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Do you want animals to be treated cruelly and forced to do tricks? If we don’t do something it will keep happening at fun places like seaworld. This is a controversial topic. This controversial topic was discussed with a video, “ The use of Animals in entertainment”, an article “Jump to It!” and another article “Should Animals Be used as Entertainment”. While there are some similarities among the sources there are also some differences also.
All three sources went about persuading the same audience, for their biased argument, using similar rhetorical appeals. To begin, all three sources address the same audience. The author does not call the audience out by name, they still make it clear that they are speaking to the people who watch animals

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