Public Rhetoric Draft

[Things change as times go by. No one know whether it is good or bad. Some people
support the idea of change; some do not. There are so many of these examples in the world.
Parents lose hope on their children, teenage committed crime because of it, family abuses, etc.]
Now, people might argue that conflict between family was either the parents or the childrens
fault. This is not about the conflict due to immaturity; it usually occurs during parents middle
ages and childrens adolescent period, which could relate to most families. [connect age and
generation]. Interparental conflicts are caused not by individual flaws but a rapid culture change
from last generation to the next.
Conflict happens to most families. A thing called cultural gap was related to the particular
issue. The reason why parents and children would have conflict is because the lack of
communication or miscommunication. This is not ethnic nor regional. It actually happened
though out the world in history, when theres a rapid social change. This would no longer cause
by individual factors, but is a common issue. The majority had experienced the conflict;
however, some havent. So, there must be something big happening intergeneration. Parents
musts have a set of different ideas than their children have. Well known American socialist,
Kinsley Davis, said in his book, The Sociology of Parent-Youth Conflict:
Extremely rapid change in modern civilization, in contrast to most societies,
tends to increase parent-youth conflict, for within a fast changing social order the
time-interval between generations, ordinarily but a mere moment in the life of a
social system, become historically significant, thereby creating a hiatus between
one generation and the next (Davis 523).
[analyzing quote]
The problem can be very serious. Even the whole country would be affect. As we
commonly known, the World War II had influence many countries. Political civil rights and anti-
war movements happened a few decades after WWII in Germany. The major problem was the
issue of treating WWII veterans and modifying modern education. According to the article, Nazi
Education, Nazi Germany developed a special set of educational system for war children, so that
they can one day serve the army. Under the system, children were shaped to be loyal following
Hitler. It makes sense for the earlier generation to believe it, and holding on to certain political
views even after the war. Even for individual family during anti-war movement, Germany 1960s,
the views create tension [between parents who believe in X and children who believe in Y]. We
can picture a young adult determined to join the movement regardless of their parents warning.
[And how sad the parents would be when their children resist to inherit their ideology.] Tension
continues until the end of 1970s [connect to change].
The differences between the two generation change the outcome of people intended to
have. Parents they mostly have the same goal, which is to have their own children be happy
(StrengthsMining). This include being able to enjoy the world as they succeed in life. Children
being outstanding is not always the case. Since the parents care so much about the kids, they tend
to use their old way to doing, pushing the children harder in many of the aspects. And thats
when conflicts occur. Things go hard when come to educating kids. Many parents dont know
where to start to approach their children. The hesitation here and there might cause a huge
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separation between both. Under conclusion of the journal article Aging Parents and Adult
Children, it said, Several areas of research have been studied by too many investigators for too
many years. There should be no doubt by now about whether older people are alienated from
their families (Mancini and Blieszner 287). 2) Since the older parents usually are the ones cant
keep up the pace of the world, they slowly feel like losing value from the families or the society.
A fourth gap is that the interpersonal, social-psychological aspects of these relationships have
not been adequately connected with the social and societal context in which they function
(Mancini and Blieszner 287) For those families with a huge culture gap between generation, the
parents would be very helpless. Because of the gap, the parents would understand what their
children had to said. Parents just dont get why their children are so resist to the doctrine they
believe is right. [analysis/explanation] Parents have their old practice that lead to success,
where the kids used their own way to interpret parents intention.
Time already created another brand new world for the younger generation. Kids adopt
thing fast, whether their parents think its right or not. Especially for teenagers, they tend to
experience new ideas or things. The stages significantly influence personality development,
with five of them occurring during infancy, childhood, and adolescence (Personality
development). Adolescent period is the time for ones to really identify themselves. Sometimes,
they might be confused; sometimes they would take a stand and strongly defend it. Thats when
they will argue with their parents for they belief. The generation gap, again, causes tension
between two somewhat different world views. Under many circumstances, youth are being very
idealized, partly because they take working ideals literally (Davis 527). Using they
optimistic mind, Children tried to change their parents old fashion way of living. They dont
understand why parents call them stubborn when the parents are the ones really being stubborn.
[explain sentence above] Children might just shut their mouth and ear, completely cut off the
relation with parents. The world views they have is not yet mature but real to them.
People react differently, according to their prior experiences, without realizing why. In
2014, a major movement took place in Hong Kong, the special administrative regions of China.
The Occupation Movement, also known as Umbrella Revolution, was remarkable. It reminded
all Chinese how people still separated under the policy of One Country, Two Systems [what is
this]. Anger between people even within the community of Hong Kong. In some households, the
last generation still drowning in the dread of Chinese Cultural Revolution [how is this change,
what is it like] and Democracy Movement of China, 1970s to 1980s. This was the main reason
most parents wont let their children participate in the movements. More extremely they will
disinherit their children because of that.
Similar to political views, living environment would also influence differently for
different age people, which could be call as Acculturation. Acculturation differences may be
associated with more intense conflict because different levels of acculturation may signify less
proficiency in English on the part of parents and less proficiency in Chinese on the part of
children. [first connect to paragraphs. Then connect to the thesis, idea of change.]
In conclusion, [here is why it is important, why it matter to people, ways to fix it]
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Peer Review 1 Fernando Guan

1.) He has chosen to write 1, an argument for an audience that agrees with
him. I could tell this because from the start he is stating his opinion and is
not stating the opposite of what the audience might think if they were
against him.
2.) The issue is issue of parents-children conflict due to a rapid
intergeneration change. He shows that he has prior knowledge on the
subject at hand. Usually adolescence and their parents have this issue.
He uses pathos to try to connect the audience to their adolescent years
where they might have had arguments with their parents. As well as
ethos and logos with the references that he will provide later.
3.) He is saying these parent-children issue does not happen because of
individual factors, but from something intergenerational. They hold this
position because most people have experienced the conflict, but some
havent. I think maybe this should have something with more evidence
behind it to take this stance.
4.) At this point of this paper, he does not provide any sources.
5.) He starts off a paragraph with a question that might be said by someone
with an opposite view, and then writes the rest of the paragraph about
how it is wrong.

Peer review 2 Antoine Noel

1.) His audience could agree or disagree with him I think. And he knows it
because I said that some people think that and others thinks another way.
2.) His issue is the conflict between parents and children causes by an
evolution of the mentality. The most of the families are affected by this
problem. He uses some pathos and logos with some general ideas.
3.) He thinks that the conflict is not caused by the evolution of the mentality.
Strength: good introduction. Weakness: No quotations, Only arguments for
his thesis, Weak arguments without support.
4.) Nothing only his own opinion
5.) Thesis then arguments

Work cited:
Aging Parents and Adult Children
http://www.jstor.org/stable/352492?seq=13#page_scan_tab_contents
The Sociology of Parent-Youth Conflict
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2084427?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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StrengthsMining
http://www.strengthsmining.com/2015/07/what-parents-really-want-for-their-
children/
Personality development
http://www.healthofchildren.com/P/Personality-Development.html
The history learning site
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/nazi-education/