Did you feel it?

Emotion is a driving force within the Human body. People can make decisions based solely on the emotions they are feeling at a particular instant. Emotion can also mess with the human’s perception of a certain event. Hotel Rwanda plays its rhetorical strategies to influence the viewer’s emotions on the situation so they feel the way the movie was designed to make them feel.
Within Hotel Rwanda there are many instances that cause the viewers to feel a great amount of emotion. When Paul finds his son covered in blood and in intense shock after watching his friends family get murdered, the state the child is in makes the viewer begin to imagine what he could have possible witnessed to put him in a state where his family would believe that he is injured. The viewer’s own imagination gets put to use to let them determine what the boy might actually have seen. The viewers begin to envision their own fears of what might have happened. This makes the scene appeal to the most emotion within the viewers because they imagine the worst thing for them.
The movie also uses the emotion that someone feels for their family. Most people can relate to the fear they would fear if their own family were in danger as Paul’s was. The viewers then begin to feel the fear that Paul feared for the loss of his own family. Viewers then have something that they can personally relate to, and it brings the horrors of genocide closer to home. The entire movie consists of moments where Paul’s family is in danger; therefore the entire movie has this continuous appeal to the emotions of the viewer and therefore becomes much more impactful on the viewer.
One of the biggest emotions that is used throughout the movie is fear. There is a constant overtone of fear through all the characters in the movie. The fear for the lives of all the characters in the movie is very apparent in most of the scenes of the movie. This fear is much stronger than the fear that would be seen in a horror film. This is fear that is real life, and was actually experienced by the people of Rwanda. Therefore the fear that is seen in the movie has a much more emotional effect on the viewers.

Creationists vs. Evolutionists.

Ever since Charles Darwin published his book "The Origin of Species" there has been a constant battle between those who follow Charles Darwin, and those who follow the bible. The major conflict has been which of the two topics to include in the curriculum in public schools. Members of both sides of the conflict are against the teaching of the opposing and often poke fun at the ideas of the other. but i believe that the answer to this conflict is the marriage of the two ideas together as completely different theories that are both widely believed and letting the students believe what makes the most sense to them.


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