List them, and explain how each is used. * The author utilizes hyperbole, sarcasm, analogy, and an inverted point of view, in order to criticize the function of public schools. The author uses the hyperbole to engage the reader through acute exaggeration, making his points more memorable. For example, the author uses a hyperbole later in the article to emphasize how dire the situation is when he quotes James Dunham, the principal of HS 445 in New York, who states, ‘"We are doing a terrible, terrible job. We literally could not be doing any worse.
Greifelt’s report gives us a primary source of information that Himmler’s personal staff were coercive when getting people to work. The word coercive is vague giving a secretive feeling to the report, this gives us the understanding that many reports within the cabinet might not be telling the absolute truth making conclusions harder to find. The Nazis created a new school syllabus which focused on national pride, militarism
Ferguson follows up with pathos by characterizing fifteen-year-old student Colin Johnson with: “the tenth grader is failing science” (196). The use of pathos here induces anger towards computer use by displaying the student’s inability to pass an elementary course. Even her primary evidence relies on ethos since the research is conducted by economists Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessman, regarded as intelligent folks due to the attainment of a PhD. The audience treats this use of ethos as verification for the evidence. In addition to the rhetorical appeals, Ferguson uses a brilliant diction to manipulate the audience.
Monday February 18, 2013 Essay An Education Problem Author Mary Sherry In the Praise of the F Word The author Mary Sherry is a school teacher and mother who believes in flunking students that are not motivated to master the basic skills in reading, writing and math. She thinks many high school students are cheated by the educational system that graduates them, lacking these basic skills. Also, she feels students should have these basic academic skills before they enter into the real world of college or employment. The author states the lack of not having the basic skills can lead to many social, educational and financial problems later down the road. She understands that people come from different environments and everyone can learn; they just need to be motivated.
Texts that are interesting and haunting have themes such as power and manipulation. However, stories with power, manipulation AND conformity, have strongly affected me and caused me to overthink about how simple it is to brainwash members of a society. This kind of activity (conformity, manipulation and power) is evidently shown in The Wave which was written by Morton Rhue. The Wave took place in Gordon High School. It's about Ben Ross, an intelligent history teacher that decides to perform an experiment on his class called “The Wave”, which at first started out so simple and small, until The Wave became unstoppable and spread around the school in such a short period of time, affecting many people.
As well as the Depression, the collapse of the Republic can be linked to a large number of factors, including the influence of the army, political instability and constitutional weaknesses. One of the most consequential outcomes of the Depression was the opportunity that it provided Hitler. A majority of the citizens lost faith and belief in the current Social Democratic government, turning instead to the confident and dynamic leader of Hitler. As Evans asserts, ‘citizens began to see in the youthful dynamism of the Nazi Party as a way out of the situation’. What Evans means by this is that the desperation of the people led them to polarising their votes and seeing radical leaders like Hitler as a solution to the mess that Germany had become.
Molly Sutter Prof. Jeff Wallace Engl 1101 10:110-11:15 6 Sept. 2014 Grant Penrod is the author of “Anti-Intellectualism: Why we Hate the Smart Kids,” the second-place winning essay of the Arizona State University Printer’s Devil competition. Penrod wrote the piece for a first-year composition course. In his essay, he argues that American society stereotypes intellectuals negatively resulting in some very devastating effects while the uneducated are praised. This results in a downward turn in American culture and ability. He argues this by claiming first that the general population is angry with intellectuals and that stereotyping of intelligentsia begins at an early age.
Next, I used oxymoron to explain the silence in the halls of my elementary school (AP Rhetorical Devices List). I used hyperbole because it is an extravagant overstatement. I used dysphemism to negatively describe the terrorist that attacked the United States. Last but not least I used analogy to describe how the attacks impacted traveling via the
Less Is More Professor Clay Shirky, utilizes his sixteen years of teaching social media at New York University as a point of reference to present analytical and sentimental appeals to convince The Washington Post readers of technology’s distractive nature, which should result in its ban from classroom use. In his article, “Why a leading professor of new media just banned technololgy use in class,” Skirky’s intent is to impress upon readers that productivity and concentration are adversely affected by disruptive technology. Professor Shirky begins his ethical appeals with the following statement: “I teach theory and practice of social media at New York University, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for Internet censor. But I have just asked the students in my fall seminar to refrain from using laptops, tablets, and phones in class” (Strauss 2). Shirky immediately establishes his credibility with The Washington Post readers by acknowledging his occupation as a professor in the field of social media.
‘The Wave’- Analytical Exposition Ben Ross, a history teacher at Gordon State High, conducted an experiment aimed at explaining why ordinary people in Hitler’s Germany did not speak of the wrongs that were taking place in their society during that period. This experiment was called “The Wave”, and involved using his history student’s as test subjects. In the experiment, Ben Ross adopted similar techniques used by Hitler to control people’s thinking and behaviour. This essay will explore how his students’ reaction to the experiment showed possible reasons for the Nazis to gain control of people’s thinking and behaviour. This will be discussed in the following paragraphs.