The Rhetorical Analysis Of Colin Powell's Kids Need Structure

What Colin Powel ideas in Ted Talk "Kids need structure" (October 2012) are that we need to structure our children to meet a develop effectively so that children have a more vintage later in life. Colin Powell gives a speech on Ted Talks in which he gives examples why children need structure in their lives. It is important that we come together as a community to help the younger cohort. There is to many of this cohort that lives with a single parent, parents that both work, or with their grandparents and in most cases the children lack structure. In conclusion, most of these kids lack the interaction with parents, family, friends, neighbors, peers, colleagues, and community. Colin Powell successfully convinces his audience that structure at a young age imperative through the use of personal experiences and knowledge, paired with the emotional appeal of anecdotes and stories; in addition, Colin Powell employs an effective tone about how people can help kids in their own community be successful.

He talks about how he was criticized for making a student stand at attention in front of the classroom to shake his hand. Powell's belief that all children need structure and that is why the young adult is standing at attention in front of the class. He does this with most kids that he meets in a classroom environment. The reason he does this is that of his military background. Powell explains why, that when individuals enter the military they would have all the same clothes, cut their hair. Then they are introduced to the drill sergeant that they would hate. The individuals would learn structure and were taught "yes sir; no sir; no excuse sir." (Powell) After this would happen they learned to admire the drill