An Analysis Of The Article: No Impact Man By Colin Beavan

No Impact Man This paper is an analysis of the article “No Impact Man” by Colin Beavan. Beavan lives in New York City with his wife and daughter, where he takes up a career in blogging. Beavan is emotional and quirky. One day Beavan decides that he wants nothing to do with the destruction of the earth. He and his family make a pact to have no impact on the environment. Later, that pact seems a little strenuous than originally thought. He also faces criticisms from the outside world for trying to change his life. Beavan established his credibility in the article by giving facts and backs those facts with an emotional connection. For example he states, “I blew my nose on a …show more content…
Beavan says "you can turn your lights out, but residing in a culture that provides street lighting means you still have an impact". he uses this quote to demonstrate how no matter how hard someone tries to conserve they are still part of a bigger society that will still kill the earth even though they tried not to have an impact. Beavan uses deductive reasoning in his article, He states his facts and then proves them to be true by his explanation of that fact. Beavan states, "Companies were slapping environmentally friendly labels on everything from free killing chainsaws that used less gas to highly toxic bug sprays". He uses this quote so the reader can see that the companies don 't care about the environment they just want people to think that their products are safe for the environment. He also states, “no one can live without making some environmental impact”. He goes on to say, “Even breathing creates carbon dioxide.” He shows the reader this to give them the knowledge that they will harm the environment even when they aren’t trying to. Beavan uses graphs from the (U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Energy Consumption Survey.) The graph is about U.S. Household Energy Use. It shows the reader that space heating is the number one energy use in households through …show more content…
Frederick tells readers how white masters were not only masters but fathers of some slave children. Also that master’s beat some slaves to the point that they were covered from head to toe with their own blood. He also shows the reader of the harsh conditions of being a slave child. He tells how they would punish him by keeping him completely naked in the coldest winters and in the hottest summers. These points explains the harsh reality of being a slave in the south. Douglas’s credentials are a professional writer and author also an activist in the nineteenth-century. Douglass establishes his credibility in the article by giving facts and supporting emotions about what happened back then. For example he states, “by far the lager part of the slaves known as little of their age as horses know of Thiers, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.” He also states, “I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.” Douglas also states, “He deemed all such inquires on the part of a slave improper and impertinent, and evidence of a restless spirit.” Douglas uses this quote to show why the masters wouldn’t let their slaves know their own ages, but his white children could. The reading was originally published in 1845. Multiple perspectives, historical trends, and /or cultural influences help the audience to understand the time or moment in