Listen to this TedTalk by Father Greg Boyle. What is his argument? What rhetorical strategies does he use to make his argument. Are those strategies effective? Also, reflect on how this argument, and how the pieces we have read about gender shape the way you think about people who are different than you. Do not limit yourself in talking strictly about gender, but in any way that you are different from others.
List of things we read recently:
Women's Brains
Professions for Women
I Want a Wife
Walk on By
Barbie Doll
Those Winter Days
My Papa's Waltz
In this TedTalk, Father Boyle talks about the program he has made, "Homeboy Industries". In "Homeboy Industries" Father Boyle talks and meets with gang members. His program was created over 25 years ago in Los Angeles. It is a great example of the Kingdom of God. They started schools, job plans, and a "Homeboy" bakery and kitchen. Father Boyle senses and obtains the gang members value. Father Boyle argues our sense of compassion and unity with one another. Our unity to be with people is our willing compassion. Our goal is to create mutuality with each other. In the TedTalk, Father Boyle uses many rhetorical strategies that keep a close connection with the audience. He establishes logos, pathos, and egos. Father Boyle also establishes humor and reality. Throughout the talk, he solely talks about two main ideas; kinship and compassion. These two ideas are his main argument throughout the talk. We as a society are trying to great a community of kinship, filled with compassion as Father Boyle tells us. We forget that we belong to each other which is a big problem in the world. Our duty as human beings is to be mutual, to always be with each other. Our goal as humans to step to margins of the circle of compassion to settle with those who are less fortunate than us, ones who are lonely, depressed, and poor. Kinship and compassion will allow us to celebrate, not promote things like equality and justice. Father Boyle pertains to logos, logic. Father Boyle tells his story. He tells the story how it occurred and his journey to these accomplishments. Father Boyle greatly appeals to pathos, or emotion. He appeals to the emotion of the viewers of the talk and his own emotions. The whole story is emotional, filled with many ideas and thoughts that are powerful to the heart of Father Boyle and also to the ones listening. Ethos is present throughout the whole talk. Father Boyle convinces to his listeners the value of compassion and kinship. Father Boyle appeals to his way of life, his ethics and beliefs. The main purpose of this talk is to tell people we are to be one with others as we are one with God.
ReplyDeleteLife is filled with many differences. We can different from each other by gender but also by beliefs, thoughts, race, and ideas. Each person has their own sense of thought as well. We were all made different, but all made the same in God's image and likeness. Although we are all from somewhere different, we are made to all be together. As Fr. Boyle spoke in his talk, a lot of people did not want to deal with the members of his "Homeboy Industries" because they were part of a "gang". Just because they are part of a "gang" it does that make them different from us; made in God's image and likeness. We can not considered them bad either even though they are in a "gang", this group may be their only choice of survival. When we look around us we see many different people, but we always need to realize we are made to be "one", one with each other like we are with God.
Allie,
DeleteI think you did a very good job giving details of Home Boy Industries. I love you last paragraph, it really sums up everything we read quite well.
Allie,
DeleteI think you did an excellent job discussing the rhetorical strategies that Father Boyle includes wishing his talk. I think the most commonly occurring one was his appeal to pathos. He continually evoked different emotions upon his reader. Not only were they sad but also happy. Each example he told gave the listeners a different perspective upon life and how a small action could turn into something as large as homeboy industries.
Father Boyle's TED Talk about "Homeboy Industries" had a variety of arguments, but one in particular clearly stood out. The Father stresses that we must form a community of kinship as human beings. Like Mother Theresa said, "we belong together." Humans are meant to form a mutual feeling, one of love and forgiveness. We must obliterate any feelings of hatred and separation between us and develop the "mutual feeling." We must realize that all lives are equal and by pushing this belief aside we are not only hurting ourselves, but the whole world. As I listened to the talk, I thought of the statement "Always remember that when slender threads are wound together, they will have a rope to bind a lion.” Humans are far more powerful together than apart, so why do we continue to stray apart? We need to come together as our natural selves. One of our previously read poems, "Barbie Doll," really out in this talk like a sore thumb. Father Boyle states that people need to return to themselves, they need to remain in the state in which God intended them to be. When we stray from ourselves our inner being dies, much like the girl from the Barbie story. We can't let people become disposable and start throwing them away (Simile).
