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Makenna Goodman’s article
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Use of Pathos, Ethos, and Logos in Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night
Introduction
Makenna Goodman’s article titled Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night is about how killing the animals that people eat make them feel. The speaker notes that after watching farming animals get slaughtered in front of his eyes, he did not feel the urge to pat himself on his back. The article insists on the need to offer animals a good life even if humans facilitate their death in one way or another. This essay probes the use of ethos, pathos, and logos in the afore-mentioned article. Without a doubt, the article successfully employs ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the text.
Use of Pathos
To begin with, there is a successful use of pathos in Goodman’s article Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night. On several occasions, the author has evoked the readers’ emotions to appeal to them. The author has connected to the emotions and senses of the readers. The main reason why the author does this is that she wants the readers to see beyond the food that they have. She wants them to wonder about the life the animals lived before it was killed and turned into a meal. For instance, the author talks about chicken killing at home in the third paragraph. She writes that “chicken killing at home is deep.” This way, she is appealing to the emotions of the reader and pushes into thinking whether it is ethical. The text notes that when it comes to the idea of taking away life at the homestead, people do not do it to show power other the animal. This prompts the readers into thinking beyond the chunk of meat they purchase at the supermarket. Goodman wants the readers to know that the meat does fall from the sky but rather comes from breathing and living being. In essence, although chicken killing is deep, it is necessary. Additionally, the author mentions Joel Salatin, at the front of the farming movement. Salatin is a supporter of home processing food methods (Goodman 03). To him, at-home food processing is the ultimate foundation of showing respect for animals. This shows that he has a deep connection for animals and in this manner, he urges the readers to buy-in to his ideologies. Goodman employs emotions to appeal to his readers.
Use of Ethos
Secondly, the author successfully employs ethos as a persuasive technique to appeal to the readers. Readers tend to associate the author’s character with their content. Readers will trust the content if the writer demonstrates that they are reliable. The article successfully employs ethos leaving the readers in a position to trust the content of the article. Worth noting, Makenna has had a successful career as an author over the years and is well-renowned for her writing prowess. Goodman has written essays, short fiction and literary criticism for international publication. These include the Harvard Review, New York Review of Books, Electric Literarture, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Catapult, and the Bomb. Additionally, she has appeared on interviews in various shows, including the Millions, Paris Review, the Rumpus, Guernica, Commonplace Podcast by Rachel Zucker, and EcoTheo. Worth noting, she is the brains behind the Shame, which was voted Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020. The book was also named Literary Hub Recommended Read, a White Review Recommended Read, a Boston.com Book Club Pick, and Bustle Most Anticipated Book. The successful author is also an educator of literature and writing and has taught at graduate and high school levels in various institutions including the Center for Fiction based in Brooklyn, New York. Being this successful means that she is not only good at what she does but also a reliable professional. Throughout her career, she has never had any ethical issue which means that the readers can trust her works as reliable. Another reason why ethos are employed successfully in this article is that the publisher; Chelsea Green Publishing is also a reknowned American publishing organization. The fact that it specializes in publishing texts to do with organic farming, sustainable living, integrative health, and progressive politics means that they work with reliable professionals that can be trusted. Publishing Goodman’s content means that they have conducted research and find her thoughts valuable which speaks to her ethics. This shows those ethos are used successfully in the article.
Use of Logos
Thirdly, the author of the article also employs logos as a persuasive tool to push her agenda. Logos have to do with logic, and Goodman uses facts and figures to persuade the readers. For instance, in the first paragraph, Goodman narrates that she had fourteen people for dinner the previous night who all wanted chicken. In this context, the number of people is an indication of the emotional joy and turmoil that comes with having family around. Goodman says that there was plenty of activity with people running around, enjoying farm life and looking forward to balanced meals. It shows people’s thoughts as far as killing what we eat is concerned. It was an opportunity for Goodman to understand other people’s thoughts on at-home processing foods. The author also uses logos when she says that the joy of having many people around is that no one sits around without pitching in. This is true because people always help with tasks around. The use of logos is effective in showing the need to know the backstory of animals.
Conclusion
In closing, Goodman employs various tools of persuasion including, pathos, logos, and ethos, in her article Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night. Pathos are effective in appealing to the readers’ emotions. It makes them want to know a backstory of the animal’s life. The ethos speaks to the credibility and reliability of the author and logos use facts and figures to push across their message. Without a doubt, the author is successful in employing them as tools of persuasion throughout the text.
Works Cited
Goodman, M. “Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night.” Alternet.org, 28 Aug. 2009, www.alternet.org/2009/08/ever_wonder_if_you_could_kill_what_you_eat_we_did_the_other_night/.
Culture in Saudi Arabia
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Culture in Saudi Arabia
From a general perspective, culture is the cumulative deposit of aspects like experience, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, religion, values, meanings, roles, concepts and possessions amongst others that are acquired by a relatively large group of people and passed on through generations individually or through groups depending on the specificity of people. The adopted behavior and way of life from the initial ancestors is learned and with accumulation of experience it is subsequently passed on socially and acts as a symbolic means of communication.
