Miss Kim
English 10 per.3
1 October 2009
The Harassenator
The years 2003 was when Arnold Schwarzenegger was running for the governor of Califonia. He was acussed of harassing women on movie sets on his previous movies like Terminator and True Lies. He reiterated he didn't do it but some still don't believe him. He also said that when people accussed him of harassing, he said was playful. He didn't realize what he was doing was considered harassing at the time. He said he was just having fun because he was a movie star. When he was asked why he did what he did, he said that he didn't remember. He also reiterated many times that he didn't harass the women he was just being playful.In this paragraph Arnold uses the propoganda technique of Plain Folks. This is when he compares himself that he is just an ordinary person and that everybosy makes mistakes including him. Arnold realizes that the people thimk he harassed the women so he said, "But I now recognize that I have ofended people"(schwarzenegger 4). He realizes that he can't leave the croud with such a terrible ending to his press conference so he says, "I am deeply sorry and i apoligize"(Schwzarzenegger 4). . He finally acceptes that the people think that he harassed those women but he won't admit it. All he admitts was that he was having fun not that he harassed the women. He does the right thing and still apoligizes.
In the end, I don't think Arnold gave a very believable speech. Although he tries to use plain folks to win over the croud, his overall speech was inadequit. He didn't give good reasons to defend himself against the false alligations in the case that he harassed the women on the movie sets. He was very unsure of answers and he just said to make the crowd happy. As an example he says that he "doesn't remember" and that "most of it is not true". Because he uses his brief memory's to base his guiltness off of, his argument is very unbelievable. As a result, his atempt to use ethos was wasted. The govenators untrustworthiness may affect his political power.
1. You are missing the number "10" after the word "english" in your MLA heading. Make sure to add that in.
ReplyDelete2. I like your title a lot!
3. Your background information is almost complete. I think you may just want to add the fact that Schwarzenegger was running for governor at the time; he was not the gorvernor yet.
4. Both of quotes are cited correctly and are explained in relation to Pathos. Good Job Alex!
5. Your 3rd paragraph provides a good argument about the reason you find him incredible.
6. These two sentences in your first paragraph are abit awkward; try to reword them differently. "He also said that most of the time when people accussed him of harassing, he said was playful. He didnt think what he was doing was considered."
The word "cround" should be "croud," so just fix that little mistake.
Finally, I think you may want to change the words "said stuff" in the last paragrpah to something more appropriate such as "created explanations."
Overall, you wrote a very intelligent essay and expressed your opinion... Good Job!