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These similarities and differences can help the author establish their topic. In the essay" Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs", Stephen Jay Gould uses many techniques to establish his point throughout his essay. Sharon Begley's" Designer Babies" also has techniques to make the essay clear of her view point. In Stephen Jay Gould's essay, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs" has a format that includes different numbered sections included in the essay.…

Party Hard The book that I selected to read was thirteen reasons why, by the famous author Jay Asher. Next is the symbol I tracked was the party at the begging of my book it talks about the gathering but the audience does not know what happened exactly was going at that party. So what I think the symbol means I believe that this represents coalescence because parties are when people get together for the celebration of something or for someone. So the party makes it where all the characters on…

Jay Bost begins his essay on the ethics of eating meat by introducing himself as a former vegetarian. He claims that he has given much thought about the ethics of eating meat. His dietary changes were based on ethics. This is why he returned to conscientious meat-eating after being vegetarian and vegan. Bost's ethical reasons behind abstaining from meat were obvious and clear. Nowadays, most animals are raised and killed in cruel conditions. Grain that could feed hungry people feeds animals…

anticipated film trailers at the time, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1’, which aired in July 2010. This will be compared to ‘Mocking jay Part 1’ the third in ‘The Hunger Games’ series, which aired in September of 2014. Both of these film trailers have similar genres of war and adventure and also have similar themes and characters.…

Jay Heinrich in the Introduction to Thank You for Arguing, "Open Your Eyes", illustrates several different personal narratives to contrast how persuasion and rhetoric can steady an argument. Heinrich supports his claims by describing that arguments "lies behind political labeling, advertising, jargon, voices, gestures, and guilt trips; it forms a real life Matrix, the supreme software that drives our social lives" (Heinrich, 4). The author's purpose is to point out different usage of arguments…

Dr. Solomon in the beginning of the lecture quoted Robert Jay Lifton, saying that we are responsible for our own extinction. He was relating to the growth of weaponry in the 20th century; yet, I believe that some of the points he made about “death” throughout the lecture, they could also be applied to the statement about extinction. To me, this lecture was not just about death, but life as well. Depression and substance abuse is a current— or even past—problem for many Americans. I am…

In John Jay Chapman’s essay, “Coatesville”, he expresses his horror and rage at the burning of a black man while hundreds of white onlookers did nothing. In this piece he states how the American people are bound to cruelty, during the age of slavery. Chapman originally addresses his primary thesis at a prayer meeting in 1912, were he establishes that all of America was to blame in the tragedy and that we are all guilty. This process of racism and prejudice had been extended for too long and with…

Kenneth Jay Sissom was born on January 25th 1931 in Bedford Tennessee. He was born into a farm family that all together had 10 kids. They lived in a four bedroom house with two beds to a room and the “comfort zone” or the toilet was located outside and they had no water bill. Each of the children had their own daily chores to get done to go about their way of life at that time. “The work of the children worked mainly for their own parents on the home farm. On the contrary, it is a highly…

A Teenager’s Guide to Rhetoric With stories from his own life and examples from some known and unknown rhetoricians like Aristotle and Homer Simpson, Jay Heinrichs persuades the readers into expanding their rhetoric and language skills in his book Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion. Heinrichs is an experienced author who began as a writer and editor of the National Wildlife Magazine. Thank You For Arguing is an introduction…

It was a snowy Wednesday night in the middle of December when I was wandering downtown after a short guitar lesson. To avoid the cold wind, I stumbled into an old, small bookstore where most of the books they sold were used. Being an eighth grader who did not like to read, I leaned against the wall by the door waiting for my mom to pick me up. The owner of the bookstore addressed me asking if I needed any help looking for a book. I politely declined and told him I wasn’t much of a reader. The…