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

question 98

Essay

A)Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage.B)Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content.
"The arms buildup that President Reagan gave us is an albatross around our necks.We spent a trillion dollars on it.Do you realize how much a trillion dollars is? That's a one with twelve zeros after it.That's $4,000 for (or rather from)every man,woman,and child in the United States.And what was it all for? Are we any safer now for having spent all this treasure? Do you feel any safer now than you did before? Our children,who will eventually have to pay for all this because of the national debt,will look back on us as a generation of lunatics."
-Letter to the editor of the Bellevue (Ind. )Star-Reporter

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