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This essay by Gerard Jones is centered around the benefits of violent media and how it helps children grow up in society. This is expressed with his thesis, "The dual- identity concept at the heart of many superhero storied helps kids negotiate the conflicts between the inner self and the public self as they work through the early stages of socialization. Jones also supports this with evidence such as, “Fear, greed, powe r- hunger, rage: these are aspects of our selves that we try not to experience in our lives but often want, even need, to experience vicariously through stories of others". This evidence is helpful because it is a quote from Melanie Moore who is a Ph.D who works with teenagers. Jones is using the rhetorical device of ethos here which shows credibility for this information. Another piece of evidence from Jones ' essay is,  “Children need violent entertainment in order to explore the inescapable feelings that they’ve been taught to deny, and to reintegra...

In the first video from fox news the speaker for the republican party was not very clear giving answers to the reporter on TV, this is probably because she did not want to say too much and end up being criticized about it later. This is a way that a lot of politicians run around questions when they are asked. They are very good at answering a question without really answering the question that was presented.

My name is matt Maddox and I enjoy sorts a lot. I have always been involved with them all my life. When I was a little boy my dad started me out playing baseball for many years. I ended up playing travel baseball for Parkview and won some tournaments. While I was involved in baseball I also was in Taekwando for many years until I reached my second degree black belt.  This was a a good base for me to then enter into personal training for weight lifting and also transitioning into Mixed Martial Arts which I am still practicing to this day. For MMA I have competed and won a few fights but I mostly focus on just training. I also enjoy football, even though I have never played formally I still enjoy watching games and am a big Bulldogs fan.

The thesis in this essay is located in the first paragraph. The evidence in this paper come from the third and fourth paragraph. The refutation of opposing view come in the eight paragraph. concluding statement comes in the tenth paragraph.  In the first paragraph the essay the author states "I believe higher education is broken", this is the thesis because this is the center point and argument of this paper. An example of the evidence is " college is expensive", this statement of evidence is showing that students are graduating college with incredible amounts of loans without very much improvement in critical thinking. The refutation in the eight paragraph is saying that since we have the internet people ideas and talents are spread around so easily that there is no need for a college degree to show that you have skills. I believe that the concluding statement of the essay is " We will change the world regardless of the letters after our names", th...