The U.S. sometimes helps other countries that are underdeveloped, economically speaking. And while those countries who receive the help benefit from it, there issue still stands whether or not helping these countries is the right thing to do. Many U.S. citizens believe that it is America’s responsibility as a developed country to aid lesser developed and struggling countries. Others believe that the U.S. should focus on it’s own economic struggles before tending to anyone else's needs. I agree with the former. The U.S. has many homeless people, most of which are veterans, and , and somehow most of the money made goes to football players and celebrities instead of working men and women [www.payscale.com]. While this is an issue we definitely need to be focusing on, there are people in other countries who have much less than we already have. Think of it this way: a bunch of kids in 2 lines to get soup. In line A, every kid gets soup, but some get a lot less than the others in line, but still enough to fill a third of the bowl. In line B, ALL the …show more content…
Imagine your country is very undeveloped; imagine your water supply is dirty, or your schools are so small that several large handfuls of children have to cram into a few classes and the school building itself isn’t as sturdy and well built as you’d like it to be. Imagine a house with just dirt floors. Imagine all the houses are like that. Houses in America can be pretty unkept and old looking, yeah, but try even worse than that. Downgrade as far as your mind could imagine. Wouldn’t you want a country who already has a standing economic system to help you? If the U.S. ever falls into something similar to the Great Depression, or war is fought on our soil, destroying our cities, would we not be open to the idea of a friendly country lending a hand? We would be, and the countries of that current standing,
Jonathan Kozol revealed the early period’s situation of education in American schools in his article Savage Inequalities. It seems like during that period, the inequality existed everywhere and no one had the ability to change it; however, Kozol tried his best to turn around this situation and keep track of all he saw. In the article, he used rhetorical strategies effectively to describe what he saw in that situation, such as pathos, logos and ethos.
Despite there being hundreds of video game releases every year, most of these games are unoriginal and therefore unplayable. There are countless video game genres, but one of the most popular genres in the past few years have been the zombie games, also called survival games. I was thoroughly convinced that all the games in this genre were clichéd and overdone, until I played the video game The Last of Us. Even though it is a survival game, the focus is not on gruesome zombies or gratuitous violence, making it already vastly different from the others. Instead, the focus is on telling a story. Between the gorgeous graphics, serene music, and flawless acting, it already goes beyond being just another “zombie game,” but this isn’t even accounting
The tone during the whole plot of in Brave New World changes when advancing throughout the plot, but it often contains a dark and satiric aspect. Since the novel was originally planned to be written as a satire, the tone is ironic and sarcastic. Huxley's sarcastic tone is most noticeable in the conversations between characters. For instance, when the director was educating the students about the past history, he states that "most facts about the past do sound incredible (Huxley 45)." Through the exaggeration of words in the statement of the director, Huxley's sarcastic tone obviously is portrayed. As a result of this, the satirical tone puts the mood to be carefree.
The article “The Coddling Of The American Mind”, written by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, was written about how teachers are afraid of what they are allowed to say during in class because of the emotional effect on the students. While writing the article the authors have many examples of logos, ethos, and pathos. The logos of the article appeals to logic by presenting facts and statistics. The writers provide definitions of words such as microaggression and trigger warning. While explaining the definitions they go on to give real world examples to further the understanding of the words. Also statistics of the amount of mental health issues are provided to enhance the logos. Secondly to make the article more appealing is adding an emotional
The United States continues to give around $550 billion in aid to other countries each year, making America the world's top donor by far (Richardson). While the United States government only supplies $252 billion to needy Americans each year. Former Assistant to the President for Communications, Patrick Buchanan said, "The idea that we should send endless streams of tax dollars all over the world, while our own country sinks slowly in an ocean of debt is, well, ludicrous" (Foreign Aid). The United States need to give money to support the domestic impoverished rather than supporting developing foreign countries because the poverty and homelessness in America is increasing faster than the aid necessary to reduce this trend. Part of the reason that the United States should aid the domestic impoverished is that some foreign countries cannot be trusted with the money given to them and in certain cases, the money intended to aid countries are harmful for that country’s well-being.
The reason Robert MacNeil wrote “Do You Speak American?” was because he wants to reach his audience, the educated and/or interested people of the United States that have some form of interest in the modern English that is being developed. Especially those who have seen the PBS version of this article. With this article MacNeil wants to convey that diversity in American English should be tolerated and accepted as a whole. MacNeil uses many examples to explain this why the diversity of the English language is essential and unique to the United States. He wants to prove that this is a good thing for the United States to go through.
