Individuals' beliefs and attitudes are the product of the world they live in, and consequently these beliefs and attitudes are challenged when one moves into a new or different world. Both The Story Of Tom Brennan (2005) by J.C. Burke and The Door (When) by Miroslav Holub explore this notion of change through the experiences encountered when moving into different worlds. The Story Of Tom Brennan explores the journey, growth and self discovery of the protagonist, Tom, following his brother's drunken car crash. Similarly, The Door demonstrates the benefits associated with exploring new worlds, and the growth that occurs as a result of that exploration. Nevertheless, despite their difference in medium and time of production, both texts demonstrate a change in an individuals beliefs and attitudes is product on moving into new and different worlds.…
(2) Ethos is defined as credibility; Suh used her own experience and her reputation to support her argument on stop making…
What would you do if you found out that someone grew up only a few blocks away from you, bearing the same name, the same fatherless childhood, yet ended up with different lives in the end? Wes Moore went out to find the answer to the question in the book The Other Wes Moore. Both the author Wes Moore and the other Wes Moore had similar childhoods. Both grew up fatherless and living in Baltimore, Maryland, both lived a life on the streets, and both ran into trouble with the police. At a glance, their lives sound similar growing up. After looking at the details of both of their childhoods, it becomes more apparent that they were not so similar growing up. Although they share many similarities that lead to the deviation in both the Author Wes Moore and the…
Bonnie Tsui’s effective usage of ethos is prevalent throughout her essay. She appeals to your questioning of credibility by presenting her own personal struggle to accept…
One notable instance is when he establishes his credibility through ethos, stating, "Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe" (III, ii, 14-15). Here, he appeals to the audience's trust in his integrity, laying the groundwork for his argument.…
Throughout life, inspirational lessons dwell at every corner with that golden opportunity to take those lessons and inspire others. Speeches are excellent ways to teach lessons and motivate listeners since the speaker has the freedom to add emotion to their voices and also add dramatic pauses that create suspense within the crowd of onlookers. However, stories can lack that emotion the voice of a speaker gives it. So, author’s use different styles of writing such as varied sentence length for the reader to know the right pauses and imagery to create an impact on the reader’s mind. Wes Moore, the author of The Other Wes Moore, uses theses crafts of writing to make a claim in the beginning portion of chapter seven that the impermanence of life makes every moment too precious to waste.…
“I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances"(Page 67). In "The Other Wes Moore" the environment of both Wes Moore's were completely different from each other. They both made some stupid decisions over time but who is perfect? It is expected of everyone to make some mistakes, in my opinion the main influence on their choices came from their environment. In their environment they had peers that would influence them to do things that they did not necessarily want to do. This caused them to get into trouble, but at the same token, their environment also gave them some opportunities to make it through some rough times. For Example: Wes #2 was ready to change his life around and was able to do that with a start. When he met with his friend Levy, Levy told him about Job Corps and Wes #2 decided to go. This essay describes the impact of the environment, neighborhood, and peers that reflected upon the Wes Moore’s. It also demonstrates the similarities and differences between people of the same origin.…
While the environments that both boys grew up in were similar, there are key differences that influenced each Wes Moore into making different decisions later in their lives. The book begins with a discussion of their fathers; the author Wes Moore, although for a short time in his life, had a loving father who was involved and active. The other Wes Moore, however, had an alcoholic father who was absent his entire life, not bothering to get involved with his son. The second Wes Moore, unlike the author of this novel, never had a father figure and the only male role model he had was his elder brother who eventually dropped out of school to sell drugs. Both boys were also raised by their mothers but were raised in entirely different matters. Joy was a hardworking, strong and independent woman who had an education and grew up in a disciplined and structured environment. Joy was determined to provide the same for her three children, going as far as moving in with her parents and working multiple jobs to allow her children to go to private school instead of the failing public schools of the Bronx. Joy and Wes’ grandparents were strict and provided a stable household with high expectations and respect for rules and severe punishments for breaking those rules. For example, when Wes started to fail in school and did not improve his grades or his behavior his mother sent him to military school. Joy was a strict disciplinarian. Mary, the mother of the other Wes Moore, was not a strict disciplinarian and did not grow up in a stable environment. Mary’s mother died when she…
