Analyzing Staples A Man's Worth A Thousand Words

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1.It was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into-the ability to alter public space in ygly ways.. It seems to me that he states the thesis on the body paragraph. But the problem is I have never experienced with a thesis in the body paragraph. I have read essays that had imply thesis, or thesis in the introduction.
2. I think Staples uses a combination of logic, and emotion to appeal his reader. He uses his emotion to show readers the injustice and a feeling that only black people experience in NewYork, and the the logic to impress reader that how bad he faces and solves bad things through the story.

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3. To me,Stapler present enough examples to support

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