Argument Essay Example
Kylie Korn
Ms. Norma Darr
English 105
10 October 2011 Parents will always want what is best for their child. It is true that parents need help and rely on television as a babysitter, but it is taking it’s toll on the children’s learning capabilities. Parents need to take responsibility for their children and choose what their children are watching. Mary Chastain writes for Breitbart.com and as a concerned parent, she mostly covers semi-controversial subjects of the news that focus on mental health issues of children. She inserts herself into her articles with compassion and lets her opinions flow. Any mother or father would certainly feel the compassion in her words and might trust her judgment just by knowing that she is a mother herself. Not knowing this information could skew your view of her articles. If I did not know she was a parent, I don’t know if I would have felt the same compassion. She seems over opinionated and acerbic, but is in fact only being honest and true to her beliefs. A study was conducted with pre-school aged children and their goal was to see if watching nine minutes of a fast paced cartoon would dampen their brain power. The study concluded that Hollywood is to blame and the television shows that our children watch are responsible for low test scores. The article “Parents Need to Stop Blaming Hollywood and Take Responsibility” is a blunt rebuttal by Chastain to the study that was conducted by the University of Virginia’s psychology department. Chastain’s argument is convincing because she uses logical reasoning regarding the studies’ principals by noticing and explaining the key points in which why the study was performed improperly. In the article, “Parents Need to Stop Blaming Hollywood and Take Responsibility”, Chastain shows closeness in many ways to the subject, but also creates a distance by using the words “they and their”. She does this because she is showing the reader that she does not agree with the study, and
Ms. Norma Darr
English 105
10 October 2011 Parents will always want what is best for their child. It is true that parents need help and rely on television as a babysitter, but it is taking it’s toll on the children’s learning capabilities. Parents need to take responsibility for their children and choose what their children are watching. Mary Chastain writes for Breitbart.com and as a concerned parent, she mostly covers semi-controversial subjects of the news that focus on mental health issues of children. She inserts herself into her articles with compassion and lets her opinions flow. Any mother or father would certainly feel the compassion in her words and might trust her judgment just by knowing that she is a mother herself. Not knowing this information could skew your view of her articles. If I did not know she was a parent, I don’t know if I would have felt the same compassion. She seems over opinionated and acerbic, but is in fact only being honest and true to her beliefs. A study was conducted with pre-school aged children and their goal was to see if watching nine minutes of a fast paced cartoon would dampen their brain power. The study concluded that Hollywood is to blame and the television shows that our children watch are responsible for low test scores. The article “Parents Need to Stop Blaming Hollywood and Take Responsibility” is a blunt rebuttal by Chastain to the study that was conducted by the University of Virginia’s psychology department. Chastain’s argument is convincing because she uses logical reasoning regarding the studies’ principals by noticing and explaining the key points in which why the study was performed improperly. In the article, “Parents Need to Stop Blaming Hollywood and Take Responsibility”, Chastain shows closeness in many ways to the subject, but also creates a distance by using the words “they and their”. She does this because she is showing the reader that she does not agree with the study, and