Rhetorical Analysis Of Hey School, Wake Up ! By Jon Jorgenson

How many times have you dropped those swimming classes? When was last time you put off in getting that enrollment for the gym? “Unlimited” ads campaign by Nike, appeals to its audience by showing people who even having certain difficulties, go after what they want and push their limits as much as they can, which is not a little. The ads feature a grown Sister competing in a triathlon, a transgender who runs with the National men’s team and a climber with no extremities. Nike didn’t choose these actors for its ads by accident, they are source of inspiration for all those athletes that always put the best of themselves in whichever the activity that passionate them is. People who would be the main target for this campaign.

In the city of Los Angeles is Fremont High School, and unlike most schools in the country, this one runs on a three-track schedule, meaning that it is open year round with short numerous breaks throughout the year. The school contains 3,300 students in attendance year round and being that the school is lacking in funds and hindering the students from following their dreams, this is very impactful on a large amount of people beause it lacks also preparation for college. In the article, “Fremont High School”, Jonathan Kozol examines the conditions of Fremont High School from the perspective of the students, and teachers alike. He uses statistics that have been submitted to the courts during depositions and student recounts of activity. Jonathan Kozol uses persuasive techniques such as ethos, logos, and pathos in the article, “Fremont High School”, to persuade the audience, members of society, that they can help by providing funds, because of the lack of funding it has caused a disservice to the students, causing students to struggle with following their dreams.

Education means something different for everyone. According to Mike Rose, “a good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it” (33). The truth to this is that education affects us in every aspect of our lives. Rose emphasizes the value in the experience of education beyond the value of education for the purpose of custom or intelligence; he explores the purpose of going to school in terms of how he defines himself and his personal growth in the stages of his academic career. In Rose’s exploration of the purpose of school, he also reflects on his personal experiences and how those experiences gave him tools that are applicable for his daily life. Mike Rose’s Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, emphasizing how those experiences become crucial to one’s personal growth and potential.

Schooling is widely available throughout America with nearly everyone attending school up to at least high school, and most attending college. It has become possible for children of all ethnic backgrounds, all social and economic classes to attend schooling. However, schooling and receiving an education are two different concepts. Just because students endure years of schooling does not mean they are receiving the best possible education. All of this schooling is ideally supposed to prepare the child for adulthood, but is it actually doing this? In the article “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto, Gatto examines the schools and their system of education in order to inform people about the failure of the current education system. He introduces the idea that today's schooling system delivers an incomplete education, instead turns creative children into mindless machines, in order to spread awareness and hopefully produce change throughout schools.

What is the definition of the word rhetoric? One may be led to believe that rhetoric is merely a persuasive tactic used by corrupt lawyers and crooked politicians. However, the proper definition of rhetoric is, “the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.” A simpler definition of rhetoric would be any communication that can be used to change one’s views on a subject. Lynda Barry successfully uses persuasive tactics in her essay “The Sanctuary of School” to engage with her readers who can empathize with finding stability at school as well as those who may not, such as lawmakers, school officials, and the guardians of the children.

Many are quick to disregard education’s role outside of the classroom. According to Mike Rose, “a good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it” (Rose 33). Rose emphasizes the value in the experience of education beyond the value of education for the purpose of custom or intelligence; he explores the purpose of going to school in terms of how he defines himself and his personal growth in the stages of his academic career. By reflecting on his personal experiences and how those gave him the tools applicable to his daily life, he emphasizes why education should never be overlooked. Rose’s use of referencing relatable experiences in a logical manner makes his argument persuasive to the readers and he succeeds in making the readers reconsider why education matters to them. Mike Rose’s Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us effectively persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, which proves true in our everyday lives because the essential aspect of education is what we do with it and how it helps develop one’s personal growth.

