Anne P. Beatty writes about her inner city teaching job, where gang violence continues to be a way of life. The article includes phrases that make it sound like a newspaper, and not an editorial piece. In her lengthy article she has vivid description, several anecdotes, and some statistics, but her choppy and fragmented thoughts fail to make a point. Beatty avidly applies many literary devices to create mood and engage the reader, however, her essay as a whole lacks direction and leaves one questioning the purpose.
Foremost, Beatty repeatedly uses pathos in her editorial; and the application of strong descriptors and including the story about her student, DeAndre, should help the reader connect to this story in some way. However, she fails
to truly connect emotionally to her readers; the reason being because she never finishes any of her anecdotes. DeAndre, is first seen in the midst of a breakdown, when the dean of the school walks past Beatty and DeAndre and says, “’I am not having any gangbanging on our campus, uh-uh, you get those gloves off!’ She walked away. I doubt she even realized he was crying.” This can be seen as Beatty’s first attempt to make the reader feel something; they could be feeling sympathy, sadness, or even anger. Beatty shares another story about DeAndre; that story is about how he was falsely accused of murdering his sister’s boyfriend. Beatty does an injustice to her article in many ways; she includes too many fragmented details about DeAndre’s life and doesn’t fully develop them. By telling the reader his name and telling us about his life she is attempting to make us connect in some way, however, she fails to do this by leaving the story incomplete. Beatty mentions aspects that appear so random that they must have a purpose, however, she never addresses them later in her editorial. For example, readers may wonder why DeAndre had gloves on or why the counseling door needed to be shut, had Beatty brought closure to these items, it would have been more meaningful. In addition to this essay’s lack of completed stories that bring emotion, it also lacks in logos; Beatty tries to take another approach, and utilizes facts and data to persuade the audience. Although Beatty may be using true accounts, when she mentions things, such as, “Aaron, an honor-roll student who was shot four times in the heart at point-blank range…Brian, shot while crossing a busy street in broad daylight with his little sister beside him…A 15-year-old and her friend were outside a little store one evening, just down the street from her house. They were both killed, casualties of a drive-by shooting.” These appear to be more anecdotal in nature, and do not pack a punch the way a typical statistic such as “One out of every three” would do. Additionally, she defines the city’s problem, and explains the causes of it but fails to provide a call to action. Audiences could be left feeling just as apathetic as the students who live with every day. Someone like Beatty, an inner city school teacher, who has firsthand knowledge of teen violence should be an excellent source to increase social awareness. Taking a closer look, one can realize her paper is off from the start; her essay’s title, “Survival Skills at a School in LA” does not match the content of the editorial at all. Moreover, her lack of focus and inability to reach her audience with her prescribed methods leaves the audience feeling relatively flat, and mostly disappointed, as this editorial showed promise.
Geoffrey Canada gives his readers a rare opportunity to look inside the life of a ghetto kid and what they have to go through just to survive. He also provides answers to the many questions asked of why certain things happen the way they do in the Bronx. He used his childhood experiences and turned them into a unique tool when helping the youth of today. Now that he works as a youth councilor he sees that the problem in the slums has gotten dramatically worse with the emergence of guns. It used to be about pride and status, now any thug with a gun can be feared in the community. This, to Canada is a major problem because guns gives kids a sense of power, a strong feeling that is often abused and results in someone, even an innocent person dead.
Elijah Anderson’s Code of the Street book depicts two opposite communities within Philadelphia, the poor inner city black community and the residential middle class community. The majority of the book revolves around describing how the inner city functions on a ‘code of the street’ mentality, respect and toughness. Crime, violence and poverty run high in the inner city and following the code is a way to survive. Having a decent family or a street family greatly influences the path an adolescent will take involving delinquency. Anderson divides the book up into different themes and explores each one my not only giving factual information, but he also incorporates real life stories of various people who survived the inner city life style. Some of the themes include territory, survival by any means necessary, toughness, separate set of norms, campaign of respect and the mating game. Some criminological theories are also noticeable that take place in the inner city community.
