Paul Ryan: War on Poverty
Way on Poverty is a sensitive subject, but is one of the needs that needs to be discussed more especially when you or your campaign is running for president. Paul Ryan’s speech War on Poverty, was given at Cleveland State University to the generations who are eligible to vote. Ryan wanted to know that the war on poverty can be overcome. In Paul Ryan’s speech on poverty, Ryan created an influential speech by using emotional appeals to convince his listener that poverty needs to end, reiterating the idea of poverty, and restating the statistics on poverty.
In Paul Ryan’s speech, he uses pathos to get his audience to stop thinking and start feeling. Paul mentions in his speech that, we are all in the same boat as a nation. We either succeed together or fail together. He mentions, no one should be deprived the opportunity to succeed based on their social status, the color of their skin, nor where they were born. Paul Ryan mentions in his speech that, if we work hard to achieve a better life, we should all be able to have the same opportunities. When Ryan says, “you should have the opportunity in America to rise, to escape from poverty, and to achieve whatever your God-given
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Ryan says “… Mitt has always given his time and attention to those around him who are hurting”. This statement humanizes Romney who had a reputation of being a ruthless. Ryan also refers to his mentor, Jack Kemp, and describes his incredible success in dealing with poverty. At the end of the speech, Ryan says “We are speaking to all Americans in this campaign, because we believe, as Jack Kemp believed, that economic growth and equality of opportunity are the surest path to the pursuit of happiness”. By mentioning that his beliefs align with Jack Kemp, a man Ryan referred as a “champion of growth and prosperity”, it reinforces Ryan’s credibility with the
The use of pathos was mostly toward emotional sadness and pity toward the college students. In Goldrick-Rab’s study, a lot of students had to “cut the size of their meals or skipped meals and were hungry because they didn’t have enough money for food” (McKenna). Many people do not like to skip or cut the sizes of their meal. To read that students have to eat less or not eat at all invokes pity toward these unknown hunger students. Not having a lot of money always shows an emotional cry for help. Not having enough money to meet basic human needs strikes as horrible no matter who or what type of person affected. As The Atlantic website already states, McKenna used to be a professor of political science and writes for The Atlantic. Her ethos shows that she study for many years in college and that she is capable of doing research and writing logical papers. To prove her claim that community college students have food insecurity, she uses a study from “Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of education policy and sociology at University of Wisconsin, last year surveyed 4,000 students at 10 community colleges across the country” (McKenna). Her source comes from a university professor that studies education policy and sociology. She brings up many logical points into her article. To prove her claim,
By using a combination of ethos and pathos, Obama successfully instills in his audience the importance that education, technology, job creation and being environmentally conscious have to our economic future.
Poverty is not just an issue reserved for third world countries. Instead, poverty is a multifaceted issue that even the most developed nations must battle
As stated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, “the test of our progression is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” Many people may agree with this statement considering that the United States is such a wealthy country and in 2012, 46.5 million people were living in poverty in the United States and 15% of all Americans and 21.8% of children under age eighteen were in poverty.The honest truth is that many people do not know the conditions this group of people must live in on a daily basis because of the small number of people who realize the struggle there is not a great amount of service. In the article Too stressed for Success, the author Kevin Clarke asks the question “What is the cost of being poor in America?” and follows the question by explaining the great deals of problems the community of poverty goes through daily by saying, “Researchers have long known that because of a broad reduction in retail and other consumer choices experienced by America's poor, it is often simply more expensive to be poor in the United States.
There are three areas, which have broad and differing views on how to combat poverty. Those three being, Welfare, Social Security, and Taxes. The following arguments present how those different perspectives affect the poverty issue in America today.
