Rifkin and Parry

1. In the article "A Change of Heart about Animals" by Jeremy Rafkin published in The Los Angles Times, Rafkin uses the Rhetorical strategies pathos and identification. Rafkin used identification to show the readers he is similar to them, both humans, both eat animals and both empathetic. Using the idea of empathy, Rafkin's article discussed emotions that were proven to be felt not just by humans but animals too like loneliness and grief. He relates this facts to trigger emotions out of the readers that he also identifies himself with as also a human with these feelings to connect the reader more into his article and making it more likely to have them agree with him.

2. In the article "The Art of Branding A Condition" by Vince Parry, the author uses the rhetorical strategy of process analysis. Parry does this very successfully by seeming to know a lot about a way of marketing that only secret insiders would know. Then explaining the process to the reader as a commoner from the outside to seem more knowledgeable in a skill that is useful. He uses this knowledge to help the reader look at products in a new way and not be sucked into buying medicine when it is only something made up in ones head.

Prospectus

Prospectus

Three sources:

1.   My dad- he went to university of Phoenix for his masters in accounting. He did not like it at all and would support the argument of the degrading of a degree. What he learned he is not able to use anywhere and is basically useless. Plus it was very expensive for him to get that degree for no reason.

2.   Excerpts from Government Accountability Report on For-Profit Universities- a look into the fraud behind loans and the money making scheme behind for profit universities

3.   Holly Petreaus, “For-Profit Colleges, Vulnerable G.I.’s”- Carey does not go into the details of the ruthlessness of the fact that for profits target military personnel.

Source 2 expanded-

Quotes from Carey-

o   “A quarter of all federal aid goes to for-profits, while they enroll only 10 percent of students”

o   “"90/10 rule," a federal rule that bars for-profits from receiving more than 90 percent of their revenue from federal aid. The fact that the rule exists at all, and that Miller is working to water it down (it used to be the 85/15 rule), shows that for-profits operate in nothing like a subsidy-free market.”

Quotes from Government accountability

·      “campus representatives encouraged the undercover applicants to take out loans and assisted them in becoming eligible either for grants or subsidized loans.”

·      “We also found that for the five associate's degrees we were interested in, tuition at a for-profit college was significantly more than tuition at the closest public college. On average, for the five colleges we visited, it cost between 6 and 13 times more to attend the for-profit college to obtain an associate's degree than a public college.”

This source a mainly factual source that had under cover people test and obtain information provides an example of the money making side behind this universities. How they can make money from students that have nothing and put them in debt for the rest of their life.

Source 3 expanded:

·      - quote from Carey “look no further than the "90/10 rule," a federal rule that bars for-profits from receiving more than 90 percent of their revenue from federal aid. The fact that the rule exists at all, and that Miller is working to water it down (it used to be the 85/15 rule), shows that for-profits operate in nothing like a subsidy-free market..”

·      -quote from Petreaus “A number of these schools focus on members of the armed forces with aggressive and often misleading marketing, and then provide little academic, administrative or counseling support once the students are enrolled.

·      Petreaus addresses how the 10 percent does not even cover the military guaranteed GI and how this is what for profits use as their 10 percent. So more than 890 percent of the money at for profits can be government spending. It is a loop hole in the system.

Carey's Text First Look

1. Carey organizes his text to support his option, then bring up other options and not just blatantly recruit them but explain why people might support that, but then go into even more to support his view point. I think Carey organized his text this way because as you are reading alone you understand and start to agree with Carey but then all these questions pop into your head either what others have said about the subject or what you are questioning yourself as the opposite view. Then Carey addresses that view and doesn't really make it sound like the wrong view but then goes on to talk about more examples about his view to make the opposite view just seem as the weaker argument, not wrong just weaker.

2. Carey states many facts and brings up multiple arguments. He is basically overloading the reader with information, some statics, some stories and examples about students, and some just ideas and questions, but all in all a lot of information to make the reader think and analyze and formulate an option.

3. What really stuck me is the fact that these for profit universities are harboring many students from low income families. The quote "A quarter of all federal aid goes to for-profit universities, while they enroll only 10 percent of students." Carey does not really touch on this fact that he is stating to back it up with maybe these are students who were denied any other education. That this was a last resort and that is why there is many government funding for these students that come from nothing looking for an education at an affordable price. Carey does not really show evidence of any of this happening.