Changing Paradigm Rhetorical Analysis

The social problem is that some police overstep their boundaries as law enforcement and commit acts of unnecessary brutality towards citizens. The name of the article is “Sheriff: Lawyer Says Deputies Didn’t Need to Kill Texas Man” and was posted on abcnews.go.com on September 2, 2015. The scope of coverage and audience is at the national level.

The American Education System is not meeting the needs of current students. If anything, the system is not building a sturdy foundation for the future working class. Schools have existed for many years and every period they have worked differently. However, every school’s main purpose was to educate students to be efficacious later in life. Modern day schools are corrupting students with added pressure, standardized tests, making less accommodations for special education students, not following laws, and take away individualism from the students’. The students of modern times are the people of our future and the future does not look too bright with the current American Education System.

In response to Geoffrey Shepherd's article “It’s clear the US should not have bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki”. Shepard tries to pull us into his claim by using pathos, logos, and ethos. He uses estimates of 500,000 Japanese soldiers died from the atomic bomb. Then Geoffrey begins to state that we had an alternative spot to drop the bombs, the alternate spot we could’ve dropped the bomb would have been Tokyo Bay. It was idle and estimated that less lives would’ve been taken and would showed more of a threat to the Japanese leaders.

The president, Barack Obama gave a speech at Howard University commencement ceremony. Speaking to the graduating class about the need to keep pushing for change he gave the students at the historically black university advise on how to shape your own future and to always strike for better. The president argues that the U.S and the world is becoming a better place than when he was a collage student. However, there is still work to be done when it comes to employment, achievements, and justice for African Americans. The president also mentions to be confident in your heritage and to aim for greatness. Also that empathy should be extended to all people who are struggling to achieve success or a goal. Furthermore, the president advised the grad

As part of the upper class in our global community, I cannot even begin to understand what living in extreme poverty and hunger must be like. While people in poor, undeveloped countries work all day at backbreaking jobs for just enough money to feed their families, I attend school to enhance my education so I can continue to enjoy the privileges of my wealth. My family is actually considered to be in the lower-middle class in the United States, but we still have two cars, a three-bedroom townhome, and disposable income we use for recreation and various luxuries. Compared to those who live in extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, I live like a king. It would be nothing for me to donate 100 dollars to a charity foundation such as Oxfam that feeds the hungry to save some lives, but should I?

The American Education System is not meeting the needs of current students. If anything, the system is not building a sturdy foundation for the future working class. Schools have existed for many years and through the years they have worked differently. However, every school’s main purpose was to educate students to be efficacious later in life. Modern day schools are corrupting students with added pressure, making fewer accommodations for special education students, and take away individualism. Along with those are problems comes numerous others. The students of modern times are the people of our future and the future does not look too bright with the current American Education System.

In the satire Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the author uses rhyme to reveals that one should not become engulfed in the present and scorn the past and future, because becoming blind to the past affects the future and present. Lenina repeats rhyming phrases to convince Bernard to use soma and forget his worries of the future: “’Was and will make me ill’ she quoted, ‘I take a gramme and only am’” (Huxley 104). However Lenina does not become a character worthy of emulation or sympathy which alienates her from any influences to readers or connections made should Huxley have intended it. The genre of the book implies that most of the evidence directly stated contradicts the author’s message which urges actions opposite of the depicted. The rhyming

The first speaker is Steve Jobs and my moment relates to the portion his speech when he says “sometimes life hits you with a brick. Don’t lose faith… don’t settle.” This quote directly relates to the tragic moment in my life when I found out that I was waitlisted from the University of Michigan Engineering school. That entire day after I found out just went downhill and to top it off, I had a track invitational later that day in Ann Arbor, at the University of Michigan. I probably took this event more seriously than most people because I worked so hard in high school with the goal of going to UMich but in the end it didn’t work out and I felt as though the last four years of my life have been wasted. After taking a few days to digest the news, I decided to move on with my life instead of dwelling on my failures. I committed to Michigan State University and I know for a fact I’ll do really well there and I won’t settle for subpar academic performances.

