In his article, the author gives a very intelligent insight on how street smarts and personal interest outside of the academic world can create and convert someone into a more intellectual person than merely focusing on the topics presented in school. The author also believes if the schools and colleges determine a good student by looking at their grades, then they will miss a chance to get those intelligent "street smart" students into their schools and to let them be involved into academic work. Overall Gerald Graff supported his own arguments by telling us his own story of transformation, the transformation from a boy that only cared about sports to the one that is intellectual. Graff essentially conveys the idea of taking street smart topics and turning them into intellectual debates. His stance portrays a culture that incorporates common subjects that can be discussed and viewed in
Critical Analysis of "Bring Back Flogging?" (ENGL 015S) - Xuan Zhou Sign In Xuan Zhou Home Blog Educational Experience Professional Experience Contact Critical Analysis of "Bring Back Flogging?" (ENGL 015S) By XUAN ZHOU on September 9, 2010 6:58 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks SEARCH THIS BLOG Full Text Search Tag In his article, "Bring Back Flogging," columnist Jeff Jacoby tries to tell us about the deficiency of today's criminal justice system and to persuade us to bring back flogging as a punishment for certain crimes. His title clearly and directly states his thesis. Techniques such as evidence and assumptions are used in this essay to persuade readers.
The phenomenon of the show has established the intense ability to persuade and inform a specific audience. As Aristotle once said, "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion”, rhetoric, has been an undoubted success with the Jersey Shore. The format and arrangement of the show lends itself entirely to assisting the goal of entertaining a particular audience. In the introduction, which would be the first few episodes of every season, the authority is established. The first few episodes relate to the prior season and reestablish the relationships, meaning and identity of every character.
Isn't negotiation a better path?' You are exactly right in your call for negotiation. Indeed, this is the purpose of direct action.” (King 2). By confirming the thoughts of his audience first, he shows them that he can relate and then that makes them more susceptible to his purpose and message that he is about to explain. Another way that King evokes pathos in order to get his message across is in paragraph eleven on page two.
Patrick Richardson Professor Holly Eng 121-693/697 September 15, 2013 Summary of ''Hidden Intellectualism'' In the article "Hidden Intellectualism" Published in 2001, edition of the pedagogy, author Gerald Graff discusses intellectualism in the academic world and how it affects society. He also references intellectualism with "book smarts" and anti-intellectualism with "street smarts". In the book he argues one point that intellectualism is used more than just in schools, but also in everyday life: there are "hidden forms of intellectualism". Graff believes that schools need to have a clearer perspective as to what these hidden forms are. Beginning from childhood, Graff tells us about
`Reading Response #3 Graff’s expresses his feelings toward an intellectualism that is not taught in schools and is usually looked down upon even though majority of children have it. This intellectualism is “street smart”, or as he describes it hidden intellectualism. Graff’s argues that schools should let children write and argue about subjects that they find enjoyable, and that might be able to transfer into higher academic subjects, and learn that what they find enjoyable and interesting isn’t only outside the classroom but with what they learn can be used anywhere, and how they argue can be transferred into their papers. He does this by writing in his own experience, describing how he felt, and by giving examples of what others said about
Creating a relationship between the readers through pathos make Fridman piece a better read. Fridman writes about the confidence these ‘nerds’ and ‘geeks’ must have for themselves,
Now that we have established how the birth of gangs was granted in society we can analyze the problem and find a fix. Since the first attributed that was needed in the prevention of gangs was education we have to start there. The immigrant’s first struggle was not having enough education to begin to start a plan of action to reach success in this new urban lifestyle. Even now today that is true. I think the educational system should be prepared and ready to clean house.
In Henry David Thoreau’s Essay “Where I lived and what I lived for”. He uses many different rhetorical strategies to gain the audience’s attention and get his point across about how he thinks about the world. He uses Pathos, Imagery and similes; he uses an abundance of these rhetorical strategies throughout his writing. These three are important because they help make his argument stronger and allow the audience to understand what he is trying to get across. Thoreau strongly uses pathos throughout his essay in ways that might not be obvious but definitely grasp the attention of anyone reading.
The claimsmaker has to mold to the audience so that the claim can have an everlasting impression on the minds of the listeners. In other words, a claimsmaker has to create a well-crafted claim that will gain a favorable response from all of the audience members and also will achieve widespread attention from the majority of the audience. Molding a claim that reaches out to all members of the audience is tricky, but claimsmakers try to conquer this task using a variety of tactics that are formed by the audience at hand. Not only do claimsmakers have to make a persuasive claim, they also have to compete against the other claims put forth by other claimsmakers. This forms the social problems marketplace, which is basically all the claims that are trying to gain the same recognition.