In July of 2014, Jarrett J. Krosoczka spoke at a TED talk in New York City. The people who typically attend TED talks are executives and CEO’s. Krosoczka started off his speech “Why lunch ladies are heroes” by talking about how he returned to his elementary school and saw his old lunch lady. She inspired him to create a graphic novel series about lunch ladies being super heroes. The purpose of this speech was to convince more people to see the importance of lunch ladies. Jarrett Krosoczka uses pathos and compound- complex sentences to show the reasoning behind why the work that lunch ladies do deserves recognition. Jarrett Krosoczka uses different stories to appeal to the audience’s emotions. He talks about how lunch ladies are the ones who …show more content…
Krosoczka first goes into detail about the topic, using sentences longer in length. He then ends the paragraph with a short sentence. Krosoczka stated “I had never thought about any of this before”. The use compound- complex sentences at the beginning of the speech, the audience gets to know in detail what Jarrett Krosoczka’s speech is going to be about. Then at the very end and the paragraph, the one simple sentence stands out because it lets the audience know the main idea or why Krosoczka is talking about this topic. By using compound- complex sentences for the majority of the first paragraph, and then one simple sentence, It adds emphasis to the short sentence and makes the audience focus on what Krosoczka says in the last sentence …show more content…
Hasty generalization was used when he said that all lunch ladies have not been treated very kindly. This goes against the pathos that was also being used because he tries making the audience feel bad for the lunch ladies, but they cannot assume that all lunch ladies are treated poorly. By using hasty generalization, it weakens Jarrett Krosoczka’s argument because since there is no valid reasoning, it makes the audience less likely to believe him. One of the strengths of the speech is when he quotes what an actual lunch lady says to him. Krosoczka stated, “For me, I was so moved by the response that came from the lunch ladies, because one woman said to me, she said, “Before this day, I felt like I was at the end of the planet at this school. I didn't think anyone noticed us down here. ” By adding this into the speech, the audience can see how it has actually affected the lives of lunch ladies. At the beginning of this speech, Krosoczka states that he published his first book in 2001. By being a published author, this proves to the audience that he knows what he is talking about and is not a random person giving a
The meal, and more specifically the concept of the family meal, has traditional connotations of comfort and togetherness. As shown in three of Faulkner’s short stories in “The Country”, disruptions in the life of the family are often reinforced in the plot of the story by disruptions in the meal.
Ehrenreich understands that her current employment will not provide her with enough pay to live on. She interviews and is hired at another restaurant called Jerry’s. Unfortunately, Jerry’s is a train wreck. At this restaurant, Ehrenreich finds that the restaurant layout is deplorable. The kitchen of the...
“A&P” tells a story about a young cashier who starts out being prejudice and bias, but then realizes he is just like the others he had been judging all day, and decides to prove he is different and gets caught up underneath everyone. In John Updikes “A&P”, the young cashier who is the main character, becomes the victim of his own opinionated statements. Sammy, a young cashier at a local market shows his very biased opinions when he describes the three girls walking around the store, when he talks about his fellow co-worker, Stokesies life, and when his manager, Lengal, comes into the scene to kick the girls out of the store.
“Naked Lunch” is a play written by Michael Hollinger in 2003. This play is one of the groups of written sixteen plays by several playwrights for Trepidation Nation: A Phobic Anthology, that was produced at the Humana Festival by the Actor Theatre of Louisville in 2002 to 2003. This is a one-act play that is around ten-minute long. It consists of only two actors: one man and one woman with a setting on a small dining area.
I thought that Diane Guerrero who is an American actress speech about her family’s deportation was interesting. She recently appeared on an immigration themed of Chelsea handler’s talk show. Guerrero is the citizen daughter of immigrant parents. Guerrero mentioned how her family was taken away from her when she was just 14 years old. “Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if i had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, i found myself basically on my own”, Guerrero added. Luckily, Guerrero had good friends to help her. She told handler how her family try to become legal but there were no sign or help. Her parents lost their money to scammers who they believed to be a lawyer. When her family’s
There are more than three billion people living on Earth; however, not everyone adores each other. On the other hand, if people met Bill and Bud, two main characters from The Tender Bar, they would find them charming. J.R. Moehringer wrote an emotional autobiography about himself and his devastating life, in The Tender Bar, J.R. walked into a bookstore in an unhabituated mall, and met Bill and Bud, who changes his life forever. Many youth, teens, and adults would find Bill and Bud likeable, because the pair of them are smart, optimist, and loving.