Given the free will and opportunity we have to learn about education, why are students driven to attend school? Schooling comes with financial difficulties, self-esteem issues from grades, stress that feels like it would last a lifetime from studying, teachers that show little or no support for their students for what they are academically capable of due to their disabilities or ethnicity, and learning about subjects that we cannot keep our eyes open for more than a few minutes. People can make a decent amount of money by having certain life skills that are resourceful in reality, so the question that students ask themselves,“Why do we have to further our education by going to school?” Despite of the flawed system, schools have the potential to guide students in helping them achieve their goals and ambitions by traditional schooling.

Some people might like education, others might dread it and really don’t see a reason to continue learning about it. Today, for teachers and professors it’s easy to them to tell how the education they teach is effective for an individual student. As we know, education is being taught at school, home, and a little of both. For America today, most children attend preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school, and college. Depending on the pupil's career choice, it can take up to 20 or more years completing their schooling system, Usually, during the middle and or high school years in America, professors teach you valid things pupils will be using in life.

In “The Kids Are Not All Right ,” author Joel Bakan argues that it is necessary to believe that childhood itself is now in a crisis. He states that it is necessary to reignite the guiding of ethos and practices of the century of the child. Bakan claims that children are endangered due to the exposure to violent media, potentially harmful psychotropic drugs, and increasing quantities of toxic channels. The author believes that we should work together as citizens to provide a safe community, through democratic channels and institutions, to bring change.

The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a national public health institute of the US under the department of health and human services (CDC, 2016). The CDC’s webpage on ADHD is divided into several sections with each section communicating a different type of information. The website mentions that ADHD is a childhood disorder that may last into adulthood. It further illustrates some of the effects a child suffering from this disorder might experience. Additionally, the website lists some of the signs and symptoms of ADHD. Further, it gives readers more information on the three types of ADHD, its various causes, the process of diagnosis and various treatment

I’d like to apologize for causing a fuss today with the divisions. I was, at a minimum, trying to meet the expectations of my work…of course, my goal is to exceed the expectations.

Education is import for society, whether it is short or long is irrelevant. However, today’s youth has a difficult time understanding, what they can use an education for. So how do you make it clear to the students, that they must take their education seriously and that it is important for their future and the future of their country? That is what Barack Obama, the president of the United States, tries to do in his speech “Back to School” delivered at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, on September 8, 2009. He argues about the values of hard work and taking responsibility for paving your own way to success, even though the obstacles seems difficult.

Earlier this year, a video went viral, this video is called “Don’t Stay in School”. This video showed the reality of our education and how many young adults wrestle with their new found responsibility. The video featured a young man rapping lyrics such as: “I wasn't taught how to get a job but I can remember dissecting a frog…” and so on. Through the lyrics don’t apply to all schools, the singer actually makes a valid point on how most abstract education processes don’t have a toll on the average adult.

After reading the short article by John Holt I had gained an understanding on his position regarding what he thinks of the education system as a whole. He describes the way education is given to children and young adults as a chore/task. This is not there are not students who do not like the idea of education and school, but rather that the way it is intended to be delivered is not working in efforts to unlock the potential of those who attend school. As the author does mention and illustrates his views on the generic school he describes it as a bleak soulless institution that fails to inspire and attempts to take away the creativity from young people who go to “learn”.

We, human beings, tend to assist to different levels of school, this with the reason of being educate and to learn all new kind of things. We assume that graduating from a high level of school, we are going to be more educated, but schools teach us only a small percent of what we really need to learn in life. Schools are responsible to teach students the basic skills to live in this world. The way education works has change in the last centuries, with the past of the time this changes has being affecting education at the point in which is now. Schooling has caused students and teachers to feel boredom during class, since all teachers are required to follow the programs that the district stablished, they can’t be able to though new things that contradicts the school board. Another problem schooling has showed in the last decades is the way schools though their students, by giving preferences to some students; this can be solved by being more equal with all students and eliminating the different types of social classes. These problems are affecting our education society because it’s teaching our future generations to be conformist people, to follow the rules and to never ask for more than what they need.