Most students believe that they have too much homework and not a sufficient time to finish it on time and it’s killing them. In these two essays “Too Much Homework, Too Little Time” by user name Laxdoublek on Teenink.com and “Satire: Homework Epidemic” by Ellen Keith of Medford High School, have many similarities and differences about the topic homework. Their essays are for everyone to realize just how much homework students in school are given. Keith does a better job getting her point across to the reader than Laxdoublek.
These two essays “Too Much Homework, Too Little Time” by Laxdoublek and “Satire: Homework Epidemic” by Ellen Keith have many examples in their essay on homework. One of the examples that they share are personal examples
He uses sadness to make the reader feel sorry for him and for another that have too much homework from school. One example of how he uses despair to make the reader feel sorry for him is by stating how he has no life and can’t do anything because homework is over taking his life.” I could participate in extracurricular activity like I used to, but now I can’t cause my grades are slipping due to not finishing my homework.”(LAXdoubleK) Another line that helps the reader feel sorry for him is “homework takes away all of my free time to spend with friends and family.”(LAXdoubleK) This line helps make the reader feel sorry for him because here’s someone that wants to but can’t spend time with their family and that’s rare to find a teen or preteen wanting to spend time with their family. That is how Laxdoublek creates emotion in his essay. The author, Keith creates tragedy as well, but better than Laxdoublek. She creates tragedy by making homework sound worse than it really is and that makes the sorrow better in her essay. She makes the reader feel sadness by making them feel sorry for the students that have died by the hand of homework. “It all started with Amy Lam, the poor girl stressed herself to death. While studying for a Streff test she kneeled over and never took the test she so desperately needed to pass.”(Keith) This line creates pathos because the reader will feel remorseful for the girl, Amy, because she died and she died
The audience they both are trying to persuade is everyone but especially parents and teachers. To parents, students are getting too much homework and to the teachers, they are giving to much homework. “”The essay by Keith does a better job using word choice to pull in their audience. Laxdoublek uses words from everyday life that everyone knows and uses all the time. “” While Keith on the other hand does a better job by using vocab that parents and teachers know and not everyone uses every day and that makes her essay interesting to their audience than Laxdoublek.
The two essays also have many things that are different from each other. One is their examples. Even though they had examples that were similar they also have examples that are different. Laxdoublek uses statistics in his essay. While Keith uses examples from other people’s lives.
What else is different between these two are their rhetorical strategies. Kieth uses
...ide: ". . .one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other." All three of these comparisons, while being beneficial to the essay's main idea, are too obscure and irrelevant to have any real persuasive power.
A difference that the essay have is how each person lives. In the Staples essay the man was born in poverty and still lives in it. In the essay it says:
The first, and most important, way in which these essays differ is that each one gives a different motivation for writing. George Orwell states that every author has 4 motives for writing: sheer egoism, aesthetic
As part of my English GCSE I have been asked to evaluate the 1st and 2nd
"I didn’t feel [stressed] until I was in my 30’s. It hurts my feelings that my daughter feels that way at eleven" (Ratnesar 313). This statement describes the intense issue facing the American Education System today. More and more students are spending a lot of out of school time on enormous amounts of homework. The overabundance of homework is putting pressure on the students, along with their parents. Our nation has steadily focused on after school studying to the point of possible exhaustion. In this paper, I will attempt to explain how educators are relying on homework as the major form of education, and how the amounts are too demanding on the students.
When you think about school one of the first things that pops into people’s mind is homework. Basically if you have asked your parents or your grandparents they would say that they remember the homework load. Now we all know that homework can be beneficial but also can be very unhealthy with all of the stress that it causes. Over the years the homework load has increased because of the fact that schools think that they need to try to keep up with other countries in academics. And will doing all of this homework now be all for nothing later? The homework load has increased these past couple of years and it is causing a lot of stress on kids and overall is not helping their academics in the long run.
Many people often say that students, teachers, and parents, think homework should be banned, but multiple people disagree. This heated topic has been debated for many years. Some parents and teachers think students have too much. However, some believe their students receive too little. Few schools already have banned homework, but the majority of schools don’t. Some people agree with having ten minutes multiplied by the grade level of the student. As experts continue adding additional facts about homework, it is clear that homework can help students in different ways.