ReplyDeleteThe biggest rhetorical strategy that I found in the speech was humor. It keeps the talk positive and hopeful, while also portraying a series of anecdotes. Some examples include; "Before the talk, a crying lady came up to me and said, 'your talks never get any better'; Homeboy Plumbing didn't work, who wouldn't want a gangster working in their home?; A homie that that was just released from jail was having a hard time looking for a job so he came to me. Maybe it was because of the billboard looking tattoo that read 'Fuc* the World' across his forehead." His greatest story is his last, when he talks about two gangsters, Youngster and Puppet, who absolutely hated each other, but were co-workers. Puppet was attacked by a group of rival gang members and was put on life support. As Father Boyle was sitting at home one night, he got a call from the Youngster. This is the first time he had heard from him in 2 years. He said, "What can I do so he lives? Can I give him blood or something? Father, over the years he came to be my friend." The speaker's anecdotes and appeals pathos make the whole talk incredible.
After all of the stories, poems, and the TED Talk, I came to realize that people really are judged by gender, looks, race, etc. This is how people are looked upon today. Not by personalities, struggles, goals, or motives, but the outside cover. It may be their only path, their single choice of survival. This is probably only 10 percent of their whole being. It's how we get to learn that other 90 percent that truly counts, and the only way to accomplish this is together.
Your blog is really good. Fr. Boyle greatly established kinship and compassion which I think all of us will find in the TedTalk. I liked how you mentioned humor as a rhetorical strategy. Father Boyle uses multiple references that keep the audience laughing, but yet gets his point across about his journey and program.
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DeleteI liked your addition of the small quote from Mother Teresa. I forgot about how Father Boyle Talked about Mother Teresa saying this, but I did also include this point witching my blog. The idea of kinship is an important quality to establish. Everyone was put on earth for a reason. People must work towards bringing out the best in each other and working to maintain a healthy community of friendship and fellowship with one another and avoid violence and hatered.
Your blog made me really think about the importance of humor in the talk. Then to further your point, you gave specific examples of humor used throughout the talk. I watched several people's reactions to watching the video, and almost the entire time they were laughing. It really adds a sense of personalization to the piece. I love how you ended your blog talking about the "outside cover" and how that should only be judged in perspective and we need to focus on the other ninety percent.
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ReplyDeleteFather Boyle gives a talk on his organization, Homeboy Industries, and in this talk featured on TedTalks, he presents the effect of his company on the area and how important kinship and compassion.
ReplyDeleteFr. Boyle begins the talk be describing is organization, who it helps and how it helps them. Logos is used during this portion as he explains the importance of appearance and lifestyle. He does this through providing logical examples, like the story of a gang member with a tattoo of FTW on his forehead struggling to find a job. He also presents an example of a younger gang member selling drugs like crack, he presented just how significant a low paying starting job was on his life. Much of the piece appeals to pathos through stories about individuals, some ending up better than others. One emotional story was about a gang member who turned his back on the gang life through the program and was now sending his child to college. He includes many other stories, filled with pathos, about how rival gang members had settled their differences through the programs, in was that were as simple as just being co-workers at Homeboy restaurants, bakeries, factories, or even warehouses. Ethos is applied through the piece by Boyle through telling stories about he worked with gangs and describing encounters with individuals who came to him looking to change their lives. Boyle also caters to s general audience by describing some of the positive effects the program had on female workers. Boyle also uses humor throughout the talk to keep the audience interested and to lighten the mood when some stories became real serious.
Boyle uses pathos heavily to focus on kinship and compassion in his talk. Boyle has several stories of enemies who looked past their differences and became friends, one of the most touching stories was between Youngster and Puppet. Boyle didn't even have to ask the two if they were enemies when they first met, but after Puppet was jumped and on death's door, Youngster had called Boyle asking what he could do to help. Unfortunately, Puppet died, but this showed Boyle just how much the two had changed and was a great example to support compassion and kinship.
