The article ”the solution to America’s mental health crisis already exists” Few Americans are receiving adequate psychiatric care or psychological support these days — either because their health insurance doesn’t cover it, or because they don’t have insurance to begin with, or because wait lists run far too long, which using emotion appeals to the reader.
- Drunk drivers are involved in more than 50 percent of traffic deaths.
- Hard evidence because it is stating a statistic.
- DNA tests of skin found under the victim’s fingernails suggest that the defendant was responsible for the assault.
- Constructed argument because the statement is suggesting what the evidence may possibly be connected to.
- A psychologist testified that teenage violence could not be blamed on video games.
- Constructed arguments, the ideas that others might have reasons to disagree.
- The crowds at President Trump’s inauguration were the largest on record.
- Constructed argument because it is someone’s interpretation or idea of what happened but not an exact fact.
- “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
- Constructed arguments, this sentence is from personal ideas.
- Air bags ought to be removed from vehicles because they can kill young children and small-framed adults. (Based on the activities in Lunsford, p. 63)
- Constructed argument because while the statement is giving a citation that relates to the argument, it is not hard evidence but rather an argument against air bags.