A Life Do What You Love Analysis

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When doing what a person love is not always the right choice. The author Gordon Marino wrote 'A Life Do What You Love', published in 2014 in The New York Times. He argued that a person should not do something one can be passionate about. Marino begins building his credibility with personal facts, citing credible experts to appeal to the readers logically and emotionally. However, in the beginning he uses anecdotes to appeal to logic and authority. Not only Marino used facts and opinions by other writers. He also discussed his own personal emotional to support his argument. But, towards the end he attempts to appeal to the readers logically using famous leaders as an example. This support his argument because it helps the readers better understand …show more content…

Marino uses famous leaders like Nelson Mandela, Dietrich Bonhoeffers, and Martin Luther King Jr. Marino disagree with having to do something you love because it is not reality. This where he uses appeal to emotion because he explains that sometimes putting your passions aside for the benefit to help a larger circle which could be family or society as a whole, but in a way it weakens the argument because he shows a lot of frustration of why some people do not understand the concept of doig things to help the people around them.. This keys in with the three leaders he used in this article. He used the leaders as to appealing logically. He explained that these leaders did not organize their lives around self-fulfillment, talents, or a bucket list. Each of them had one goal they wanted to achieve. The three leaders Marino discussed about did not do what they did in order to achieve that sense meaning. Which means the leaders did not wake up and say "Okay this is how I want the world to remember me by before I leave this Earth." Nelson Mandela, Dietrich Bonhoeffers, and Martin Luther King Jr did things that needed to b done, which even meant making sacrifices to help the society as a whole. This connect to appeal to logic and authority because he uses the three leaders by appealing to the reader or catching the reader's attention, for the people that have respect for leaders or know what something about what these leaders accomplished. But throughout the paragraph Marino said that most people would agree with Dr. King "self-fulfillment requires being able to relate yourself higher than others." This means a person being afraid to challenge their selves because they are afraid of

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