Thesis: Technology‚ such as texting‚ while driving is unsafe and can be a hazard to teen drivers and others. In the Knox News opinion column‚ there was an article found titled “Twits texting‚ tweeting behind the wheel.” The author of this article‚ Ina Hughs‚ is arguing that texting‚ MP3 players‚ and other electronic devices are unsafe to use when behind the wheel. She is writing to inform teenagers and other drivers about the dangers of driving while texting. Even though Hughes makes
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Driving to the Funeral by Anna Quindlen “It’s become a sad rite of passage in many American communities‚ the services held for teenagers killed in auto accidents before they’ve even scored a tassel to hang from the rearview mirror”. Anna Quindlen wrote the article ‚”Driving to the Funeral” in June 11‚ 2007 issue of news week to make parents think twice before allowing their 16 year-old drive a car. Anna discusses issue on how too often teens are killed in car accidents and why something should
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The Estrangement A mother is such a complex figure to think about. Mothers are expected to be loving‚ caring‚ sweet‚ but also firm and disciplinary. As seen around the world‚ mothers share different values and beliefs on raising their children. Many believe that the way a mother cares for her child molds the child into a certain adult. In ways‚ mothers have a power over their children that‚ as kids‚ are hard for our brains to grasp. In the article‚ The Estrangement‚ written by Jamaica Kincaid
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“The Case for Single- Child Families” Mckibben "The Case for Single –Child Families." first appeared in the Christian century in 1998. In this essay Mckibben aims to convince his readers that having one child doesn’t mean that you’re child will follow the single child stereotype‚ and that the environmental status of our planet will worsen if we continue to have a growing population. "If we keep heating the planet at our current pace‚ the seas will rise two feet in the next century.” Personal
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Reading the whole article‚ the biggest things that stood out to me was on page 63; “It usually takes a lobster between thirty-five and forty-five seconds to die in boiling water.” I took some time to think and at first I came up with putting a lobster into a boiling pot of water. But I couldn’t find the metaphor in that because that was the main idea I wanted people to see. So I decided to draw a healthy tree falling into a wood chipper and how when it goes through a wood chipper‚ the time it takes
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Claudia Baiz ENGL 1311 MWF 12:30pm - 1:20pm Professor: Jonathan Nehls Rhetorical and Visual Analysis on “How Performance-enhancing Drugs Work” Throughout this essay‚ I strive to analyze the rhetorical and visual strategies used within Craig Freudenrich ’s article‚ "How Performance-enhancing Drugs Work‚" with the purpose of examining his explanation and description about performance-enhancing drugs and determining whether he succeeded or failed at it. This article bases itself around familiarizing
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Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle‚ being a persuasive novel in nature‚ is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone‚ use of periodic sentencing‚ descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric‚ Upton Sinclair constructs a moving
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Father and Son In the short story “My Son the Marine” by Frank Schaeffer‚ There are many points that the author is trying to display through the rhetorical device pathos and ethos. He uses pathos to put a human face on the subject of loved ones going off to the military‚ and the hardships the family goes through due to this decision. He uses ethos to display his attitude from beginning to end. He starts at the beginning when the marines talk to his son and he ends with his son telling him he
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Jordan Steen Mrs. Wunderl English 3 AP 18 November‚ 2013 Timed Writing: Analysis of Dimmesdale’s Rhetorical Effectiveness in The Scarlet Letter The strategies that Dimmesdale uses while juggling two rhetorical situations are his high standings in the community as a source of credibility and authority‚ his purpose as a minister to help convince the sinner to come forward and reveal the truth‚ and his ability to convey underlying messages to the reader. His effectiveness of communication
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Tramy Quach Professor Knapp English 100A‚ Section 6 Final Draft 03/06/13 RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PAPER Introduction Rhetorical strategy is a type of method for writers to manipulate their writing to purpose an idea or influence the reader. Narration‚ description‚ and exemplification are some of the rhetorical appeals writer use to grab the reader’s attention. And invoke strong reaction out of the reader. Apart from these strategies‚ many writers use Aristotle’s appeals of Logos‚ Ethos‚ and Pathos
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