The author Wes Moore clearly has far more success dealing with the adversity of growing up in the inner city than the other Wes Moore. This is largely due to the impact that his mother has on his life. From a young age his mother disciplines him when he hits his sister and makes sure he knows never to his a woman. “Get to your damn room” (Moore, 5) his mother told him when he playfully punched…
Ethos is described as an appeal to ethics, its goal is to persuade the reader that an opinion is correct by showing the credibility of a character, Its often tied to citing figures of authority. For example, if were debating which car is faster car x or car y, a good argument for car x would be that it was stated by a skilled Nascar driver to be one of the fastest cars he’s ever driven. Now let’s analyze a passage from The Abolition of Man.“Perhaps I am asking impossibilities. Perhaps, in the nature of things, analytical understanding must always be a basilisk which kills what it sees and only sees by killing. But if the scientists themselves cannot arrest this process before it reaches the common Reason and kills that too, then someone else…
Ethos is a Greek word meaning “character” or “authority." Ethos is mainly used to have “authority” on a literary work to prove the point (MCL 173). As Shafer demonstrates in the text how Obama pretends he is some kind of superhero from Joseph Campbell “talks about being on a journey that is about more than just change. If you want to walk together down the American road, he wants to you to be prepared for hard work; it’s never going to be easy” (WT 173). This quote from the text emphasizes how the author uses a saying out of a different person to let people know how important and trustworthy Obama will be if he is elected as the new president. Shafer also added in hid work what Obama said during his speech in the 2008 presidential primaries, “being on a journey that is about more than just hope… he wants you to be prepared for hard work” (WT 187). This particular part of the speech may have attracted the attention of most Americans since it’s not easy running for president when everyone has low hopes for you; he has to work twice as hard for people to trust him. Ethos is important in any literacy work; it can be a script for a movie or play, an article, or a simple essay any students need to write. Ethos means “authority," authority sets the point of the literacy work, such as what the writer wants to his audience to understand.…
Speaker: Barack Obama, the president of the united states. Might be the most popular person in the country and world. His position gives the speaker ethos, which appeals to the reader’s credibility and trust. The ethos of a president or any other politician, gives a credibility in politics and legislation and in this circumstance, the gun law.…
Both Wes Moore’s grew up in low-income neighborhoods. Hanging out on corners, watching the way the community around them worked to live with the struggles this area in America’s society worked. Many of these communities are immersed in a lot of crime and violence. Each Wes Moore can be seen through out the book trying to fit in fit in with the surrounding community at a young age. Experimenting with different things and “The check-cashing stores instead of banks, the rows of beauty salons, liquor stores, Laundromats, funeral homes, and their graffiti-laced walls were the universal streetscape…
This is the credibility and authority of the speaker or arguer. For example, we might be persuaded by a pastor because he is famous, or because she has a Ph.D. Aristotle says that three elements, “inspire confidence in the rhetor’s (arguer’s) own character – the three, namely, that induce us to believe a thing apart from any proof of it: good sense, good moral character, and goodwill” (Henning). This is the essence of ethos: we won’t be persuaded by an arguer we don’t trust, or can’t come to trust through the argument.…
Authors use ethos in order to show their audience that their point of view is worthy of taking a look at and to earn credibility. Before starting to write, writers should know which particular audience they want to inform, so they can use proper words to use for their audience and effectively persuade them. In Kevin Drum’s article, he uses a lot of ethos appeal as well. He refers to a lot of famous people or publications as argument to show his audience why they should believe him. In doing so, it is easier for the audience to believe in his…