Education questions

Questions for Discussion

1. An education should be catered to the student. Teachers should work with each student individually. Teachers should give thought provoking questions to students.

3. They should learn it because they require exact and correct performance. This will teach a child how and why they learn, and it will teach them performance over knowledge. 

5. Emerson says that schools force you to learn and believe certain things, and they make you lose sight of what’s important. They don’t inspire their students to become any better than they already are.

Rhetoric and Style

1. Nature loves similarities with distinct differences, but not the same thing over and over again.

2.A student wants to learn more and wants to expand their previous unheard of idea on to the world but must first understand it. To do so they try to learn from someone such as a master that can inspire their learning and help.

3.Emerson tries to make a point of how to learn and what it means to be educated and so to do this he makes an example of his friend Sir Charles Fellow. Charles' tale tells the readers of what he accomplished, how he accomplished it, and what he achieved.

5. The natural method Emerson refers to is the method of learning from peers and through learning from others.

Superman and Me

1. He uses the figure of speech to show that his living conditions were not very good growing up.

2. He went to Catholic school on purpose, and he actually loved to read books, something that is not usually seen from Men of his background.

3. The effect is that the reader sees how paragraphs work in a different way than they usually see it. Alexie gives an explanation that makes more sense than one would think about.

4. He means that he wants to distance himself from his childhood by referring to his child self as someone else completely.

6. In the first part, Alexie sets up the background, as shows that he was by all means an oddity in his environment. In part two. he explains how reading saved himself. It is divided this way so that the reader can make the connection that Alexie considers his child-life separate from his adult life. His purpose is to show that he became a reader despite what others felt about it.

7. In both paragraphs he talks about his desire to save lives. In both final sentences he refers to himself.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read Questions

1. Prose uses her position of being a mother, and a book reader To help establish ethos. Along with this, she also gives credibility by showing how she got her information for the essay.

3. Prose believes that high school literature will only turn students off to reading as a whole. She also believes that high school is where "literary taste" is born.

5. She assumes that the audience is familiar with these works,  because they were usually assigned for reading sometime during high school. The way that Prose presents the info, using key moments and characters from the books, makes it important that the reader be familiar with them.

6. I honestly have not read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. However, Prose makes it seem that Angelou butchered her book completely, when later in the essay she describes the work as mediocre. Because of this I'd have to say that it's a bit too extreme. She also compares getting her data to getting FBI files.

7. Her purpose in piling the rhetorical questions is to show the audience the problems with High School reading all in one go. It gets the message across very quickly, in a way that the reader is going to follow.

8. Prose would most likely not strengthen her arguments with interviews. Students wouldn't be experienced enough in reading to make educated statements about high school reading, and teachers would likely defend this novels in a way that goes against what she believes.

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10.  She gives a few suggestions for how to improve the situation. However, she doesn't fully give a comprehensive way to fix it. Because of this, her argument is weakened in that she is just as helpful as someone who is supportive of the current works. Neither are really giving a way to improve it.

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George Orwell response

1. George Orwell's thesis is that we as speakers and writers would rather use long, meaningless or foreign phrases, for the sake of sounding more educated or classy, than words that much more simply say what we mean. While Orwell does not explicitly say this where you would expect to see it in a paper of this style, it is talked about multiple times across the different paragraphs.

2. Orwell effectively uses the analogy because he explains both at the same time. The reader is able to clearly see what he means, because there is no room for the reader to not understand what exactly he is saying.

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• 16: a packet of aspirin always at one's elbow: Phrases that writers use are just ones that are already made, worn out from overuse. It's effectively in that it's a simple analogy that anyone could understand without explanation. 

4..If one were to take out the examples within the paragraphs that he uses, he becomes less credible. One of the most important things to do when showing the flaws in a subject is to show why they are flaws. In this case, he uses his own examples to show better language.

5.The purpose of the footnotes are to give the audience a more distinct idea of what he is trying to convey. By putting it in the footnotes, he avoids detracting from his overall argument through digression.

6. Orwell establishes ethos through his use of language, as well as the fact that he does not stray from his topic. He stays organised and on topic, which is especially important given the sort of language he is criticizing. The skill with which he writes is the key factor in why he is rhetorically effective in this regard.

7. Orwell begins by giving a brief explanation of his annoyance with modern writing. After this, he moves into giving specific examples of lazy or overblown language. He talks about how to improve this writing, and how it exemplifies the worsening of speech. Afterward, he talks about our use of Latin and Greek phrases because they seem more sophisticated. Finally, he gives rules about language- what we should avoid, and what to do to make speech more concise. Overall, when reading the essay, it flowed well enough to the point that I didn't notice him switching topics.

8. Orwell's purpose for writing this essay may be to educate younger minds in a world where the news is very important, especially after the war when the future is uncertain. This is notable when he talks about Russian dictatorship, as well as when he talks about an English professor defending Totalitarianism.

9. Orwell is using a criticizing tone. However, he moves between an almost teacher-like position of helping explain what is wrong, to seeming almost annoyed with our language today.

10.

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• "largely the defense of the indefensible."
• "Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand lifeless, imitative style."
• "The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism."
• "There is a long list of flyblown metaphors which could similarly be got rid of if enough people would interest themselves in the job."

We Can Afford to Give Parents a Break response

Ethos- Jody establishes that she is an expert by mentioning that she collected data for Harvard University. The note at the end of the article also shows that she is the director of the McGill University Institute for health and Social Policy, and the author of a book that is a much more detailed version of the article.

Logos- Jody spends the entire article using specific details that show that the United States can afford to give parents time off. In this way she appeals to logos through examples and statistical data. She also acknowledges counter arguments by talking about different myths that have come back over and over in America. It shows that she considered the opposition in her argument.

Pathos- While Jody does not use pathos to the extent of the other two, she does use it by putting the article within the context of Mother's Day. She could have published it any other day of the year, but by using Mother's Day to her advantage, she connects to the audience without having to put them into a certain mood when reading it.

Einstein letter response

Ethos- Einstein's background of being a physicist immediately gives him credibility to answer the question of whether or not scientists pray. He first explains why scientists likely wouldn't using facts, then explaining why they do.

Logos- Einstein says that scientists would hardly be inclined to believe in influence by prayer, then backs it up with his statement that scientific law is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by the laws of nature.

Pathos- Einstein's letter is rather sparse in this area. He doesn't play to emotions, but rather with facts, and focuses on Ethos. It can be noted though that the way that Einstein ends his letter suggests a very friendly relationship with the audience.

The relationship between speaker and audience is also established as that of a teacher and student, where Einstein is explaining the subject as if the student has no prior education in this particular subject, hence asking both if and why, rather than just why.

Overall I feel his response is rhetorically very effective as he is able to connect to the reader with credibility rather than relying too much on emotion.