevenson chooses reveals the violent nature of Mr. Hyde. The maid and the gentleman react with fear to his actions. The gentleman "took a step back" and "at the horror of theses sights and sounds, the maid fainted." Hyde is characterized as a violent man who is to be feared. Stevenson further characterizes him as a monster. He refers to nature to portray Hyde as a monster. Hyde clubbed the gentleman "to the earth", he had "ape-like fury", and he hailed "down a storm." Hyde is associate with anger, impatience, violence, ...