Gender Stereotypes: Article Analysis

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An additional expert, Stephanie Scoville, S L, et al. wrote an article called “Deaths Attributed to Suicide among Enlisted U.S Armed Forces Recruits, 1980-2004”. The purpose of this article is to provide information over suicide deaths in the military. Scoville’s commentary is filled with strong details and statistics that support and strengthens their credibility. The article has valuable information and is supported with facts and statistics that high school students should take into consideration before joining the military. Scoville uses appeal to logos to build her argument. For example, Scoville argued “There were 46 onsite suicides by gunshot (39%), hanging (35%), fall/jump (22%), and drug overdose (4%). An additional 20 recruits committed

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