Exploring Cultural Identity through Language

Question 1

When [Elisa] finally walks home, after seven hours of standing at a cash register, her feet hurt. She’s wiped out.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

pathos

Question 2

About two-thirds of the nation’s fast food workers are under the age of twenty.

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logos

Question 3

In 1958, [Fred] Turner put together an operations and training manual for the company that was seventy-five pages long, specifying how almost everything should be done. Hamburgers were always to be placed on the grill in six neat rows; french fries had to be exactly 0.28 inches thick.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

logos

Question 4

Question 4

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It uses emotional language to help the reader experience Elisa’s daily challenges.

Question 5

What makes this factual evidence effective?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It shows an attention to consistency that exists in the fast-food industry today.

Question 6

This anecdotal evidence helps develop which of Schlosser’s claims, or central ideas?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Teenagers are the ideal employees for the fast-food industry.

Question 7

This factual, historical evidence helps develop which claim?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The fast-food industry resembles the manufacturing business.

Question 8

Which of the following did you include in your response?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

an explanation of one claim; specific examples of types of evidence; the rhetorical appeals Schlosser used; an explanation of what made the evidence effective

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