Month: February 2022

I read Edwin’s response to the article. He does a good job summarizing what the author’s main points are and how she uses ethos, logos, and pathos to get that message across to the audience. The author uses ethos to say that standardized testing does not accurately portray ones intelligence. She also uses pathos while explaining her mother’s story and sharing how she has a tumor. Amy Tan uses all three of these devices vividly to help get her message across.

By: Mel Zilinki, Abhiraj Gill, Kwasi Acquaye

Passage 1:

A man from the city came to visit a small farm, and he saw a farmer feeding pigs in a very strange way. First, the farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples directly off the tree. Then, the farmer would move the pig from one apple to another until the pig was full; then, he would start again with another pig.

The man from the city was pretty puzzled. He watched for quite a while and finally said, “What a strange way to feed pigs! It’s a waste of time! You could save a whole lot of time if you just shook the apples off the tree and let the pigs eat them from the ground!” The farmer looked puzzled and replied, “What’s time to a pig?”

Passage 2:

A young man waiting in line at the bank developed a loud case of hiccups that got worse and worse. By the time he got to the teller’s window, he could hardly talk when handing the teller his check to cash.

The teller tapped numbers into the computer, in a moment looking up, and frowned; “I can’t cash your check,” she said.

The man was shocked. “Why not?” he asked.

“The computer indicates you do not have sufficient funds to cover this amount,” she said. “In fact, our records show that your account is overdrawn by more than $5000.00.”

“It can’t be!” cried the man. “You’ve got to be kidding!”

“You’re right. I am,” she smiled. She started counting out his cash. “You will notice that your hiccups are gone, though!”

Source: M. S. Samston (2005)

 

I read Moriah’s response. She mostly covered how rhetorical analysis can be used to communicated better with the audience. She talks about the different tools like advertising, cartoons and editorials to help better get one’s message across. I talked about the topic really impacts the audience, and how it is supposed to impact them, which is different. She also highlights her personal experiences where she has seen rhetorical analysis be an important tool.

Yana will finish the response tonight, so I read Melissa’s response. She talks about  how analyzing all the components of an argument work together to get the message across and how the reader must critically think about the piece and ask a series of questions that examine every aspect of the creation.

The first audio essay I listened to was Norrelle Carter’s. She focused on two narratives, the first one being reading and the second literature. She gave person stories like how reading literature made her feel more empowered and something she enjoyed doing a lot. She also informed the listener how she restarted he essay with a different topic because she did not like her topic at first, which is a good advice for this assignment.

The second essay was by Eric Seger. He started the story with his dream to be a sports journalist, and connected it to the memory of his dad coming home with newspaper with the sports sections. He reminisces waking up early to eat with his father in the morning and read the sports section. He includes and audio recording of this mother speaking on this time in his life when he started following sports, which was a different and interesting approach.

Abhiraj Gill, Isabella Williams, Moriah Gilmore

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/read-greta-thunberg-s-full-speech-united-nations-climate-action-n1057861

Greta Thunberg uses pathos throughout the speech to get her message across the audience and help her case. She starts off my saying,”How dare you ruin my future?” This resembles not only to Greta but all the Gen-Z’s, as the current rate of climate change is soon going to cause irreversible damage to the earth. She guilts the audience by explaining the normal teenage experiences she is missing, because she is having to educate grown adults on climate change, ¨This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!¨ She uses facts logos while stating how cutting our emissions in half on gives us a 50% chance to save the irreversible change.

She uses pathos around the end,”The eyes of all future generations are upon you, and if you fail us, we will never forgive you.”

 

I read Chinaza’s response. I agree with her point about how flunking student to give them a push is not always a great idea, and while some might react to it with better work, someone who is not doing well in and outside the classroom could dig themselves a bigger hole. I also agree that an interesting story with with grammatical mistakes is better than having a boring story with strong grammar.

Every school’s teaching is different, and everyone’s thinking is different, therefore, every piece of writing is original work. Research is also important. If I am a big fan of sports I would probably write a better essay than someone who does not follow sport, because of my personal experience with sports is a good one and I spend a lot of my time watching it.

The epitome of new experiences is vacation trips to some place one is not familiar with. Personally as a kid going on a vacation with my family bought lots of new experiences and a little bit of culture shock with it, and going to these new places together made me realize the strength of family, no matter wherever we were scattered through the world, I knew we would always be a family, and I was really thankful for that.

The first time I experienced someone close to be dying was my pet dog, we were really close and when he died I got the usual,”he’s gone to a farm to live a better life.”, but when I did find out the truth I wouldn’t believe that one day everyone dies and goes god knows where. It took me a while to get comfortable with things again, like I wouldn’t even run because I thought I could die. But as a 6 year old kid you forget about stuff easily.

Me going to a prep boarding school for my high school education. I learned to become independent and a young age, and it was easier for me to transition for me to college.

Outline- I’ll start with a picture of me and my family dropping me off to the school on my first day.

• Had trouble settling in at first- cultural shock, homesick
• Got more comfortable after a few months
• Grades got better, got more independent.

My full name is Abhiraj Gill. The origin of my first name is the Hindi language, mostly spoken in India. The meaning of the name is someone who is fearless king, regal. I was named by my grandmother.

I’ve never been ashamed by my name, but when I moved to the US I realized saying my first name correctly is generally a tongue-twister for most people. When I moved to the country in high school started going by Gill, my last name, was it was easier for people and I did not have to hear my first name wrong a thousand times. I was okay with it because I like my last name.

Growing up at home I spoke Punjabi, which is my mother-tongue, and Hindi, both languages used in India, along with English.

No, I have not.

I learned from Alvaro’s responses that the key idea of this response is explaining how pathos works, where it can work, and it’s advantages. I like how you went in depth with you examples for a better explanation. I focused on the statis theory, which is mainly analyzing the situation, eliminating the problem and try to fix it, while pathos takes the emotional path, so our responses take different approaches.This response follows the guidelines, and reading it gave me a better understanding of how pathos works.