First Comes Love Rhetorical Analysis

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In response to the 15-year remembrance of September 11, 2001 Vox released a news article about TSA and how it might cost lives instead of saving lives. Written by an author who has no background in safety, but only the thing to show are his other outlandish articles and in his bio he links to the book First Comes Love (In Hot Water Book 1) childishly and said “Here is a novel about me” and expects to be taken as a true reporter. This is article was crude way to take advantage of the horrible and terroristic things that happened that day and show the flaws of the TSA. In this ineffective article they speak how TSA is costing lives by creating too long of lines and increasing the amount of driving and this in turn is causing people death. The use of studies to show that professional teams could get guns and other weapons through the TSA by exploiting the weaknesses of the TSA agents and technology. To summarize this article there is a use of logos but in a poor manner, in hand with a lacking ethos, and an overwhelming amount of substandard pathos.
Generally speaking the logos in this article is poorly used and he used article that are outdated and don’t pertain to the topic. In the title of the article they make a huge claim that TSA is costing lives. When reading the
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Also he talked about the amount of death per year in car accidents. Then he uses fear that 67 out of the 70 times a professional team could smuggle on bombs and gun into a plane (Matthews 2016). But then Mathews said that “If you're a prospective terrorist looking at that stat, you might think smuggling a gun onto a plane is worth a shot.” When an author gives a statement like that it might show that it’s okay to try and bring the banned items and in turn lead to even longer lines. Just ask is this okay for an author of a new story to say in an article about how TSA might not be too safe in their