Rhetoric

Rhetoric- in other words, persuasion, or propaganda to give a biased view on an object, belief, society etc. Rhetoric is seen everywhere, in our everyday lives. People use it to create their own personal images, to try and impress others, such as the use of facebook or the way they dress, act, or look. Companies have been using it forever to advertise their products to gain consumers and grasp audiences. Literally everything contains rhetoric. Politics heavily use it to implement beliefs on social problems in their posters, images, news, anything. But the main thing that gives the strongest vibe of rhetorical use to myself is political cartoon propaganda. The images are always completely biased and show the sides of a social topic. Such as the one above, its an image of the Muslim Muhammed who is drawn with a bomb for a hat. It is trying to describe the fact that all muslims are "bombing terrorists and we should fear all of them. The artist was trying to create this fear in a sense to keep the nations prejudiced and for us to stay on the defensive. I feel that this is pushing the stereotypical limit and could be offensive to many. That is also the other thing with rhetoric though, it can offend many and is someone the purpose and use of it. You can't escape it anywhere and could use anything as an example of it.