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• Stein is writing with a general purpose to inquire the shades of meanings in a subject(s), and wish to understand multiple views on a subject. He is not writing specifically to one type of audience and is making a writing piece that will give intrigue to readers, making them dig deeper into a subject. By doing this, he is allowing a conversation to be made from multiple different views. While these views may clash or align, his piece is not meant for those who share his same views already, and meant more for those that wish to further their knowledge on a subject that they didn’t realize was so complex.

• VIDEO NOTES:
• Rhetoric – Language to persuade
• Rhetorical Situation – 3 Elements; Audience, Writer, Issue.
• Writing should be audience friendly. Should have a goal, keep it in mind. Audience? Why they care? What does my audience know? What counts as evidence? How do you portray yourself? What is appropriate? What is the conversation?

• Stein is not portraying himself as an audience friendly writer. By utilizing sarcasm and irony, he is giving off information and views with a twist. While this type of writing may not be easily read by some people, there is still an in depth message hidden in the words. His writing is more tricky to understand, rather than him actually being a non-friendly writer, more to prick and poke at his audience and make them engage in the topic/issue presented in his writing.
• The Gap: Stein is writing that his readers don’t fully understand the involvement and power that the US Government has in military equipment/power when it is ‘war time’. While it is safe to presume that some of his readers may be fully aware to this issue (Normal TIME readers), he is writing to make this issue more prominent and intriguing to more readers.
• In this piece, Stein outlines how America has been a military powerhouse for a very long time. We are the top dogs in warfare and military power. In this piece he does not only say that America is a relative powerhouse, but that we use our strength like a bat that we just swing around, but this strength isn’t a bad thing if it is used properly.
• I feel like I made a correct decision in my answer to number two. That Stein is not an audience friendly writer. His style of writing is intentionally made to be off-putting and to invoke different emotional responses.
• The danger in writing an essay like this, it that it is very complex and hard to understand with the excessive use of sarcasm and irony. His style of writing is very off-putting and could dissuade readers from reading his work with an open mind, and only reading it at face value.