For todays reading response, I compared me and Josef’s pieces. In both pieces, we addressed how racial stereotypes and oppression have caused minorities to feel they are lesser than. We both had also an emotional connection to the piece because both of our grandparents had to escape communism. Josef’s attention to detail as well is very well and he relates it to past events within the United States as well such as Pearl Harbor.

Group Work Pathos (in class):

Sarah Kung
Izzy Castrezana
Zimu Li

Mark Mero’s Emotional Mother’s Day Story
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Pathos
In his voice/ tone made it feel more emotional than we thought it was going to be
High school kids were the audience
– Started off with a similar/”typical” childhood story (Setting the scene).
Relate more on the issue since he was telling a story from his high school experience
We all know that when we were in high school we would wanna rebel from our parents, which makes it very relatable to people who were like him too.
His message was to do the opposite
Trying to get the audience to not do what he did, and to appreciate the people that are there for you.
Talked about him overdosing three time and his mom was there the entire time
Public
Body/Facial expressions
Lots of eye contact
Once he talked about his mother dying the audience instantly started crying
How he’s feeling through his mom’s story
Showing the audience how he’s feelings

Jamila Lyiscott Speech Evaluation:

The key features within Lyiscott’s argument involved how because of these societal norms of “this is the proper way to speak” (similar to our class discussion on Tuesday) it makes others seem unintelligent yet it’s genuinely the same language and words coming out of everyone’s mouths. She never used the word, but she had substituted “code-switching” for “trilingual.” Most people believe that everyone should be the same with everyone. However, there’s that level of comfortability.