Progress of the human being seems to have it's price, or at least in the eyes' of Jutka Terris, a policy analyst for the National Resources defense Council, which promotes using science and laws to protect the environment. In the article "Sprawl is Harmful to wildlife." terris arues that urban sprawl (neighborhoods, business parks, roads, malls, etc..etc...) are fundamentally destroying habitats, and fragmenting them so that wildlife are unable to fully prosper and ultimately become extinct. Terris argues the case by using an authoritarian voice, over dramatizing, and specifically showing how urban sprawl harms a specific species.
The first tool that Terris uses is drawing on an "authoritorian voice". he does this with his first paragraph, by using a qoute of a noted forester and carnivore expert, founder of keeping track. by having an expert share their view on the problem of urban sprawl by sharing a fictitious scenario, we now have two witnesses of this growing problem. It fixates in our minds that there are more than just him speaking. which may or may not lead the reader to believe that everyone is worried about this problem.
Then from establishing his voice, Terris uses the tactic of over dramatization first with the qoute in the first paragraph, which paints a picture in our minds of a mother bear and her child going to a certain spot all the time, only to find it gone with something completily alien to them. using such language as "mother" and "babysitter", it dramatizes and draws on this language which connects us to the mother bear. another over dramatization that Terris uses comes right in the second paragraph starting with "if current land use pater-expansion of built areas at rates much faster than population growth- continues, sprawl could b ecome teh problem for U.S. wildlife in the 21st century." terris uses the scare tactic that we are wasting space and with that space, wildlife will lose so much habitat that this will be the greatest problem for them.
with so much paper being used in schools for reports, we are losing habitat continually, we should opt for online assignments only.
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I think you had everything that you needed in the second paragraph but you could go into more depth on the authoritarian voice.
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