Carlson Disabled Child

To engage a large audience, Staples appeals to readers with his use to two different points of views throughout the essay: societal views and black views. Staples tries to connect with the readers by giving examples of unconscious thoughts that run through the minds of most people when in the same situation as the “white women.” In his opening sentence, Staples calls the women a “victim.” In her own eyes, she herself was “victim” due to the influence of generalized stereotypes presented in our culture. She becomes quick to judge based on Staples appearance: his skin tone. Because of his color, his every action becomes nothing but threats and anxiety on the women. “She casted a back worried glance. To her, the youngish black- broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a

At this period in her life, Anne was just beginning to expose herself to the issues surrounding race-relations and efforts by African American organizations to improve the status of southern blacks. After she heard of Emmett Till’s murder from a group of students, she began to discuss the NAACP and other topics with her teacher Mrs. Rice (who was fired by the school at the end of the year). This brief educational experience transformed Anne’s feelings toward southern whites from resentment to unbridled hatred. More importantly, it instilled in her a perception of the black community as weak and cowardly (for their refusal to confront white bigotry and violence). For Anne and many young African Americans who would eventually join the Civil Rights Movement (either through the NAACP, CORE, or SNCC), it was difficult to understand the submissiveness and resignation of the older generation of southern blacks (i.e., their parents and grandparents). This quotation in particular expresses two implicit questions that stick with Anne for the rest of the book: Why do older blacks not seem to care about their conditions? How can they stand idly by while their own people are being assaulted and

In her essay “On Being a Cripple”, Nancy Mairs presents her audience with an honest inside view of her life and perspective as a cripple, a word she openly uses to define herself. She brings her world to us by discussing a wide variety of things including language, family, and humor, and how these all relate to her life. Through various stories and insights, she allows her readers to gain an understanding and acceptance of people with disabilities. She examines the public’s view of the disabled, as well as the views they have of themselves, and compares them to her own. She makes it clear that she is not to be defined solely by her disability. In discussing honestly her views, as well as

Rather, these poster children tend to reinforce unfortunate stereotypes, some of which Kuusisto encountered and detailed in his memoir. Paul Longmore describes this in “‘Heaven’s Special Child’: The Making of Poster Children,” “Reinforcing the medical model, charity images portrayed [those with disabilities] as dependent objects of beneficence whose most important needs were medical….The charities depicted the representative disabled person as a vulnerable child” (38). By exploiting the perception of disabled people as pitiful and helpless, and by using mostly images of children with disabilities, these charity posters strengthened the association between disability and infantalization. Kuusisto struggles with issues tied to this in his memoir as he struggles to feel and be viewed as fit to work (93). Often those with disabilities find themselves held to a lesser standard at work or deemed not able to support themselves at all, much like children. Thankfully, Kuusisto pushes past this and demonstrates the invalidity of this

Bryant Staples uses many rhetorical appeals and strategies in his essay to develop the main point of his essay and his claim. He uses strategies such as Ethos and, Pathos which are strategies that can be used to not only make his claim stronger but also create a connection. Staples uses Ethos in his essay by referring to his awareness and other factors that help the audience trust what he is saying. Staples also uses Pathos but to help build a connection with the audience which also strengthens his claim because it helps the audience understand the type of person that he is. All of these appeals and strategies help strengthen his claim which is that he has faced incidents because of his race and it should not happen because he is not the stereotypical

The beginning of any thought provoking essay will hook its audience using a form of pathos. “Two of his sons returned home from the battlefield whole and healthy. The third, however, came home suffering multiple seizures a day”-(Rorabacher). The quote generates sympathy within us making us yearn to see a welcoming outcome and leaving the audience hooked. Eli Hager’s article follows a similar route informing us that “The state of Missouri sent Harris to the penitentiary in Boonvilee, 250 miles from his home and baby daughter”-(Hager). Again we sympathize with the loss of a family, but not all of the articles used grievance to hook us. In the “Quiet Alarm” the audience is informed of a vaudeville performer who performed deadly stunts involving hatchets, pins, and guns on himself to generate shockwaves in the audience. From these examples we identify how our emotions lure us into these texts.

The moment she got trampled under the stomps and shoves of others, one could identify what she’d been feeling like previously - a witness to her own inconvenience. This incident not only exemplifies but also symbolizes the burden she feels having been born handicapped, unable to provide assistance or gain to the world. These feelings Adahs has for her life are later rebutted by her longstanding dreams of attending medical school and improving science. By achieving her academic potential, she finally recognized herself as an important asset to the world- no longer being seen as handicapped, physically or mentally.

Staples includes pathos in order to elicit an emotional view about the issue he discusses, rather than just statistical. The use of this appeal also makes his piece more personal, and therefore easier to comprehend. Staples wants it to be known that many factors about stereotypes affect him mentally as well as emotionally. In paragraph nine, Staples brings up the physical loss that this issue can cause by adding that “As a boy, I saw countless tough guys locked away; I have since buried several, too. They were babies, really—a teenage cousin, a brother of twenty-two, a childhood friend in his midtwenties – all gone down in episodes of bravado played out in the streets” (543).

