Genre Analysis: ForChina's Rising Leader, A Cave Was Once Home
This article revolves around anonymity
that clouds one of the worlds’ most powerful men, Xi Jinping, who is set to become the next general secretary of China's Communist
Party. To analyze the situation National Public Radio (NPR) uses a variety
of tactics, ranging from firsthand accounts of people in the village that Xi
Jinping grew up in to the humble and impoverished beginnings that he had. They
use anyone who will talk to them, for they were commanded to not speak to the
press, to tell the story of Jinping. They have found an 84 year old man who
spoke and told of the good nature of Jinping and the background in which both
his father and he grew up in. He recounts the knowledge that he has of both
father and son, greater connecting the listener to the story. They also use pathos to try and humanize a man
who is almost completely unknown to the public.
They
share stories of Jinping’s father being removed from political favor and moving
out to a poor country cave house with his family, and Jinping growing up with
nothing, even sharing his father’s bath water with his other brother. NPR
utilizes techniques of incorporating the live and primary account of people who
knew Jinping, or at least knew of him in the village to shed light on the
darkness. The reporters and villagers alike show Jinping in a favorable light,
one of a life of hardship and struggles, which made him a good man, the man
that is helping to improve their ancient and broken village. To show how he is
using his power in a good way the reporters interview, and personally see, the how
the village improvements are helping; as well as to some hindering and
destroying the tradition. But, for the most part people see the effects of
knowing Jinping to be beneficial and very helpful.
To
sum up what NRP uses to portray Xi Jinping in their news story, they use
firsthand accounts; of those people in the village that knew him, as well as
some that knew his father, they lay out as many works as they can find on him
out for people to see and know, albeit putting him into a favorable light, the
reporters show the struggle that he had to grow through; as a child and adult
living in poverty, and finally they tell a tale of who he is today compared to
who he was in the past. All of these aspects lead to assumptions being made and
opinions forming about a man who will, in a weeks’ time, have great power over
not just a nation, but a world.
For project three I would like to do my podcast on the different areas of studies, and how each one affects the person studying it.
I think that this is a great idea and you will do a good job! In all honesty, it is actually and interesting topic and I would enjoy listening to it. It will be informative with interesting information and you can easily interview different people for the different areas of studies. Great idea (: good luck with your project!
ReplyDeleteThis topic is a great idea and you will do a good job because your topic is definitely an interesting one that pretty much can relate to any student that studies or goes to the library at all. Furthermore, they are several libraries on the ASU campus giving you access to a vast amount of students or library staff members that could help provide evidence and interviews with your audio part of project 3. Moreover, each of the libraries defiantly have their own sort of atmosphere so I suggest that you go to each of the libraries and maybe observe it and interview students and find their ideas on the library and then you may be able to compare and contrast your findings and with each of the libraries.
ReplyDeleteThough the idea is a good one, it is somewhat stretched. Maybe you could source it down to a few majors, or the types of schools at ASU. For instance, maybe you could find the source as to why W.P. Carey and Ira A. Fulton students have a form of competition between one another. For your interviewers, you can easily just talk to your friends and classmates to learn about their major as well as other topics related to their major and such.
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