In 2011, Donna Hicks wrote her book Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict. Hicks’ Ph.D. in educational psychology and twenty years of experience in international conflict resolution allowed her to write this text about psychological injuries to a person 's sense of self-worth. In her text, Donna Hicks discusses the damaging effects a negative authoritative figure could have, especially on young children and their dignity. Also mentioned is how impressionable children can be and how those impressions can follow them into adulthood. The author’s intended audience appears to be anyone interested in remedying their psychological injuries and improving their sense of self-appreciation. Hicks’ reasoning for composing this text …show more content…
The first example used is a personal example that provides pathos . Hicks states that she went to a friend’s son’s birthday party and the son, Seth, got humiliated. Seth’s father told him to “toughen up” while his mother tried to comfort him. The altercation was uncomfortable for Hicks and her husband. This specific example contains both imagery and pathos. The author uses specific words and phrases to set the stage for the reader. When describing the setting of the party, she writes “The dinner table was set underneath a huge maple tree strung with little white lights.” In this sentence, the author uses the words huge, little, and white to aid the reader in forming a mental image of the host’s backyard. Hicks wishes for the reader to be inserted into the setting so they will be more entertained and interested. As the story progresses, she adds pathos in an attempt to get the reader invested. Hicks includes charged phrases such as “Margot stormed out of the room” and “Seth left the room with his chin on his chest…”. By doing this, the author draws the audience in and keeps them captivated. Pathos, in this case, also successfully provides a feeling of sympathy for the young boy. Providing a feeling of sympathy allows the author to depict the negative effects of damage to one 's dignity. By using this personal example first, the reader is intrigued because they may have experienced …show more content…
She writes “The purpose [of examining our early experiences] is to uncover the truth about… our unworthiness.” The main reason Hicks wrote this piece is to aid others in overcoming their sense of unworthiness. Her purpose is to help people realize their potential problems. Through saying this, she makes her purpose apparent so the reader is not left guessing about its’ significance.
The final example Hicks uses is that of a man who won an award but still felt underappreciated. By including this example, she shows how severe the effects of a low sense of dignity can be. Also through this example, she discusses the steps needed to be taken to overcome a low sense of dignity issue. When she writes this, the reader can tell that Hicks is genuine in her purpose; she wants to help the reader rediscover their true worthiness.
The last two paragraphs of Hicks’ work are spent restating the significance of overcoming dignity issues. She tells the reader of the importance of healing “internal wounds”. The author communicates her purpose so often and clear throughout her piece to get through to her audience. She wants to make sure that the reader understands her text’s purpose
Donna Freitas “Time to Stop Hooking Up. (You Know You Want to.)” First appeared as an editorial in the Washington Post in 2013. In this essay Freitas aims to convince her readers that hooking up may seem easy and less stress than a real relationship, but in reality they become unhappy, confused, and unfulfilled in their sex life. “Hookups are all about throwing off the bonds of relationships and dating for carefree sex” personal experience, compare and contrast are a few techniques Freitas skillfully uses to strong convincing essay.
One example of Gladwell's use of pathos is in his personal story in the epilogue. Mr. Gladwell gives an excerpt from his mother's book about being dark skinned. "Here I was, the wounded representative of the negro race in our struggle to be accounted free and equal with the dominating whites!" she says. This account of the hardship of being "dark" begs the reader to consider his and her prejudices. Another example of Gladwell's use of pathos is his depiction of the feud between two families in the 19th century. This section's purpose is to provide an example of people impacted by their ancestry. In this situation, the culture is one of honor. Gladwell portrays this through dialogue between a mother and a son. The mother tells the son to "die
Dignity is not found in a person’s position, but in the way their actions reflect upon them. The novel
For example, the emotion is felt when Kozol speaks to a student from a New York, Bronx high school, “Think of it this way,” said a sixteen-year-old girl. “If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone…how would they feel? Then when asking how she thought the people of New York would feel she replied, “I think they’d be relieved” (Kozol 205). By mentioning the thoughts and emotions of individuals involved with the issues of school system segregation and inequality his reader cannot help but develop a feeling of empathy for children that feel as if no one cares about them and their issue. Kozol also uses pathos effectively by reading letters to his reader he received from young elementary school children that are not afforded the same amenities as other children in wealthier school systems, amenities such as toilet paper or the appropriate amount of restrooms. Which causes students to hold the urge to relieve themselves out of fear of being late for class (Kozol 214). With the proper use of pathos, Kozol places the reader in the same situation and assistances the reader with an understanding of his reason for conveying a concern to help children in this unfortunate situation. Another example of Pathos is when he speaks of the letters that came from third-grade children asking for help with getting them better things. He mentions a letter that had the most affected on him that came from a girl named Elizabeth, “It is not fair that other kids have a garden and new things. But we don’t have that.” (Kozol 206). This example being only one example of the few things mentioned in the letter. The tone of the little girl from when Kozol reads gives a pitiful and sad feeling. By stating this, it acts on the reader’s emotional state which creates a sense of wanting to resolve the problem of
In her book, Lisa Cahill, a theologian bioethicist does not object the necessity and a patient 's right to self-determination, or autonomy. Echoing the voices of Beauchamp and Childress, who both stress the necessity of informed consent, as an integral part of autonomy, Cahill views it as necessary in the prevention of abuse and unethical practices. She also views the principle of autonomy a means of recognizing the dignity of a human being that is reflected in Christian teachings. Cahill, however, does not want this principle to be the only one valued.
