Blog Post - 4

So, after reading multiple posts, I'm wondering if I did this assignment right. Hopefully I did...



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/opinion/krugman-whos-very-important.html

Paul Krugman's article "Who's Very Important?" in The New York Times is about the rich and how "they" think that they are better than everyone else. How if the Republican Party wins over the White House that we will surely see policies introduced that will be beneficial for the wealthy. Krugman explains how these are the individuals "who believe that they are, as another Romney donor put it, "the engine of the economy"; they should be cherished, and the taxes... cut even further." He concludes stating that the rest of us "will be hurt, not helped,"and that the rich are not better than everyone else.

I chose this article because I recently used a similar article for the Rhetorical Strategies paper and I am interested in seeing peoples confusion as to why the rich get all of these benefits just for being more wealthy.

I didn't necessarily find a use of claim/concession/rebuttal in Paul Krugman's article - but some strategies that he did utilize to his advantage were logos, pathos and sarcasm.




http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/opinion/penn-states-part-in-the-sandusky-sexual-abuse-scandal.html

The article "Penn State's Part" in the editorial section of The New York Times disused about the recent Jerry Sandusky crimes at Pennsylvania State University (for those who have not been paying attention to the news on where these events took place). How Sandusky used to "the school's football program as a lure" to carry out his dirty deeds. That the university's leaders did not take any action for about a decade and a half. Basically stating that multiple tips and reports were given, it is just that they never made it to the right people - it seems that they just got lost somewhere down the line.

I chose this article because of the recent-ness of the situation, also since it is a controversial topic of having young boys and girls around without more watch on the ones in charge of the camp or what-have-you. (hope that last sentence made sense, it did while I was thinking of it).

The strategies used throughout were: logos, pathos and ethos.