Week 9 Three Billboards
“What you need to become a detective is love, because
through love comes calm, and through calm comes thought, and you need thought
to detect things sometimes.”
(Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Respond to this in the context of rhetoric and our class discussions.
I think what Woody Harrelson is trying to convey is that to do anything you have to go through different processes. Using rhetoric is a process and we have gone through that process during class. To do this you have to do one thing which leads to another and then there you are at what you wanted in the first place. Harrelson makes a good point that to do one thing you have to have a lot of other things as well. Throughout our class we have been going through the process of creating a research assignment which is getting the little steps that lead to the final big project. To answer one question you have to ask other question which is something we also do in class. When we say something or ask something Mr. Measel comes back at us asking us something else to help us understand.
ReplyDeleteWhen using and analyzing rhetoric, individuals often break a large piece of text into smaller, more concise pieces. These pieces can then be broken down further in order to determine things such as the rhetorical situation. The rhetorical situation is a step by step analysis of a piece of text. This quote relates to that, for Woody Harrelson breaks down the necessary steps one must go through to become a detective. Each step builds on the previous one, for you cannot run before you learn to walk. Our class is structured in a similar format, for each assignment we complete builds off of the previous one. Our current assignment, the research proposal, cannot be created without going through a series of steps. We must first do research, then form an outline, then create drafts of the video in order to reach our end goal, or final draft.
ReplyDeleteReally nice and definitely it will be useful for many people. Kindly keep update like this.
ReplyDeleteBest Dentist In Chennai
Full Mouth Implant Treatment
Root Canal Specialist In Chennai
Cosmetic Dental Clinic in Chennai
In regards to rhetoric, this quote serves the purpose of convincing the audience that love is needed to become a detective. The claim is supported with information that flows from one idea to another which connects all the ideas overall. Woody Harrelson appeals to logos here by presenting a logical argument that shows the concepts presented are related to each other. Pathos may also be an appeal that is applied here since love is discussed and love is one of the strongest feelings/emotions that exists. This logical flow of ideas building off one another relates to our class discussions and our class as a whole by the way we approach completing our assignments. For example, we first analyzed a visual argument to understand what a visual argument is and what it can do. We then formed our own research proposal for an argument we wanted to use for our video visual argument. Our next step is to complete the video visual argument. The final video would have been much more difficult to complete if we had not completed the first two steps in the process before.
ReplyDeleteWoody Harrelson is attempting to display the fact that there is rarely a direct path in life. There are many steps that need to be taken and there are always detours that people fall into. People can hardly ever go directly from step one to step ten, and when they do it is usually not as good of an outcome. He tries to illustrate that even though he might not be taking the easiest path, he will still reach his goal. The same can be said for writing papers because creating an outline and organizing your main points before you begin writing will lead to the production of a better essay.
ReplyDeleteWoody Harrelson used inductive reasoning to draw conclusion's. His overall claim was that love is imperative for a good detective. He conveyed his claim through small steps, and sub-claims. He created a domino of how one thing leads to another. Instead of blatantly saying, "good detectives have love", he covered all his bases and explained why love is necessary and the role it plays in leading to calm, thought, and detection.
ReplyDeleteThis quote is saying that love is all you need to become a detective. Although at first, this sounds like an absurd statement, by breaking the statement into smaller parts the author shows how he arrived at the conclusion. The author attempts to appeal to logos by depicting his thought process and how each step flows directly into the the next step. In looking at the broken down steps, the authors conclusion sounds much more reasonable and less like a random assertion with no thought behind it. The process in which the author breaks down his statement is very similar to our process of how we do things in class. Many times we will start with something like a research proposal, then we start building on it by doing an annotated bibliography, creating a rough draft, and finally composing the final draft. If one only looked at where we started (research proposal) and the end product (final draft), it could be difficult to understand how they are related much like how love is needed to be a detective.
ReplyDeleteWoody Harrelson is saying that to become a detective all you need as love. Since this quote makes no sense with just the broad claim he breaks it down into further arguments and connects them back to his original claim. In rhetoric you do not have to break down the claim and show how you got there with a warrant because it is an unspoken thing that does not need explanation. The example in class was don't smoke because it will kill you. The warrant in this situation is that there is an unspoken thought that people want to live. In Harrelson's quote the warrant is not as obvious. But when he explains it, it makes sense. We know that through love comes calm and through calm comes thought, which then connects his quote that says all you need is love to be a detective. It shows that sometimes the warrant needs to be emphasized.
