Serve or Fail

In "Serve or Fail," Dave Eggers argues that college should consider instituting a service requirement for graduation. Eggers gives us some purpose of college education to link with volunteering that help students getting beneficial effects. He gave some good points in terms of helping others out. He explains that college is too short to sit back and become the best foosball player and waste your time with no commitments to any after school obligations, etc. I think that everyone should be able to give some of their time to volunteer and put a smile on someone's face because they think that you care. I find Dave Eggers writing “Serve or Fail” very persuasive for the following reasons.
One reason that I agree with Eggers is that he uses all three of the critical appeals. Emotional, Ethical and logical appeals can be seen throughout his story about college services. Eggers wants college students to participate in the community because college gives students too many free hours that are wasted. After I looked over his article I figure on why students would listen to the story? One explanation is that the reader finds out that he was a college student at one time and all he did was play games all day. “ I went to a large state school -- the University of Illinois-- and during my time there, I became one of the best two or three foosball players in the Land of Lincoln” This quotation shows that he is knowledgeable of what goes on at college because he experienced it firsthand. This would be known as an ethical appeal because there is no other reason to support that he wouldn’t understand what college is all about. Another reason why the reader might feel obligated to believe is how he used an example of an old war veteran. “Meeting a World War II veteran who needs meals brought to him would be educational for the deliverer of that meal, I would think” This quotation would pull on the emotions of the reader and make them believe that community service for college