This reaction paper is about Chapter 11 by Judith A. Myers-Walls and Larissa V. Frias. Chapter 11 was titled Family, School, and Community. My initial thought of reading the title of the chapter I was not interested in the topic. My lack of interest grew when I realized that the chapter was going to dissect relationships between families, schools, and communities. I believe the current status of what is occurring in America has influenced my feelings about the topic.
In the short story, “The Euphio Question” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., the author is criticizing the idea of escapism throughout the text. As the characters in the story distract themselves from their problems by turning on a machine named “the euphio” it allows for them to escape reality and go into a state of bliss. Each and every character that comes in contact with the euphio’s signals ends up disregarding their bodies needs for at least two days, the idea of hunger is mentioned in conversation, but blind minded people just shove the ideas aside. “‘Mom, I’m kinda hungry,’ Eddie said… Lew Harrison gave the euphio's volume knob another twist. ‘There, kid, how’s that?’”
Jody Heyman and her article “We Can Afford To Give Parents A Break”, which appeared in the Washington Post on Mother’s Day in 2006, can be analyzed rhetorically to show how she effectively presented her side of the argument. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos can be used to demonstrate the ways her article was strong and also can be used to display the weak parts of her
Hanna Rosin’s article, “The Overprotected Kid”, addresses the issue that kids are missing out on developmental benefits when they are not allowed to explore the world by weighing their own risks. She introduces rhetoric concepts such as audience, genre, and purpose to get her point across to her readers. Rosin uses these ideas to portray her opinion in a unique way to connect to her readers and persuade them to consider her viewpoint as their own. This article seems to be written as a persuasive journal entry to parents to sway their parenting behaviors to be less overprotective. In Rosin’s article, she makes a strong argument that kids need independence by making her audience, genre, and purpose known from start to finish.
However, the argument is successfully conveyed, more so, with the usage of ethos and logos. For logos, it is by using a survey early on in the article to show the audience, that in American culture children are likely to develop unrealistic goals in response to grown-ups encouraging them to follow their dreams, no matter how lofty. Because of this appeal to logos, Garrett manages to appeal to the audience’s emotions by getting them to inquire about a time where they may have told a child that they could be anything they wanted to be when they grow up, and the negative effect this could have. As for ethos, Garrett promotes her article’s credibility by using both academic and ordinary sources; therefore, allowing her to expand her audience beyond those with a higher form of education. Throughout the entire article, Garrett can be seen using rhetorical appeals to support her
Analysis First and foremost, Haydn Shaw engages the reader by presenting some extreme cases of helicopter parenting and stating that he isn’t a fan of this parenting style. However, he then goes on to tell us that being an involved and engaged parent isn’t a negative thing and gives a further explanation as to why he believes this. Alone the fact that he starts of by stating: “I’m not a fan of helicopter parents”, can make readers with the same attitude identify with him, which will make it easier for him to persuade them with his logic later and eventually change their opinion. In addition to that he manages to use some ethos as his opening line is: “In the workshop I teach on generational differences.”
Who justifies the role of a father? From the standards of the United States, the ideal father is the person who is a profound factor in a child’s development. The development includes the biological, psychological, and emotional state. However, it is more than a factor in a child’s development, but a factor as the caretaker for the family. A Place to Stand, written by Jimmy Santiago Baca, is a memoir of the author’s childhood in the 1970s, leading up to his time spent in a maximum-security prison.
And while they are trying to help, the child is also helping them. Whenever a parent ends up being incorrect in an argument with the child, the child is teaching them the true answer. The author compares parents to “streams, sweet pools, something to dip into with an old metal cup” (Nye 17-18) rather than “carrying giant waterfalls inside” (Nye 16). Instead of being a constant source of information for their kid, the parents can only help him with certain
The reading help me understand why the parent commented on certain aspects and how other aspects, such as political goals, are so embedded in our thoughts that they are not
Quite the contrary, all parents in the study wanted the best for their children; however, middle class families had availability to resources and knowledge that working class and poor parents simply could not provide. This was most apparent in chapter 13 as the author revisits the children and interviews them, post-high school graduation. Middle class children, who had the continual guidance of their parents, often went on to college. In contrast, lower income children relied on schools as their channel towards college; while for some this was effective, many of the children in the study failed to continue on to higher education. This was intensified with children in the lowest income bracket.
In a family there are many different roles; there's the role of the mother, the father, the child, the grandparents, then there’s the brothers and sisters. Every single one of those roles has different responsibilities. The father, according to most of society, is supposed to be the breadwinner for the family. However, nowadays the mother is actually quite capable of being the breadwinner just as much of as the father. As they work to show their children what it is to be an adult they are teaching them as well on how to be an active member of society.
Today, money has made many people believe that you need to have a lot of money to live a great, happy life. People in the world, especially the people who don’t have as much money as the ones that do, look up to people like popular idols, because they have money. People think they have a great living life with all the money they have earned during their lives. In the short story “Why You Reckon?” by Langston Hughes, the author uses diction, colloquialism and dialect to express the fact that just because people have the money to go out to eat somewhere expensive or buy the newest clothes, does not mean that a person is happy all the time and expresses how people in the town talks. Money is what makes the world goes round and everyone has come
Through proper motivation the author hopes overprotective parents will gain encouragement from his argument in creating a positive climate for their
“That’s my girl! Dad said with a hug, then barked orders at us all to speed things up” (17). They show their kids what they believe to be a good life, and they don’t let their children think anything negative about it because that if their
Does racism have an affect on society? Racism is something we've all witnessed. Its a big topic in our society now racism is affect a lot of people. They say two people can do the same crime at the sametime at the same place but get different time and be different color. Racism is one of the most important social issues of the modern world.
