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    companies like "The Onion" are using many rhetorical devices to lure consumers to their products. MagnaSoles is a generic product that seems extraordinary thanks to the amazing rhetoric used. The rhetorical devices being used endows the product with word play and quotes that are appealing to humans. This strategy works in advertisement. "The Onion" exceeded their goal of using satire to add humor to the product press release by also using stereotypes, irony, and hyperboles. "The Onion" stereotypes that

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    The article released from “The Onion” creates a make-believe advertisement in selling “MangaSoles shoes” to heal consumers sore feet. The Onion uses a satire tone, diction, “factual evidence, and misleading claims in order to humorously criticize how the advertisement industry are able to market off their production to wide-eyed customers. At first, they start off by trying to persuade the customers with “factual” evidence on how their products work. The article writes, “It’s patented Magna-Grid

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    Do you have sore feet? Do you feel like there is nothing that can stop or prevent your foot pain? MagnaSoles are new shoes inserts for people just like you who have sore feet! Did you fall for these tactics? Companies use these marketing tactics everyday to convince people just like you to buy their product. In The Onion’s press release, the author demonstrates the cohesive rhetorical triangle, bold diction and syntax, and vivid imagery to explain how Americans fall for marketing tactics companies

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    In the mock press release created by “The Onion”, a new insole for shoes known as Magnasoles are described as being set apart from all other shoe insoles by the pseudoscience that the sole employs. The new insoles are being marketed as having magical powers that are curing peoples injuries and changing the ways that people are walking. The writers of the press release make use falsified ethos and claims in order to warn the public how gullible consumers are becoming. The Magnasoles are drawing

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    The article written by The Onion, uses humor and satire to touch on the idea addressed that advertisers force people to think there is always a fix for anything and everything. The author manipulates the use of comedy to make fun of the fact that we humans will buy anything that says it should help. The author of this strongly believes that advertisers are just manipulators that use ridiculous examples to make their product seem like the best thing ever. When first reading the article, one may believe

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    Osmosis in Red Onion Cells By: Youssef Gharib Brief Description of Osmosis in Red Onion cells: Osmosis is the diffusion of water from an area of low concentration to an area of high concentration across a semi-permeable membrane. The purpose of this lab is to compare the three different types of solutions affect on the relative size of the vacuole to the cell, the outer membrane of onion red cells (tunics) are used to figure out the different types. In the red onion you can see effects promptly

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    THE VALENTINE-Taha Ghadially The onion becomes a metaphor for love, and so the poem is about love as well as Valentine gifts. Not a red rose or a satin heart. Duffy starts the poem on an honest and somber note. The gift would not be a red rose or a satin heart. It would be something far more relevant. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. It will be an onion. An onion is an unconventional symbol of love. IT seems the far

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    1. During the experiment I noticed that in the onion cell there were no chloroplasts. There were no chloroplasts in the onion cell because in an onion the cells are used for storing energy not for photosynthesis and it grows under ground so there are no leaves on the physical body of the onion so it is unable to go through photosynthesis. The stem however of the onion has leaves above the ground but they do not serve a purpose after the onion has been picked. The cells, which contain chloroplasts

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    Easy French Onion Soup

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    delicious southern soup recipes. The Easy French Onion Soup will delight your family, and the Tasty Potato Soup and Tasty Broccoli Cheese Soup are great if a crowd comes over. Easy French Onion Soup 3 cups sliced onions 2 tablespoons butter 2 ½ cans beef broth 1 can chicken broth 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce dash salt and pepper 2 thin slices French bread, toasted grated Parmesan cheese In covered large saucepan cook onion in butter over low heat for 30 minutes. Add beef

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    in relation to three onion cells and the impact on the cells structure. A small square of a red onion skin (membrane) was observed under a microscope at high power (X40) magnification. The observation showed a large number of onion cells. The structure of one onion cell had a general rectangular shape with a developed cell wall, which gives the rectangular shape to the cell and a cell membrane just beneath it. The observation under the microscope of a cell of an onion skin soaked for 15 minutes

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