1a. Kimmel interprets the statistics that more girls than boys go to college as false. Kimmel goes on to depict that the statement made by Tom Mortenson is incorrect. He states that the percentage of male and female students that attend college have increased, although female numbers have increased more and surpassed male attendance. The problem is not the gender; the problem lies within the class and race of the students who attend college. He then supports his claim with statistics from the top colleges and universities in the US; these statistics support his claim because the numbers of male students attending is higher than female students attending, but the numbers are close in proximity to one another. 1b. Kimmel’s background in gender
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In his essay, Fish uses his credibility (ethos) as an advocate against freedom of speech to pick apart college newspapers claims of the first amendment and free speech to protect them from the hate their published articles are receiving. For Example fish says “the first amendment protects unpopular as well as popular speech. But it protects unpopular speech from abridgement by the government of its free expression.” Furthermore, Fish also uses pathos and logos in his essay in the form of support for his claim that the college was just hiding behind the first amendment in order to hide from the hate on its article. He uses pathos and logos when saying “I’ll bet the Daily Illini is not committed to giving all people a voice- the KKK? Man-boy love? Advocates of slavery? Would-be Unabomber’s? Nor do I believe the editors sift through submissions looking for the ones they disagree with and then print those. No doubt … they ask questions like, is it relevant, or is it timely, or does it get the facts right, or Does it present a coherent argument?” The logos comes from the newspaper not asking logical questions as listed about the articles; the pathos is presented when Fish uses the types of groups and their opinion that would touch on the readers emotion in order to get a response from the reading by reason (logos) and by emotion
In his essay, Fish uses his credibility (ethos) as an advocate against freedom of speech to pick apart college newspapers claims of the first amendment and free speech to protect them from the hate their published articles are receiving. For Example fish says “the first amendment protects unpopular as well as popular speech. But it protects unpopular speech from abridgement by the government of its free expression.” Furthermore, Fish also uses pathos and logos in his essay in the form of support for his claim that the college was just hiding behind the first amendment in order to hide from the hate on its article. He uses pathos and logos when saying “I’ll bet the Daily Illini is not committed to giving all people a voice- the KKK? Man-boy love? Advocates of slavery? Would-be Unabomber’s? Nor do I believe the editors sift through submissions looking for the ones they disagree with and then print those. No doubt … they ask questions like, is it relevant, or is it timely, or does it get the facts right, or Does it present a coherent argument?” The logos comes from the newspaper not asking logical questions as listed about the articles; the pathos is presented when Fish uses the types of groups and their opinion that would touch on the readers emotion in order to get a response from the reading by reason (logos) and by emotion