Speeches / Persuasive Essay/Speech - Global Warming [6]

I know this isn't really under an essay format, this is more of a speech but I require help from you geniuses nether less.

Good morning everyone, today I will speak to you about the truth of Global Warming. For more than a decade, people have engaged in bitter debates about the Earth's climate. This debate touches upon the potential changes in our atmosphere due to greenhouse gases - popularly known as Global Warming. This debate can be summarized as Global Warming: Real or a hoax?

When some people think of Global Warming, they would often picture tornadoes or hurricanes, and in turn think about the destruction these forces will cause: the destruction of cities, destruction of forests or the destruction of marine life. Fortunately, Global Warming isn't the main cause of these destructive forces. I'll be talking about all the facts that will reassure you that Global Warming is not an issue that we have to worry about.

Whenever Global Warming comes up in a TV documentary, debate, or any other media source, greenhouse gas is identified as the major cause. Just how much of this greenhouse gas is caused by human activity? It is about 0.28% if water vapour is taken into account, and about 5.53% if not. Water vapour constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gases, and this natural source of greenhouse gas accounts for about 95% of Earth's total greenhouse effect.

I believe we are being sucked into the world of propaganda, and we're led to believe that there's a massive hurricane heading our way. I'm sure you all heard about Polar bears being on the brink of extinction. The photograph of two polar bears stranded on a melting ice floe in mid-winter became a symbol of Global Warming. Would you like to know truth? The photograph was actually taken in the summer. The student who took the photograph stated: "they were on the ice when we found them and on the ice when we left. They were healthy, fat and seemed comfortable on their iceberg." Furthermore, the photographer wasn't even asked permission to put the image all over the Internet "the image you have seen around the world was issued without my consent, and [with] the wrong by-line"

One man that started this propaganda was Al Gore. Although it wasn't his intention, he had created many incorrect facts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth." For example, Al Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame, yet recently, a Discovery news article reports that the Himalayan Glaciers seems to be growing, not shrinking. Gore also claims that global warming is causing more tornadoes. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that there has been no scientific link established between Global Warming and tornadoes. Gore stated Global Warming is causing more frequent and severe hurricanes. However, hurricane expert Chris Landsea published a study documenting that hurricane activity is no higher now than in decades past. There are about 32 more flaws in the film, which I will not go into it right now.

I'm not arguing that Global Warming isn't real. Global climate changes have been occurring for centuries, and Global Warming is most likely to be occurring now. But there is a great deal of evidence, which suggests that temperature fluctuations are part of a natural cycle of climate change, not man-made causes. When nature itself produces the greatest contributions to climate change, isn't it morally irresponsible, and politically ill advised for mankind to bear the blame for rising temperatures?

To conclude my presentation, I believe the clouded judgement of Global Warming supporters failed to withstand the tsunami of opinions from stubborn disbelievers, which turned Global Warming into the hottest topic of the decade. I hope my speech has provided you with enough information to base your opinions on Global Warming. Thank you.

I basically have a few questions
Our teacher taught us about Fallacies and told us not to use it, in your opinion, was paragraph 5 a little too much like an ad hominum? (attacking a person's character)

Also our speech is required to have at least 3 rhetorical devices, trying to come up with valid rhetorical devices proves to be harder than writing the essay itself, I been trying to come up with some for almost 2 hours and, still no luck. I decided to try my luck and ask the members of this forum for help.

One last thing, if you guys spot any problems with my essay please let me know, I'm not doing so well in English and I need all he help & suggestions I can get.

Thanks!
Gebraroest

Writing Feedback / Mercutio's importance to the plot and theme - Romeo and Juliet [5]

This is an essay I wrote for Romeo and Juliet, I really suck at writing essays. Would really appreciate it if someone can look at it.

Mercutio is not only important to the plot of the play, but also the as theme of haste leads to tragedy as well. Mercutio serves as a foil to people who are supposed to be wise such as Friar Lawrence and Romeo because he is considered to be a fool in the beginning of the book, but in reality he is the wisest. Mercutio is cynical about love, as opposed to Romeo's view on live of being something beautiful and romantic. Mercutio is always uses witty bunter, wordplay and puns to tease people, and for the use of comic relief. Mercutio is hot headed and hasty, his actions would lead to many tragedies throughout the play.

Mercutio views love as something imaginary and he often make sexual jokes about love. His famous Queen Mab speech: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind, who wooes, even now the frozen bosom of the north, and, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, turning his face to the dew-dropping south." (Act 1, Scene 4, lines 97 - 103) In this scene, Mercutio argues that love is a dream and dreams are nothing, therefore love is nothing. This is the complete opposite of Romeo's view on love, which is supposed to be real and passionate. Mercutio attempts to cheer Romeo up because of his melancholy by using crude humour. "And, to sink in it, should you burden love; too great oppression for a tender thing." Mercutio is suggesting that if Romeo blames the burden of love, he will only sink into love even more.

Mercutio uses witty puns and wordplay to tease people; he was teasing Tybalt to get him angrier. "Tybalt you rat - catcher." Mercutio kept on using puns using Tybalt's name to provoke him, which will lead to conflict. During the scene where Mercutio harasses the nurse, he reveals what Romeo was like before he was melancholy with love. He gives the audience something to laugh about after many serious scenes. Shakespeare also uses Mercutio as a link between the characters in the play and the audiences watching the play. When Mercutio is telling Romeo that he is foolish, he is almost telling the audience that this play is foolish and it is never going to happen. Mercutio is a pun of the word mercutial, which means unpredictably changeable, this is a clue that Mercutio is very hasty and he does not think of his actions.

Mercutio and Tybalt fought because Mercutio was provoking Tybalt. When he died, it was more tragic because he was relative with the Prince and not part of the feuding families, and an innocent person died, this was also the climax of the play. When Mercutio died, he said "Help me into some house, Benvolio, or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!" Mercutio think he is cursing Tybalt and Romeo, little did he know he is also cursing Romeo and Juliet because they were married. He makes the first half of the play seems like a comedy because of his witty jokes. And when he disappears from the play, it turns into tragedy, because the humorous person is gone and people are dieing. Romeo felt responsible for his friend's death. Devastated, he killed Tybalt for revenge, causing the Prince to banish him. Juliet was suicidal when she found out Romeo was banished and she was willing to do anything. Friar Lawrence, who is usually a calm person had to be hasty has well to think of a plan to help the two lovers. He came up with a plan to fake Juliet's death, because everything was moving too fast, the Friar's plan failed to reach Romeo in time. Romeo decided that he couldn't live without Juliet; he bought a poison to plan and kill himself. When Juliet woke up and found Romeo dead, she took his knife and killed herself for she couldn't live without Romeo.

Mercutio is arguably the most important character in the play, He makes the plot more interesting because his view of love, his use of witty jokes and how his hastiness shape the plot.