Gingrich goes into more depth of his moral obligations using the rhetorical device ethos. This is exhibited when he explains “it should be clear we have a moral imperative to remake the welfare system so every American can lead a full life” letting listeners know that he’s making it his obligation to society to make sure they are living the best life possible (“The”). With this, he gains trust by announcing his values lie with citizens’ best interests. Remaking the aid system for Americans esures more money and resources going to those who need it most. This is especially revealing in today's society because we as Americans are still needing change in the welfare system, since poverty is still a prevalent issue. Gingrich mentions Medicare for elderly, “My father, my mother, and my mother-in-law all rely on Medicare” by him saying this, he is showing Americans that he knows firsthand what Medicare is like.This shows he is personable, and familiar with situations and eases the authoritative figure image. He continues to say, “... provide the care our seniors need with more choices at less cost to the elderly” Gingrich has acknowledged the fact that everyone gets old, and most feel comforted knowing that the best care will be offered to them (“The”). This helps further reassure Americans that their best interests are being put
In President Johnson’s State of the Union message, he pledged, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” The newfound president quickly signed the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which aimed at the origin of American poverty. Former president, JFK,
Obama emotionally influences the nation to move forward from the issues of race that is hindering America. Without dwelling on his family tree, Obama reminds us that his father was black and his mother white, that he came from Kenya, but she came from Kansas: “I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slave and slave owners — an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles, and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
Everyone knows what the word poverty means. It means poor, unable to buy the necessities to survive in today's world. We do not realize how easy it is for a person to fall into poverty: A lost job, a sudden illness, a death in the family or the endless cycle of being born into poverty and not knowing how to overcome it. There are so many children in poverty and a family's structure can effect the outcome. Most of the people who are at the poverty level need some type of help to overcome the obstacles. There are mane issues that deal with poverty and many things that can be done to stop it.
Poverty itself is a controversial and widely debated issue with a variety of opposing viewpoints. Despite differences in opinions on how poverty should be treated, the vast majority agrees that poverty is a problem plagues the nation on both economic and social levels. Economically, poverty affects everyone. As taxes are paid by the entire nation, poverty influences where our money goes and how it is spent. Socially, poverty affects families and individuals on an emotional level. Impoverishment affects happiness and health, the decisions people make, and most importantly the development of children. To best understand poverty, one must look at the issue economically and socially, and contextualize the numbers surrounding poverty as well as
President Obama’s memorial speech following the Tuscan shooting carefully utilized the Aristotelian appeal of pathos, or emotional appeals through his word choice, which aligned him with the American people while still conveying a sense of authority, and his use of biblical allusions, which drew his audience together on the basis of shared ideologies.
America has always been a country known for their great integrity, diversity, financial prosperity and great pop culture. It has been a place many people have flocked to from many different parts of the world in order to escape their very own poverty struck countries in their quest to build a new life in America and hopefully become financially stable. In this article written by M. Harrington he pointed out some key factors discussing how America has not really changed from over a hundred years ago. In specifics he tells how many years have gone by and still yet there is still a very large amount of a poverty class of people. Although our nation takes great pride on its classlessness there is still a one quarter percent of our country’s population that still lives in a poverty level. Some of these areas also included some inner city blacks, farmworkers, Appalachian whites and elderly people. Harrington’s book “The Other America” also tells us how as a country we have managed to hide the poverty level class from being seen while our country screams we are the wealthiest country in the world! America has done just that. Encourage the wealthy to become wealthier and poor to be poorer. It was also pointed out that the poverty class tends to have a poor language, poor mentality and just a poor outlook of the entire world view as a whole. He stated that the poverty people in this country are identified by a unique way of what is called “Culture Of Poverty”. What he was saying was that the mind of a poverty struck person will not ever surmount to doing things that will benefit them or change the course of their direction. In other words you may give a poor man a million dollars but he will not know wha...
This nation has a problem: more of its citizens rely on the federal government for help than to support themselves with a full time job. Poverty has many negative effects on the people who suffer from it and on the economy. Everyone needs to be made aware of poverty and the many negative effects it has on people. There are things that could be done to help reduce the amount of people that are in poverty. Reducing poverty would decrease health risks, strengthen the middle class, and help the democracy.
Poverty is an issue which the world faces everyday. It is a constant struggle that cannot be ignored anymore. As you can see defeating poverty would take great efforts and contributions from all. We must better educate the youth and have education available for everyone all over the world. We also need to ensure that everyone has a job and that they are properly skilled for the job. People need to realize that poverty affects everyone, not only the poor and uneducated. Our world would be a much better place if everyone pitched in to help defeat a major problem around the world, poverty.
In conclusion, sometimes actions take place that changes a person’s outlook on life and as you can see poverty is one that can have a huge effect on not only one person, but also the people around him/ her.