Summary Of The Heartland And The Rural Youth Exodus

In the chapter, “The Heartland and The Rural Youth Exodus” written by Carr and Kefalas, the authors include claims which they then proceed to pass off as facts. Because doctors rely heavily on confirmed actualities, this would cause the audience to not be persuaded. The authors’ demise is their own confidence in the claims they make which could be questionable to many. An example of a claim that the authors make which lead the audience to become uninterested is when they make generalizations about many aspects of the nation, and arguably do not have the authority to be doing so. “In sum, the real America of the Heartland hangs in the balance because of massive global market transformations, and the agriculture and manufacturing sectors’ compulsive efforts to eliminate human workers, deskill their jobs, and replace them with technology…” (Carr and Kefalas 36).
Humans are causing their own downfall. By the authors including these assertions, the audience develops an infuriation with what the authors were claiming. From the perspective of rural general practitioners, there will always be a need for healthcare professionals, technology, although incredibly advanced could not play such a role that human doctors do. Allowing the audience to believe that their practices are maintainable in these small rural communities. I believe it was not the author’s intentions to cause this. More than just the issue with the technology, the other claims are not yet certain; this alone would cause the audience to not be persuaded by the reading. Overall, the strategy used lessened the overall persuasiveness of the chapter due to the fact that the author’s claims are implausible and this audience in particular commonly responds to assertions that are already concrete facts which have been