Rhetorical Analysis Of What's Wrong With School Lunches

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December 2007, Ann Cooper, gave a speech at "EG 2007" In Manhattan concerning "What's wrong with school lunches." Ann Cooper is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, as well as an author, public speaker, educator, and advocate of healthy food for all children. Cooper stood before a small group of people showing her anger and frustration and working diligently to protect children from living unhealthy lifestyles. She used different tones to interact with her audience. Coopers' tone was very serious and straightforward furthermore, she used some humor and often spoke rhetorically. Her purpose for this speech was to inform, educate, and persuade her audience; because, thus school lunch may taste great, however is it healthy for kids?
In Coopers' first approach, she talked in first-person using her way of pursuance to get the audience's side. I'm the Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley Unified School District. I have 90 employees and 17 locations, 9,600 kids. I'm doing 7,100 meals a day I'm the Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley
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A more organized speech could have been used. Clear to the end of Coopers' speech she says "We need to -- we need to educate. We need to educate the kids. We need to educate the staff." This topic could have been accumulated in the beginning of her argument. Is school lunch unhealthy because students nor parents are educated about it? Has there been any conducted research providing information that says school lunches are the main factor for these problems? Many questions are unanswered when wanting to know so. How are we sure the preventive ways given are the answer to our problems. It was not until July 2014 that, Ann Cooper, even found references to back up her saying. With not much-grounded detail, there are not pointers indicating school lunch is unhealthy for

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