Writing these two corresponding pieces of literature has given me a new appreciation for writers, as I now understand the decisions one must make when writing for a particular genre. I chose to model my public argument after an opinion article by Sally Kohn because I liked the engaging tone she took in her writing, and felt as though I would like to try and replicate that. Conversely, for my genre piece I chose to create a website that was also engaging but more educational and relaxed. Due to the differences in audience and purpose between these two pieces, I have to pay close attention to the details of format, organization, and style/tone. For the sake of replicating Kohn’s article I opted to keep her general format by introducing my piece with a related media example and closing with a call to action. I chose to use the UNICEF commercials for my introduction because they focus directly on my issue to child hunger and the majority of people who watch television are familiar with their content. I feel I used this effectively when I stated “These commercials usually pinpoint countries in Africa that are desperately in need by displaying images of emaciated children with tears streaking their faces accompanied by depressing lyrical music”. This was an effective introduction because, like Kohn’s opening, it was something my readers could relate to. …show more content…
I state “The next time you read or hear someone complaining about the amount of money spent on “lazy” people who receive nutritional assistance programs, ask what they think should be done to assist the children who are forced to live in these food insecure households”. This was an effective choice because it functioned as a call for the community to take action while still focusing on my main issue of child
Using this type of tone, Waters and Heron inform the people of the truth behind the food served at schools and how it is lacking the needed health benefits for the students. They asked how much money would be needed to feed 30 million students a wholesome meal and their answer was “It could be done for about $5 per child, or roughly $27 billion a year, plus a one-time investment in real kitchens” (Par. 7). When stating this, they also acknowledges the cost is expensive, but reminds us that it would bring long-term savings and prevent many health issues. Informing the readers of both the pros and cons of feeding 30 million students, it allows the authors persuade the readers to lean towards the author’s
It was difficult to read that countless millions of federal dollars and many of our country's most successful efforts to halt the spread of childhood hunger and starvation have recently been withdrawn. And as a result, this problem of childhood hunger is not getting better but is actually getting worse. The most recent estimates compiled by the USDA in 1999 indicate that 36.2 million Americans live in food-insecure households, which means that their access to adequate and safe food is limited or uncertain. This too is very disturbing information.
Authors have many strategies when it comes to winning over their reader to their side on a topic even if it means that they will target their opponent to make them look bad. In the articles by Steve Greenberg and Michael Weinreb we will look at the way they try to get the reader to join into their opinion of the topic by appeal to the persons logos, pathos, and ethos. By doing looking at the articles and breaking them down we can see how the author makes his argument by using rhetorical strategies and logical fallacies.
In their essays, both authors Sidney Callahan and Deborah Tannen discuss strategies for a possible improvement in society’s ways of arguing. In “Fight Fierce but Fair: Practice at Home,” (1994), Callahan claims “if you learn to fight well and fairly at home, you can contribute to the civic struggle necessary to keep a pluralistic society moving.” With a set of guidelines and rules composed through personal experience, Callahan successfully uses this technique to give readers an immediate call to action and a solid, convincing essay. In “The Triumph of the Yell,” (1994), Tannen claims that “more and more these days, journalists, politicians, and academics treat public discourse as an argument – not in the sense of
The rhetorical strategies incorporated into the advertisement played an enormous role in its effectiveness. The author, UNICEF, has a large influence due to its global recognition as an organization that works for children in over 190 countries. For this particular audience, UNICEF is targeting adults, which leads to the purpose. UNICEF targets adults so that the adults will be more likely to adopt a child in need. The phrase that the advertisement stated is, “Every child needs a family”; therefore, the
Television has a tendency to display commercials whose purpose is to advocate sympathetic feelings, such as cancer awareness in children. The marketing behind the commercial, is to pursue viewers to empathize with the suffering, parents of cancer patients endure. The viewer is then made to feel guilty and obligated to contribute to the heart-touching commercial. Although, this method seems affective, there is always the exception of those who cannot take it upon themselves to sympathize with those in need. In Joni Mitchell’s song, “Big Yellow Taxi," the destruction of nature does not affect those in a poverty stricken culture because the pressure of surviving another day is more beneficial.