This talk reminded me of Walk on By and Barbie Doll. Walk on by presents fears of those belonging to a stereotype, and an ignorance of them. Walk on By describes the hardships of a African American, how people try to avoid him and how he is accused under stereotypes fitting his origins. The TedTalks presents how people fear gang members, and how people would much rather ignore the problem than do something to fix it because they fear them. Fr. Boyle's program works to stop this, he works to actively get rid of the problem by reaching out to gangs and fixing their lives towards kinship and compassion. Barbie Doll focuses on appearance, and society's demand for perfection. The TedTalks also focuses on appearance, like the story of a man with a profane tattoo who couldn't find work. Barbie Doll focuses on the pressure created on individuals to be perfect and this can relate to the gangs in the talk. The people who turn to gangs do so because they are pressured into it or it is their only chance of survival. This is similar to how the girl in Barbie Doll is pressured to diet and act stupid. The only difference is that Homeboy Industries is successful at helping gang members to realize that they do not have to follow that lifestyle. The company reaches to individuals and helps them to restart their lives and set them in the right direction, although some, like Puppet, end up like the girl in Barbie Doll, dead from the effects to fulfill a stereotype
Similar to all the pieces we have read the last view days, the TedTalks presents how stereotypes effect the people of gang dominated areas. It also shows how being a gangster or former prisoner creates hardships later on in life. I think this talk could even be included in our book as it presents how appearance effects gang members, but it goes an extra step on how we are to break this stereotype, kinship and compassion.
DeleteJohn,
DeleteYour blog is very good. I liked how you mentioned stereotypes and the relationship between puppet and youngster. I did not mention puppet and youngster in my blog, but I now realize they play a vital role in Father Boyles argument.
In this TED talk, Fr. Boyle gives a testament about the ministry he has created. He tells stories about how he gave gang members the chance to better their lives. He created a company that offers a variety of services to those who have been to jail or in any sort of trouble. He can set them up with jobs or allow them to work in any of the company's own businesses, such as a bakery. Through all this, he also provides them with guidance and leadership. He teaches enemies to work together and eventually, become friends. The whole process turn life's around for people who feel misunderstood and judges by the world. Fr. Boyle argues that you can not judge people from their past. There is always much more to the story than can be told from just looking at a person. There is a reason for everything everybody does. He uses a quote from Blessed Mother Teresa that says the reason for all the problems in the world comes when we forget that we all belong to each other. In some one, we are connected to everybody. In the grand scheme of thing, everybody wants the same thing. Everybody has a story. Mother Teresa also once said that if you judge others, you will not have time to love them. Boyle uses all the rhetorical appeals effectively. Perhaps the biggest appeal he uses is pathos. He shares emotional and personal experiences from a variety of people and cases. Each on of these experiences is unique, but at the same time they all provide an emotional quality. He tells of all the gang members he has seen dead, from the first to the most recent. He tells of how is trying to prevent more tragedies like these from occurring through his ministry. He also has a great deal of ethos. Who better to tell the story then the person who lived it? Boyle is also a priest who posses a great deal of knowledge about love and the way the world should be. He is very experienced in helping others and delivering a positive message. He uses a variety of different stories from many different gang members who have gone through the program. It is obviously that he had a special connection to every one of them. Finally, he uses logic. He uses statistics and facts that he has gained from his works. People are not born into violent gang members, rather something happened in their life that made them chose this path. That's what I think of people who are different than me. That's not to say that if I had lived their life that I would be just like them, but certainly I would not be the person I am now. I have yet to meet somebody who is the same as me, which is probably for the best. Just because somebody is a different race or gender than me, does not make them that different. People (should) have no control over their gender or race. Therefore, it's almost irrelevant the uncontrolled qualities of a person, they do not really matter. What is important are the things a person can control. A person's personality and world views are shaped as they grow older and have more experience in life. I do not believe that people are born evil, but rather they indulge and eventually become it. Like mother Teresa says, we are all connected. Often at retreats, everyone will gather by grabbing hands. Also, people tend to get in circles and pray over each other. Although we are all different in many ways, we will always be connected to each other.
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DeleteYou noted that Father Boyle said you can not judge people by their past. Do you not think people do that a lot today? I do. I like how you added the Mother Teresa quote.
Justin, I really liked the way you explained the whole idea of judgement. Also, I enjoyed the way you brought yourself into the piece. The mother Teresa references are awesome!!
