Critical Analysis Of 'All Kids Should Take Poverty 101'

All Kids Should Take “Poverty 101” Critical Analysis There are many views on poverty and how we can prevent it. One in particular I found both intriguing and controversial is the idea presented by Donna Beegle in her writing “All Kids Should Take ‘Poverty 101’”. She puts out the thought of having a class for students geared solely towards making students aware of the tragedies behind poverty, how people live in poverty and their lifestyle, how they perceive learning, and how to prevent it. Teaching students about poverty is a wonderful idea as long as it is not mandatory or done at a time in school where the students are mature enough to take it as a learning and not fuel to tease less fortunate students living in poverty.

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She makes the statement “I was born into generational poverty; for many decades, most of my family members were uneducated, unskilled, and, like 44 million Americans, illiterate” and uses this person experience of the topic to support much of her points she makes (Beegle 342). The use of persuasive writing is defiantly present in the writing. She does this while using her personal, and uses situations such as, to paraphrase, when she quit school her teachers told her it would be bad for her future, but because it was not put in a perspective that was easy for her to understand, it was no help to her. She goes on to say that if this teacher had taken the course she would have known how to make an argument more appealing to her concerns and would have had a better argument of why she should have stayed in school (Beeegle 342). In the writing the author does not use any intimidating or confusing language and is mostly down-to-earth with her explanations of her points. There is, however, the use of appeals in the writing. Beegle uses a logic appeal by referring to Oprah Winfrey as credible authority and does this by