In some instances, culture may be shared between two or more groups in that they have some beliefs, religion or values in common. This would also act as a bridge connecting the particular groups involved because it makes them think something must have caused them to have the same opinion or stand about certain cultural aspects. Religion for example gives a more vivid picture and explanation for shared culture. Religion is the belief of a link between humanity and the spiritual world. In Saudi Arabia the official religion is Islam and the Kingdom’s law obliges every citizen to be Muslim. Freedom of religion does not exist in Saudi Arabia and practice of any other religion is highly prohibited. For this reason they have a group of religion “police” who enforce the restriction of public or private practice of any other religion in their country. The Islam religion is known to be practiced in very many other countries including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sudan among others. This means that the religion aspect in the culture of Saudi Arabia is also shared by other countries’ cultures as well. The facet of shared cultures may act as a thread linking the countries or groups back to either one origin or ancestry in some cases.
In Saudi Arabia, both men and women are directly dictated by their customs and religion to dress conservatively. In the case of Saudi men, thobes which are traditional dresses are won despite the social status or the job occupation of an individual. Other than the thobe being appropriate for the hot climate in Saudi, it also expresses equality among them. Saudi women on the other hand wear cloaks called abayah and are mostly black. They then cover their hair using a scarf and a veil that fully covers their face except for the eyes. They are supposed to dress like this in public and around people who are not their close relatives. As for teenagers they should not wear tight jeans or any clothes showing parts of their bodies. Foreigners are also indebted to abide by local customs especially in public areas. In the 1980s the Kingdom banned movie theatres to prevent immorality and westernization. However the ban is currently in the process for liberalizing to allow for development of their cinema however certain television shows, films and DVDs are prohibited. An exception is given if they have censored scenes with immorality or directly offending the government or the royal family.
Even with the Saudis being well informed in the Arab and Muslim world, the government does not recognize freedom of the press and publicizing ones opinion. Any stories or speeches given in public should not contradict the Islam traditional values or the Saudi government rule. It should also not directly offend the officials of government or the royal family in particularly. Political parties and labor unions are prohibited in Saudi Arabia. However informal discussions on the public policies are not deemed illegal, they are not promoted and action is taken to participants if they endorse disloyalty or immorality. Creation of a Consultative Council by the government has allowed for the existence of certain societies but they have considerably little ability to manipulate or change the policies up held by the government. The national dance in Saudi Arabia is known as Al Ardha and the sword dance is founded on their ancient traditions. It is a rhythmic blend of drum beats, chants and men dancing using the swords they carry to create an entertaining movement. Another prominent form of music is the samri in which poetry is performed through a song and people dance to it.
The absorption of one culture into another group of people or a country at large is known as culture learned. This could be because the culture is of significance in the lives of the country that is absorbing it. An example of culture learned in Saudi Arabia would be cinema. In the past, it was banned completely from publicity in their country. They believed it did more bad than good and lead to high measures of immorality. However, something later on changed their opinion and they decided to reconsider and ease up by allowing cinema but with certain restrictions. This clearly explains that even after their perception of cinema, with time they learned on how to allow its publicity while limiting what they feared which spreading immorality is.
Saudi Arabia is considered as one of the countries with a very unique culture because it has upheld their initial beliefs to this moment without allowing for deviation from them. This portrays an image that they respect their culture and even with its spread through every generation they do not change any aspect of it but consider it the normal way of life.
Trouble at Tessei
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Trouble at Tessei
Terubo Yabe, the newly appointed Director and General Manager of Tessei is tasked with reviving the 669-person subsidiary of East Japan Railway company which cleans bullet trains. The leaders have made multiple attempts to fix Tessei’s managerial control and monitoring problems, but none has been successful. Yabe seeks to adopt a new creative approach to address the problem.
Some of the critical challenges facing Tessei include customer complaints, employee recruitment and high turnover, and operational mistakes. Customer complaints are caused by the high expectations that Shinkanshen passengers have of Tessei Company. Worth noting, the customers received high-standards services such as perfectly clean spaces which were well-coordinated in seven minutes. Besides these, the clients expected that they would get the forgotten items on the train, which was impossible. Additionally, the customers complained about unkempt bathrooms on the train. The 7 minute standards order put the employees under pressure, yet most of them were above the age of 40, inexperienced or new. This makes it difficult for them to do the cleaning in a standardized yet rushed manner. The time was barely enough to clean all the available coaches. The result of this is that it led to frustrations and lack of motivation among employees, which explains the high turnover rates.
As regards operational mistakes, Tessei was forced to come up with ways to reduce costs as much as possible. The expenses were weighing in on them, and if they failed to take action, they would have been out of business. To do this, they resulted in reduced use of soap in the cleaning process. The issue de-motivated the employees significantly and they ended up leaving the company. Whenever employees tend to leave an organization at high rates, it weighs in on their human resources. Some tasks end up not being completed because of the shortfall of workers. If the issue is not addressed hastily, it can permanently affect the company, leading to closure. Managers also feel the effect because they experience a shortfall of manpower in their respective departments.