“How the Baby Boomers Destroyed Everything” by Bruce Cannon Gibney
“Vox Joins the Effort to Divert Class Warfare into Generational Warfare” by Dean Baker
PROMPT
For this essay, you will examine and analyze some of the rhetorical elements of two arguments.
To do this, analyze certain strategies each author relies on and the logical fallacies committed in
pursuit of persuasion. The purpose of your essay is to be able to accurately identify and
demonstrate an understanding of how rhetorical elements are developed with authorial intent on
a target audience. With this in mind, write an argument in which you analyze rhetorical elements
of both Gibney’s and Baker’s arguments on baby boomers.
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