ReplyDeleteRhetoric is everywhere. While it may not be obvious at first, rhetoric can be found anywhere. Woody Harrelson uses this knowledge in his claim about becoming a detective. Rhetoric is simply the art of effective speaking or writing. Harrelson uses a form of deductive reasoning to make his claim. Deductive reasoning is based on small properties, that if true, make the reasoning valid. Harrelson originally states that to become a detective you need love. He does this by showing that with love comes calm. Once we have calm we obtain thought. He then states that you need thought to detect things. Through this reasoning, he brings love back to detecting to show the validity in his statement. Through this device, Harrelson creates a convincing statement that leads me to believe that love is needed to be a detective. While at first, I may be apprehensive to the idea, I believe that love brings about calm and when you are calm, you are much better at thought. Therefore, love is needed to become a detective.
ReplyDeleteWoody Harrelson makes a claim that love is necessary to become a detective. While this is a strange claim to make by itself he backs up this claim. Harrelson uses logos in this quote because he supports his claim with a continuation of other steps to take to reach a final goal. The process that Harrelson used is similar to how we complete assignments in class. He broke down his broad statement multiple times. We did this with our original research proposal. We went from a blank statement, to a 10 source annotated bibliography, to a rough draft video edit, and finally a completed video project.
ReplyDeleteInteresting post,
ReplyDeleteเล่าเรื่องผี
เล่าเรื่องผี the shock
กระทู้ผีพันทิป
ตำนานน่ากลัว
Harrelson's claim is that love is needed to look past the surface and detect important details. Although the two parts of the claim don't seem to connect, he uses logos in the form of a logical flow of ideas, starting with one idea and building off of it. In a very short argument Harrelson manages to capture the audience's attention with a statement that appeals to pathos and support the claim with logical evidence. This is similar to the projects we have worked on in class; we always start with a claim meant to engage readers. Then we have to build off of that claim, describing how we reached that claim through logical deductive reasoning.
ReplyDeleteWoody Harrelson says that love is all you need to be a detective. If you know how to love, then you know how to be calm, and how to think, and thinking is what you need to do to be a detective. He believes that a powerful thing such as love is able to help one figure out how to do what they need to do through smaller steps rather than one giant step towards their goal. This alternative pathway with smaller steps is the shape of our discussion in class. Mr. Measel always has a goal in mind and tries to get us to achieve this goal through smaller connections when we can’t make the jump right away. This opens our eyes to the process of rhetoric every day in class, and Woody Harrelson outlines this process but in the context of a detective.
ReplyDeleteWoody Harrelson is trying to convey the idea that to be a detective, you need love. He uses a series of broken down steps to demonstrate his overall idea. This is a similar tactic that is used in class as we typically start with a fairly broad claim/topic. From there, we break the claim or topic down into simpler, yet more specific ideas. This is crucial in making connections that may be harder to do if not put into more specific terms.
ReplyDeleteIn order to apply and use rhetoric, a situation must first be broken down into many different parts. As Woody Harrelson describes, to be a detective you must first use love, then calmness and lastly though which makes up the skills needed to detect certain things. Rhetorical situations are much the same as they consist of many different aspects. You first start off with a main idea (becoming a detective) and then break it down into many different parts.
ReplyDeleteHarrelson states that you need love to be a detective, because love invokes calmness, which then invokes thought. This statement may seem strange; however, Harrelson maps out his thoughts giving a step by step process. He provides evidence to support his claim that detectives need love. He could go deeper into this claim by providing examples or studies of how love creates calmness and calmness creates thought.
ReplyDeleteTo me, Harrelson sets up the idea of being a detective through the process of love. To be a detective, you need the traits that comes from love. You need to understand how to be calm, and from that how to use thought. Being a detective requires a lot of thought, and thought stems from love. He provides the reasoning of using love to becoming a detective through these steps, by using logos, however we never really get and ethos unless you know who Harrelson is. Pathos only comes from the mention of love, but an example would further provide evidence for these claims.
ReplyDelete