“When the Negro Was in Vogue from The Big Sea” by Langston Hughes was mainly about an ironic situation in which white, despite repressing the black community, “set up shop” in the majority black Harlem neighborhood. Also because the wealthy and influential were embracing the black culture, while outside of the Harlem neighborhood they oppressed them. One could conclude that the audience of this would be anyone unaware of the 1920’s and how some of the African Americans were treated. One could also conclude from the passage that the purpose of this was to give Langston’s perspective of how hypocritical America was at the time about racism. Whites felt that blacks were beneath them but wanted to go their clubs.
The book emphasizes the idea of how difficult it is to leave the gang lifestyle. There are frequent cases of relapse by individuals in the book, who were once out to again return to gangs. This case is brought by what gangs represent to this in the book and what leaving entails them to give up. The definition of gangs presented to the class was, three or more members, share name, color, or affiliation, or must exist in a geopolitical context. To members associated with gangs, this definition can include your family members, neighborhood, everyone that they associate with. Take for example Ronnie from Jumped in by Jorja Leap it states,” Ronny’s role models are gangbangers. His family is a hood. His mentors are older homies in county jail.”(102). Ronnie and other gang members like him do not
Victor Rios is a previous gang member, whom “was given the opportunity” to get out of the youth control complex. In his book “Punished”, he analyzes the experiences of young black and Latino boys in Oakland, California. Rios gives us an intimate description of some of the everyday forms of “hyper discrimination” these minority boys experience. This book review will focus on the main concepts explained in chapters one through three from the book Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys.
Inside out is a movie about a girl named Riley Anderson who is born with five emotions joy, sadness, fear, disgust and anger. These emotions are housed in Riley’s mind called headquarters. Each emotion plays a very big role in Riley’s life because they chose how she should feel during every second of the day since she was born. As riley got older things changed and her parents decided to move to San Francisco. Moving to a different state and city really made Riley’s life go downhill. Riley’s emotions fear, anger, disgust, and sadness were put into effect when she realizes she has to start a new school, and make new friends. Joy is displayed as a character who take charge and is always happy. For example, joys doesn’t like when other emotion
Throughout the article “The Code of the Streets,” Elijah Anderson explains the differences between “decent” and “street” people that can be applied to the approaches of social control, labeling, and social conflict theories when talking about the violence among inner cities due to cultural adaptations.
The way Staples structures this essay emphasizes his awareness of the problem he faces. The essay’s framework consists mostly of Staples informing the reader of a scenario in which he was discriminated against and then following it with a discussion or elaboration on the situation. This follow-up information is often an expression stating comprehension of his problem and than subtitle, logical criticisms toward it. For example, Staples describes women “fearing the worst of him” on the streets of Brooklyn. He then proceeds to declare that he understands that “women are particularly vulnerable to street violence, and young black males are drastically overrepresented among the perpetrators of that violence.” Staples supports this statement with information about how he had witnessed gang violence in Chester, Pennsylvania and saw countless black youths locked away, however, Staples pronounces that this is no excuse for holding every young black man accountable, because he was an example of a black man who “grew up one of the good boys” coming “to doubt the virtues of intimidation early on.” This narrative structure highlights that Staples is not a hypocrite because he is not show ignorance toward the problem he is addressing unlik...