DeleteJustin,
DeleteI like how you bring up what people can and cannot control. Most people do not think of this, and judge anyway. I think that everyone has fallen guilty to this. We all forget that we are connected, and that draws us apart. the end when you talk about the grabbing hands in a circle was very appealing to me. Circles keep going around and are connected, which is very good for your argument.
Father Greg Boyle has done something I can simply not believe. He has aided in transforming the lives of gang members into acceptable people in society. I believe his argument is to treat people with compassion and kinship, also, mutual respect. Father Greg Boyle uses pathos to engage the audience in his story, attaching to their emotion. I truly believe his stories of Puppet, Youngster, and Bandit made this Ted Talk even better. Those individual stories engaged the audience of the big story of Home Boy Industries. Father Greg Boyle’s main point was kinship. By definition, kinship is blood relationship or sharing characteristics.
ReplyDeleteAll of these pieces we have read and watched this week have really made me think. Father Greg Boyle brought up on of the things I kept thinking this week. How does it stop? How does the discrimination of gender, sex, race, etc., stop? Father Greg Boyle offered many suggestions, but I do not know if what he said would work. I think simple acts, like his, is what is going to stop the discrimination in our world, one person at a time. Its like pay it forward, if you help one person they will help another.
Elise,
DeleteI like that fact that you got your point across quickly, and refuted his solutions. The idea of simple acts, as you put it, would help tremendously. Something like a pay it forward. Great job.
I really liked how you talked about the idea of a Pay It Forward because we can all relate to that example is some way, having to go through that process. You got right to the point, and were very clear on your thoughts about Fr. Grey Boyle's talk.
DeleteI like how you talked about pay it forward because each and everyday, everyone can do something to better the lives of other people and that's what Greg is trying to get across
Delete"And just as you want people to treat you, treat them in the same way." I believe this quote is prevalent to the topic that Father Boyle talked about in his Tedtalk. He discussed ideas of compassion and kinship. The way he did this was through his company called Homeboy Industries. This company was designed twenty-five years ago in Los Angeles, California, for people who were living in the ghettos and were member of gangs. What this opportunity held was a chance for these men and women who ran the streets, to come inside the work force, turn their lives around, and maintain a new, healthy style of living. The only catch was that each person had to work along side members of different gangs that came also looking for a change of life. Father Boyle said that it was the same thing each time a new person applied for a job: he stated, "Individuals would come in and look for work, and as we took them through introducing them to there co workers they would shake hands p, but there was always some people that said, 'I'm not working with him' and father would tell them there are many people who could fill his spot." They always stayed and father Boyle's idea of kinship came into effect. Each day the gang members would come in and act like they hated each other but slowly they began to soften up and change.
ReplyDeleteWhat father Boyle continually argues throughout his speech is that no matter how different or how much hatred we have towards other people, we are made for each other. We comfort each other. We teach each other. We impact the lives of everyone around us. Another main focal point is that everyone has the ability to change. He proved that through Homeboy Industries. He impacted the lives of thousands of individuals. Turned there lives around, probably saving them from the harsh realities of that gang lifestyle.
All throughout the talk Father Boyle appeals countless times to pathos. He invokes emotions within his audience by talking about the death of one of his employs due to gang violence, and how the employ's co-worker, and old rival gang member, wanted to help in some way possibly by donating blood, but it was too late; he had already passed. Also, he keeps a light hearted mood with the addition of the "gang talk." He gives examples of what people say to him when they come looking for a job, or when they are working along side one another, which gets a chuckle or two out of the audience.
As for relation to the topic of gender, I think this falls into the category of stereotyping. Just like men and women get stereotyped, so too do gang member, most of the time for good reason. But, not all people who are members of gangs want to be there. It goes along with the crowd mentality. The people in the ghettos feel like it is there only option, kill or be killed. Have the rugged attitude that shows no emotion and doesn't take charity. That's not the case and father Boyle wants people to realize that.
Not everyone knows what people go through. Sometimes there are hidden dilemmas that cause people to not act the same way as they show. Everyone is different and everyone goes through different troubles. In order for the world to get along, it is important to refer back to father Boyle's two key aspects to life: kinship and compassion.
