Ellis Cose Article Analysis

Convention holds that the best candidate for the people should win, but in the article written by Ellis Cose, it appears this election is more about fallacy rather than of policy. The name of the Ellis Cose article is what the revolution was for: The generations are at war in Newark’s mayoral race, as a civil-rights veteran fends off a beneficiary of the movement’s fruits. The main two figures of the article are two candidates named Cory Booker and Sharpe James, who are both running for the same mayor’s position of Newark. The essay serves to enlighten reads on the following about Cose’s article: what does it say, how does it say it, and what is the evidence. In the article by Cose, the first sentence says “The comparison to Bill Clinton comes easily—not just to the media, but to Cory Booker himself.” The author uses this sentence’s imagery to help build up the readers familiarity with Booker by comparing him to

We can see from the following line alone how he see himself: “Booker makes it abundantly clear that he considers himself a different breed –a post-racial man for an increasingly diverse Newark who believes in multiracial, multiethnic coalitions and nondoctrinaire thought.” Moreover, it is shown by another line from the article that Booker is not only his origin but his actions too: “He accuses James of repaying financial backers with city contracts and (at 240,000 a year) of being vastly overpaid.” And as for James, it appears that Cose is trying to show readers the flaws in James with logic. This kind of appeal is called logos. Cose uses this appeal to logic by showing the flaws in James’s reliability as a mayor with this line from the article: “Though the mayor has never been indicted, he has seen several people around him, including his chief of staff, convicted of federal crimes. And federal prosecutors remain convinced that the mayor himself is the big fish that slipped