Race To Nowhere

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Hours and hours on end of work, Sleepless nights, stressful days etc... Those are feelings/symptoms of kids from elementary school through college. The Race to Nowhere is all about what students of all ages have had to endure or will have to endure or will have to go through in their many years of school. The Race to Nowhere documentary supports their claims through student testimonials, expert testimonials, and the audience's connection to the claims and people in the documentary. Student testimonials helped the students in the documentary establishes credibility with their audience by using, the rhetoric device ethos. The students in the documentary talked about their hardships in school, or what they were going through because of school. One high school student speaks about his experiences, his name is Isaiah. Isaiah talks about how stressed out he was in school, and his work load caused him to cheat in school. Some students were getting mentally and physically ill because of school. A highschool girl says, she was so stressed out, she stopped eating and lost so much weight she had to be admitted to the hospital. Schools need to realize the harm they are causing to their students, by giving them excessive amounts of work to do! Expert Testimonials supported their evidence through logos, by giving logical answers and by giving data. …show more content…
Most of Mrs. Ables audience can connect to the late nights, the overload of homework, the pressures of colleges. There were many nights last year that I would come home and have 4-5 hours of homework but, I also would have a three hour soccer practice. School is only part of our lives, and there are many things other than school that students have to do! Students use pathos to connect to their audience on an emotional level, and I see that connection because I have been in their