At the beginning of the story, three girls walk in with only bathing suits. As the story unfolds, a diligent reading of the description reveals that Sammy, the A&P cashier, desires the attention from the girls. As “Queenie” and her followers scroll through the aisles, the fellow costumers and the employee’s eyes were glued to their presence. The narrator is a teenager who works the checkout line. He does not notice them when they walk in, but as soon as he spots them he is glued and notices every detail about each of the girls. The author allows Sammy to have a dramatic
This Story takes place in 1961, in a small New England town's A&P grocery store. Sammy, the narrator, is introduced as a grocery checker and an observer of the store's patrons. He finds himself fascinated by a particular group of girls. Just in from the beach and still in their bathing suits, they are a stark contrast, to the otherwise plain store interior. As they go about their errands, Sammy observes the reactions, of the other customers, to this trio of young women. He uses the word "Sheep" to describe the store regulars, as they seem to follow one and other, in their actions and reactions. The girls, however, appear to be unique in all aspects of their beings: walking, down the isles, against the grain: going barefoot and in swim suits, amongst the properly attired clientele. They are different and this is what catches and holds Sammy's attention. He sees them in such detail, that he can even see the queen of the bunch. Sammy observes their movements and gestures, up until the time of their checkout. At which point, they are confronted by the store manager and chastised for their unacceptable appearance. He believes their attire to be indecent. Sammy, feeling that the managerial display was unnecessary and unduly embarrassing for the girls, decides to quit his position as checker. Thought he knows that his decision may be hasty, he knows that he has to follow through and he can never go back. He leaves, with a clean conscious, but the burden of not knowing what the future has in store.
John Updike's short story “A&P,” centers on a young immature and morally ambitious teenager who faces down the generation gap and, rather than bending to the dictates of the elders, rebels against them, securing his rather insecure place as a young, unproven man. Sammy, the main character, describes the entrance of a group of young attractive girls into the supermarket, “In walk these three girls in nothing but bathing suits…They didn’t even have shoes on”.(864) Sammy is mesmerized by their presence that he cannot do his job. The supermarket manager, Lengel, scolds the visitors by exclaiming “Girls, this isn’t the beach”.(867) Within the few moments after Sammy dramatically quits his job in protest of the quite impolite treatment by Lengel he says to himself “…and my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter”.(869) Because of his youth, and certainly because of the extremes of behavior that the young are prone to demonstrate, Sammy perceives that his life will forever be damaged by his actions. Though we certainly understand that this is not the case, that no one’s life is inexorably ‘ruined’ by the decision to do something momentous, it is certainly quite charming to transport ourselves into a time in our lives when such passions ruled us. This image awakens in us the expect...
Although quite common today, the scene John Updike describes in “A & P’ causes distractions in the normally uneventfully grocery store nestled in town. As Sammy goes about his usual business of assisting customers with their groceries purchases, three young ladies enter that cause quite a distraction. The A & P’s typically customers consist of matronly women and these beautiful young ladies cause Sammy’s attention to drift from his duties at the checkout as he sees the barefoot visitors enter the quaint store. The girls, sporting swim wear and barely covered sun kissed bodies, confidently move about and seem to be unaware of the obvious attention from spectators. Stokesie, a fellow cashier, finds his attention drawn to the girls as he exclaims, “I feel so faint”, (Updike 20) demonstrating the intoxicating effect of the unusual visitors.
In the short story “A&P”, John Updike uses similes, metaphors, and other figurative language in order to portray the narrator's opinion on women. He uses phrases such as “giving me hell”(Updike 1), “she was the Queen”(Updike 2), “buzz like a bee in a glass jar”(Updike 2), “shoulder bones like a denten sheet of metal”(Updike 2), “the sheep pushing their carts down the aisle”(Updike 2), and much more to describe the narrator's opinion on the people who go into the store. This insight into the narrator’s mind is a good tool to show his personality since the story is written in his point of view rather than third person or one of the girls.
John Updike’s “A&P” is a great short story to evaluate the complexity of human relationships and the challenging values of the world. The story is from the narrator’s point of view. The story setting takes place at a market where Sammy and his fellow co-worker witness three women come in and captivate their attention. The most beautiful girl, named “Queenie”, truly gets Sammy’s attention. The three girls were wearing nothing but bathing suits, which leads to the the manager causing a scene at the register. The narrator is so upset that the manager acted harshly towards the women that he quits on the spot and walks out of the market. Throughout the story, there are various complexions and values arise in the narrator’s mind.
The Onion's "Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliffs Notes" is an article with satirical and critical tone about a young communication major, Grace Weaver, who is emotional moved by reading the synopsis of the American classic Of Mice and Men over the original novel. In this article, the author describes Weaver's process and reaction to the assigned reading that aims to entertain an audience who has read the book. By using subtle satire and descriptions that let the reader understand the dangers of Weaver's shortcomings, the author is able to emphasize the importance of doing your own good work in a humorous and interesting manner.
Good Morning teachers and students. Margaret Atwood’s ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ along with Doris Lessing’s speech ‘On not winning the Nobel Prize’, are two of many persuasive and insightful speeches, which successfully communicate to the larger truths and incorporate common themes and principles, which continue to be of great relevance within the current social landscape of society through the engagement of rhetoric.
Commencement speeches, which are presented in American graduation ceremonies, aim to inspire and motivate. Successfully, Nora Ephron 's commencement speech addressed to the Wellesley Class of 1996; inspired her audience to "be the heroine of [their '] li[ves], not the victim". Through anecdotes, Ephron explored the differences between her education and the graduates at Wellesley College, to remind the women graduating that whilst society was different in many ways, in particular for women, "there was still a glass ceiling".