Hot Button Topics Are Issues Research Proposal

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1. His tone is that of a relaxed news reporter. It's as if he doesn't believe the extravagance of some of the examples he gives. He tries to equate debauchery and under age sex with the prom and frivolous spending. "Over the years parents have become more active in creating the 'prom experience,' from personally signing for houses for a three-day drug/sex/alcohol bash, to mothers making motel reservations for their sons and daughters for the after-prom-get-togethers." (Brown, 2008) This in turn enables the reader to quickly side with him because underage debauchery is viewed as wrong. He uses words like "extravagant," "orgy," "$20,000" to get people to see these prom goers as satanic, rich savages. It definitely succeeds in convincing an audience that prom is bad on some level. I think also the simple fact that he keeps mentioning price tags and eventually the "$100,000" some of the prom families make connects the audience to the idea the rich are spoiled and do immoral things.

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Prom is something that brings positive memories to some but the writer twists it around and make it worse than a guilty pleasure.

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Farum is definitely opinionated and his style of writing almost seems like poetic prose. It's non-stop and continues to egg you on to read further. He put his point across about freedom from beginning, middle, and end. This quote sums up his main view point: "All this freedom is for adults who can take care of themselves. With people who can't, OK, let's pass laws." (Farnum, 2008) The way that he writes is the way he wants to feel, free and fluid. He brings in pop culture references like "UFO," "Elvis Presley" to help the readers draw from past experiences and tries to make himself relatable. Overall he does a great job of injecting personality a making a connection with the audience......

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