Is It Better to be Late and Despised or on Time and Loved?

The Morals of the Prince
Yet a prince should be slow to believe rumors and to commit himself to action on the basis of them. He should not be afraid of his own thoughts; he ought to proceed cautiously, moderating his conduct with prudence and humanity, allowing neither overconfidence to make him careless, nor overtimidity to make him intolerable. Here the question arises: is it better to be loved than feared, or vice versa? I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accommodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars and decievers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain.

Imitation 

Yet my mother should be on time to make it to Thanksgiving dinner and commit herself to this on behalf of the family. She should not be late cooking her own dish; she ought to proceed quickly, planning accordingly, allowing neither time to make her careless, nor perfection to make her very slow. Here the question arises: is it better to be late and despised or on time and loved? I don't doubt that everyone cooking for Thanksgiving would like to be on time; but since it is hard for my mother to accommodate this quality, if she had to make a choice, it is much safer to be on time than be late. For it is good general rule about family on Thanksgiving, that they are hungry, emotional, tired, and anxious, fearful of being let down and greedy for a good family dinner.

Power & Control

Although Machiavelli's excerpt and Civil Disobedience are similar, the essential concepts of the two are different. Machiavelli's excerpt speaks to the prince and the ruler of a society, while Thoreau speaks to the subordinate and to the citizen.

The overall concept in Machiavelli's excerpt is that in order to gain power you have to instill fear into the people. In order to do so you can not be civil or rational, like Thoreau believes in his writing of Civil Disobedience. Machiavelli thinks you have to make people be afraid so they can do what you want, as "...to be feared is much safer than to be loved." Fear, playing a part in power and control, is a re-occurring concept in both of these works, even though it is indirectly mentioned in Civil Disobedience.

Thoreau speaks for the subordinate and the common "man". Thoreau writes that a man should act upon his own morals and not follow the government because what they want is not always morally correct. Thoreau also writes that the common "man" should go against what the government and laws says and do what they feel is morally correct for himself.

Machiavelli makes it clear that fear is needed in order to have power and control of a person or government. Making people fear you is not showing them that you are trying to make them fear you, but appearing to them in a very assertive, powerful, and demanding way gives them a reason to fear and listen to you. Thoreau correspondingly believes that a government is unjustified in their actions. Thoreau believes that the government does whatever it needs to do to gain power and control its citizens.

These two different authors took two different approaches on how one should act when placed under a situation involving power. Thoreau believes a man should act upon his morals and Machiavelli believes a man should not act upon your morals but what your interests are as a person under power and control.

Rhetorical Analysis Outline

Rhetorical Analysis Outline of "Malala" Speech

Purpose: To inform people about the issue and persuade them to join her cause of speak up for what's wrong.

Audience: The audience is everyone ... even the Taliban as she constantly says "we" and "everyone."

Context: Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for giving a speech on July 12th, 2013 at the UN after terrorist attacks, the speech was organized by the President of the UN General Assembly

Section 1: Introduction
Purpose: sets a tone to let the audience know she is thankful for everyone and being able to speak on this day.
Appeals: Establishes ethos and pathos
Technique:  addressing everyone to make sure everyone is included and thanked. She tries to make everyone feel like they're apart of her healing process.
Effectiveness: this was very effective because she kept everyone included so they can feel like they were being helpful.

Section 2: Uniting Everyone In Other Ways
Purpose: showing that it's not only her that wants change and stands up for what isn't right, but there are others as well and they all need to unite.
Appeals: a lot of pathos—"My ambitions are the same. My hopes are the same. My dreams are the same.
Techniques: uses a lot of repetition, sentence variation and an analogy--"we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns."  

Section 3: Addressing The Problem and Proposing A Solution
Purpose: letting everyone know what the Taliban is doing and convince the audience that everyone has to take a stand against what is going on around them.
Claim: "the pen is mightier than the sword"
Evidence: she talks about a boy in her class who said, "A Talib doesn't know what is written inside this book" meaning they are afraid of other people learning what they don't know.
Warrant: people, mostly women, want to be educated and they want rights to be able to chose if they can be educated without being threatened or shot at.
Techniques: use of diction or word choice exaggerates the situation, using words like ignorance and deprivation; repetition is used.

General Evaluation:
Malala spoke on behalf of everyone who struggles with some sort of oppression and for people who can't raise their own voices for rights or equality. Malala spoke about a general problem, common in the Middle East, expanding it to a specific topic--education. She used a lot of pathos and ethos to appeal to the people she was speaking to as she tried to unify everyone and have everyone fight for the same cause. As she did this she did not dehumanize anyone in the process, even the enemy also known as the Taliban; which goes back to her strong use of ethos. Malala used education as her base, but didn't talk about education in a broad way the entire time which is why her speech was powerful through her structure.