The First Black Panther Reviews Are Here—and They’re Ecstatic by Yohana Desta: Article Analysis2/1/2018 Yohanda Desta starts her article out by hooking the audience with the excitement surrounding Black Panther. Since Marvel came out with Captain: Civil War, fans have been anticipating this movie for a year and now the reviews are in. Desta then goes into some of the specific like "Michael B. Jordan’s villainous Erik Killmonger was lauded for his realistic origin story and emotional development" (Paragraph 3). this not only shows her excitement but the excitement of others for this movie. Overall, Desta does a wonderful job of getting people excited for Black Panther.
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In this article, “A Fond Farewell of Prince Harry, Third Wheel,” Josh Duboff and Chiara Marinai start off by talking about Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle. Using this to begin the paragraph, they then go into his previous girlfriends and how he’s been a third wheel with his brother William and sister in law Kate. Duboff and Marinai then show 15 examples of when he was a third wheel with commentary. The comments add a humorous aspect to the pictures and give people insight into the authors perspective of what was happening. This twitter post by Vanity fair was made to show people what movies they can see to avoid their family on Thanksgiving. They link the article to the post but give an overview about what the article is about. They also have a picture of one of their examples to give the viewer a sneak peek of whats to offer. Rebecca Keegan's article Did Hollywood Agents Help Harvey Weinstein?, starts off with a conversational tone show when she says "Hello from Los Angeles, where agencies and actresses are opening up about a once-taboo topic" (paragraph 2). This is used to convey a tone of anger or annoyance. As her article progresses, Keegan appeals to ethos by using a quote from an agent in Hollywood. Shown in paragraph 4, the agent states “I wish I knew,” one female agent at a top agency said. “I would have reported him. I would have confronted him. I wouldn’t have let it continue. It makes me angry that I didn’t know" (paragraph 4). The quote helps to give insight into what most agents said about Harvey Weinstein. Keegan writes this to initially spread awareness about how Hollywood agencies helped Harvey Weinstein throughout the years . In this article, Bess Levin writes about how Trump enjoys exploiting Africa. She shows this through her appeal to pathos and this is seen when she writes, "the president is presumably seething with impotent rage about not being able to get in on all the sweet, sweet business opportunities his buddies are exploiting in Africa" (paragraph 1). Levin writes this to evoke an angry emotion inside of her audience. Her tone is displayed contemptuously and berates Trump for his colonialist tone" (paragraph 1). Levin also shows this when she writes, "Following his maniacal speech on Tuesday at the United Nations" (paragraph 2). This beginning sentence not only gives insight into the rest of the paragraph's bias, but it also depicts her argument for the rest of the article. Levin writes this article to inform the people how Trump views African countries and ultimately she writes this to show how Trump handles foreign affairs |
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