Dan,
DeleteI agree with you on the stereotyping of all people, even if some can be true. Maybe the people who identify with their stereotype only do it because they think they have to. Also, nice job about pointing out how he invokes emotion to the audience.
Dan,
DeleteI really like how you talked about how people in gangs are stereotyped for a good reason and bring up how many do not have a choice. People usually conform to the way of life that they are brought up into, and feed right into the stereotype. We may never know what someone else is going through, and you explain this well. Good blog!
"Homeboy Industries" is the TedTalk where Father Boyle professes his thoughts in kinship, true love, and the accept ion of unity. In the speech Boyle says, “I think Mother Teresa diagnosed the worlds ills correctly when she suggested that the problem in the world is that we’ve just forgotten that we belong to each other,” said Boyle. “How do we obliterate once and for all the illusion that we are separate?” This is what the world is truly designed for. We are all made for each other. We were made to love of each other, to learn from each other, and enjoy the life God has given us through each other. We are all made completely different. There are different races, the different genders, and different personalities. If God made us all alike than why would he make us? The world questions any person who is not in exact uniform with the rest of the world, but as soon as they become uniformed they are not the person God designed them to be; they are still judged. So, why do we continue to question and judge the people that God gave us? Father Boyle describes to us how all people need to live within each other and for each other. Women and men have to separated because they are different, they are made to be different! If a women was a man or a man was a women than the world not be as it should. We complain about the indifferences in world and forget to glorify in the beauty.
ReplyDeleteThis speech was a beautiful way to describe unity in our world. Father Boyle used a few rhetorical methods that made the work more comfortable to listen to. Father Boyle strongly used the ideas of ethos, pathos, and logos. Also, he worked with humor to make the speech more soft and understandable. Father Boyle made the audience laugh, which created a more likable attitude towards him. Also, a few times throughout in the speech, Boyle got emotional and that made it feel like he was deeply connected to the issue he was discussing. Boyle used stories and quotes from reliable sources to show that he knew what he was talking about; that he had the ability to share such a topic. His overall demeanor made the story much more relatable and much easier to understand.
Father Boyle uses his gift of love and compassion to the deepest extent. He shares his love with men and women everywhere he goes by forgetting the stereotypes that people have placed upon them. He makes the word "love" come alive through his work with people who clearly have no love. He sets an example on how or world should be,band how we all need to come together and unite in each other.
Charles BobbyMay 1, 2016 at 8:30 AM
DeleteReilly,
I really liked your blog. The first paragraph was great because it made me think of the polar opposite effect, they connect. When you talked about pathos and suggested that Fr. Boyle made it feel like he was connected with the issue, it was misleading. He was connected, full force. The final paragraph really concluded the blog. Good job.
You did a nice job of bring the ideas of kinship into your blog. Also, you focused a lot on God and love, which is something that was overlooked in many of the other blogs. A key part of your blog is when you discussed the emotions felt by Father Boyle. From humor to the saddest deepest connections, you really touched in every part of the talk.
DeleteI like how you ask several different rhetorical questions in your blog. I think your right, it makes no sense why people are so cruel and judgmental. I think people need to start looking at people a different way. "Take the log out of your own eye, before you take the sliver out if mine."
