Let's hope the Salvador Castro Middle School shooting finally wakes up L.A. Unified on school safety2/1/2018 In this article, the author explains a shooting incident at the Salvador Castro Middle School in Los Angeles, and how this incident should "wake up" LA's awareness on the importance of school safety. The article starts off by briefly explaining the incident and both sides of the argument. One side of the argument believes that schools should use metal checking wands to check kids for weapons. The other side of the argument believes that these type of actions are humiliating and a waste of time. The author then appeals to logos to explain the results of schools that did check for weapons. After explain the basic information, the author starts to introduce what side of the argument he or she agrees with. In the first half of the article, the author mainly focuses on providing background for the audience. The appeals to logos are very minimum in the first half of the article. However, in the second half of the article, the author appeals to ethos by mentioning specific names of schools and school employees. This adds credibility because the audience has examples to refer to. There is also more focus on the appeals to logos in the second half of the article. These appeals are mostly percentages that tell the progress schools had when they decided to do weapon checks. The whole article was basically opinionated with minimum appeals to ethos and logos, I believe the author's main goal was to prove to the audience that LA school districts need to take school safety more seriously. The author successfully does this by using a judgmental tone and elegant word choice.
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This article was about La Var Ball, father of famous Lakers' NBA rookie Lonzo Ball, and how he needs to "tone down the rhetoric." What the author means by this is that Ball needs to argue facts rather than arguing emotions. The author first starts off with background of how this conversation arose. On November 29, the Lakers played the Golden State Warriors, and Lavar Ball met with the President and general manager of the Lakers. Lavar had some opinions about how he felt the Lakers were coaching his son. In his opinion the Lakers were doing a terrible job at coaching Lonzo. However, the Lakers felt that this was only Lavar's emotions speaking and not true fact. That is when the organization asked Ball to "tone down the rhetoric." The author then uses dialogue to explain how Lavar Ball felt the meeting went. The whole article mostly consisted of appeals to ethos as the author continued to mention names of places, people, teams, and events that correlated with the article. The author made sure to bold the famous names to emphasize their importance. This adds credibility to the author's work because the audience knows that these names are giving accurate information. The author's tone is very serious and straightforward. She makes sure to stay unbiased and respectful of the situation with a generic, monosyllabic word choice. In conclusion , Tania Ganguli uses dialogue from reporters' opinions to close up her article. I believe the author's was to inform people of what goes on behind the scenes in the sports works. Ganguli successfully does this by appealing to ethos with a serious tone.
In this article the author is talking about how for the first time ever there is no white guy in the nomination to earn the most prestigious award, the Grammy for album of the year. This year the winners will either be African American or a woman. This has not happened in six decades. The author starts off by using logos in the article initially when talking about how “white guys such as Paul Simon, U2, and Frank Sinatra use to dominate the competition and be the only ones competing for Grammys ,but recently “women and people of color such as Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, and Jay Z have taken over”. With this the author is giving evidence and facts about how things have changed over the years. The appeals to logos support the fact that there seems to be a new beginning. In the beginning, you do not notice any bias to the author's writing because everything is just pure fact. The purpose of this article is to inform the people that there has been a drastic change where women and black people aren’t being overlooked anymore. Stating that despite in the past the majority of the Grammys winners being white males, this year women and colored people will have more of a chance. Many people can see the change in the Grammys reputation. The majority of the author's article was appeals to logos as the author mainly focused on facts about the artists and the Grammy's history. Though, there were some appeals to ethos as the author continued to mention the names of many famous artists, and their albums. This makes the author's work more credible because the audience will recognize the people and names of albums that match the facts presented. The author also appeals to ethos by using dialogue. For example, when the author explained how Adele felt she didn't deserve the best album of the year award over Beyoncé. You can tell that the author did not have a big focus on appealing to the heart because there was not a lot of pathos evident. However,in paragraph 7 when saying “...in recent years [Grammys reputation] has been badly damaged by case after case of black artists being overlooked in favor of less-significant white acts.”, the author did use pathos to try and make people feel bad about the inequality, and how it can affect artists' careers. Overall, throughout the article the author uses a contemplative and didactic tone to get his point across. Author Mikael Wood uses a polysyballic, elegant word choice to explain the change being made to the Grammys. He seems to be happy about the change and support it too. In conclusion, the audience was able to read an informing, but interesting article about a very famous award ceremony. I believe the author's goal was to recognize the new accomplishment, and Wood successfully did that with his appeals to logos and contemplative tone.
