The Next American Frontier By Michael S. Malone

Dockterman uses the persuasive technique of pathos to appeal to the emotions of the reader on this sensitive topic. For example, everyone has had life experiences where a mom’s idea was pitted against a dad’s, and the author begins one paragraph with the question “So who’s right - the mom trying to protect her kids from the perils of new technology, or the dad’s who’s coaching his kids to embrace it?” By asking this emotional question, she draws the reader into her response to the question, making one want to read more to gather more evidence. The topics she refers to themselves are emotional for many people, like limiting tech use at school and banning cell phones at school, so she hooks the reader in to want to know her counterpoints. Another sensitive and emotion evoking topic for many people is the mention of cyberbullying. With each statement or piece of evidence against early tech exposure, she follows up by presenting a stronger piece of evidence as a follow

The New Western Historians such as Patricia Nelson, William Cronon, Donald Worster, Walter Webb and Walter Nugent have different views of the West. They believe the West is not a process and not a place that civilization took a place. The West is the place that like other regions such as the South, the Midwest we can set no boundaries. As Patricia Nelson mentioned, “recognized the history of the West is a study of a place undergoing conquest and never fully escaping its consequences” (Patricia Nelson, p. 8). The West as a place instead of process explains the migratory. Immigration could never have been explained by calling the West as a process or the frontier. Patricia Limerick sees the West as another chapter in Europe’s enlargement

Pathos is often employed in an attempt to win over the audience with emotion of some kind. While logos utilizes facts to convince an audience of an argument, pathos is utilized by speakers to entice an audience with their argument. By understanding the use of pathos, I can better understand how emotional appeals affect an intended audience (Lunsford et al. 95).

After reading Chapter 25 America Past and Present, Volume 2 10th Edition: Transition to Modern America by Robert A. Divine, The Republican economic policies that led directly to the depression were caused by the Republican economic policies set in place were popular at the time but failed to stay involved internationally which eventually led America into the most desperate time in history, the Great Depression.

Unlike other historical books, this book offers a different angle on viewing the history of the American western frontier—through narratives, testimonies, and primary documents that capture the true voices of the Native Americans. Spanning across the 1860s to the 1890s, Dee Brown tells the plight of the Native Americans after their contact with the American settlers and the United States government. The repetitive stories of the Native American groups during the second half of the nineteenth century— the welcoming of white men, the attempt to assimilate or resist, and eventually the displacement or slaughter of the aboriginals— had been told tendentiously by the very people who drove the Native Americans to the ground.

Authors have many strategies when it comes to winning over their reader to their side on a topic even if it means that they will target their opponent to make them look bad. In the articles by Steve Greenberg and Michael Weinreb we will look at the way they try to get the reader to join into their opinion of the topic by appeal to the persons logos, pathos, and ethos. By doing looking at the articles and breaking them down we can see how the author makes his argument by using rhetorical strategies and logical fallacies.

Frederick Jackson Turner 's “The Significance of the Frontier” is, in his eyes, an accurate depiction of America 's development since the Colonial Period. However, Turner 's Frontier Thesis fails to discuss the involvement of two very specific groups of people, groups that certainly had too much of an effect on the progression of the country for him to safely leave out. Native Americans have a pivotal role in America 's history, yet Turner 's mentions of them in his thesis are extremely limited. For this reason, Frederick Jackson Turner 's “The Significance of the Frontier” is not an accurate depiction of the history of the United States.

Throughout history rules and regulations have been a part of life in America for over 120 years. It has evolved into an extremely important part of life and it affects millions of Americans. America has gone through several changes since the late 1800’s. Turner gives his opinion on The Significance of the Frontier in American History at the meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, 12 July 1893, during the World Columbian Exposition. He states that “Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.” He thought that if

"The Frontier" is one of the most American of ideals; it is vital to our history, culture, and identity. The events of the Frontier have shaped the United States into the country that it is today. We can see its significance through the art, photography and literature of the era. These platforms of expression allow us to understand and get an idea of what life was like for those pioneers exploring the west for the first time.

Humans have always had a sense of curiosity for the unknown and a greedy fascination for individual growth without seeing the repercussions on others. The United States culminates these qualities not only as a first-world country but it can also be seen from the very beginnings of the nation’s history. The philosophies’ of early settlers in the United States was to have equality between the people, however Americans failed to incorporate this ideology of equality between all races. The seed of white supremacy had already been planted in many settlers minds and was a mouthpiece to many conflicts with Native Americans. Although there were times of peace between the two factions most Native American history involving white settlers is tarnished with bloodshed. Most conflict could have been resolved between the two if the United States had been willing to compromise and look at the Native American people as equals, instead of a burden to expansionism in the Frontier. However severe the conflicts were with the Native Americans many other conflicts arose, including on the Mexican Frontier. The United States during the mid-1800s was developing an interest in westward expansion into the Frontier. These ideas subconsciously then became the phenomenon of the 19th century, because Americans believed that in order to solidify America as one of the largest, most powerful countries in the world expansion within the North American continent would have

In the article, The significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 Turner states, “The true point of view in the history of this nation is not the Atlantic coast, it is the Great West” (2). Turner describes the Great West as the free land that changed American civilians’ mindset from a European one to a true independent democratic mindset, which we define as American culture.

In the Significance of the Frontier in American History, Frederick Jackson Turner discusses the understanding of the West as a concept. Turner’s claims included that the expansion into the frontier fueled individualism, stimulated democracy and nationalism, and widened the opportunity of advancement. In the census of 1890, the frontier no longer had a place in the report because the previously unsettled areas had been broken into areas of settlement. Turner uses the definition of two people per square mile of land as the frontier’s official closing, and no longer a point of historical relevance. In the essay, Turner points out the differences in America’s expansion with other nations. Other nations developed in a confined area, then

In the 1840s on June 25th my 9th birthday my family is packing up to move to the Michigan frontier. On our way there we saw seagles, deers, wolves, bats, owls, eagles, and trees. It took 26 days to get there, because we came from New York. The government said if we live here at this piece of land for several years we could own the land for free.

Carson writes of the overarching decision to use pesticides made by an authoritarian power, suggesting that perhaps the most fundamental American ideal, democracy, was not taken into consideration when “countless legions of people were not consulted” in the creation of this decision. The exaggeration of the amount of people who were disregarded widens the scope of the issue and highlights the negligence of America’s constitutional idea of political equality. By heightening outrage at the thought of inequity, Carson encourages the American people to fight against the injustice of pesticide use. In addition, Carson describes the government and society as the judge and jury of a metaphorical court, using language reminiscent of justice and injustice to demonstrate how American principles are overlooked in decisions to use pesticides. She describes one end of the scale with “leaves that might have been eaten by beetles” and the other end with “pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers, the lifeless remains of the birds.” By conveying the sparse details of the leaves that may have been saved by the pesticides, followed by the abundant detail surrounding the deaths of

In Fatima Mernissi’s widely acclaimed book Dreams of Trespass, the storyline weaves around the tale of a young girls’ life in a traditional Moroccan harem that is as much enchanting as it is disparaging. As we follow the young girl from day to day and experience all the little trivialities of her life, we notice that she is quite a precocious little child. She is constantly questioning, in fact, her mother and aunts constantly tell her that she should stop asking questions all the time. At first glance, it seems as if her questions are of little or no importance and that they are merely things any young child would ask as they are stepping out into the real world. But upon closer examination,