Spot the Rhetorical Devices from Doug Ford
First of all, what are rhetorical devices? They are techniques that a speaker or an author uses to convey to their listener/audience, persuading them towards considering a topic. Everyone uses rhetorical devices everyday, even you! The Councillor of Toronto, Doug Ford, successfully used the concepts of ethos and pathos, among other rhetorical devices in his speech to talk about how he believes his brother, Rob Ford (Mayor of Toronto) that the fact his brother is not a crack cocaine addict. Doug used a few rhetorical devices such as repetition, euphemism, appealing to audience empathy, allusions as well as red herring for the most part to deliver his speech. It was successful, but will it persuade the people and the media? The link below is an article along with a video of Doug highlighting a whole bunch of achievements of Rob to cover his “accusations”, as Doug calls it, which actually refers to Rob’s crack video. Euphemism was used there, to soften the meaning of something embarrassing and unpleasant. Anyways, watch the video and see how many rhetorical devices you can identify!
Political Compass
Here are the results for my Political Compass test:
Economic Left/Right: -1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.26
Looking at my results, I'm quite close to the middle in terms of both the economic and social scale. I'm heading towards Stalin but I'm closer to Ghandi. Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union that killed his own people if they didn't follow his rules whereas Ghandi is an Indian who led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom internationally.
To see where your political beliefs are, go to http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
Economic Left/Right: -1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.26
Looking at my results, I'm quite close to the middle in terms of both the economic and social scale. I'm heading towards Stalin but I'm closer to Ghandi. Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union that killed his own people if they didn't follow his rules whereas Ghandi is an Indian who led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom internationally.
To see where your political beliefs are, go to http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
Civic Mirror Reflection
The practice run of Civic Mirror turned into a catastrophe- Almost everybody had 1-2 members in their family dead. As a result of this practice run, one of my family member died due to homelessness. But, I was able to attain 5 Status Points and 10 Well Being Points in the end! Also, I accumulated the most amount of cash with $24,503, which is no use because it's not the objective of the game....
I learned a lot from this practice run and hopefully I won't make the same mistakes again in the real game. At the beginning of the game, I owned the most valuable and important hexes such as the Energy/Industry hex and a farm. Since I own the E/I hex, people must buy the units off of me in order to power their hexes and live! The stupid mistake I made was I sold my entire E/I hex for $4000 instead of selling a unit. Another thing I learned was consume your units before you sell them to other citizens.
Civic Mirror had made me thought about the social issues. If there was limited food, not enough to be distributed to everyone, would the store owners sell the food the person who offers the highest price? Or would they give the food to the person who needs it most? During the game, I thought about this question: There was only one E/I unit left, but only one of the two houses can have this unit. Do I spare the unit to the person who needs it most or offer a high price that exceeds the amount the other person has? I decided to let the person have the unit and left my house unpowered. I'm not sure what people in the real world would do.
I think that food should be distributed evenly and equally because it is one of the main necessities that all people need to survive! In terms of the game, each citizen should consume one unit of food or two at the most so there is enough food for each citizen to keep their families alive.
This game makes everyone show their "evil" side; everyone was scheming and tricking other players into trading wrong items! It was fun watching people tricking their friends and making the worse decisions ever. I can`t wait until the real game begins!
I learned a lot from this practice run and hopefully I won't make the same mistakes again in the real game. At the beginning of the game, I owned the most valuable and important hexes such as the Energy/Industry hex and a farm. Since I own the E/I hex, people must buy the units off of me in order to power their hexes and live! The stupid mistake I made was I sold my entire E/I hex for $4000 instead of selling a unit. Another thing I learned was consume your units before you sell them to other citizens.
Civic Mirror had made me thought about the social issues. If there was limited food, not enough to be distributed to everyone, would the store owners sell the food the person who offers the highest price? Or would they give the food to the person who needs it most? During the game, I thought about this question: There was only one E/I unit left, but only one of the two houses can have this unit. Do I spare the unit to the person who needs it most or offer a high price that exceeds the amount the other person has? I decided to let the person have the unit and left my house unpowered. I'm not sure what people in the real world would do.
I think that food should be distributed evenly and equally because it is one of the main necessities that all people need to survive! In terms of the game, each citizen should consume one unit of food or two at the most so there is enough food for each citizen to keep their families alive.
This game makes everyone show their "evil" side; everyone was scheming and tricking other players into trading wrong items! It was fun watching people tricking their friends and making the worse decisions ever. I can`t wait until the real game begins!
Levels of Government
MunicipalCities, towns. Sub-division of provinces
- libraries - snow removal - transit - building permits - property taxes - water - waste management |
Provincial
Provinces each have their own government
- schools - education - health care delivery - social assistance - natural resources - licenses |
Federal
Country-wide or "National"
- national security - defense military - international relations - citizenship & immigration - money - banking - postal service |
Shared
Federal+Provincial+Municipal
- transportation - road - laws - police - parks - tourism - environment and more......... |