The article “Indian Mascots-You’re Out” by Jack Shakley, was published in the Los Angeles Times in August 2011. The author argues the issues of sport teams having Native American names. The author wrote the article due to more and more Native Americans protesting at stadiums. With the article being divided into four sections. It was pretty straight forward. Shakley opens with history of his first encounter on the subject at matter. Secondly, he states how some of the organizations who have these titles names have lost meaning. Simply put, how people rarely pay attention to the schools and nation teams that have these derogatory names. Third of all, Shakley gives statistics on the actual amount of Indigenous people who do and do not care about
…show more content…
The first appearance of this appeal is in his introduction paragraph, where he gives a narrative of his childhood. He tells of when his father took him to Cleveland-New York Yankees game in the early 1950s. The second occurrence is the second section where he mentions facts about North Dakota struggling to force University of North Dakota should change its name and mascot. The Next to occurrence is also in the second section where Shakley gives more facts on schools whose names has been around so long that it has lost its meaning. The next occurrence occurs in the third section where he gives more examples of schools but those whose name has been around for so long that it’s lost its meaning. And the following paragraphs where he gives an actually report from 2002 where Native Americans were polled. And the final times where mention were fourth section, which all together gives more detail on sports organizations and their actions. Another rhetorical appeal Pathos which is used to quote “Generate emotions (fear, pity, love, anger, jealousy) that the writer hopes will lead the audience to accept a claim” (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and Walters, 26). There are four instances in the article, the first time when Shakley uses this appeal is in the introduction where Shakley says “love”. Secondly where he says “betrayal” in the second paragraph, also where he says “trivial” in the fourth paragraph, finally in the seventh paragraph where he says “discomfort”. The least utilized appeal is Ethos which includes Trustworthiness (along with fairness and respect), credibility, and shared values (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and
The first appearance of this appeal is in his introduction paragraph, where he gives a narrative of his childhood. He tells of when his father took him to Cleveland-New York Yankees game in the early 1950s. The second occurrence is the second section where he mentions facts about North Dakota struggling to force University of North Dakota should change its name and mascot. The Next to occurrence is also in the second section where Shakley gives more facts on schools whose names has been around so long that it has lost its meaning. The next occurrence occurs in the third section where he gives more examples of schools but those whose name has been around for so long that it’s lost its meaning. And the following paragraphs where he gives an actually report from 2002 where Native Americans were polled. And the final times where mention were fourth section, which all together gives more detail on sports organizations and their actions. Another rhetorical appeal Pathos which is used to quote “Generate emotions (fear, pity, love, anger, jealousy) that the writer hopes will lead the audience to accept a claim” (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and Walters, 26). There are four instances in the article, the first time when Shakley uses this appeal is in the introduction where Shakley says “love”. Secondly where he says “betrayal” in the second paragraph, also where he says “trivial” in the fourth paragraph, finally in the seventh paragraph where he says “discomfort”. The least utilized appeal is Ethos which includes Trustworthiness (along with fairness and respect), credibility, and shared values (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and