Trevor+Moody

A 4.1  Summary  In the Article, “A Foul Mouth and Manhood” by Anna Quindlen, the author starts by talking about JFK and how it used to be a lot different back then. To swear in a speech or an interview was seen as inappropriate and to have a newspaper print the words was even more unacceptable. She compares and discusses the tolerance of conduct between when JFK was in the presidential running and Bush and Cheney term. People tolerate a lot more obscenity today than they used to. Throughout the article the main idea shifts from foul language to why men use certain conducts to prove their masculinity. The article shows one way a man may be seen as masculine and how we would compare two people. The author writes, “Kerry has the masculinity portrayal sewn up; an inveterate jock and a war hero trumps a former cheerleader and a stay at home guardsman” (Quindlen 1). Quindlen also says that women have a hard time getting into the political business because of the masculine portrayal people have given it. In closing she discusses how there a some differences in views of muscularity. Trevor Moody Wendt Eng. 101.06 09/22/2010 MP 1 ** __Robot Teachers!!! – Coming soon, to a classroom near you!!! __ By: Dennis Baron ** What would the world be like if we had no human teachers and only had robots teaching us? Would we become a more sufficient society or would we continue to have faults and possibly more faults? Well robot teachers are on their way and they are programmed for one mission and that is to save our failing schools. Robots can help by tightening the gap of kids who go into school lacking academic skills. They also look very good to school administrators and their budgets. Technology isn’t a new way of learning. On the other side, kids will have the ability to miss behave more. They may also be taught something wrong. The University of California, San Diego, has performed a study and the results of their study say we need to have Robots because a large number of American children start school lacking some academic skills. Robots have taught pre-school children nine vocabulary words and their meanings in Finnish which is a really hard language to learn because it is totally separate from other languages. Robots appeal to many schools administers and their because they are cheaper and they won’t need as many sick days as human teachers do. Robots won’t get sick if it is cold out. The robot is also much cheaper than a human because you don’t have to pay them the only money spent on them is the purchasing and maintaining of the robots. There are some people who feel that the robots aren’t the best way of teaching kids. In one of the tests the robot was teaching a class of two year olds and they got interested with what was inside so they tore its arm off. After the robot was fixed and reprogramed it was returned to the classroom. They had reprogrammed the robot to alarm when the children were to close. As the children approached it sounded they hugged it and then tore off its arm again. In Korea, the robots are teaching the kids to speak English, but they are teaching them to speak with a European accent like the robots voice. The children aren’t learning to speak American or Canadian English. The problem is generations of Koreans are learning to speak English with the accent that isn’t the accent they are trying to have. The author in this article uses Logos the most and best to persuade the readers. He gives many statistics and situations that have happened to create a response from the reader. He also uses ethos because he sounds quiet creditable in this piece and it sounds like he knows what he is talking about. He has also has written a lot of writings. The author’s weakest way of persuasion is pathos. He doesn’t really try to get the reader into the topic emotionally. He could have gotten a little more emotion on this article had he used a few more points that would appeal to parents.
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