Society tends to encourage virtuous qualities such as kindness, patience and optimism, indeed, these are virtuous qualities that could make up potential leaders and role models. But, the irony is that in some circumstances virtues can become a hindrance not just to yourself, but the people around you as well. This happened to Aunt Burnie, a gentle caretaker of the narrator and two girls Min and Jade, in George Saunders’ “Sea Oak”. Due to burglary, Aunt Burnie’s life came to an end, but due to strange circumstances she was resurrected. This resurrection changed her completely Aunt Burnie was no longer her pleasant self but full of spite and anger due to her life experiences and her compensation in death. Though she worked hard and was complacent
In conclusion, Jane has been through oppression and depression but she stands up for what she believes in. Jane gains her femininity, socialization, individuality and freedom. Her husband, who has been oppressing her for so many years, is no longer her prison guard. Jane defies her husband, creeps right over him and claims her life” so, that I had to creep over him every time” (Gilman 1609). Jane is now her own personal freedom through perseverance.
Jacobs, being a slave, had the ability to write about her life and to capture the attention of the audience as to how fragile her life was. Today, it is obvious that slavery was wrong, but at a time when freedom for few wasn’t accepted, this work of encouragement was so critical. For Jacobs had taken the right stance on this very important issue and wrote a very strong auto ethnographic piece in the areas of a contact zone. Even though her work is not accurately accepting towards Pratt’s contact zone, Jacobs work clearly makes a valid argument against slavery.
Owens and Sawhill use pathos to evoke the feelings of their readers. This method establishes
...atly, was undoubtedly ruined by the diet and stress she experienced as a result of forcible removal by welfare workers not dissimilar to myself. Yet, this inescapable dilemma only reinforces my striving to achieve the ideals demonstrated by my profession. These ethics, complex and often at conflict with the reality of welfare are the light that guides my professional practice through the perils of historic white shame.
In Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee employs Atticus’s strengths and weaknesses to point to the integrity of his character and roles in the novel. Atticus displays his integrity courageously in his positions as a father, lawyer, and member of the community. Reflecting on the moral of the story, Atticus represents the integrity that leaves an impression on his audience – he ends up teaching his audience. It’s inevitable not to walk away without the new perspective of what it means to judge someone before he remembers, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39).
The novel “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte, and the novella “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James, both display the treatment of pride for upper and lower class similarly. Furthermore, the treatment of pride will be compared and contrasted in this essay to examine and understand how pride is treated. In novel and novella both the lower class characters believe their pride makes them superior beings. Although the pride of lower and upper-class characters led them to their corruption. Moreover, the upper-class characters in each narrative maintain their respectability by their pride. However, in “Jane Eyre” all casts must have their emotions controlled by their pride, or this will lead to inappropriate behavior. Nevertheless, in “The Turn of
In analyzing McBride’s essay the rhetorical devices found to be used were logos and pathos. First, it will be sho...
...onal connection with each other that enables the feeling of empathy. Through each narrative the differences, as well as the similarities, establish the beginning of what is in today’s world and how people have changed. Each of the narratives were created for a purpose and as the themes, differences, and faith is established the purposes are expressed as the author allows each and every person reading to dive into their trials and afflictions. Through the captivation of the reading audience, there is the question of what is our own faith, hope, and view of self vs. other? Though captors and slaves or not prevalent in today’s day and age, there is still other items that can capture our thoughts and mind and lead us into a captivity that brings about trials and afflictions. Is faith and hope the answer to these afflictions? Does faith and hope make afflictions easier?
This is accompanied by much of the excessive control and invalidation schools that echoes the same processes that follow parental styles. In addition, the common practise of schools advocating for self-esteem programs where children internalise that ‘they are special’ further develops an exaggerated and inflated positive self-view that morphs into an almost deluded sense of celebrity and grandiosity (Twenge, 2014). The consumption of mass media also reinforces inflated positive self-views by appealing to one’s sense of uniqueness and individualism; and the prevalence and accessibility of such media, be it from television or through the Internet, serves to push it to epidemic proportions (Gentile, Twenge, Freeman, & Campbell, 2012; Twenge & Campbell,