There have been so many studies recently that talk about how homework has started to become more burdensome for more students. The United States has gone from teaching to shoving homework in kids’ faces to keep them on the idea that school is always there. Classes have been extended from 45 minutes each day to an hour and a half. This was supposed to allow students work time at the end of classes and get help when needed. Instead, teachers lecture from beginning to end. This gives no time for students to get the help they need when can’t come in any other time. The rationale has changed in America that doing more, always means doing better. This, however, can be the downfall to anything. There can’t be homework assigned just for busy work, that becomes a waste of time. The homework needs to be assigned as a thoughtful way to engage students, so they know what is being
According to Marzano and Pickering (2007) in an article titled the Case for and Against Homework, homework can be useful and very insurmountable when employed effectively. “Three import issues are the appropriate use of homework at various grade levels; the optimum amount of time students should spend on homework; and the most effective forms of parent involvement” (Pg. 76).
I usually don't read or focus on different styles of writing. I think the fear of indifference and confusion makes me not want to explore but also my patience isn't there. Reading these two essays it was really interesting seeing the contrast of personality and different style types of writing. I enjoyed the humor that Lamott showed but I also liked how detailed and clever Didion was. Didion talks about how much the effect writers have on readers while Lamott talks about how much effect the readers have on the writers. Lamott shows shes almost scared for anyone(reader) to read her first drafts but Didion describes how the writers have a “tactic of a secret bully” on the readers mind. After reading this it made me realize my writing is important
One of the reasons homework should be banned is because of the unnecessary stress and strain it creates for students. Many students are left pulling their hair out at homework time. Students struggle with homework for different reasons. Some of which are because they do not understand the assigned homework, or they are not being challenged, and quite possibly because they have hit their daily threshold for learning and have no more to give. Furthermore, students who struggle academically will likely require extra assistance to do their homework. Students are therefore tasked with finding a qualified person to assist them with homework. Students are not only under the stress of homework, but now they are under additional stress to find a qualified person that can assist them. Unfortunately, some students may not be able to obtain the help they need with their homework. Consequently and to no fault of their own their grades may be affected inaccurat...
Harris Cooper, a researcher on homework from Duke University, claims that too much homework causes stress. In this I paper will talk about the damaging effects homework has on a child, how homework causes students to dropout of school, and some ideas for an alternative to homework.
Schools find homework beneficial to students, but the amounts of homework given needs a reduction. The schools have debated the use of homework, causing modifications to the system of homework. They have also looked back into times as early as the nineteenth century, to find old techniques that may help students in today’s world. Countless hours of research, has proven that the human mind cannot process amplitude amounts of information in so much time. Homework can lead to academic success, and it becomes crucial to a student’s life. Although, it causes students to become stressed and losing time to do other in school or out of school activities. In today’s times, teachers need to understand how times have change
We all know the downfall of homework: the frustration and exhaustion, family conflict, time loss, and decreasing interest in learning. No study has ever demonstrated any academic achievement linked to assigning homework. There is also no support to the fact that homework provides nonacademic benefits at any age. Here are a few examples: building character, promoting self-discipline, or teaching good work habits. All teachers who assign homework want to believe that the gain outweighs the pain. Although, there is no evidence of that and they must rely on faith (“Homework: No Proven Benefits”, pg. 1). Michellea, a mother of a middle school student, says that some work can reinforce certain skills, but hours of homework are unhealthy and unproductive. Mominseattle agrees. She contemplates that such a heavy load can result in potential drawbacks to the students. Hours of homework a night plus a full day of school can be just as much work as an adult at a full-time job. She believes students should enjoy their childhood, as short as it already is. MagnetMom complains about how her daughter’s homework takes away her beneficial sleep. With busy families, like hers, they have many after school activities, so when they get home, they do not have time for too much homework. She says ...
Kralovec, author of The End of Homework argues that doing homework during high school has little or no effect on successful study skills of students in college. College students have only a few hours of class a week and lots of daytime hours in which to study. She says the college schedule is nowhere as grueling as in high school. In addition, the average adult does not return home from the office with three or more hours of work to complete (Kralovec). When "busy work" assignments are given carelessly and frequently, it causes students to lose interest in the subject. Negative results can also occur when a student is not able to complete his or her homework. Many times they will resort to copying homework, having others do their assignments, or cheating on tests. Bad habits such as these are likely to follow kids through their lives and have an effect on their moral judgment. With no consequences to these actions students will almost always take the easy way out when it comes to homework