One of my favorite ideas that I have had to write an essay about would be the trend of a decline in fine arts in America. The payoff of this composition could be to raise awareness for a topic that I see to be much of a major issue, seeing as I would not want the next generation to grow up in an environment that arrogates them of their creativity. It would be very easy to construct an argument to support the fact that fine arts is being discouraged in America, and I plan to elaborate on that to see if I could convince my reader that it has been to an extent to which it is a mistake made by the system of our education and the government. This argument would be superior to most other arguments I would be able to construct because it is a topic that I am very knowledgeable and passionate about. I am able to do research to defend my claims but I am also looking forward to finding evidence against the personal statements I make in order to become better versed in the subject.
The other topic in which I had been debating whether or not I would want to do my essay on are the recent changes made in the last decade in order to "improve" the school system. There would be very many comparisons to make to how schools used to function in the 90s versus now in the year 2020 to determine whether education is improving or worsening. I would be able to draw data on the performance of students, the success of students after graduating, the mental state of students, and the standards for success that is used to measure how well students perform. Lots of new advancements have been made in technology and since it is such a large span of a topic it would be easy for me to tackle points, giving the topic a superior advantage over the other topics I had considered.
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1) Carol Dweck's main claim is that a mindset that suggests that you could improve, rather than you are under preforming, will cause students to be more successful in learning and engaging. 2) Carol Dweck's purpose is to inspire educators to reward students for attempting to improve, so that the students would be accustomed to being rewarding for improving instead of preforming. She also aims to inspire students to be more engaged and aim to improve as opposed to being upset about not being at the level that they want to be preforming at. 3) This video takes place in the early 2010s, based on the dates of the research included in the presentation. The video addresses the issues that continue to appear in schools in a time where students are continuously demotivated and disengaged from being able to learn in a manner that builds on their aspirations. 4) The exigence that inspires Carol Dweck's claim would be the real-world examples given through surveys of kids who feel hopeless when approached with a challenge. The surveys also show that students have a tendency to compare themselves to other students and then develop an inclination to seek success through other underhanded methods like cheating. This especially has been an issue in big cities and native American reserves, as referenced many times in her presentation. 5) The intended audience would include both students and educators. Carol Dweck's purpose is to inspire her audience to adopt improvement over performance, so she aims her ideas towards those who would be able to benefit from adopting those ideas. Additionally, this could apply to many other people, such as; employees, employers, parents, enthusiasts, etc. 6) Carol Dweck arranged her ideas by initially establishing a baseline for her "yet" mindset that she continues to reference throughout the oration. She then addresses real world examples of people that may be able to benefit from this idea in order to establish the conflict. Next, she showed scientific studies to back up her claims to add to their credibility. She was then able to further engage the audience through relation by analyzing patterns in people who have encountered issues without this mindset to persuade her audience through ethos. After allowing the engagement of the audience to peak, she gave them tips and information on how to apply her ideas in their own lives by encouraging the "yet" mindset over performance. She concluded her declamation by supplying the audience with examples of schools that encouraged her ideas drastically improving in performance and drafting a call to action by declaring that having a growth environment for a student was a basic human right. 7)Carol Dweck used an example of direct evidence at the beginning of her speech that showed a figure produced from scientific research that visualized the increase in brain activity when adopting her mindset (Dweck 2:27 - 3:07). She then used another piece of evidence later that was a graph of growth in GPA of students who were rewarded for improvement versus a control group that was less successful (Dweck 5:55 - 6:15). 8) Were I apply this to myself as a student, I would begin by removing my tendency to reaffirm myself with my grades so that I could cope with any uncertainties in the moment and feel content with the effort I put into my engagement in whatever subject I may be trying to learn. However, as it is, I believe that I have already adopted a growth mindset of sorts. This is because I do not tend to reward myself for preforming well in something if effort was not required, and I continue to strive to improve myself in every aspect as opposed to ceasing to because of contentment with the situation I am in.
1) Camille A. Langston's claim is that rhetoric is a collection of different literary devices that when used in a correct manner can persuade others to do or believe something. 2) I believe that this is Camille's claim because the introduction was mainly based of core ideas from Aristotle and his works, such that anyone may be able to get want they want just by using words. Furthermore, when talking about deliberative rhetoric, Langston says that, "In both cases, the speakers present their audience with a possible future and try to enlist their help in avoiding, or achieving it."(Langston 1:29 - 1:36). 3)The tone of the Ted talk could be considered as excited. There is an apparent eagerness to engage the audience and be able to provide connections to events in the real world. As an example, her use of Ronald Regan and Martin Luther King Jr. These were not very insightful comparisons, however the impact was that the audience is aware of what they are and Camille was excited to use that in order to engage them. 4) The audience of this Ted talk video is high school-aged students. I assume this from the amount of comparisons made in the video in order to use different styles of teaching to allow a simple concept to resonate. The style of this video was unnecessarily animated, although it does add to the appeal to an otherwise disinterested student or person. Definitely college level due to the lack of content, but not middle school level due to the quicker pace. 5) The author arranges her ideas by establishing an initial baseline for a rhetoric. She then deconstructs rhetoric into the past, present, and future tense. Then she elaborates on the most important, the future tense, from which she can discuss logos, ethos, and pathos. 6) Because the video was written without any mention of the author, the credibility of the author would be reflected in the content of the video. She was able to establish herself as credible by quoting others who are already noted as such: Sojourner Truth, Aristotle, Ronald Regan, Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, and Cicero. 7) The emotion that was hoped to be evoked from the reader would have been a feeling of inspiration. Being an inspiration is the job of an educator and can be quite satisfying. The notion that Camille was aiming to achieve that tone was apparent at the end of the video when she said, "...and deciding which of them to use is a matter of knowing your audience and purpose, as well as the right place and time. And perhaps just as important, is being able to notice when these same methods of persuasion are being used on you" (Langston 3:56 - 4:08). The clarity was the observable connection attempted to be made in the lives of the viewers. 8) The logical argument of the writer was achieved in much the same way as her credibility. The quotes that she used were generally a factual statement and made it easy to argue that words alone can be enough to persuade people as it has effectively worked many times before. These quotes were also examples of the specific types of rhetoric that she claimed could be used to persuade others, rendering them undeniable (not that any attempt of denying would have been made anyhow). 9) The two rhetorical strategies I noticed in the video were forensics and ethos. Forensics are facts or observations from the past, and Camille incorporated this through the use of her numerous quotes of which the audience was already aware of most of the outcomes were that the styles of rhetoric were effective. I noticed ethos during the establishment of the authors character being a history enthusiast. She also intentionally made it obvious that she still had the decency to make the lecture appear as though it could have been a casual conversation, so that the attention of the readers would be captivated by the want-to-relate mindset. 10) I am able to use rhetoric to get what I want by manipulating my speech to make me seem trustworthy or undeniably factual or maybe even just that my proposal may be the best option. Rhetoric can appeal to the manipulation of people and the condition that they are always subject to, whether or not it be in good or bad intentions.
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