In the passage “End All Ivory Sales Worldwide”, James A. Baker III is persuading his readers that the illegal murdering of elephants for ivory needs to come to an end. He uses many different methods to try to persuade his audience to get involved with banning the trading of ivory. Baker gives evidence by giving facts along with examples to support his claims. He uses reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence. He also uses stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas that he expresses. James A. Baker III is persuading readers by providing evidence from facts and examples to support his claims. Baker explains his involvement in banning animal poaching. He tells about
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Bush. He uses reasoning to connect claims and evidence by mentioning these specific people who could be a big factor in one’s decision to help stop the poaching of elephants and the illegal selling of ivory. The reason for all of the people named is because of the fact that they were well known and loved multifariously and if they were participating in the banning of the illegal selling of ivory then why not join? Baker uses reasoning to develop ideas when he says “Teddy Roosevelt long ago cautioned us not to leave our wild places more diminished than we found them. If we extend that idea to an increasingly interconnected world, we must acknowledge a collective responsibility for the survival of elephants as a species.” In this statement, Baker tries to persuade readers by bringing up an old idea that Teddy Roosevelt had and putting it back into motion. He is using Roosevelt’s idea and the fact that everyone favored him to persuade his audience to get …show more content…
He uses words such as survival, devastating, courageous and awe-inspiring to emphasize the importance of the illegal selling of ivory and the poaching of multiple innocent elephants. He also tries to accentuate drawing a mass amount of people to join the movement to end poaching and illegal ivory selling. Baker offers a certain uniqueness to his writing when he tells his readers “Since the dawn of human civilization, these magnificent, awe-inspiring creatures have been with us. Let us not be the ones who let them disappear forever on our watch.” By inserting this specific piece, Baker wants the readers to feel some sort of emotion and he wants the audience to willingly help the elephants and the wildlife guards rid of all the poachers and illegal ivory sellers. He is basically telling his audience that if they do not act soon then elephants will become extinct and if they would help then maybe they can prevent it from becoming
Bush. He uses reasoning to connect claims and evidence by mentioning these specific people who could be a big factor in one’s decision to help stop the poaching of elephants and the illegal selling of ivory. The reason for all of the people named is because of the fact that they were well known and loved multifariously and if they were participating in the banning of the illegal selling of ivory then why not join? Baker uses reasoning to develop ideas when he says “Teddy Roosevelt long ago cautioned us not to leave our wild places more diminished than we found them. If we extend that idea to an increasingly interconnected world, we must acknowledge a collective responsibility for the survival of elephants as a species.” In this statement, Baker tries to persuade readers by bringing up an old idea that Teddy Roosevelt had and putting it back into motion. He is using Roosevelt’s idea and the fact that everyone favored him to persuade his audience to get …show more content…
He uses words such as survival, devastating, courageous and awe-inspiring to emphasize the importance of the illegal selling of ivory and the poaching of multiple innocent elephants. He also tries to accentuate drawing a mass amount of people to join the movement to end poaching and illegal ivory selling. Baker offers a certain uniqueness to his writing when he tells his readers “Since the dawn of human civilization, these magnificent, awe-inspiring creatures have been with us. Let us not be the ones who let them disappear forever on our watch.” By inserting this specific piece, Baker wants the readers to feel some sort of emotion and he wants the audience to willingly help the elephants and the wildlife guards rid of all the poachers and illegal ivory sellers. He is basically telling his audience that if they do not act soon then elephants will become extinct and if they would help then maybe they can prevent it from becoming