Analytical Essay on Social Mobility. Write an essay in which you give an outline of Carol Sarler's view on IQ measurements. Analyse how Sarler critisises the use of IQ measurements in society today.
Analytical Essay on Social Mobility
Upon reading an excerpt of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’ speech on education and social mobility which he gave to an audience of teaching professionals in London in 2008, I have been inspired to pick this for today’s essay topic. Brown sees himself as a person who broke the mold and ascended beyond his peers. In the speech he mentions passing by people throughout his life that was bound by either visible or invisible barriers of different kinds, barriers that maybe stopped these people from pursuing what they really wanted of life. A barrier could be all kinds of different assumptions; “I am not good enough to do that/be there” or “such a place is not for my kind”. Or it could be the physical lack of trained skills, missing self-confidence or the support of parents or peers. And for readers and listeners there is no doubt that this is an issue of everyday life, there is always something to be in doubt about, be it oneself or others and their opinions.
Brown is using the different appeal forms to make his point of view and his reasons behind it, be more convincing for the listener. He starts his speech by telling the audience how he ascended from growing up in an ordinary industrial town to university and later in life, prime minister. Most of the country certainly knows about Gordon Brown, yet he feels compelled to remind them anyway. By doing that Brown is using the appeal form of Ethos to remind his audience he is a person who definitely knows what it means to “break the mold”. He then brings forth a few examples of why many people do not move up the mobility ladder. These serves the purpose of making a listener imagine him or her-self, bound by such barriers. It might make a listener self-reflect on barriers of their own, thereby Brown uses Pathos as well. The choice of how he chooses to talk about the recent school and teaching reforms and their goal is thought through, and delivered with a certain purpose; no
Upon reading an excerpt of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’ speech on education and social mobility which he gave to an audience of teaching professionals in London in 2008, I have been inspired to pick this for today’s essay topic. Brown sees himself as a person who broke the mold and ascended beyond his peers. In the speech he mentions passing by people throughout his life that was bound by either visible or invisible barriers of different kinds, barriers that maybe stopped these people from pursuing what they really wanted of life. A barrier could be all kinds of different assumptions; “I am not good enough to do that/be there” or “such a place is not for my kind”. Or it could be the physical lack of trained skills, missing self-confidence or the support of parents or peers. And for readers and listeners there is no doubt that this is an issue of everyday life, there is always something to be in doubt about, be it oneself or others and their opinions.
Brown is using the different appeal forms to make his point of view and his reasons behind it, be more convincing for the listener. He starts his speech by telling the audience how he ascended from growing up in an ordinary industrial town to university and later in life, prime minister. Most of the country certainly knows about Gordon Brown, yet he feels compelled to remind them anyway. By doing that Brown is using the appeal form of Ethos to remind his audience he is a person who definitely knows what it means to “break the mold”. He then brings forth a few examples of why many people do not move up the mobility ladder. These serves the purpose of making a listener imagine him or her-self, bound by such barriers. It might make a listener self-reflect on barriers of their own, thereby Brown uses Pathos as well. The choice of how he chooses to talk about the recent school and teaching reforms and their goal is thought through, and delivered with a certain purpose; no