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DeleteIn his TED talk, Fr. Greg Boyle makes a very strong argument on compassion and kinship. Fr Boyle uses several rhetorical strategies, and speaks with great emotion throughout his talk. Fr. Boyle talks with great length about his company called Homeboy Industries. Homeboy Industries is a company that was started in the 1980s out of the ministry of the Dolores Mission parish, in Los Angeles, California. This area is filled with crime, and rival gangs fighting against each other. Homeboy Industries was created for these types of people. Homeboy industries provides gang members, and people living on the streets schooling, work, and health care. These people, however, end up not only working with their fellow gang members, but with rival gang members they fought with on the streets. Fr. Boyle discusses how at first the relationship between these rival gang members wasn't good, but eventually overtime they adapted together and made things work smoothly. This example leads right into Fr. Boyle's main argument and that is that God created all of us differently, but created everyone for each other. Fr. Boyle talks about creating a unity, and coming together as one whole. Each person has their own impact, and responsibility to care for one another. Fr. Boyle makes a strong point that if rival gang members can come together and form a unity, than we all can. This is an example of logos used by Fr. Boyle in his TED talk. Fr. Boyle relates to pathos throughout his whole talk when talking about the personal encounters, and emotions he had with the people who would come one by one into his office looking to change their lives for the better. He uses several examples such as burying people he was very close to, and the death of Puppet. Examples like these make his argument much stronger, and creates a larger interest between the audience. This TED talk really draws my attention to having many similarities to "I Want A Wife." This piece is all about stereotypes, concentrating on gender roles. Fr. Boyle in his TED talk relates to stereotypes of gang members, without directly coming out and saying it. He talks about how gang members he encountered were in and out of prisons, and covered in tattoos. These types of people fall under the stereotype of being bad, and never being able to change or be good. Fr. Boyle is very effective in his argument because he is able to change the misconceptions or stereotypes people have. Fr. Boyle also uses a bit of satirical, or humorist examples in his talk. An example of this is when he talks about about Homeboy Industries plumbing. All in all, Fr. Boyle discuss the relationships that people have with one another, and overcoming differences to form strong unities with others different than you.
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DeleteI think you did a great job with this blog. I also talked about several examples that Fr. Boyle talked about and the impact that they had on his central argument. Also, I found it interesting that you related it to "I Want a Wife." I feel as if the Tedtalks was base more on nationality and group affiliation stereotypes rather than gender, but he does present the stereotypes in a low key way as you mentioned. Great blog.
Frank,
DeleteI think you did a great job with your analysis of the TedTalk. It was very insightful and I agree completely with what you said. It was a great blog!!
In his TedTalk, Fr. Boyle focuses on the idea that we are all one. He started "Homeboy Industries," which is an organization for gang members. Here, gang members can seek refuge through real jobs in a work environment. He argues for kinship, explaining that everyone needs to have a "mutual feeling" of love and compassion for one another. This idea of a "mutual feeling" is carried throughout Fr. Boyle's whole talk.
ReplyDeleteFr. Boyle uses the rhetorical appeal of pathos frequently as he tells many stories. Through these personal experiences, we can see that we truly are all created equal. In the anecdotes, one that I found especially significant was the story of the gang members Youngster and Puppet. Puppet and Youngster had a personal history and were members of rival gangs. They were put in the same factory to work, and learned to accept one another. When Puppet was beat up, Youngster put aside his hatred and selfishness and wanted to help his friend. He wanted to give him blood. This was truly an act of love especially considering the hatred that they had for one another being from rival gangs. This strategy of pathos was extremely effective, and showed that even hardcore gang members can come to realize that we all are equal, no matter who we are or where we come from. In this way, the "mutual feeling" is exemplified.
We are all created equally by God, but this message is sometimes lost and forgotten. In today's world, we do not see everyone as equal. Stereotypes are evident every place of the world. This not only applies to gender roles, like women cooking in the kitchen and men fixing the car, but also to what political stances people have and what religion they believe in. We are all made to be different and unique, but we are one. For example in "Walk on By" the life of an African American male is shown. Just because a young, black male was walking behind a white girl at night, she became scared. This also applies to what Fr. Boyle says about "Homeboy Plumbing." People did not want gang members in their homes, just because they were gang members. It did not matter if they were receiving help from Homeboy Industries or not. When in reality, these gang members are the smart ones. They are the ones who want to change their lives around in the right direction. People would rather just stay away from these people than to actually learn about their situation and how they are trying to solve it. Everyone always pushes matters such as these under the rug and refuse to investigate. This shows just how ignorant the world can be about stereotypes and judgment. This circles back to the TedTalk. We must find the "mutual feeling" in the world in order to restore peace. We must see everyone as our equal and treat them with kindness and compassion. This is the goal of Fr. Boyle, and he is getting there despite the ignorance of some people.
God made us all in His image and likeness. This means we all share something in common, and that is God. We are all one in His eyes, everyone needs to realize this. Gang members with terrible pasts and stories can do it, and so can the rest of the world. No matter what happens in our lives, we will always have God's image to share in.
