Assignment One

Nathan Runyon

2/26/20

English

Professor Bailie

Waking up and taking charge is a different kind of writing. This writing is about a person talking about college debt and how you can take a stand and make a change. There is a lot different a lot ways you can take a stand to make a change. But there is one stand she talks about that is not what a lot people would do but could work and make a change. Her example is that she made a PAC and that PAC would be a bunch of people who join it and stand up to colleges and demand for change in tuition so they don’t fall in college debt or in a lot debt. I think she would need a little more then just joining a PAC to make a change cause that doesn’t really sound like a for sure way to make change. If she gave like step by step how joining the PAC and what it would do and show like statistics of joining PAC to making change to different situations then it would convince the people a lot more could actually work.

There are many different types of ways people can take a charge and sitting there and doing nothing while you’re drowning in student debt is not one of them. In her writing she talks a lot about how you can join a PAC and it could make a difference but she also talks about experience like when the Virginia 21 students led a PAC addressing the economic issues like tuition , book costs, and education budgets cuts. Another experience is in 2002 when students at the public College of William and Mary formed a PAC to help pass a 900 million state bond issue for higher education. She also talks about other ways like ten thousand California’s community colleges marched to Sacramento in 2003 to protest a 120 percent rise in fees and budget cuts in students priced out of the community college systems. There are many ways to spread awareness and make a change and she’s just telling people stop sitting around because it is affecting people all around you and can help a lot friends and people out by standing up and taking charge.

She used a lot of rhetorical appeals in this writing she wrote she used character, reason, values , and her emotion. She talked about how she would take a charge and make a change by making a PAC for people to join and rise to the occasion. She also talks about a bunch of reason why they need to make a change in college tuition for people not go into college debt. These methods are good to use to try and make a change and the methods could work but its highly doubtful. It would take way more then a little PAC to make a change on college tuition because the college don’t care that you’re in debt all they care about is getting their money and keeping the school running so they can keep making money. Although that PAC in California worked she would need about ten thousand people to protest and that is hard to find people who can do this and go protest for better college tuition. In a way she just trying to state a point that college tuition is a lot of money and should be reduced, but she also tries to persuade people the only way they will reduce that tuition if the people paying for it take a stand and demand for payment which won’t put them in a lot of debt or any debt at all.