The article that I found the most persuasive and the
most thought provoking was the Osama Bin Laden piece. For this reason, I will be writing my
rhetorical analysis paper on it. While
reading it, I found myself to be deeply conflicted, for while I am a member of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (so I have mercy-oriented
morals), I am also a Patriot, and so I found that justice had been done in
Osama’s death.
Overall, I still believe that the
death of Osama Bin Laden was a completely necessary occurrence, but I do agree
with the writer in the sense that we shouldn't celebrate death. Part of me does desire to rejoice in his destruction,
but I also know that I need to remember that he is still a child of God
(despite making horrible choices and being a terrible person…). These are the feelings which will make this
piece enjoyable to analyze, for it will be forcing two of my passions to combat
each other: my deep love for the justice
of America, and my desires to continually be like Christ.
I feel like as I work on this paper
that I will be able to find a good amount of weak points in his argument, as
well as find areas where his own words can be used against him. It seems like I will have an enjoyable time
with this assignment, and I look forward to trying out different methods for
analyzing this piece.
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