Rhetorical Analysis (REVISED)

Who is the Author?

There isn't a clear clarification of who the author is in this article but King James and the other leaders of the nine and thirteenth years could play as the authors of this document

Who is the audience?

The audience would be the people who will live in the new colonies and the Virginia colonists.

What is the Tone?

The tone of this peace would be a professional or official tone.

What is the Purpose?

The purpose of this document is to issue to the people how the colonies will be run (that are coming from King James), in Virginia. Also the the rules and privileges the people will have in each colony.

How is this Persuasive?

ETHOS (emotions)- The speakers are trying to persuade the people of England to live in the new world. The audiences safety under English control in the colonies is the emotion. This legal document doesn't have such a strong emotional appeal.



PATHOS (credibility/character)- The respect, in this case, isn't gained from the people because King James especially, and the other leaders are already strong authoritative figures. Most of the audience would automatically give respect toward the speakers.



LOGOS (logic)- The heart of an argument is reasoning. The speakers give word to the people that all of this land is "unclaimed" and will become a land under new rule and new opportunities for the people to have different lifestyles. King James and the other leaders laid down the rules of how the colonies will be run but wanted this act to result into striving colonies and a well rounded government.

Rhetorical Analysis

Who is the Author?
The leaders of England, Scotland, France, Ireland on the nine and thirteenth years were the authors of "The First Charter of Virginia."

Who is the authors audience?
I believe that the audience would be the people of England, saying the rules and privileges of the colonies that would be made in Virginia.

What is the Tone?
The tone of this peace would a proffessional or official tone.

What is the Purpose?
The purpose is to issue the colonies rules and privileges for Virginia.

How is it persuasive?
This document is definately a Pathos peace because the whole article is pretty much just a set of rules and ways to run the colonies in Virginia. The document doesn't really sound persuasive but I could be wrong.

They Say I Say Destruction of the Indies

They Say I Say
Destruction of the Indies

Bartolome' claims that all of this is the truth because he was an "eye" witness, and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I believe the destruction of the Indies did happen. On the other hand, I still insist to believe that it didn't happen the way he described it. There has to be more to it.

Destruction of the Indies ( Annotated )

