The filmmaker is very emotional about their thoughts and feelings how public schools should be. The purpose is to have the audience feel sympothy or (sadness) for the kids going to failing public schools and not receiving a good education. Teachers aren´t doing their jobs efficently they don´t achieve the maxium curriculum they are required to reach at the end of the school year. The film maker’s attitude is furious he or she believes that in order to have good public schools; the teacher’s
Ernesto Quiñonez present to us the story of Sapo and his classmates who were mistreated and denigrated by one of their teachers whose last name was Blessington at Julia Burgos Junior High school, and how this affected them psychologically and emotionally. One of Sapo’s classmates’ states ”the English teacher, Mr. Blessington. He kept telling us boys we were going to end up in jail and that all the girls were going to end up hooking. He would say these things out loud and the administration would not do anything“ (120). In this quote, the author shows us to which extent was the emotional stress caused by the teacher to the students and how the administration of the school did not protect the students from this kind of abuse, this a way how our community turn his back to those who needed more the students.
In “The Sanctuary of School” Lynda applies her personal life to the fact that some people think cutting down budgets for public schools will benefit when times get tough. Also that art, music and the creative ideas will be the first to go when budgets are cut. Lynda had a rough childhood where her parents had money issues and family members that needed temporarily to stay at her home (Barry, 721). The lack of attention from her parents made her look for attention elsewhere in this case the school. Lynda saw her teacher Mrs. LeSane as a mother figure.
Her statement “Who among us at some point has not cowered in a classroom, aware of being stamped as singular in some way?” is an attempt to pick at the reader’s own possible vulnerabilities and insecurities. In addition, Mallick alludes to and criticizes Noor Javed’s proposal regarding the halting of specialized high school programs to make her own look more convincing. Most of the article is disapproving the task force’s report rather than elaborating on her own argument. These implications may cause the reader to question her whole
The novel “Speak”, written by Laurie Halse Anderson first published in the year 1999, deals with Melinda, an “outcast” (p. 4), who experiences her first year of high school while simultaneously trying to cope with the aftermath of sexual abuse during a party, which consists mainly of her not being able to speak. Since we are all aware of the fact that Melinda’s traumatic event led to a certain degree of dehumanization for her, the following words intend to focus on and elaborate Melinda’s struggle in school; how she views her teachers, her marks, her periods and to some degree also her peers and classmates. Starting right at the beginning Melinda enters her high school life with a healthy amount of prejudice. Probably having heard or
Although there are some students that associate the school with happiness, there are certainly a greater amount that don’t, being the reason that many students were damagingly abused and will be scared for a long duration of their life. The meals that were provided by the school were in small quantity and disgusting, the clothes often did not provide the children with proper protection in the winter and were rarely well fitting. The sole languages that were spoken in school were English and French which majority of the children were unable to comprehend. In
The suffocating pressure of the impending school year pressed upon the brains and spirits of the students about to begin their first year. Their experienced guide and mentor stood before them. He glanced at the page of notes that he had prepared and set it down wordlessly on the table before him.
The picture is of a young boy, elementary age, sitting at a desk doing school work. He has an exasperated look on his face. A person usually has sympathy for children, and thus the picture could make the audience more sympathetic to the ideas presented in the article. One could reason that the picture is another point to emphasize Tyne’s opinion that traditional teaching methods are old fashioned and ineffective. Pathos is also utilized in Tyne’s word choice.
Novelist, John Taylor Gatto, in his speech essay, “Why Schools Don’t Education”, conveys schools aren’t as educational as they should be. John’s purpose is to narrate the idea that teachers and school district aren’t putting enough effort to educate children and to also motivate more teachers to help bust up children’s education. He adopts a passionate tone in order to appeal in his that education should be taken serious. In order, to convey his appeal of the subject he uses rhetorical analysis to help drill in the audience.
Literacy analysis essay “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future” (John F. Kennedy). Our life is dictated by the actions of others, along with our own. When change occurs, our mental state needs time to process and try’s to understand what the bearing of our new environment is. Being forced into changes from our original, comfortable environment affects our personalities and regular habits, because it secludes us and divides our agency from personal desires.
In the “Against Schools” article, author John Gatto describes the modern day schooling system and its flaws. He uses several rhetorical strategies in trying to prove his point. He successfully uses all three types of rhetoric in writing this article, which includes ethos, pathos, and logos. He establishes these strategies very early, and often throughout the article. He believes one issues with today’s schooling system is boredom, and that there is a distinct difference between what it means to be educated and schooled.
but it is also seen that the mood of this letter is very serious and is a little mad. the writer is mad because the school board has done many thing to try to help the school 's money problem but not much has helped, or that the school board could have don 't more effective things instead of having so many advertisements around the school. the tone tin the second letter foes from being serious to being frustrated or mad, then to being kinda questioning by the end of the letter. by questioning it it meant as the writer is questioning how certain points in the first letter can effect people. The questioning tone by the letter can be told with this piece of information from the letter," What harm really do?
The text appeals to the readers for both of the examples through emotion (pathos) by describing the conditions that the students learn in and it shows how the administration doesn’t care about the well-being of the students. Mireya discusses Fremont’s academic and sanitary problems and in the court papers it states, “Some of the classrooms ’do not have air-conditioning,’ so that students ‘become red-faced and unable to concentrate’ during ‘the extreme heat of summer.’ The rats observed by children in their elementary schools proliferate at Fremont High as well. ‘Rats in eleven . . . classrooms,’ maintenance records of the school report “(Kozol 708).
While transitioning between his two tones in his reading, the author steps out of the main story to address the reader more directly in order to appeal to authority. He explains in a more detailed fashion why the students end up behaving so uninterestingly towards anything academic. This appeal is also logical in the sense of following the mind process of a student in a remedial class; from wanting to learn something new, to telling him or herself “Why bother?” and giving up on school. Rose presents his argument using all of the three classical appeals.
Student Sudhanshu Pandey, was a happy, normal teenage boy who didn’t look like he would succumb into depression. On march 4, Sudhanshu seemed unusually reluctant to go school. Later than day his parents found him in his room hanging from the ceiling fan. Sudhanshu left a note, explaining how all the pressure and stress in his life from test exams has taken over. Not only has Sudhanshu Pandey been depressed and stressed from testing, its all over the world.
