What Is The Allusion In The Dust Bowl Of The 1930s

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Migration has occurred for many, many years. In the passage, Sanders uses a few different strategies while he responds to an essay written by a man that left his native country for a different one. Sanders uses the strategies to also state his perspective about moving. There are a lot of unique writing strategies; allusion, analogy, and anticipating objection are a few Sanders uses. Sanders uses quite a bit of allusion to show examples from years ago to make a point. He uses the example, “The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was caused not by drought but by the transfer onto the Great Plains of farming methods that were suitable to wetter regions”. This example helps build his perspective that people would root themselves in places rather than ideas.

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