After reading Gabriella Fulton’s response to the reading, I was intrigued to see that she interpreted the text similarly to mine but from a different viewpoint. She explains in her first passage how the author Nguyen states that the only way capitalism works in America is by driving out smaller businesses to keep the economy afloat. This relates to the author’s side of how his parents tried tirelessly to keep their business afloat, but society would not allow them to. Moving on to the other article by Sarkozi-Forfinski, Gabriella explains how the author tries to explain how we should let others understand the issues behind why it is rude and disrespectful to ask someone to speak English. She further states that if we keep allowing society to make these mistakes repeatedly, it gives them more power, making it harder to get rid of. I loved the way she worded her last sentence in the response because it is very true to how society is today. The only way we can truly get rid of racism is by trying to learn more from a person of color’s perspective and understand it. Many people today need to learn to do this for society to move forward.
Sadie Olson, Aarane Srikumar, Janelle Frazier
After watching the TED talk “Everything Happens For a Reason” by Kate Bowler, she starts by using pathos in her speech by explaining how she has stage IV cancer and how she first heard her diagnosis on the phone at work. Throughout her speech, she continues to use pathos by bringing up her diagnosis and how that has affected her ideals and beliefs in Christianity. Then she uses ethos to explain her job about how she interviews people to understand their belief in Christianity of karma and how good things happen to good people. However, she explains how after her diagnosis, she explains the disbelief and logic of how many people believe in the ideal of karma and how things happen for a certain reason. She continues to use ethos on how she could not understand how she was a good person, and she still ended up getting IV cancer. Throughout her argument, she mainly used ethos due to her diagnosis.