Commercials through television and radio aimed towards children are ethical because it helps build healthy ideals. Through commercials, children can see that doing certain things are good for you! They can see that it is what they should do. “Advertising and marketing techniques could encourage children to eat
A. How many of you are worried about where your next meal will come from? Are you unsure of how you’re going to purchase next week’s groceries or what you will be feeding your children for dinner tonight? This probably isn’t something most of you think about from day to day. When you are hungry, you eat. It’s easy for you to grab a sandwich, order a pizza, or run through the drive thru when you are on the go. However, there are many families, not just in other countries, but here in the United States as well, that are going hungry every day. According to kidshealth.org, a child dies from malnutrition and related causes every 6 seconds.
The topic I’m discussing is Hunger in the state of Texas. In Texas child food insecurity was at 27.6 percent. Also, one in six texans live in poverty. In 2002 15 percent of texans faced low food insecurity. Food insecurity reached 18.4 percent in 2012. Obesity is at 28.9 perecent the 12th highest in the whole country. Median household income is at 49.392 the 25th highest in the country. In 2011 there were 4,812,760 food insecure people in Texas. Texas's Child Food Insecurity Rate in 2011 was 27.6% which includes 1,849,060 children and places Texas 9th highest in child food insecurity in the United States. More than 6 billion dollars of funds are designated for hunger related programs in Texas went unused in 2010.In 2010, less than 70% of Texans who were eligible for a food program participated in the program.
Purpose: To persuade my audience to feed people in America that are less fortunate than we are.
In the documentary “Poor Kids” you get to truly see and feel how it is to be a child that suffers from food insecurity, poverty and the rest that comes with it. The fact that this problem exists in a developed country that you would assume it could provide for all their citizens. Well, the reality is we have many families suffering because of lack food and on top of that, we have children suffering from lack and food and more. As a society, we have grown to just be concerned about ourselves and we don’t focus on issues that affect others. We fail to see the struggles of others because it doesn’t directly impact us. We are focused on attaining wealth at all cost we would rather waste food than provide help for the ones in need. Ultimately, we are creating policies that, make sure no one gives food to the ones that needed the most. It’s a sad reality that we must face in order to continue to strive as a nation. Therefore, we need to acknowledge others and provide them with the respect that they deserve. We also have many corporations and elites that have control, power, and wealth. The stratified system in the U.S is making it that much harder for lower-income families to come out of poverty. Not only are they suffering from lack of food, lack income, and resources, but this also is affecting their pride and self-worth.
Putting food on the table may become a difficult task putting the family at risk for hunger (Martin, 2011).
My third main point is programs that are designed to help families who are living in poverty get good nutritious food like WIC, SNAP, and Building Healthy Families. Those programs not only help provide nutritious foods but also educate the parents on the importance of good nutrition. Those programs also contribute to helping children that are living in poverty get a better education, because they are able to focus on the materials they are learning in school instead of focusing on their hunger while sitting in class. This helps to support my main argument by explaining the ways nutritional programs impact the lives of children who are living in poverty. Providing families with good nutritious food enhances the children’s ability to learn more, live healthier lives, and obtain employment with decent
Hunger crisis and chronic malnutrition have affected a vast majority of people and innocent children almost everywhere. Hunger has afflicted humanity from the time of the early century in search of food, to the present, where children die of malnutrition in Third World nations. The organization WFP (World Food Programme), which is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, has been fighting hunger worldwide by providing food assistance to the people all around the world. In an advocacy ad, portraying a powerful image of a little kid with a nutrition label on him, the organization ‘World Food Programme’, displays a very strong use of pathos. The background of the ad looks very dark, featuring a broken house and the little
How blessed I am to live in the United States of America where I have freedoms that soldiers have fought and died for. How blessed I am to live in a family with both a mother and a father. In 2009, there was “approximately 13.7 million single parents in the United States…, and those parents are responsible for raising 22 million children,…26% of children under 21 in the U.S.” (Wolf). How blessed I am to have food on the table every night. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012 (2013 Worl…).