The premise of my argument that one would consider to be most controversial would be the premise that pornography does encourage freedom of speech/expression. Many may object to this because many people specifically feminists such as Catherine Mackinnon and Andrea Dworkin regard pornography as immoral because it is a form of sex discrimination. Other feminists as stated by Garry believe that pornography is a form of hate speech and that it defames women. In Garry’s paper she argues that certain content of pornography violates the moral principle of respecting people and how pornography degrades women as it depicts them as mere sex objects and how it is because of this pornography is morally impermissible. Due to the fact that the conclusion of my argument opposes Garry’s view, I will also discuss what she would say in response to the support of my “controversial” premise.

As a country, the root of many tensions lie within the changing pace and playing field of our world. Education is the country’s best tool to combat these frustrations and to better prepare the next generation for a globalized world. I want to rework the education system though advocacy and policy to emphasize the skills of learning and adapting rather than the ability to memorize information. I would

In some countries throughout the world kids are put on tracks dependent upon their careers; some get to go further in the education system than others. Often times these career tracks are ones chosen for them based upon the family they were born into and their parents wealth and educational knowledge. Some countries even do inventory tests in order to place students on a track and decide if they get to continue in education or if they are required to go straight into the work force. One point Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón and Paul E. Peterson bring up in their article is that while we need to learn from countries such as Korea, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada we must not copy exactly what they are doing but more so do what is best for our educational system (1.) I agree with the point they have made, I do not believe we should implement all of the educational ideas these countries have. I believe this because like America’s educational system their systems have flaws as well. But instead we should learn from their mistakes and apply and implement them into our own system as needed. In doing this step I believe we can make our educational system more successful and proficient in comparison with these countries.

Robinson made the point that the current education system has a defined starting point and ending point, which is what makes it so mechanical in nature. He said this makes education focus on conformity when it should function like the principles of agriculture. He used an analogy that compared people to fruit. Different students have different abilities and interests. Therefore, different students need different things to grow and prosper. The current educational system does not feed the spirit or provide it with the nurturing it needs to needs to grow. He stated that students are opting out of long-term education. Education is not organic.

Politicians are continuously using educational reform as a platform to be placed in office and once they have achieved a position in office, children and their education are no longer part o an action, especially for those of socio-economic distress.

Human history literacy rates have continued to hike. Children now attend school than at any other point in history. Although nations have made immense progress, many are still far from reaching the universal goals of education. The importance of early education cannot be emphasized enough. As famous scholars had noted in human history, education is the precondition for success and unconstrained prospects. Educated citizens are the foundation for a nation’s sustainable economic and social development (Park 23). According to a study done by UNESCO and World Bank, currently there are over 400 million children at the elementary level who are not attending school. Even the rest of the millions who are attending schools are not being prepared adequately for life after school. Solving these problems ought to be the utmost goal for any nation. As a parent, one cannot fail to see how important education is for a child. As a politician, one recognizes the importance of having a government with highly equipped labor force. Transforming education, however is not an easy task bearing in mind that there are challenges everywhere from the shortage of teachers, resources and use of inadequate curricula. It is therefore imperative that nations rise and act consequently before they expose another generation to the same problems (Awa & Plaumann 101). This paper shall carefully examine early childhood education and the effectiveness of the universal interventions made globally.

Education has been a topic of debate for years, and parents are worried if we are guiding our children in the right direction. The education system, the same education system we have been using for hundreds of years, is not fit for our generations of 2015. This is what Ken Robinson was trying to covey in his lecture “Changing Education Paradigms”. He first states that the two main reasons the education system needs to change are economic and cultural. The economy is much more global now than it was back then, and educating our children on how to take their place in the economy. Cultural because today having a cultural identity is hard when conforming and being standardized is what society is taught. He goes on to state that our education system was built around a time of the enlightenment and with the economic standing of the industrial revolution. School is boring to children now because of all the distractions of technology and entertainment, why would a child want to give that up to learn something they don’t care about? Robinson was aiming this lecture at the older generations, when they had the mentality that if they went to school they would get a college degree and then get a job. These are the people that have children in the education system and have a voice on the change of education. Robinson thinks we need to move in the opposite direction of standardization in order to improve the future of education.