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For TOW #25, I read the article "The 20-Year Hillary Clinton Humanization Project" by Ruby Cramer and Megan Apper from Buzzfeed. I picked this article because it is about the upcoming 2016 election, the one that most of the class of 2016 will be able to vote in. In this article, Cramer and Apper explain the strategy of Clinton's initial campaigning, what she's done before and how she is going to do the same thing now. Their biggest thing was how Clinton was going to overcome the legend of her name, the dynasty and history of the Clintons. The audience of this piece was most likely young liberal democrats, who are already leaning towards voting for Hillary Clinton. This is because the article was featured and debuted of Buzzfeed, whose demographics are teenager and young adults from the ages of late teens to late twenties. These sort of people are usually liberals, being young, and lean towards thinking social change is more important than anything else, hence, electing the first female President. A rhetorical device used in this article was the use of personal anecdotes, though, not from the writers, but from people who had extended their hospitality to Clinton and seen the real woman. Clinton had humanized herself by submitting to local customs and acting like a real, non-famous, person might.The anecdotes in this article serve as examples of how Hillary Clinton is actually human and they also reveal the true purpose of this article--to convince people to vote for her. It's disguised, but the intention is there because the authors paint Hillary in a solely positive light. Another rhetorical device used was the many quotes and saying from Clinton herself that want to further humanize her such as the final line of the article, “‘I hear these people and their stories… It’s like a movie that plays in my head.’”
For TOW #25, I read the article "The 20-Year Hillary Clinton Humanization Project" by Ruby Cramer and Megan Apper from Buzzfeed. I picked this article because it is about the upcoming 2016 election, the one that most of the class of 2016 will be able to vote in. In this article, Cramer and Apper explain the strategy of Clinton's initial campaigning, what she's done before and how she is going to do the same thing now. Their biggest thing was how Clinton was going to overcome the legend of her name, the dynasty and history of the Clintons. The audience of this piece was most likely young liberal democrats, who are already leaning towards voting for Hillary Clinton. This is because the article was featured and debuted of Buzzfeed, whose demographics are teenager and young adults from the ages of late teens to late twenties. These sort of people are usually liberals, being young, and lean towards thinking social change is more important than anything else, hence, electing the first female President. A rhetorical device used in this article was the use of personal anecdotes, though, not from the writers, but from people who had extended their hospitality to Clinton and seen the real woman. Clinton had humanized herself by submitting to local customs and acting like a real, non-famous, person might.The anecdotes in this article serve as examples of how Hillary Clinton is actually human and they also reveal the true purpose of this article--to convince people to vote for her. It's disguised, but the intention is there because the authors paint Hillary in a solely positive light. Another rhetorical device used was the many quotes and saying from Clinton herself that want to further humanize her such as the final line of the article, “‘I hear these people and their stories… It’s like a movie that plays in my head.’”
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