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In the article by George Heymont, More Funding for School Arts Programs, Less for Sports (2017), the author persuades the audience to better fund and support the arts instead of sports. Heymont applies imagery, personal connection, pathos, and ethos to further support his claim of more funding for the arts and less for sports. The author uses imagery in this article when describing events from his own life and other people’s stories which adds further emotion. Heymont adds personal connection in this piece which implies that he is biased, however this adds a more convincing argument. He also uses both pathos and ethos in this piece. Pathos plays a large role in this article because the author has a personal connection with limited funding for

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