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
Lost in America is a text on how the generations before us were set with a language barrier. Breaking this barrier could a have benefited us in countless ways. It starts from beginning to end, talking about how we begin to change our aspects for foreign countries. Douglas McGray states that students did not study abroad in the world war generations. America basically shuts its door on trying to learn different languages. This hurts us in the wars and foreign affairs. As time went on, this problem begins to get fixed and languages begin to enter the “American,” language. He writes “Lost in America,” with the experience and knowledge through other people. Every person learns through two ways: Through Experience or someone else’s experience. Douglas
The movie trailer “Rio 2”, shows a great deal of pathos, ethos, and logos. These rhetorical appeals are hidden throughout the movie trailer; however, they can be recognized if paying attention to the details and montage of the video. I am attracted to this type of movies due to the positive life messages and the innocent, but funny personifications from the characters; therefore, the following rhetorical analysis will give a brief explanation of the scenes, point out the characteristics of persuasive appeals and how people can be easily persuaded by using this technique, and my own interpretation of the message presented in the trailer.
From a young age, José Martí began dedicating his life to the promotion of liberty, and political independence for Cuba as well as the intellectual freedom for all Spanish Americans. One of his famous works, “Our America” stood as a rhetorical rally to unify Cubans from all backgrounds to come together for a common cause. To Martí, the need for a second revolution in the name of independence was evident. Throughout his work, he expresses admiration for the United States, applauding the function of democracy, while still stressing the dangers of its expansion into Latin America.
Author Douglas McGray, in his article “Lost in America,” fights for the expansion of foreign language education in schools by focusing on the present and potential future effects the issue will have on the state of America’s world relations and world business market. To efficiently communicate his message for expansion, McGray publishes his article in Foreign Policy Magazine—a publication known for its political demographic. He publishes his article there with the intent to persuade his intended audience, lawmakers, to pass additional policies and laws expanding foreign language in schools. McGray compiles evidence from history, research, and some of his own thoughts on global education in America. He includes several rhetorical choices such
In Mori’s essay, she uses her real life experiences so that the audience can trust her opinions. She talks about how students in Japan are not given any type of help to improve their work. The Japanese teachers do not give any advice on how to do better. They are simply told to “try harder”.The students do not questions the teachers at all. In America, the teachers actually take time to help their students improve their grades, and students are even told to fill out evaluation forms of their teachers.
The authors of “Coddling of the American Mind,” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, use ethos, logos, and pathos convey their negative stance regarding trigger warnings and the effect they on education. Lukianoff and Haidt’s use of rhetorical appeal throughout the article adds to the author’s credibility and the strength of the argument against increasing the use of trigger warnings in school material. The authors, Lukianoff and Haidt, rely heavily upon the use of logos, such as relations between conflicts surrounding trigger warnings and other historical conflicts impacting student ethics. Examples of the use of these logical appeals are the relation between the Columbine Massacre and the younger generations ideology. The author goes on to mention other societal turning points such
Homeless individuals are known for taking hand outs and they prefer to plead for money rather than to go work for it. People assume most of the the money that is given to homeless people they spend it on drugs and alcohol because of the fact that many homeless people have drug and alcohol addictions. It is not uncommon to come across homeless youth and older homeless population that are known to abuse substances like drugs and alcohol. Because of the fact that homeless people have substance abuse problems, they tend face illnesses and infections. Many hard working Americans ask themselves “why don’t homeless people just get jobs?” The assumption is they are just lazy and unmotivated. Homeless people choose to live the life they live. Everyone goes through problems but not all people take the path homeless people do. The problems homeless people face is not an excuse for them to be helped and maintained by other hard working people. Although homelessness might be a choice to some, no one knows the hardships these people have gone through. Some assume these people are just lazy but in reality a lot of these homeless people have jobs of their own, they just can’t afford housing and a decent life. Everyone has their own opinion on homeless people, but that does not change the fact that one should still serve the homeless. Not because homeless people need help but because we are
Adam Smith called his theory the invisible hand in his work the “wealth of nations.” When an individual tries to help society or an economy in general he soon finds he is unable to help by focusing on the needs of others. When that same individual focuses on his needs and self interest he ultimately winds up benefiting his society and economy. This theory states that the producer when focused on his self interest creates goods and services, builds business, supports banking with his money, and increases trade. This in turn helps everyone else because jobs are created, products are made, and the credit system is supported. If this person focuses on others success he is unable to create anything or provide anything for his economy. This theory applies to economies of nations. If the United States sets out to fix other economies nothing is created and no new business is started in the U.S. Fixing economies requires money and resources that come from tax revenue which depends on a healthy and expanding U.S economy. If the United States focuses on our economy the invisible hand theory states GDP will rise, inflation will slow or decrease, unemployment will spiral downward, and tax revenue will increase. This will allow for more international trade, lower tariffs, increased exports and more opportunity for the world economy at large. Adam Smiths theory is proven to be true in a free market system which is what the U.S economy is based on. Focusing on the U.S economy is the best way to help underdeveloped countries and trade partners because it increases opportunity and