Kara,
DeleteYou did a great job with the blog this week. I think you did a great job explaining the story of Youngster and Puppet, and its significance to the talk. I also thought you did a fantastic job relating to the piece to "Walk on By," I never really thought of the gang members as the smart ones. Great blog.
Kara,
DeleteI agree that his talk was filled with pathos and I also think that that story was very moving as well. It made your blog a lot better why having that included. Great job!
Kara,
DeleteWe do all have one thing in common. God created all of us in his own image and likeness. That should be enough of a reason for everyone to get along. I enjoyed reading you blog this week!
In this TedTalk by Father Greg Boyle he discusses the stereotypes that we hold the gangsters too. In his company that has expanded greatly under the name of "Homeboy" which enables the people in gangs to have a job. He is aware of all the stereotypes that surround having these types of people working; not many people are willing to let gangsters into their home. father Greg Boyle allows the talk to remain light will asserting the fact that he is aware of this stereotype by saying that his plumbing strand did not work. He provides many examples of the successes in his program. The story about the young man who he would see selling drugs and ask him if he would like a job and the young man politely said no every time. He later cam back started working at the bottom and now is everyone's boss. I think it is really important that he mentioned all the success stories that he did because so many of us think that if someone was in a gang they are bad forever. He proves that that is not always true and that many of them change.
ReplyDeleteFather Greg Boyle appeals to the emotions of the audience throughout this piece. One Monet of this that really stuck out to me was when that young man that I mentioned earlier asked Father Greg to bless his daughter before she went off to college. This is significant because it shows that the people that he did change appreciate all that he had done for them.
This connects to all of the pieces that we have been reading in class because of all the stereotypes that people have based on gender, skin color, and your past. In today's society we are held to a million standards and anyone who does not fall under these are thought of as different or people to be scared of. There are expectations of gender as illustrated in I Want a Wife, expectations for what ex-convicts in the TedTalk, and expectations for African American men in Walk on By. These expectations limit each group of people when we should rejoice the differences and allow them to be who ever it is that they want to be. We are limiting them to be what society thinks of them instead of what they actually are. In order to eliminate these boundaries we must throw away the stereotypes.
Greg Boyle is doing something that more people need to do and that is to help others because it makes them feel good, not because they have to. He is looking to help the people of the gangs and streets to become better people. I can't even imagine that task. Bringing people off the streets to give them support to be a better person and learn to gain respect from others so they can be proud of their names. He uses a lot of pathos to bring the audience into his argument.
ReplyDeleteIn everyday life I consider myself different than most people. I relate my differences to "my papas waltz" because me and my dad have always had a rough relationship and what I got out of the poem reminds me to things that have happened in my past because we are all different and have different views in life.
Doug,
DeleteI think it is neat the way you related yourself to that poem. It was pretty cool the way he was able to bring his audience into his speech. I enjoyed reading what you had to say.
I enjoyed listening to what Father Boyle had to say about his journey with Homeboy Industries. I admire what he has done in his life. He is trying to affect as many lives as he can through his company and by giving speeches at different schools and Ted Talks. He argues that God created us as one big happy family and we need to remember that. In his talk he uses pathos, ethos, and logos. He does a good job connecting to the audience through his stories. Most of the things he says can be related to very easily. He also cracks a lot of jokes which really lightened the mood throughout what he was trying to pass along. At the end of the speech he made himself seem like a friend even though I barely knew anything about him. For the last two weeks we have been reading many pieces that deal with the idea of equality. In the twenty-first century people really struggle with equality. I do not think that anyone should be judged by their sex or race. Putting people in a category changes the way that they feel about themselves. If kids grow up thinking that they are suppose to look or act a certain way then there is a good chance that is the way they are going to be. The stereotype continues. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to chase whatever dreams they would like.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, it is unfair to put someone in a category for what gender or race they are because they had no say in how they were born. Father Boyle talks about the lessons that he had taught people over the years. Gangsters are a group of people that can be overlooked sometimes, but he saw what he could do to help them out. He made a difference in people's lives just by being a good role model. God created everyone in his image and likeness, and anything created in God's image is amazing. Treat others as you would like to be treated. Father Boyle is a prime example of someone who was able to overcome the barriers of gender and race, and he has lived a very happy life doing it.