Conserve, Reuse, Recycle, and Human Cadavers?

1. I thought Semrau's quote, "Have you figured out that I'm going as a cadaver, an anatomical gift?", revealed his point the most. This quote places at the bottom of fifth column. I could approach his point at this quote when he talked about imagining him being in the cadaver, or anatomical gift.

2. Semrau uses many background information about himself and his childhood, and makes a roundabout speech about his point. In my opinion, the writing style that he uses is not effective because it can easily draw readers to the off point and not make them to focus about one's assertion. In addition, I was having a problem finding a strong assertion untill I found a quote when he talked about being in the cadaver. Although he introduces himself with his childhood dream, being a surgeon, and the life experiences that he went through, those don't efficiently reveal his point. However, I understood his connection between reuse and donating his body. By chosing the 'Reuse' as his favorite word, he could show his opinion about getting in to the medical school with his body, therefore, he could be reused and donated at the same time. But, it still his writing strategy leaves an ambiguity, whether he wanted to donate his body to go to medical school, or he wanted to go to the medical school to donate his body. I think Semrau revealed his point well by actually mentioning what he wants to do, but at the same time his circumlocution seems to make readers harder to find it.

Luther's Sermon

Luther uses a lot of language devices that we learned in class. First he uses diction with words such as "nations, Lord, Father, our King, and Child" to reveal God's divine power and Chirst's sacrifice that can save us from sins and evil. We can also see comparison. "Not by human flesh and blood, by the Spirit of our God,". This showed God chose to make Jesus Chirst not in a physical body way, but in a spiritual way.
Luther uses pathos to reveal his theme as well. For example, "Wondrous birth! O wondrous Child", "Boundless shall Thy kingdom be;", and "High the song of triumph swell!". Luther tries to preach people by showing his emotions in the fact of God's power and Chirst's birth. He uses his impressions to honor and respect Chirst's birth. Luther also uses logos to show the holyness of Chirst and the importance of glorious God in our human life. The quote "That the Lord chose such a birth.", and "Hast o'er sin the victory won." shows Luther's use of logos as well. The Luther's sermon has a strong and great theme. He mostly glorifies Christ's birth and considers it as a celebration of mankind. Perhaps, Luther tries to convey a message to the mankind that our human should be less agressive about our overusing of sins.