Rhetorical Analysis Of Making It In America

However, the sources differed immensely through the use of language. In fact, one of the themes most evident amongst the language that set the sources apart rhetorically was the tone. Throughout the article “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” Mike Rose set a very serious tone discussing the matter of economic inequality. For example, Rose conveys “As a foreman, Joe constantly faced new problems and became a constant multi-tasker, evaluation a flurry of demands quickly, parceling out physical and mental resources, keeping a number of ongoing events in his mind, returning to whatever task had been interrupted, and maintain a cool head under the pressure of grueling production schedules” (1037). As Rose portrays the life of a Foreman, he keeps a very serious tone to convey to the audience how real these struggles are. Although Joe may have not received a formal education passed middle school, he still has to work efficiently and intelligently in his own manner. At the same

Issues like downsizing and overseas relocation had always seemed distant to me until my co-workers at one factory told me that the unit I was working in would be shut down within six months and moved to Mexico, where people would work for 60 cents an hour”, in this statement he gives the readers reasons for factory work being a hard way to live. Lastly, this statement he made, “The things that factory work has taught me how lucky I am to get an education, how to work hard, how easy it is to lose that work once you have it are by no means earth-shattering” the author is giving examples of the different lessons that leads to my main claim about his purposes for writing his article.

Modern America has a problem, which unfortunately consists of American’s placing more value on unimportant issues. This problematic lifestyle is the focus of the essay. In this essay she addresses her audience of Americans and reminds them that we should do activities that we have a passion for and never let it go. With an array of rhetorical devices such as repetition and similes, she effectively persuades the audience.

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” John F. Kennedy

In “Blue-Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose argues that although blue-collar jobs require less schooling, they require just as much intelligence as white-collar jobs because they must learn on the job and deal with different people every day. Rose supports this argument by discussing his mother and uncles’ lives, explaining how intelligence is gained through blue-collar work and showing the similarities and differences of blue-collar work and white-collar work.

The prompt “Some Lessons From The Assembly Line” is about the values of education, but even more importantly how some come to value it more than others. Author, Andrew Braaksma, introduces the idea that sometimes it is the life choices and responsibilities that one has to endure is what makes one value the education more than one who does not know what an alternative life may be like.

There were a few teachers who worked hard at education…” (…). He uses words such as “dumping ground’ and “disaffected” to how that the Vocational track education that Rose received relates closely to the education of students in most working class schools. The teachers in this school were almost always uninterested and untrained which then reflected onto the students. The same disinterest of education that the teachers showed oftentimes reflected onto the students. The students in the Vocational track rarely cared about making high marks or actually receiving a meaningful education thus trapping them in the same unskilled jobs as their parents.“If you're a working-class kid in the vocational track, the options you'll have to deal with this will be constrained in certain ways: you're defined by your school as "slow"; you're placed in a curriculum that isn't designed to liberate you but to occupy you, or, if you're lucky, train you, though the training is for work the society does not esteem.”(…). If these same students in Rose’s essay had received a more quality education just like the students of higher classes, then morale amongst the students would have increased and encouraged the students to do better and break the cycle of entrapment in low paying working class

Deindustrialization, global outsourcing, and automation has significantly contributed to the rise of the underclass in the US in that it has taken jobs from individuals through replacement of tasks that were initially handled by humans with machines, outsourcing of productions lines in other countries where there are cheap labor or dysfunctional labor laws, leading to rise in underclass populations (Dau-Schmidt, 2016). Through deindustrialization, firms have been forced to transfer their production plants from the United States to other countries such as China, leading to massive reduction in the demand for manual labor and consequently contributing to the rise of underclass in the United States

