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Assignment #1

Claim: I think a claim is a statement that is not factual, but more of persons own opinions and beliefs. It can also be a plea that a person makes to persuade a person in agreeing with them. This serves as the central idea for your main argument in the speech and will set up the rest of your argument and speech.

Support: The support gives reason behind your claim and allows the audience to make the topic seem right. Support serves as the second most important part of your speech. It makes the speech credible and backs up your argument with your own opinion.

Evidence: It is information that you use to prove your claim and support. It can be in the form of statistics, examples, and facts. Evidence is very important because it makes the argument seem true with facts. It really is the backbone of the argument because it gives good reasons on why it is right.

Explanation: This helps your review and makes your theory correct. It is usually at the end of the speech and summarizes everything you said in depth. This is where you capture the reader/listeners attention to make it all add up.

1. My immediate response to Crichton’s argument is that it is insane. There is no way he can compare environmentalism to Christian religions. People do not believe in environmentalism because it is simply not a religion and he compares environment and organic food to church and Communion. It makes me feel that he is trying to make an argument that doesn’t have much reason behind it. I don’t think he has logical reason behind it, you can’t argue something that doesn’t have anything in common. What stuck out to me was that he brought up Jesus Christ is the son of God who rose from the dead, and then he says I have no wish to debate these convictions because they aren’t facts that can’t be argued; they are issues of faith.
2. I think that Crichton’s tone is that he is mad and upset about people believing in religions such as Christianity. He is mad because in today’s society, we have discovered so much of the world and the past and people still believe that there is no Eden. He is making the reader feel that they need to realize that everything has changed and there was no Eden, so that religion is wrong. He wants them to believe that they have been lied to and should realize it.
3. I think that Crichton’s main claim is that people don’t base their decisions on the truth but what the government and religions tell them because they like to have structure in their life with facts. He makes supporting claims with facts and examples.
4. He supports his claim by using an example in the book that the government knew that DDT was not harmful to birds but they took it off the market and it harmed the third world country. He also uses the example of too much carbon dioxide in the air and the government said there is no way to lower it. Even though the United Nations said that there was technologies that could control the greenhouse gases. This evidence supports him claim fairly well because he uses reliable sources to back up his reasoning and the topics are everyday stuff that we are constantly around.
5. The reason why Crichton doesn’t cite his sources are that he doesn’t have a great deal of time and that these references would only impact more than a handful. I do not accept this because I would like to know if it truly is a reliable source. How am I supposed to know if it is not a wacko magazine? By Crichton not citing his sources it does hurt him. By not citing his sources there is no proof that these numbers and statistics are real. They seem to appear to just be his opinion and that won’t convince a reader that he is right.
6. Crichton’s argument is very strong in this argument because in some way we can all relate to something or other that he has stated. He used some facts and evidence to help his argument. He seemed to know what he was talking about and it made a difference when he used every day examples.

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