Evaluation of Rhetorical Situations

Source 1 - Robots in the field.
     Author/Speaker:  Miguel Valez. This is the same person who I found an article on for my Project #1. This topic really interested me and I really liked how Valez took information and how he portrayed his thoughts. He is an undergrad student at University of St. Thomas.  He does not have a whole lot of credentials; however, he knows a lot about the subject and he seems very passionate about the robotics industry.
     Audience: In his paper, his audience seems to be people with academic merit in the robotics world.  You can tell because, even though he explains things in great detail and describes things a lot, he still shows a great deal of knowledge. It seems that the audience he is going for is people that know something about the controversy, but want to learn more.
     Context: There are a great deal of other papers on this very subject.  As I have mentioned before earlier in my blog, this controversy surrounds many different topics and thus has many different sources who have thoughts on what is going on. Different cultures have different examinations of robots and different feelings toward the helpfulness of them. This issue has a lot of social meaning because robots have the potential to greatly affect life in the future.

Source 2
     Author/Speaker: Boris S. Nikitin. Nikitin has a great knowledge in foreign affairs and also cares a lot about world peace and understanding weaponry. He has many articles about other countries and the aid they receive and how they deal with their problems.
     Audience: The audience for this particular article seems to be anyone who is interested in nuclear weaponry and how it is affecting the world.
     Context:  Nikitin writes about why humans continue to create nuclear weaponry.  He talks about the logistics to creating even better weaponry than we already have today and how it could effect the world in the future, specifically foreign affairs and relationships.

Source 3
     Author/Speaker: The author of this piece is the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). There does not seem to be a specific author anywhere.  The ACLU seems to have some thoughts on internet privacy and how it needs to be updated and upgraded. They have other posts similar to this introductory post that talk about the updating of privacy rights.
     Audience: The audience of this post is people who want there to be more privacy laws. The post is pretty clearly directed to informing and developing thoughts about how privacy must continue to be updated. It seems like a writing that is meant to inspire people to get on board with what ACLU believes in.
     Context:  This article is very short; however, it has a lot of meaning that is hidden.  The article is basically an introduction to how the ACLU feels that privacy rights need to be continuously  updated to reflect new technology.  The post is a very recruiting like post that aims to get people to think how the ACLU thinks.  Although some people may disagree with what ACLU stands for, they make a very good point in a very short amount of time discussing how privacy cannot be outdated otherwise things could go horribly wrong.