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After flying from Los Angeles, California to Nashville, Tennessee airport police arrested a 16 year-old boy for planning a hijacking of a commercial airliner and committing suicide. “His stated intent was to hijack the airplane and commit suicide,” said George Bolds, an FBI spokesman in Memphis, Tennessee. “He did indicate he intended to die in [...]

When November comes around and it is time to elect a new president I know who I want to vote for, and since I already knew who I wanted to vote for I figured that I would watch one of his campaign videos and analyze it. So for this I chose Mike Huckabee’s ad on [...]

Part One:
1) In your own words, define each of the three persuasive appeals.
Authority-from the Greek word ethos meanig character, so to me it is defined as the character of your writing and the tone in which you are writing.
Emotion-form the Greek word pathos, and it is what the writer is using in a writing [...]

Part One:
A claim is a statment that is of an opinion and must be proven by evidence to become accepted. Support answers the question of “why should I accept your claim?” and it includes evidence and explanation. Evidence is the imformation needed to prove ones claim, it can include many different things such as expert [...]