https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237 add your sentence (bottom 1/2 WRS) en-us 2018-10-04 16:47:59 UTC 2018-10-05 17:06:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262130  Hoops employs irony when comparing America’s glorified young, illiterate child soldiers during World War One, with post-World War Two’s tendency to look down upon illiteracy to allude to the hypocrisy of society. ]]> 2018-10-04 16:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262130 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262137 Hoopes relies on point of view when he states "aliteracy is becoming a serious social problem" by addressing the lack of participation in reading by today's society. Hoopes hopes to motivate a larger population to return to reading to educate themselves on modern issues.]]> 2018-10-04 16:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262137 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262491 Townsend Hoopes employs a hyperbole with "now only students read...Teachers of course don't read at all," in order to portray the American public as aliterate and therefore less capable of clear thought.]]> 2018-10-04 16:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262491 bieg1590 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262576 Hoopes employs specific examples, like analysis of american speech and refrence to historical WWII phenomena, to warn the public of our devolving speech skills, because an inability to effectively communicate would leave our democratic society doomed.]]> 2018-10-04 16:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262576 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262755 Townsend employs ]]> 2018-10-04 16:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262755 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262807 Hoopes appeals to logos when he states that “fewer than half of Americans read books with any regularity...” in order to highlight “the widening gap between the leadership elites and the general public” that threatens to weaken our participation in society.]]> 2018-10-04 16:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262807 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262808 Hoopes relies on irony with “We are surrounded by teenagers (and now post teenagers) who seem reasonably proficient verbally, but who do not in fact speak in sentences” in order to highlight how people do not read, but are educated, have become seemingly illiterate.]]> 2018-10-04 16:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262808 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262886 Hoopes relies on rhetorical questions with “what if there is no reading in public?” in order to evoke the reader to further ponder about “aliteracy” and why the issue is arising as a prominent problem in today’s society.]]> 2018-10-04 16:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289262886 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263052 2018-10-04 16:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263052 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263125 If We Don’t Read, We Can’t Think by Townsend Hoopes employs irony to comment on how we are in a world with an abundance of information yet many individuals choose not to read the information and utilize it in their minds and discussions with others. ]]> 2018-10-04 16:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263125 christinachalmers09 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263291 2018-10-04 16:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263291 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263650 Hoopes employs satire with "aliteracy," a "serious social problem, one that limits intelligent participation in our political process" in order to expose the "unstructured, fragmented, impressionistic" talks of the younger generations.]]> 2018-10-04 16:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263650 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263693 Hoopes describes the degression of analytical thinking and comprehension that has plagued the new generations. His use of humor in, “one in every five Americans is illiterate” is used to warn society that reading needs to be a staple in our education. ]]> 2018-10-04 16:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289263693 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289264077 Townsend Hoopes employs irony with his evaluation of the growing gap between avid and infrequent readers to emphasize the long term effects and possible political manipulaion that aliteracy can have on our democracy. ]]> 2018-10-04 16:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289264077 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289264152 Townsend Hoopes relies on satire when describing the “serious social problem” of “aliteracy” in order to depict the growing social divergence from a motivated to a passive public, and to warn of the dangerous effects aliteracy will cause in the future.]]> 2018-10-04 16:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289264152 https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289402547 Hoopes employs irony with "we are surrounded by teenagers who seem reasonably proficient verbally but who do not in fact speak in sentences” to emphasize the fact that while people do have the ability to read, they don't utilize this skill making them alliterate and creating national concern.]]> 2018-10-04 21:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mansfiec/room237/wish/289402547