THE CRUELTIES OF THE Spaniards Committed in AMERICA
Destruction of the Indies
(1552) [An excerpt]
*(------ ARE MY NOTES)*
NOTES BY TRE' KELLY
Bartolomé de Las Casas
(1474-1566)
America was discovered and found out Ann. Dom. 1492, and the Year
ensuing inhabited by the Spaniards, and afterward a multitude of them
traveled thither from Spain for the space of Nine and Forty Years.
Their first attempt was on the Spanish Island [San Salvador], which indeed is a most
fertile soil, and at present in great reputation for its Spaciousness
and Length, containing in Circumference Six Hundred Miles:
------As we know, the Spaniards came to the new world not only for wealth, but for property also------
2. Nay it is on all sides surrounded with an almost innumerable number of Islands, which we found so well peopled with Natives and Foreigners, that there
is scarce any Region in the Universe fortified with so many
Inhabitants:
3. But the main Land or Continent, distant from this Island
Two Hundred and Fifty Miles and upwards, extends it self above Ten
Thousand Miles in Length near the sea-shore, which Lands are some of
them already discovered, and more may be found out in process of time:
And such a multitude of People inhabits these Countries, that it seems
as if the Omnipotent God has Assembled and convocated the major part of
Mankind in this part of the World.
4. Now this infinite multitude of Men are by the Creation of God
innocently simple, altogether void of and averse to all manner of
Craft, Subtlety and Malice, and most Obedient and Loyal Subjects to
their Native Sovereigns; and behave themselves very patiently,
submissively and quietly towards the Spaniards, to whom they are
subservient and subject; so that finally they live without the least
thirst after revenge, laying aside all litigiousness [quarrelsomeness],
Commotion and hatred.
5.*This is a most tender and effeminate people, and so imbecile and
unequal-balanced temper, that they are altogether incapable of hard
labor*,and in few years, by one Distemper or other soon expire, so
that the very issue of Lords and Princes, who among us live with great
affluence, and [expend] deliciously, are not more effeminate and tender than
the Children of their Husbandmen or Laborers: This Nation is very
Necessitous and Indigent, Masters of very slender Possessions, and
consequently, neither Haughty, nor Ambitious.
------Paragraph 5 is talking about the Spaniards right???------
9. The Spaniards first assaulted the innocent Sheep, so qualified by the
Almighty, as is premention'd, like most cruel Tigers, Wolves and Lions
hunger-starved, studying nothing, for the space of Forty Years, after
their first landing, but the Massacre of these Wretches, whom they have
so inhumanely and barbarously butchered and harassed with several kinds
of Torments, never before known, or heard (of which you shall have some
account in the following Discourse) that of Three Millions of Persons,
which lived in Hispaniola itself, there is at present but the
inconsiderable remnant of scarce Three Hundred.
------Man, a race of people getting whipped out like that. That 's so sad.------
13. As to the firm land, we are certainly satisfied, and assured, that the
Spaniards by their barbarous and execrable Actions have absolutely
depopulated Ten Kingdoms, of greater extent than all Spain, together
with the Kingdoms of Arragon and Portugal, that is to say, above
One Thousand Miles, which now lye wast and desolate, and are absolutely
ruined, when as formerly no other Country whatsoever was more populous.
14. Nay we dare boldly affirm, that during the Forty Years space, wherein
they exercised their sanguinary and detestable Tyranny in these
Regions, above Twelve Millions (computing Men, Women, and Children)
have undeservedly perished; nor do I conceive that I should deviate
from the Truth by saying that above Fifteen Millions in all paid their
last Debt to Nature.
------How can the desire for power, wealth, and land drive a group of people so far that they would do something like this toward another race of people. I don't understand why anyone would think of doing this.------
16. Now the ultimate end and scope that incited the Spaniards to endeavor
the Extirpation and Desolation of this People, was Gold only; that
thereby growing opulent in a short time, they might arrive at once at
such Degrees and Dignities, as were no wayes consistent with their
Persons.
Finally, in one word, their Ambition and Avarice, than which the heart
of Man never entertained greater, and the vast Wealth of those Regions;
the Humility and Patience of the Inhabitants (which made their approach
to these Lands more facile and easier) did much promote the business:
Whom they so despicably condemned, that they treated them (I speak of
things which I was an Eye Witness of, without the least fallacy) not as
Beasts, which I cordially wished they would, but as the most abject
dung and filth of the Earth; and so solicitous they were of their Life
and Soul, that the above-mentioned number of People died without
understanding the true Faith or Sacraments.
------What was the true faith or sacraments according to Bartolome'?------
17. And this also is as really true as the present Narration (which the very Tyrants and cruel Murderers cannot deny without the stigma of a lye) that the Spaniards never received any injury from the Indians, but that they rather
reverenced them as Persons descended from Heaven, until that they were
compelled to take up Arms, provoked thereunto by repeated Injuries,
violent Torments, and unjust Butcheries.
Of the Island HISPANIOLA.
3. From which time they began to consider by what wayes and
means they might expel the Spaniards out of their Country, and
