Rhetorical Analysis Of The Horrible Teens

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The mice of “The Terrible Teens”

“You need to be your teems’ frontal lobes until their brains are fully wired” (paragraph J). This sentence written by Frances Jensen implies that adults should stop teens putting themselves in dangerous by being their controller of motivation. From the experiment of mice, it shows that teenagers behave wildly as mice, and it can be explained by a neurologist and a psychology. This essay is to prove that teenagers are acting passionately without considering any thoughts of risky consequences behind actions by using rhetorical devices and methods of development.

First of all, a team of researchers at Temple University had an experiment about how eighty-six drunken mice behave in Plexiglas cages. “When the
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Laurence Steinberg who is a professor of psychology thinks the difference of teenagers’ brains is an enlarged nucleus accumbens. From his opinion,”During childhood, the nucleus accumbens, which is sometimes called the “pleasure center,” grows. It reaches its maximum extent in the teen-age brain” (paragraph N). It is obviously for the reader to know that the “pleasure center” in brain gives the signal of enjoyment by comparing the different size “pleasure center” in order to support the essay has a powerful reason in psychology that teenagers are uncontrollable. It also includes personal experience that author has twins who spent most of the month of August attending a driver’s-ed course at local high school because “the law requires kids to have thirty hours of classroom instruction before they take the road test” shows that kids are the most dangerous drivers in any countries in the world, so in order to be able to drive, they have to pass a lot of requirements of law to make sure they brains are being cautious enough to avoid the accidents happen. To sum up, the methods of development make the essay more persuadable so that readers can connect in mind the similar experiences and thoughts with

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