Less For Sports Summary

In the article by George Heymont, More Funding for School Arts Programs, Less for Sports (2017), the author persuades the audience to better fund and support the arts instead of sports. Heymont applies imagery, personal connection, pathos, and ethos to further support his claim of more funding for the arts and less for sports. The author uses imagery in this article when describing events from his own life and other people’s stories which adds further emotion. Heymont adds personal connection in this piece which implies that he is biased, however this adds a more convincing argument. He also uses both pathos and ethos in this piece. Pathos plays a large role in this article because the author has a personal connection with limited funding for
arts programs and uses his connection to add emotion and further sell his claim. Ethos is used when Heymont argues that the arts programs build character and should have funding priority over sports to ensure that future generations can become “better citizens of the world”. The intended audience for this piece is people who are connected in anyway to school systems and can help get more funding for arts programs.