In the amazing and beautiful country of America, in this age of rights and essential scientific study, students all across the 50 states of freedom are facing a terrible injustice as they are forced to attend school at the ungodly hour of 8 A.M. each morning. This has been proven to be terrible by many scientific studies. These studies have discovered that sleep is very important in the productivity of the brain, so starting school this early is only hurting the many students that stay up late doing homework and attending other school and sports related events. As a result, schools around the world, like Oxford University did an experiment, in which they started classes at 10 A.M., to see if grades would improve. However, despite the groundbreaking results that studies like this have made, the United States of America has not come to terms with this almost 10-year-old discovery. The education system needs to put a stop to the cruel and unusual punishment of waking up so early, getting bad grades, being so sleep deprived that the student cannot improve their grade much, if at all, and then destroying the future of many young Americans. This is

Throughout the decades of new beginnings, new laws, new Presidents and new ways of life for the American people, not only have we grew accustomed to the different views and structures of the way our ancestors valued their own lives in America, but we also have grew accustom to our own. The way we value our ideas and beliefs determine the type of person we are and gives others an outlook on our substantial new themes of life that somehow mix together into becoming a born and raised American citizen. Throughout our readings we have seen many of these themes and concepts brought up and talked about by many readers. My first primary theme that I will be going over in my work is America as the Land of Opportunity, second will be the American Success

The modern day American society hosts a broad spectrum of industries with various occupations and professions to engage today’s workforce. America, much like most first world countries is a service economy based on the exchange of knowledge and expertise rather than materials and products. People have a long history of work and work evolution that has ultimately brought America to a service economy producing both strengths and weaknesses within the society and its economy. As America has moved to a service economy, much of the manufacturing and production jobs have moved oversees to third world countries creating a reliance on other economies. This globalization of the workforce as well as unionization, and the

The main goal is to show readers that Braaksma’s points are valid. However, due to larger cultural and social issues, that point fails to resonate with the majority of people. Therefore, the overall goal becomes a two for one approach, hone Braaksma’s original argument to make it more assertive while illustrating to readers the direct reason why they might fail to relate. The goal of Lessons was to get people to see the advantages they have in attaining a degree versus what life could be like without one, all the while having people understand the struggles of the average blue-collar worker. The critical essay will ask readers to look at how blue-collar work is negatively stigmatized in modern society, and how such a mentality breeds separation. This separation creates a divide that makes it difficult for people to meet on common ground. This disparity is why essays such as Lessons have a hard time impacting its target audience.

When in high school, students are trained to believe that they will not go anywhere without a college degree. They are taught that the few exceptions, such as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates, only made it due to their immeasurable genius. The American education system is churning out more college graduates than they know what to do with. As so, these graduates are taking the part-time jobs that those with only high school degrees would need, further deepening the hole caused by the exorbitant cost of living. It is an unfortunate truth that society only respects those that are self-taught once they make something big of themselves. If the autodidact were struggling to get by, they would not be pitied due to the outlook that they placed themselves in that situation with their refusal to further their education. In Smith’s time, while a college education was recommended, it was not a necessity. In society today it is practically a necessity unless one wants to work themself to the bone just to scrape by with the bare minimum. We can see that despite Smith’s decision to forgo her college education, she still managed to get a job. She also was not hindered in her quest to self-discovery through self-learning by those around her. In a society where the only focus is not getting a degree and then getting a job, it is much easier to

Over the past twenty years, America has seen a substantial amount of change and development amongst many technological industries. Old ideas have been revolutionized. Technology has been continuously upgraded time and time again. Americans slowly have to do less and less because new inventions are constantly increasing their abilities to do more for us. Cars are getting faster, phones are getting smarter and before we know it, 2-dementional televisions will be a thing of the past. Despite everything that is growing around us there are still few things that have stayed the same; for example, the average American income for 99

In the past few decades the global economy has undergone a fundamental shift. The characteristics of the economy have shifted to favor an information-based economy in which technology plays the largest role in the production process. This has come at the expense of the characteristics of the Fordist system, such as a large class of manufacturing workers in the American midwest. The rise of the creative class is part of the same transition that is responsible for the demise of the American worker. The transition from Fordism to knowledge-based capitalism has seen the majority of manufacturing jobs replaced by automation. The displacement stemming from automation as well as resentment for the lucrative creative class sparked the rise of populist candidates in 2016.