Persuasive techniques such as Ethos Pathos and Logos are used to help support a writer's claim in their story. In the two articles “Position on Dodgeball in Physical Education” and “The Weak Shall Inherit the Gym” both authors make claims using persuasive techniques in their writing.
In the article “Position on Dodgeball in Physical education” the author mainly uses Logos and Ethos to support their claims. In the passage the author talks about how keeping adolescents active and how challenging it is, “61.5% of children 9-13 don't participate in a physical activity during after school hours and 22.6% do not engage in any free-time physical activity.” (986). Basically NASPE is trying to explain how the data of certain children’s (9-13) athleticism has been
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In the article the author talks about how dodgeball is a sort of first peek into the real world and how there is strong and weak, “A physical education professor at Eastern 10 Connecticut State says dodgeball has to go because it "encourages the best to pick on the weak." Noooo! You mean there's weak in the world? There's strong? Of course there is, and dodgeball is one of the first opportunities in life to figure out which one you are and how you're going to deal with it.” (1008). To explain, the author is trying to show how dodgeball is a good starter to the hardships of life and how it’s a bad thing that people want to try to take it away from the children. This is important because it shows how Reilly feels about the getting rid of such a needed and knowledgeable experience and how bad it would be to get rid of it but it also shows how other people should feel for it (Pathos). In another section of the article Reilly talks about how the NASPE are going to change other games in the future, “Tag. Referring to any child as it is demeaning and hurtful.