References: Gardner, Dan. “The Missing Piece to the Gang Violence Debate.” Essay Writing for Canadian
CNN presents the documentary, Homicide in Hollenbeck, spotlighting gang activity in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollenbeck. This documentary explores the subculture of gangs existing within Hollenbeck from a several perspectives. The people documented include a mother who lost both of her sons to gang violence, a priest that has tried to help rehabilitate gang members, a police officer that has worked in Hollenbeck for five years in the gang unit, and a current gang member. For a conclusion, Homicide in Hollenbeck focuses on a juvenile exposed to gang life on the cusp of decided where they want their life to lead; gangs or freedom. Problems attributed to the high rate of gang activity and number of gangs in Hollenbeck are the high poverty rate, low employment rate, and broken families that make up the majority of Hollenbeck. The crime most discussed, as per the title of the documentary, is homicide The number of gang related homicides has risen even though the criminal behavior of gangs has ultimately decreased in the neighborhood. In order to fight the overwhelming gang presence, the police believe in increasing the amount of gun power on the streets and number of jailed gang members. The priest who runs Homeboy Industries stated that he feels most gang members are just young men who can’t get out of the gang life. With more funds and opportunities, he thinks the problem could be decreased. In the end, the documentary mentions that the FBI has formed a gang center where local law enforcement agencies can share information to gain more knowledge and to better fight the presence of gangs.
One of the greatest conflicts in the history of the United State of America, the Revolutionary War, was started when the colonies of North America declared themselves independent from British rule. A group of men known as the Founding Fathers, which included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John and Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and others, formed the Continental Congress to rule their new nation. They chose Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence, which they would send to King George III to make their independence official. Jefferson knew that he needed to use strong language to make a solid agrument against British rule in the colonies and to convince the colonists that independence was the only choice to maintain their freedom as human beings. The powerful use of parallelism, ethos, pathos, and logos helpd Thomas Jefferson to convey his idea that all men are created equal with unalienable rights and that it is the duty of the government to protect those rights.
1-The story tells, Real facts occurred in the 1940s, where it was a racist society. Gangs were scattered throughout the cities, and regions, and the streets. To live, you have full get away, or belonging to one of them. You should help the gang members that they were right or on falsehood. Also, it is a kind of bigotry, not much different from intolerance, national, ethnic, and sectarian That were prevalent in American society. in fact, it is the inevitable result of this society. When the corruption becomes prevails, injustice and lawless prevails too, and justice will disappear.
We are in contact with marketing tactics daily, even though we may not even realize it; from every print ad, commercial and even product placement in television shows and movies are used to subliminally to make people want it and need it. Per The Mercury Reader assembled by Maren Clegg Hyer, Ph.D. explains the Aristotle‘s art of effective persuasion and the Greek triangle mode of rhetoric of pathos, ethos and logos to determine that this ad is indeed effective. Ads can elicit many emotions and rely on our reactions to make sales quotas. It can send strong emotions to not be left out, and a hurry and join the crowd, it can emote a desire to come along and join the fun. In Perrier’s “Thirst for the Extraordinary” commercial by the directors Fluer & Manu, from You Tube is effective because and relies heavily on pathos and ethos, it lacks any logos although the commercial involves no logos, it has what is called the “bandwagon” fallacy, so it is very effective and extremely persuasive in its purpose to sell Perrier water.
In video “THE GIRL THAT SILENCED THE WORLD FOR 5 MINUTES” I believe that this speech had a perfect moderation of all three appeals. She included ethos and the way she presented it was great because she is talking about how destroying the environment and going to war will affect not only the children but the entire planet, in other words we aren't only messing it up for ourselves but for every other species on this planet. The girl herself is only a child but she can say that she is fighting for her own future because the adults that teach us so much forget that if there is no planet there is no us, this makes the speech credible. She also uses logos effectively because she gives examples of how the earth has been polluted so much already that
Since the days of ancient Greece, Ethos, Logos, and Pathos have been used as a way to present your argument in a strong and effective manner. Although Homer was considered the father of rhetoric and his poems are considered to have had a huge impact on modern writing styles, the Greek philosopher Aristotle was the first to divide the types of persuasion into the three known today “This dialogue-speech is fraught with thought, but also with emotion or trickery, making use of arguments and stylistic and structural effects” (Knudsen 17-18). Rhetoric is used to make you think by either using Ethos (ethical appeal), Logos (logical appeal), or Pathos (Emotional appeal), With no one type of appeal being better than another but can be used for different