Hello all, I am Ruth Abraham and as a representative of Free the Children, I hope you enjoyed my Public Service Announcement about the nationwide nuisance to society: homework. Optimistically, my announcement has provided insight on the extended list of homework's negative effects and has compelled most of you to alert your local educators of the negative effects by your preferred means of communication. I would appreciate any comments or constructive criticism, but prior to any feedback, I would like to elaborate on all significant persuasive techniques-- ethos, logos, pathos, rhetorical questions, parallelism, and repetition-- manipulated to completely engage the audience. In order to emphasize my perspective, I employed the rhetorical device repetition.…
Have you ever had tension between you and your parents because you had different views on a situation? In the short stories of “Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun” the children in both stories have a different view on a situation then their parents. The children believe one thing and feel a certain way. While their parents feel differently and have different thoughts and intention then their children think. With the parents having different point of views then their children during their situation, it causes tension between them.…
My mind tends not to linger on literature for a long period of time. But, throughout this semester of Writing in Culture, Fremont High School written by Jonathan Kozol, did exactly that, linger. For some reason I wish I could say that this story relates to me, because of some personal experience that I had going through high school. In reality, my high school was great, I believe that is why this essay lingered in my head.…
Rhetorical strategies are ways to support claim and defend ones position in an argument. In other words these strategies can be used to pursued or convince someone when in an argument. The second definition is to evoke emotions throughout an audience or its readers. 2. Personification is to give an object human characteristics, emotions and physical traits.…
Quitters Inc. Extra Motivation Body Paragraph One can see by examining a teenager’s life while writing an essay, that it is important to have extra motivation to help one overcome a barrier, rather than letting it slide. An individual may not want to go through the process of writing an essay and handing it in to the teacher, because they are either tired or stuck and do not know what to talk about in their essays. This is a stumping block for many teens and can sometimes bring them down. Richard Morrison the main character in Quitters Inc. states that he was having a bad day and that, “He had left the office early and had come here to drink the afternoon away.…
This paper focuses on an article in the Washington Post titled Why the Supreme Court should rule that violent games are free speech. The author of the article is called Daniel Greenberg and the paper will specifically focus on the way the author has employed a number of writing mechanics in presenting his arguments. Among the things to be highlighted include the way the author present himself as credible as possible. This refers to the use of ethos. The other thing to be seen in this case is the way the author has argued through the use of emotional speech.…
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, It’s who you think you’re not.” “I Dressed Like Cookie for a Week to Get Over My Imposter Syndrome”, written on October 22nd, 2015, identifies the different traits that someone can use in order to feel successful. Imposter syndrome is having the feeling of being a fraud and having the lack of confidence in oneself. During this time, same sex marriage was being debated, therefore, imposter syndrome could have been an issue during this time. Jazmine Hughes effectively persuades the audience to step out of their box to become who they want to be.…
Editorial Analysis Essay Well on December 6, 2016 the New York Times Editorial Board had released a document about Racism in New York's Prisons. The author which is the Editorial Board has used some main point of bias and some just were neutral. Also when he was talks he uses a lot of rhetoric specifically logos when he talked he was stating a lot of facts and just telling the audience what was true so, turning into the bias side he was not bias at all because using facts and what you know is not bias. Also when he talked about connotation nothing really much what connotative in the article.…
Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s waltz” and Susan Musgraves “You didn’t Fit” are two poems that capture the love between a child and their father. While “My Papa’s waltz” illustrates the contrast of love and honor and “You didn’t Fit” illustrates a contrast of nostalgia and affection. In both poems the speakers seem to look back on their childhoods with much love and respect for their fathers. In “My papa’s waltz” it is a poem that is often well-known for having different interpretations.…
Bruno Bettelheim dives deeply into the culture of oedipal conflicts, and the differences between a young girl and boys oedipal conflict. Bettelheim presents different scenarios that help the reader understand his concept. Throughout the reading it is apparent that Bettelheim’s opinion is that children have an inner conflict with their love for their parents that adapts as they grow older and mature. Bettelheim first presents a little boys oedipal conflict in the first paragraph. His oedipal conflict is about his relationship with his mother and the father.…
“Adolescence is always a war, no one gets out unscathed. ”- Harlan Coben. This has been proven throughout the years, just like what has happened to Bethany Fitton. In this news report “Thirteen-year-old hanged with ‘I hate my brother’ written on her arm” by Chantal Da Silva, it showed that in this phase of life it is a difficult transition from childhood to adulthood.…
The world suppresses many issues that people are taught to be ashamed of. Most people have been peer pressured into things that they have felt too ashamed of to speak out. People often have keep secrets from the past because the world has told them it was their fault, whether they were peer pressured or not. There are victims that sit up late at night, all alone in pure darkness, in pure terror because of what someone lead them to do in their past. The commercial Dear Dad raises awareness about the struggles that many adolescents go through by using different camera angles, hues, scenery techniques, and literary devices such pathos, ethos, and logos.…
An article by Debra Bradley Ruder named The Teen Brain gives information of why the teen brain is not developed and reason to educate teens about it. After reading this article I was fascinated by it because of the amount of facts I did not know about the teen brain. For instance, I learned how teens are easily influenced by their environment because of unconnected synapses. Also that the teen brain changes constantly and adolescents have only 80% of their brain developed. This article impacts not only teens but their parents also as they can get to understand some of their children’s weaknesses and help prevent damage.…
Have you ever had a disagreement with you parent? In the two stories “Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun” the children feel their parents act in a way that neglects their interests. Tension rises between the children and their parents due to their differing points of view. Both stories show tension between the narrator and their parents.…
Childhood vs. Adulthood Being a child and adult can differ in many ways such as what they do all day, wants and desires, and the way holiday seasons are spent. Children naturally do not have a care in the world. The world is a happy place, and everyone loves everyone in the mind of a child. Adulthood comes with responsibilities.…