A) Discuss Any Instances of Nonargumentative Persuasion or Pseudoreasoning and Explain

question 30

Essay

A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. (We'll comment on features we find obscure, unusual, or tricky.) B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content.
"It's past time that you and I and every other American asked some cold, hard questions."
"Who lost Iran?"
"Who lost Afghanistan?"
"Who lost Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?"
"Who crippled the FBI and the CIA?"
"Who sold the Russians computers and other sophisticated equipment, which have been used to stamp out freedom?"
"Who is keeping our kids from praying in school?"
"Who lets hardened criminals out on the street to kill, rape, and rob again before their victims are buried or out of the hospital?"
"Who says that America should do little if anything to help human beings who are daily being killed and beaten up by Marxist dictators?"
"The answer in every case is LIBERALS."
"But America is waking up to what the liberals have been doing to it."
"To quote Michigan professor Stephen Tonsor, 'New Deal liberals are as dead as a dodo. The only problem is they don't know it.'"
-Richard Viguerie, The New Right

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Definitions:

Secondary Sex Characteristics

Traits that emerge during puberty which are not directly involved in reproduction but distinguish the biological sexes, such as breast development in females and beard growth in males.

Gender Roles

Societal norms dictating the behaviors, activities, and attributes deemed appropriate for individuals based on their assigned sex at birth.

Primary Sex Characteristics

The physical features that are directly involved in the reproductive processes, such as ovaries in females and testes in males.

Sex Chromosomes

Chromosomes, specifically the X and Y chromosomes in humans, that determine the genetic sex of an individual.