Rhetorical Analysis Of I Just Wanna Be Average

Alfie Kohn’s Article “How Not to get into College” analyses many key factors of how the current school system does not work and how we as members of society need to work together extensively to remodel the system to ensure the success of future students by valuing education over grades. By looking at how students only join clubs and and worship numerical grades only to impress colleges; students facing pressure from parents, teachers, and society to get good grades and succeed in life; and how students live through many mental health implications due to a multitude of factors surrounding their educational life, we can determine that systemic factors of this society have turned students of this generation into grade grubbers.

Pathos is the writers attempt to appeal to the audience emotions. For instance, “In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. ‘“I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,”’ the headline said” (Lukianoff and Haidt). The authors appeal to emotion paints a picture in the reader’s mind, further opening their eyes to make them feel how the professor was feeling. Also, naming the article “The Coddling of the American Mind” was a great was to represent how the problem was being addressed. The use of the word “coddling” reflected the way colleges were treating their students like babies. Enforcing trigger warnings to protect the students are not helping them for the future. This appeals to pathos because the audience gets a glimpse of what the after effect of “babying” has on

But there are times the author used pathos to make the audience realize what they have become, and what they are missing out on. One example of this was when Carr used a quote from an interview: “When culture drives changes in the way that we engage our brains, it creates DIFFERENT brains. THEIR HEAVY USE HAS NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES.” When Carr uses all caps, it implies to the audience that this is something they should pay attention to because it is important. It also installs fear in the reader, because something that we do every day such as going on our phones could have actual neurological consequences. Another use of pathos was when Carr stated the aim of Google. “To get users in and out quickly…” Carr goes on to explain that “As people spend more time and do more things online, they see more ads, and they disclose this information about themselves…and Google rakes in more money”. These understated comments grant the audience to consider and be more mindful of what they are doing. The author incorporates in some awkward moments when he talks about artificial intelligence. The creator of Google is quoted saying “the ultimate search engine is something as smart as people or more intelligent. Certainly if you had… an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off.” Carr makes a comment about how unsettling it is to think about our minds being supplemented with artificial intelligence. This appeals to pathos because the audience has a firm impulse to agree with Carr because it is uncomfortable to think about a computer replacing our

He likes to reference the 2008 presidential campaign and depending on the political opinions of the reader it can conjure up many different emotions in some reader. By using pathos he gets people more interested in the topic of the article by involving their emotions and making it easy to relate to through the use of recent events. He uses an example of John McCain choosing not respond to rumors which he later explains is the wrong way to go about combatting a rumor. In the article he writes,“When John McCain, during the 2000 Republican primaries, was plagued with rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate child, for the most part he opted not to engage with them at all” (513). The fact that this example can be agreed with or disagreed with can bring emotions along from the reader.

In the story “I Just Wanna Be Average” the author Mike Rose argues that society very often neglects and doesn’t see the full value and potential of students.

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 to 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.

Another time Bradbury used pathos, was when we Guy goes to his wife and tells her about the books he has been keeping and she has a breakdown. The fire chief Beatty had come to their house because Guy had not been at work, and the chief wanted to check on him. While he was there Mildred found a book behind his pillow and almost ratted him out. Guy realized what was happening and got Beatty to leave. When he was gone, Guy revealed he had been storing books inside the vents in the house, he had about 20 books. Mildred freaks out wants to turn him in but he told her to wait that he would get rid of them if she gave him

Development is a key tool that assists Graff to successfully persuade his intended audience of high school and college educators. “Everyone knows some young person who is impressively ‘street smart’ but does poorly in school…high schools and colleges might be at fault…We associate the educated life…too narrowly and exclusively…I offer my own adolescent experience…” (237). Graff develops the text effectively by using a flowing structure of paragraphs and ideas, he develops the text by introducing the topic of street smarts, as well as street smart kids generally for a few paragraphs, then he introduces his own personal anecdote, and reflection. Graff’s use of development makes it effortless for the audience to read, as there is no cutting back and forth

I found in the play “Leaving Home” that I could find the use of pathos in various spots. I noticed the definition “an expression or utterance that evokes sadness or sympathy, esp. in a work of literature; a description, passage, or scene of this nature” more than the others. In this text, I could really see the use of pathos being used by the emotionally-loaded language, the emotional examples, the figurative language, and the emotional tone. The actors had a lot going on in just the short time of the play.

Rose first explains how the educational system classifies a child’s class. He then proceeds to elaborate on how the vocational class works for those who do not do as well in school. He uses pathos so the reader feels emotional for the less fortunate student in the vocational class. Rose conveys his beliefs by using personal examples. He learns true qualities of people and shares the stories of Dave Snyder, Ted Richard, and Ken Harvey. Sharing the personal indications of what puts the students in the vocational class, gives the reader the notion that they have strengths that do not apply doing well in school. Rose ties the examples together in the end to confirm his opinion that one should never settle being defined as average.

Pathos is used very effectively in Seth Davis’s article. By using pathos he is helping to expose the purpose of the article in a way that you wouldn’t think of before. Davis states “As the father of three children under the age of eight, I can only pray that someone “exploits” my sons someday

Throughout the article Guindlen uses pathos in various forms, but she mainly enforces it on readers towards alcohol abuse. She uses pathos appeal to aware readers on

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 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. In his book Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us, Mike Rose effectively persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, emphasizing how those experiences become crucial to one’s personal growth and potential in our everyday lives.

For example, my very intelligent child had been labeled as a “trouble maker” at a young age. He could not sit still in Kindergarten and focus on lessons. He had not yet developed these skills that were expected of him. Children are designed for movement and play. In a formal school setting, these natural impulses are stifled and pushed aside to obtain high test scores. The school system is designed to create a model student conformed to produce model citizens.

While reading Too Cool for School by Ellis Cose I have became aware of various aspects of my ‘schooling’ experience. I realized that I may not have had the best schooling experience, but I never pushed up against the system to get any better. Throughout my life I have attended over 10 schools some very high end others bottom of the barrel. Like Cose, I always knew my intellectual abilities, but I was always so dissatisfied with my situation I didn't make the best of it. Instead of soaking up as much knowledge as possible and making a lesson out of my situation I became complacent. I started to slack off and allow myself to become stagnant to what I knew my abilities were. I allowed myself to be a product of my environment when I should I have