Blog#2- Rethorical Analysis

I was wondering about what article I will chose because I can't decide which will be good.... although I have 4 that are really interesting and new for me.

Does Self-Control Come in an App?


                  In this article “Does Self-Control come in an App?” Maggie Jackson states that parents and educators need take care about how their children’s are using technology and how much apps change the self-control of them. Wed sites distract children from schoolwork making them ignore the effort and time needed to nurture self-control. We reach for apps to augment memory like “Self-control” is an OS X application that we can find easy and free made by a high school student that also shows that we have the power to make things that doesn't benefit us. How we use technology? Is the principal question that we need to ask to ourselves because in some way we over use it and we think that it’s ok to be in front of a computer for many hours. However, Self-Control is a difficult skill that we need to be in touch with in one way or another and be part of our environment, also teach to our Children how they can manage self-control to respect the integrity of life.


            logic (references): Trough this article Jackson introduces some questions trying to make his/her reader get interested on it. "will flipping a switch to darken distractions help children to cultivate their powers of self-control? and How do we help children cultivate their willpower?".On this questionable way people interested in this kind on information would try to make a change for other teenagers as well as their own children. Sarcasm (references): In this article Jackson makes a point about some ways we can start using self-control although it is a hard skill to manage by ourselves. However he says that using technology it's a way. It still to be a distraction, “It sounds passes to talk about patience as a "virtue" as my Depression-era Dad did, but mastering a skill would be a hollow achievement if we could do so in a digital instant."


           Ethics (ethos) (references): Jackson tries to make his/her readers to considerate more about how technology had been changing not just adults but also teenagers’ lives. The rules that parents impose to their own children are not working anymore, leading to an uncertain style of life." Helpless parents now feel they cannot shape our increasingly all-embracing media environment. Yet when parents do set limits, children spend less time with media, studies show. Moreover, the very existence of a reasonable rule effectively shows children that the seeming unmanageable in life at least partially can be tamed."

        Sarcasm (references): In this article Jackson makes a point about some ways we can start using self-control although it is a hard skill to manage by ourselves. However he says that using technology it's a way. It still to be a distraction, “It sounds passes to talk about patience as a "virtue" as my Depression-era Dad did, but mastering a skill would be a hollow achievement if we could do so in a digital instant."

           Parody (references): At the end of this article Jackson makes a comment about his own daughters and explaining how at sometimes they also need to download this self-control application." when my teenage daughters are under deadline, inundated, and over-caffeinated, they might want to download Self Control for a while, But as my 10th grader said with a laugh when I told her about this application, "Mom, that's not self-control!""

 
This article Is very interesting and educational in which present a way of seeing how young children and even teens often use the large wed for apps that allow users to block access to distracted websites (ex: Facebook, email, twitter, etc.) which affects their self-control.

-Tania Lopez