"Assessing Your Essay Author's Rhetorical Situation"

The author of Education In A Multicultural Society: Our Future's Greatest Challenge is Lisa D. Delpit. The author is an african american scholar in education. The author wants to improve education and she argues that teacher's should be focused more on how to address the student's problem and solve it in the best fashion possible. The author explains in detail how students may be misread because of their culture. She states that teachers may use different forms of discipline because of culture. The author uses a serious but respectful attitude when talking about the arguments. And the author uses personal experience as the background. The purpose of the audience is to understand where the author is coming from and understand how what the author means when she goes into detail about the culture misunderstanding. The attitude of the audience is probably very serious and attentive. The purpose of this text is to show not only teachers, but students, that there is a misunderstanding about cultural diversity. The author is trying to explain that teachers need to understand the cultural difference of the students. The time and place that is taking place is in today's society and community.

"On Self Respect" by: Joan Didion

1,) I think that the effects of this may be both negative as well as positive. Some readers may agree with some of the allusions to illustrate her point, while other may not. But I think the illusions are more positive as long as the points she is making are understandable to the reader. I think her allusions are pretty positive though. I think it just depends on one's understanding of the allusions. I found it positive because I understood the way of which she was describing it. I also don't find her allusions alienating at all.
2,) Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about it.  People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. Nonetheless, character-the willingness to accept responsiblitiy for one's own life- is the source from which self-respect spring. Yes, I think most people, generally, would agree with these statements. If you look at the older generation, such as our grandparents, they are very strict when it comes to giving and showing respect to other people. I also think that people that have self-respect have the courage to learn from their mistakes and to make themselves better people.  And I also think that if you take responsibilites of your life and your mistakes, it makes shows you self-respect and makes you a better person in the end.
3.) It is connected because we need to have self-respect within ourselves to have confidence in what we are doing. If we disciplince ourselves, in what we are doing, it shows that we have enough self-respect within ourselves to be better in our work. It shows we care and have enough self-respect to build up ourselves. Without self respect, what we do will come out as messy and careless.