In the article “The Joy of Being a Jerk”, in which Sam Dean talks about-about the problem of bullies. He took a closer look to bullies and made a comparison with mice. He found out there is a feeling that a bully has when they are hurting others. The author who wrote this essay was Sam Dean who is a writer. In the essay what made it good was the way he used ethos. “A new study out of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that bullying is pleasurable and pinpointed the pathway followed by the neural rewards of bullying in the brain”(Dean). He made the essay reliable because he kept on referring to the study that was made by the mice and man. He also had the statement made by “Golden” who would talk about the experiment of bullies. …show more content…
Studies show that it can “feel good” or “pleasurable ” like a reward. The essay had a study made with mice, in the study they notice that men and mice are similar. The writer's purpose was to inform the reader that mice and the man are similar because the mice will attack the “virgin mice”, which is equivalent to a senior bulling a freshman. In the experiment, they notice that there is this protein “C-Fos” that activates the pleasurable in the mice. They believe that the man has the same feeling as well which leads to being a bully. I know that this is an informative essay because he would have quotes that would explain the study's result. “How did these neuroscientists even find these tiny Nelsons Muntz? And what does it mean to be a bully, as a mouse? Most importantly: Can they be stopped?”(Dean) This is an example of the loaded question fallacy because of the different questions it can be used to confuse or make the reader
The article, “Girl Moved To Tears By 'Of Mice And Men' Cliffs Notes,” published by The Onion, argues through its satire that people shouldn’t cry over the dry, analyzed parts like the summaries and that they should read the book instead. The type of satire used to develop the thesis is horatian and a satirical device used to develop the thesis is irony. The article is filled with verbal irony with direct quotes from Weaver like “‘I never wanted the synopsis to end’” and from her professor that said, “this was not the first time one of his students has expressed interest in the novel’s plot summary.” The target of the satire are students who read summaries rather than the entire book and the purpose is to encourage students to read the book rather than Cliff Notes to get all the information. The opposing argument is that sources like Sparknotes and Cliff Notes can actually help a student if they don’t understand something they just read or if they are under a time crunch.
The use of specific examples such as anti-bullying in Edmonton, Canada, and political views of Democrats in Austria to give the reader physical places and people to link the thesis to everyday life. Leo also uses statistics to demonstrate to the reader the absurdity of some “nannyism’’ policies. In line eight, he uses the definition of a bully to show that 99 percent of students would be defined as one. Therefore, he shows how the simple idea of an anti-bullying program would require much more work than originally thought.
To begin, the article, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk” by Virginia Morell, had information that was presented in a very lighthearted and formal way. Even though the author conveyed the information in a cheerful manner, she still got the point across in a very informative and intellectual way. The article reads, “Elephants know when they need a helping hand-or rather, trunk...To test the elephants’ cooperation skills, a team of scientists modified a classic experiment first administered to chimpanzees in the 1930s, which requires two animals work together to earn a treat. If they don’t cooperate, neither gets the reward,” (Morell Paragraph 2). This quote demonstrates the fact that the author used the technique of adding humorous sentences when appropriate or needed to break up all the important information she was saying. Not only did she include amusing phrases, but she included sentences that were relevant to the experiment and the overall topic of the article. Next, in the video, “Elephants Show Cooperation” which was presented by Discovery News, the tone was very cheerful and informative. The narrator in the film said the information in a very light and happy way, so it made the reader want to listen to what he was saying. Also, the way that he conveyed the information in a very easy manner was beneficial to the audience because they could understand the point he was trying to get across. Not only did the author relay the information in a light and pleasant way, but he also did so in a way that was informative. He gave the reader a wide variety of information to take away about the experiment, and it really allowed the audience to envision what the whole test looked like. Finally, in the passage, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task” by Joshua M. Plotnik, the tone was very serious, yet factual. The
However, “The Coddling of the American Mind” is not an informative piece, as it is filled with opinions and methods of emotional persuasion towards the author's belief upon the topic. The rhetorical device pathos is abundant towards the end of the article where the author is dependent on negative connotations and emotionally captivating statements in order to convey the idea that students should be aware of the potential to be offended and accepting of it as a part of life. Lukianoff and Haidt's negative vocabulary can be seen through words such as “Blaming” and “catastrophizing”; these words are synonymous with overreacting or the inability to accept and negatively impact the opposing side's argument about student anxiety. Negative connotative vocabulary alongside statements directed towards the reader's emotions such as, “In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline
Most bullies share certain characteristics. Usually, a bully is bigger than the person he is aggravating. Also, he tends to think highly of himself, normally because he feels inadequate. Thirdly, a bully picks on a person who is different or thinks differently than him. In “Rowing the Bus”, Paul showcases the characteristics of a bully.