In this article, the author focuses on explaining the role London plays to the NFL. The author starts off his article by appealing to logos when he states Europe's past role didn't last long because it "became increasingly discriminating as the years passed." While still appealing to logos, the author begins to roll into his article by stating facts about only London's role to the NFL. He does this to set up his focal point, or claim so that the audience knows what the article will mostly be about. The purpose of this article was to show a relationship between London and the NFL to show people that football is becoming more international. This year, London will be hosting four NFL games, which will be a new record. Along with London hosting more games, the games they will be hosting are more serious and have more of an impact than years past. London is becoming so involved that some people think it would be a good idea for them to have their own team. Throughout the article, the author mainly focuses on appeals to logos and ethos. He appeals to logos by using different stats and facts. For example, in paragraph five of the article, the author states that out of the 20 games London has hosted, only one game has failed to sell out. He also goes to state that the United Kingdom has a fan base at 13 million people. The author makes sure to appeal to logos so that he will have direct facts to support his argument. Though there was some logos, the majority of this article had appeals to ethos. There was a lot of dialogue from coaches, owners, and executive figures of the NFL organization. The dialogue captured the thoughts of people who work with and are involved with the NFL everyday. This makes the author's work more credible because the audience knows that what they are reading is true because of the people it is coming from. Also when the author uses the example of this Sunday's game between the Rams and Cardinals, that is an appeal to ethics because it gives the audience a current example to rely on. The author explains that this game is critical as it will determine which team will hold the lead in the NFC West. Throughout the article , the author uses a didactic, objective tone to get a point across. His article was mostly just straight facts with input from other people about the situation. He makes sure to keep his opinion out of it, and keeps the article very professional and straight to the point by using a polysyballic and elegant word choice. In conclusion, the audience was able to read a factual article about what the future holds for London in the NFL.. I believe the author's goal of this passage was to inform football lovers about what the NFL thinks about behind the scenes. Author, Sam Farmer, successfully does this by appealing to ethos and logos with a didactic and objective tone. Check out the article at Los Angeles Times.
In this article, the author tells a story about a couple that was about to get married and was torn apart by the devastating Los Angeles shooting. The author starts off with background of the couple. First the author explains how Derek first saw the love of his life, Andrea, at her job Sephora. She then uses dialogue to explain how Derek was too shy to speak to Andrea and his mom was the reason the two actually started talking. For the first half of the article, the author continues to use dialogue to show how the couple's relationship grew. The author explains it and makes it seem as if the couple had love at first sight, and grew close very quickly. The purpose of the article was to show the impact of the recent shooting in Los Angeles on many people's lives by telling a very sad story about a couple who was about to get engaged. Derek Miller was planning to propose to Andrea Castilla on October 1st, the day of the concert, and also the day of the Vegas shooting. However, when shots were fired from the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Andrea Castilla was shot dead, and Derek's plans to engage to her with his custom made ring were destroyed. Throughout the whole passage the author appeals to ethos by using dialogue and direct facts from Derek and some of Andrea's family. This makes the author's work more credible because the audience knows what they are reading is coming directly from the people who experienced it and were present at the situation. The whole passage also appealed to pathos. The whole story is just sad, and anyone can be sure that anyone who reads this will become emotional. Even just the title of the article alone is an appeal to pathos: "They were in love. He was planning to propose. How the Vegas shooting tore this couple apart." As soon as anyone reads this, it could strike you in the heart. The author also includes pictures of the couple, Andrea, and the actual event. By seeing these, it really makes the audience think about what happened, and the visuals of seeing the couple happy and then thinking about what happened really can make anyone sad. Though it is sad, the appeal to pathos does draw readers in. The author's tone is morose and earnest. She makes sure to stay respectful of the situation with her monosyballic, generic word choice. In conclusion, the audience can see that this article hurts her just as much as it hurts everyone else who reads it. To close up her piece, the author uses appeals to logos by stating, "In all, 58 people would die in the rampage. Three of them were engaged." I believe that the author's goal for this passage was to show people that they must appreciate who they have because you do not know when you will lose them. Author Melissa Ethehad successfully does this by using appeals to pathos and ethos with an earnest tone. Check out the article at Los Angeles Times.
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