immediately took up Arms. But, good God, what Arms, do you imagine?
Namely such, both Offensive and Defensive, as resemble Reeds wherewith
Boys sport with one another, more than Manly Arms and Weapons.
4. Which the Spaniards no sooner perceived, but they, mounted on
generous Steeds, well weaponed with Lances and Swords, begin to
exercise their bloody Butcheries and Stratagems, and overrunning their
Cities and Towns, spared no Age, or Sex, nay not so much as Women with
Child, but ripping up their Bellies, tore them alive in pieces.
------Just like the fight between corte's and the Aztecs------
5. They laid Wagers among themselves, who should with a Sword at one blow cut,
or divide a Man in two; or which of them should decollate or behead a
Man, with the greatest dexterity; nay farther, which should sheath his
Sword in the Bowels of a Man with the quickest dispatch and expedition.
They snatched young Babes from the Mothers Breasts, and then dashed out
the brains of those innocents against the Rocks; others they cast into
Rivers scoffing and jeering them, and called upon their Bodies when
falling with derision, the true testimony of their Cruelty, to come to
them, and inhumanely exposing others to their Merciless Swords,
together with the Mothers that gave them Life.
6. They erected certain Gibbets [gallows], large, but low made, so that their feet
almost reached the ground, every one of which was so ordered as to bear
Thirteen Persons in Honor and Reverence (as they said blasphemously)
of our Redeemer and his Twelve Apostles, under which they made a Fire
to burn them to Ashes whilst hanging on them:
7. But those they intended
to preserve alive, they dismissed, their Hands half cut, and still
hanging by the Skin, to carry their Letters missive to those that fly
from us and Ly skulking on the Mountains, as an exprobation of their
flight.
------They even hurt the ones that they kept alive. Now what was the point of that------
8. The Lords and Persons of Noble Extract were usually exposed to this
kind of Death; they ordered Gridirons to be placed and supported with
wooden Forks, and putting a small Fire under them, these miserable
Wretches by degrees and with loud Shrieks and exquisite Torments, at
last Expired.
9. I once saw Four or Five of their most Powerful Lords laid on these
Gridirons, and thereon roasted, and not far off, Two or Three more
over-spread with the same Commodity, Man's Flesh; but the shrill
Clamors which were heard there being offensive to the Captain, by
hindering his Repose, he commanded them to be strangled with a Halter.
The Executioner (whose Name and Parents at Sevil [Sevilla, a city in the south of Spain] are not unknown to me) prohibited the doing of it; but stopped Gags into their Mouths to prevent the hearing of the noise (he himself making the Fire) till that they dyed, when they had been roasted as long as he thought convenient.
I was an Eye-Witness of these and and innumerable Number of other
Cruelties . . . .
------That must have been the most horrible thing to ever see. How could people go on with their lives knowing that they got rid of innocent lives------
In my opinion the whole description of this article isn't only based on death, but also greed:
1 Spain came to the new world
2 They found a space with fertile soil and plenty of land
3 They happened to noticed that their land was surrounded by islands populated by the Indians
4 They wanted to expand new ideas and own more land even though they already found a space with plenty of land
5 They came up with the idea to kill off these Indians so they'd have more land to own.( That was when greed came in to play)
The most popular religion in Spain was Christianity. They were trying to get the Indians to convert to Christianity, and yet the Spaniards let greed lead them away from the word of God and take them as far as it did. Stealing land, killing the innocent, and being greedy.
The lord says that those who take greedily have forgotten his name and his word.


“ In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.”
Ezekiel 22:12

MY WRITING PHILOSOPHY

My philosophy for anything and everything that I do is to just to do my best in whatever task that I'm given. I'm not such a huge writing fan but whenever I'm given a writing topic I always try to write in a way that sounds like I'm interested in the topic. Even if it's a topic I dislike. The way that I write is all me and no one else. People have given me help and ideas but I always make sure that my writing always sound like me. For quite some time I have been trying to expand my knowlege of the writing process, but writing is just not a passion of mine. I hope to someday to find out that I have a somewhat interstest in writing material but until that day comes I'll just stick to doing what I do best when it comes to writng. Being my own individual.

English Composition As A Happening

The main idea of this article was that English courses today are dull and need to be taught differently. Student learning in English classes have been dropping because of the way English is being taught. Charles Deemer has very strong arguments toward this issue, and plenty of ideas to get the students and teachers in these English courses more involved in the classroom. English, According to the article, has been traditionally taught for quite some time. " A prior reshaping of the English Composition course could be influential once the course is raised to the status of an introduction to the university." "A reshaping might be the kernal of needed change. "These quotes by Deemer are great points and he has facts to back himself up. I agree with Deemer because English Composition does need to be reshaped so students and teachers can work and learn at higher expectations