Me Talk Pretty One Day Analysis
Shaquita Fuller
Professor Kaufman
Rhetoric 101
2 December 2012
Outcomes of Negative Reinforcement
People are faced with many obstacles ranging from education to relationships with other people. Some relationships with certain people may cause one to feel as if they are not important, potentially leading someone to the point where they ask their selves “Am I good enough?” In “Me talk pretty one day” by David Sedaris, he explains his past experiences from moving to France and having a discouraging teacher who belittles him on the way that he talks. In a second article inside The Toronto Star titled “Death by anti-social media; friends and strangers weep for her now, of course they do” focuses on the many obstacles of a teenager named Amanda Todd who was bullied in high school. Both articles read convey two totally different situations but they are both surrounded by different difficult life situations involving the lack of self-esteem in one person that is caused by others.
The biggest conflicting issue in the David Sedaris essay was the experiences that he faced when being verbally attacked by his discouraging French teacher, whereas in the Amanda Todd …show more content…
Likewise, using Sedaris own words as well he expressed the troublesome effects of his teacher in the classroom “Before beginning school, there’d be no shutting me up, but now I’m convinced that everything I said was wrong” (289). Sedaris stated in regards to his developed low
Professor Kaufman
Rhetoric 101
2 December 2012
Outcomes of Negative Reinforcement
People are faced with many obstacles ranging from education to relationships with other people. Some relationships with certain people may cause one to feel as if they are not important, potentially leading someone to the point where they ask their selves “Am I good enough?” In “Me talk pretty one day” by David Sedaris, he explains his past experiences from moving to France and having a discouraging teacher who belittles him on the way that he talks. In a second article inside The Toronto Star titled “Death by anti-social media; friends and strangers weep for her now, of course they do” focuses on the many obstacles of a teenager named Amanda Todd who was bullied in high school. Both articles read convey two totally different situations but they are both surrounded by different difficult life situations involving the lack of self-esteem in one person that is caused by others.
The biggest conflicting issue in the David Sedaris essay was the experiences that he faced when being verbally attacked by his discouraging French teacher, whereas in the Amanda Todd …show more content…
Likewise, using Sedaris own words as well he expressed the troublesome effects of his teacher in the classroom “Before beginning school, there’d be no shutting me up, but now I’m convinced that everything I said was wrong” (289). Sedaris stated in regards to his developed low