Analysis Of The Pledge Of Allegiance By Gwen Wilde

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The following will be regarding the work of Gwen Wilde, and moreover, it's shortcomings. They were attempting to debate the topic of removing the words "under god" in the Pledge of Allegiance. All in all, It's rather poorly built to convince anyone of anything. The essay's structure is informal and worse, confused. It wanders from topic to topic without a sense of direction. the reader could easily find themselves lost in the lack of flow. While true the previous paragraph carried meaning, did you notice something significant? The same thing was restated many times over, which obviously, can be incredibly tedious or tiring for the reader. Unfortunately, this was the makeup of the entire piece. It spoke down the the person reading it, and

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