Analyze Thompson’s use of the participant-observer role (p. 88) Thompson makes his status as an outsider clear when he states, “I bend over, noticing that most of the crew has turned to watch.” He his not a regular seen in the fields. By having this detail included it is evident people watched to see the new guy work. Thompson also manages to tell the readers something unfamiliar to them when talking about Mateo. He is an older co-worker thus, goes on to detail how the average field worker only lives up to 49 years old due to the harsh environment they face. His own failures are also emphasized throughout the story. Because he was unable to cut the head of the lettuce correctly, he cuts his finger causing a bruising that forces him to take …show more content…
89) There were several points throughout the text where Thompson gives a clear understanding of the issue and his thoughts about it. The most obvious is when he discusses Yuma, Arizona as the main lettuce production area when Salinas, California is incapable of doing so. No ordinary person can do this job. To be more specific, no American is willing to do it. Mexicans are the only ones who are up to do it for the wages provided. In fact, wages have gone up to $10-12 and hour to attempt to persuade Americans to join and have failed. Through his first day on the job, he made it clear that the job was challenging my even putting on his gear. Write a paragraph analyzing how Toufexis focuses her explanation (p.133) Toufexis focuses mainly on the idea and evolution of love. The talks about the concept of love from a different more scientific perspective. She talks about how love affects individuals and the statistics of romance and love in marriage and relationships. She illustrates that love is actually just chemicals in our bodies that dictate how men and women feel, simplifying the concept so that the reader can fully understand the purpose of her writing. Write a paragraph analyzing Toufexis’s use of the visual (p. …show more content…
Therefore, people are unable to make decision after decision. Through research, people’s actions are able to be classified as decision fatigue as in the case of the judge’s ruling of the prisoners. Two prisoners committed the same crime, yet one received parole. This was due to mental exhaustion throughout the day and not wanting to continue making more decisions. The cause and effect reasoning is shown through the two short-cuts approached through decision fatigue. Recklessness can be seen as people are unable to now make reasoned decisions because they are tired. Lastly, the decision may be avoided overall. This was seen in the judge’s case as not giving the prisoner parole allowed him to keep the communities safe from harm, but was unable to make the right decision for the
In the article “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy,” writer Clive Thompson argues that the widespread use of technology and social media does not make kids illiterate and unable to form coherent sentences, but instead, keeps them actively writing and learning. Thompson’s article is based off of a study done by Andrea Lunsford, a writing professor at Stanford University. Thompson agrees with Lunsford that the use of social media and the Internet allow students to be creative and get better at writing. In his article, Thompson quotes John Sutherland, an English professor at University College of London, to inform the audience of the opposite side of the argument. He states, “Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have
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.
“The Onion’s” mock press release on the MagnaSoles satirical article effectively attacks the rhetorical devices, ethos and logos, used by companies to demonstrate how far advertisers will go to convince people to buy their products. It does this by using manipulative, “scientific-sounding" terminology, comparisons, fabrication, and hyperboles.
Clive Thompson is a journalist, blogger and writer. He mainly focuses his writing on science and technology but this one chapter from his book Smarter than you think, “Public thinking,” has put a spin on writing and technology. Multiple times he talks about writing in many different forms. For example, he speaks of writing on blogs, on internet short stories (or fan fiction novels), in schools, in studies, and even on a regular basis. Thomson is trying to explain to his readers how writing, and the sharing of information across the internet, is beneficial to our society and ones well-being. In my readings of Thompson’s excerpt, I will examine Thomson’s examples and show how they are relevant and that it is beneficial.
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In a reality where the government strives to establish total equality, there are bound to be an immense amount of rebels and protesters who questions the newly established system. It is expected for the mass majority of individuals to be demeaning the so-called “equality” and demanding for change. However, this interpretation is far from the case in the fictional text “Harrison Bergeron”, where there appears to be daily brainwashing of the population, as well as law enforcement through putting bullets through people’s heads. The allegory attempts to depict a world where the government’s primary focus is to ensure that each and every individual is absolutely equivalent to one another. Taking place in 2081 America, there are several
In Florence Kelley's speech to the people attending the NAWSA convention, she uses emotional appeal to motivate her audience to convince their male counterparts to legalize voting for women, and also to persuade the males to help put an end to child labor.
The essays of Carr and boyd are all structured fairly similarly. The author explains the problem and then describes the effects the problem results in, also known as the cause and effect organizational strategy (“Introduction to Rhetorical Strategies”). One example of this organizational strategy is in Nicholas Carr’s essay when he discusses the Internet and how it is affecting him personally, he shares, “They [the Internet] supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 315). Carr makes it clear that the cause of the issue in this quote is the Internet, and the effects that the Internet have on him specifically,
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
During my first semester at the University of Alabama I wrote several essay including a response essay, a rhetorical essay, and annotated bibliography and a research essay. Although these assignments each had different objectives, they were all written to work towards reaching the Student Learning Objectives for English 103 that were provided at the beginning of the semester. This semester I worked to further my skills regarding my ability to employ writing strategies appropriate to each assignment’s purpose, locate assignment-appropriate sources from multiple places, and ethically use source material in academic arguments.
In a quote by John Mill, “Does fining a criminal show want of respect for property, or imprisoning him, for personal freedom? Just as unreasonable is it to think that to take the life of a man who has taken that of another is to show want of regard for human life. We show, on the contrary, most emphatically our regard for it, by the adoption of a rule that he who violates that right in another forfeits it for himself, and that while no other crime that he can commit deprives him of his right to live, this shall.” Everyone’s life is precious, but at what price? Is it okay to let a murderer to do as they please? Reader, please take a moment and reflect on this issue. The issue will always be a conflict of beliefs and moral standards. The topic
This passage marks the first of several types of love, and gives us an intuitive
Love is a concept that has puzzled humanity for centuries. This attachment of one human being to another, not seen as intensely in other organisms, is something people just cannot wrap their heads around easily. So, in an effort to understand, people write their thoughts down. Stories of love, theories of love, memories of love; they all help us come closer to better knowing this emotional bond. One writer in particular, Sei Shōnagon, explains two types of lovers in her essay "A Lover’s Departure": the good and the bad.
To think, if this is an actual rule that newcomers must take to mind before they begin to work the lettuce fields, than you can already determine the level of difficulty not only Thompson is involved with but also the community of farmworkers employed in those fields. There is an abundance of leafy greens produced in Yuma Arizona, but not enough farmworkers to help harvest them. Most americans are not willing to take up the work however, the latinos located across the border are more than happy to step into this labor, yet
The Symposium, The Aeneid, and Confessions help demonstrate how the nature of love can be found in several places, whether it is in the mind, the body or the soul. These texts also provide with eye-opening views of love as they adjust our understanding of what love really is. By giving us reformed spectrum of love, one is able to engage in introspective thinking and determine if the things we love are truly worthy of our sentiment.