Culminating Activity. By this point, you have analyzed what we mean bu the rhetorical situation, and you have learned a number of key concepts and terms. It’s time to put all the ideas together to examine a series of texts on a single subject. Following are four texts related to the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. The first is a news article form the Times of London reporting the event; the next is a speech by William Safire that President Nixon would have given had the mission not been successful; the third is a commentary by novelist Ayn Rand; the last is a political cartoon that appeared at the time. Discuss the purpose of each text and how the interactions among speaker, audience, and subject affects the text. How does each text appeal to ethos, ppathos, and logos? Finally, how effective is each text in achieving its purpose?