When I looked at the Enoch article and especially the section on “revising the news”, I couldn’t help but think of Lung’s letter to Hu Jintao, and how she used language and symbols to unpack her ideas. Enoch suggests that readers first look at the language used by the writer to direct a reader’s attention. Lung uses many powerful words in her letter, words like “cut throat”, “great protest”, and “internet police”. Enoch’s article suggests students to pick apart pieces of discourse where they find directed language.
After reading Enoch’s article and again looking Lung’s letter, I found it hard to look past Lung’s suggestive language. Although she did use many loaded terms in her writing, I didn’t find that it discredited her as a writer, or even make me scrutinize her writing. This is why I think Lung’s letter a good piece of public discourse.
For my historical-casual analysis I would like to show how Title IX has hindered the male athlete in American high schools and Universities. Title IX is the amendment attached to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Since Title IX’s passing in 1972 men’s sports programs have suffered severely. Title IX was not originally intended to effect sports, and nowhere in the law are sports even mentioned. In my “real” form I like to raise the issue of people using the law as a sword to cut the legs out from under many capable male athletes, rather than protect against sexual discrimination in schools like the law was originally intended for.
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By choosing a topic that slightly alienates a group of people (women) you have to be very careful with your audience construction. Also, I am not sure that everyone sees the problem this poses for male athletes so you would have to provide a good source of information concerning this.
If you frame what you are looking in to a little different it will seem much less biased. Instead of trying to prove that title IX negatively effects male athletes, you could simply see how it has effected male athletes without already judging it. At least through your research. For you lazere chapter 2 will be very important. When you set up the argument for title IX you need to make sure to set it up accurately.
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