Like Lemmings Bathers Plunge Analysis

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“Like Lemmings, Bathers Plunge” is an article about how tourists go in water at a beach when it is obviously dangerous. In the first paragraph, the author uses a grabber, “The death toll for Sunday was three.” Next, Marcus Breece says that hundreds of beach goers ignore lifeguard warnings, despite the warnings, and there were twenty one rescues. In the third paragraph, the author uses ethos to describe a scene with dead bodies and rescue vehicles. Don Stewart gives an example of tourist ignorance. He says that the tourists walk around the dead body like it is a fish. He personally thinks that the lifeguards should be able to arrest people. Next, Stewart explains why the beach is so dangerous. The sand that was pumped up onto the beach left

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