William Golding’s article, “Why Boys Become Vicious” is a descriptive account of the negative behavior some boys posses. It describes several instances where boy’s behavior can be extremely violent and cruel. In his article Golding also gives reasons for some of these actions and attempts to determine whether deep seeded cruelty is something people are born with, or if it is something people collect throughout their lives. He supports these two possibilities with conditions that could cause issues to arise in boys.
As a bully there are a lot of things that are done out of anger or any emotions. As the story progressed more and more ways of bullying popped up mainly in the characters who were the bad
To summarize, the use of emotion, credibility and reasoning by Sally Thomas clearly and successfully argues that a boy is rough by nature and not violent given a war toy. The sequential use of reasoning, range of authority, and use of emotions in the article made the readers get into the character of a boy and truly understand the points Thomas was making. It is important to study the true cause and effects of violence on boys and act accordingly for fair and peaceful society. Thomas writes the article in order to make the readers realize the true fact behind the violence of boys so maybe people might make the right decision against the roughness.
School shootings and suicides result from continuous bullying. As a result, after time some side effects of...
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The psychoanalytic perspective (Erikson’s psychosocial stages), Sigmund Freud Ego or psychological defense mechanism, and behaviorism and social learning theory, are important to understanding adolescent bullying. In the psychoanalytic approach, development is discontinuous and as such occurs in stages where “people move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological drives and social expectations, and how these conflicts are resolved depends on the person’s ability to learn, to cope with others and cope with stress” (Berk 2010, p.15). According to Sigmund Freud from this theory, individuals use a mechanism called psychological defense mechanisms which when they feel an overpowering anxiety, the ego employs to protect themselves against unwanted, scary feelings or weaknesses within their psyche or consciousness. The use of these defense mechanisms can be useful sometimes and also hurtful at other times to us and others, which emanates as aggressive behavior e.g. bullying [2]. Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development are important for understanding bully behavior. According to Erikson, a “basic psychological conflict which is resolved along a scale from positive to negative determines a healthy or maladaptive outcomes of each stage” [Berk 2010, p.16], in other words as the child grows and goes through each of the psychosocial stages, he or she negotiates new cognitive and emotional experiences which enables him or her to pass through the stage with either a positive or negative outcome. The effects and results of a negative outcome from the stages can be used to describe aggressive behavior such as bullying [Berk 2010, p.16]. According to the behaviorism and learning theory, they believed that b...
Did you know that over 3.2 million kids are victims of bullying each year? In the excerpt from Margaret Cho’s autobiography titled Camp Cruel, a young girl named Moran tells her experience with being bullied. She describes in detail what children did and said to her and how she dealt with it. Moran goes on a church summer retreat with kids that she’s known all her life. She speaks about how she was picked on by everyone she came in contact with at the retreat. Most of the kids at the retreat would call Moran, “Moron” because they said that this name was a better fit for her. Their constant rudeness really discouraged Moran. She was just a young Korean girl wanting to fit in and make friends. However, she couldn’t even do that because she was constantly getting bullied by everyone. As the story continues, Moran comes to her senses and realizes that what other people think about her does not matter. What matters most is what you think about yourself. You must push those negative people away in order to survive.
This article talks about how upset students get from getting bullied at school. They become more upset from getting bullied at school than getting cyberbullied. It is one of the worst forms of bullying and causes students to not perform as well as they can at school. It is a useful source to use to understand the different forms of bullying and was able to use for support in my essay.
(Evidence) Despite the fact that he didn’t fight back, he stood strong through his years of torment and intimidation. He had pleaded several times for the principals at his schools to help his situation, but they proved to be not conducive at all. He persevered and reaped his reward later when he was slightly older and took his case to court. Imagine suing a school! (Elaboration of Evidence) His decision was not warmly welcomed as he received threats and insults from people who thought it was insane to sue a place of learning. However, he and the people supporting him wanted his justice and fought his way towards it. His case was first declined, but once a popular lawyer came to their side to assist, the case was accepted at federal court. With the aid of the lawyer and some surprising witnesses, such as one of the bullies himself, they won the case. (Evidence Supports Thesis Statement) This shows that in one way, he stood up for himself. He might have not done it at the time when he was bullied, but he made sure he got justice for other’s discourteous actions. While some people despised his decision, he deserved every penny of the $900,000 compensation he received, or the fact that he obtained his much deserved
The evidence indicates that, kids don't fully understand what they are doing, they thing it's a joke. The author argues that bullies should be held responsible for their actions. We cannot do this because bullies are just kids they don´t understand. According to the text of ¨Are bullies criminals?¨,¨The death of Phoebe Prince was tragic, but it's not right to punish criminals.¨ In the literal sense the quote means.¨People that kill themselves is a tragic thing but there is no reason to give bullies a punishment.This detail illustrates that bullies don’t understand because they think it’s a joke. This means that bullies don't try to hurt them. This matters because if a bully does this, they can't go to jail immediately. They don't have to go to jail. Therefore we don’t need to send them to jail. People have to do something.