response to Karl Taro Greenfeld’s article‚ Robert Pondiscio’s “Poor Students Need Homework” aims to convince readers of the need of homework for low-income children. Pondiscio effectively persuades his audience that while wealthy children may not necessarily need homework‚ kids who are born into poverty do in order to increase their lack of opportunities through the use of cause and effect based arguments‚ analogy‚ and generalization. Pondiscio begins his article by disagreeing with a quote of John
Premium Poverty Wealth
Growing up and still to this day I am told how to uphold an image‚ a reputation‚ the same as Lynn Peril wrote about in her essay “Pink Think”. Femininity suggests that women and girls will never be looked at as someone who will ever reach an expectation of anything higher than being the wife at home raising a family and loving their husband. Being seen as that gentle‚ soft‚ delicate‚ nurturing being as Peril notes‚ pink think is a set of ideas and attitudes about what constitutes proper female behavior
Premium Woman Gender Childbirth
Profile Process Planning Sheet: Analyzing the Rhetorical Situation Week 1 Assignment Please answer the following questions in complete sentence and paragraph format. Although this is not a formal essay assignment‚ please note that proper spelling‚ grammar‚ and sentence structure are required. This week’s lecture and Chapters 2 and 3 in your text will help you work through some of the terms within the rhetorical situation. Defining Topic‚ Angle‚ Purpose 1. What is your chosen topic? (For example:
Premium Psychology Writing Question
Matt Vavala Intro to Lit October 11‚ 2012 Rhetorical Analysis: “Poem” In the poem “Poem”‚ muMs da Schemer gives critiques on society as a whole as having inadequate functionality‚ lacking the necessary building blocks needed to progress and also gives descriptions of his personal experiences and characteristics that represent the person who he is today. The poet muMs da Schemer breaks down his poem into three different stanzas with a total of twenty
Premium
JFK Rhetorical Analysis President‚ John F. Kennedy‚ in his news conference on April 10‚ 1962 repeatedly called for stable prices and wages in the steel industry during a period of economic distress. This was in an effort to combat the steel companies that had raised steel prices by 3.5 percent. President Kennedy conveys a strong tone in order to boost morale of the American population and persuade the steel companies to lower their prices. The president begins by discussing what a crucial time
Premium
who really see the benefits of being on national television‚ and that would be the men’s professional league. Don’t get me wrong the women do receive a paycheck too‚ but my cousin makes more than them just being a car salesman. There are two main articles that discuss how women players are paid significantly less than their male counter parts. Their targeted audience would be young female athletes who are thinking of pursuing a career in professional basketball as well as basketball fanatics. There
Premium National Basketball Association Basketball American Basketball Association
Reading the whole article‚ the biggest things that stood out to me was on page 63; “It usually takes a lobster between thirty-five and forty-five seconds to die in boiling water.” I took some time to think and at first I came up with putting a lobster into a boiling pot of water. But I couldn’t find the metaphor in that because that was the main idea I wanted people to see. So I decided to draw a healthy tree falling into a wood chipper and how when it goes through a wood chipper‚ the time it takes
Premium Lobster Water English-language films
‘mental health problems’ (Barker e t al‚ 2010).This essay will address the causation and increase in the diagnosis of anxiety and depression and how counselling and psychotherapy is effective in its historical context. Most importantly the essay will look at the medical treatment and the role of medicine in the biopsychosocial perspective to address mental health issues. Taking into account research figures in relation to the newspaper articles by David Batty (The Guardian‚ 2011) and Janet Street-porter
Premium Mental disorder Psychiatry Psychology
the men living in an underground cave and their situation. The Allegory of the Cave is Plato’s explanation of the education of the soul toward enlightenment. Plato employs many rhetorical techniques‚ social commentary and modes of persuasion to assist in the reader’s understanding‚These include different uses of rhetorical devices some include hyperbole‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ allusion‚ parallelism and imagery. There is a strong use of imagery as from any great writers he puts the picture of what’s occurring
Premium Plato Philosophy Knowledge
Thesis: Technology‚ such as texting‚ while driving is unsafe and can be a hazard to teen drivers and others. In the Knox News opinion column‚ there was an article found titled “Twits texting‚ tweeting behind the wheel.” The author of this article‚ Ina Hughs‚ is arguing that texting‚ MP3 players‚ and other electronic devices are unsafe to use when behind the wheel. She is writing to inform teenagers and other drivers about the dangers of driving while texting. Even though Hughes makes
Free Text messaging Mobile phone Instant messaging