In the article she mentions a KKK/NeoNazi ralley in Charlottesville. In the 6th paragraph she says “...the likes of former KKK Grand Dragon David Duke walked the streets of Charlottesville with other white men, talking about “taking their country back”.” This quote can infer that this is a bad thing, and it’s not right. Later on in her article she says “It’s time to do our work. It starts just like an AA program: The first step is admitting we have a problem. I feel that her use of logos was important because she uses the term KKK referring back to when they were racist along time ago, and how bad they were to other races. It supports her argument because she wants to show what's happening and what's wrong with

Anderson makes a point with including just a few of countless court cases involving crucial topics that changed America forever, she also shows us with the election of Obama. Her point is to show that in America the problems including race get solved, only for something like the situation before being sparked up again. She shows that there hasn’t been any real progress in America since the times of slavery and the same issues keep arising and it’s not because of black rage, but instead white rage. Anderson points out the barbarous, immorality, and discriminatory actions white people have against black people. Through recurring white rage situations that haven’t been solved yet.

She then goes on to talk about how the justice system criminalizes these deceased black men into “big” and “scary” to try to make them look guilty or deserving of whatever happened to them and save the officers involved. Anderson really focuses on this one case and how it impacted her thoughts and feelings towards the white America.

The sound was deafening as Nathan's plane landed in Chicago. He had moved from Quebec, Canada because his father was dispatched there for his job and the job sponsored his family to move. Nathan has an younger sister named Zoe. Zoe is in 8th grade, while Nathan is a junior in high school, class of 1966. As his schooling progresses, he is assigned a project to write an essay about an issue in today’s world. After days of meticulous research and writing, his paper is finished. Nathan chose to write about the Civil Rights movement and the injustices against African Americans. This paper inspired him and his classmates to speak up about Civil Rights.

On September 5, 1995, Hilary Clinton gave a speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference for women's equality, in Beijing, China. Present at the conference were were, 189 governments and more than 5000 representatives of non governmental organizations. The issue that Mrs. Clinton is addressing in this speech is the disrespect towards women and the violation of their rights. She uses pathos an emotional appeal, to get her audience to feel the same way that she does about the issue. She also uses exigence to bring the audience deeper into the conversation. She has been fighting for women’s rights for many years, and she wants her audience to realize how much of a problem it has become and that it needs to be stopped. Her goal is to make her audience believe that women’s rights are human rights through exigence and pathos. Mrs. Clinton also uses the rhetorical element of kairos in her speech. She picks a perfect moment in time, and location to deliver her speech. Though women’s rights is a problem all over the world, it is especially bad in China where the speech is taking place. Clinton is trying to address the issue where it is most relevant. There are many examples of emotional appeals in this speech, and that is how Mrs. Clinton convinces her audience that what she is articulating on is how this issue should be resolved. Through her speech Mrs. Clinton uses pathos to show how women are important to

In light of the recent events in Charlottesville, where a white supremacist rally turned violent, the argument on whether or not hate speech should be banned has become increasingly more relevant. Those supporting the ban argue that this kind of speech eventually creates a society that doesn’t accept the affected minorities as equals, and can shame them into silence. On the other side, people argue this would infringe upon free speech rights. In Glenn Greenwald’s article, “In Europe, Hate Speech Laws are Being used to Silence Left Wing Beliefs,” he addresses how this ban might affect left-wing activism, and the fallacies in the arguments supporting the ban. Greenwald mainly relies on logos to back up his thesis; that a hate speech ban would not work in America. The problem he faces with this as his argument is that it makes the assumption that these same issues would arise in America. Other than a brief mention of his time as a lawyer to back up one talking point, there is very little ethos. While his tone throughout the article feels very neutral and informative, he makes poor use of logos and ethos, leading to an ineffective argument.

It was warm that day. I walked to the bus with my hands shaking and eyes wide. I knew this was going to be a big day for me but I had no idea that Saturday would be the first day of the rest of my life. At first glance, this may seem like a big statement but my first day of volunteering with Camp A.N.C.H.O.R. (Assisting the Needs of Citizens with Handicaps through Organized Recreation) sent me on a journey with social justice that I am still taking. At 16 years old I thought I was going to go in and change lives but, the individuals I met ended up changing mine. I didn’t know what I was doing or much about the populations I was dealing with. However, I did know the individuals I was working with were incredibly funny, smart, talented, and had so much going for them except for one thing, their disability. I realized that these individuals were being portrayed as incompetent, unintelligent, and incapable because of one small aspect of their life. After speaking to some of their parents over the course of two years, I realized the immense difficulties these families go through. My initial reaction was anger, and then it dawned on me. If I want people to treat me like an individual and give me full human rights, have access to a public education, not receive discrimination during job interviews, they should have the exact same rights. This is not something they choose to take on each day. It is a part of their life that they deal with everyday as so many of us do with other