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In "The Decline of the American Teenager's Summer Job" by Lexington, he presents his reasoning by using statistics about teenage job unemployment, and the decline of summer jobs, and he also uses popularized character's experiences.

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Sasse uses dull language to illustrate the effects of what he sees as the decline of the summer job. Sasse introduces that others make observations which persuade the audience.

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Sasse uses persuasive writing in his article and doesn't use much factual event evidence by using personal experiences to persuade the reader which helps the narrator build his argument. He explains how his summer was and how much work he did during his summers back then. Persuading the reader and thats what helps build his argument. He then uses a simple question, "That was our summer vacation. What do our kids do today?" This helps build his argument and by using a persuasive way by asking a question to make people now wonder if they do less work and are more lazier or not.

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Thompson                                    P4                                                   "Teenagers have stopped getting summer jobs"     

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Thompson                                    P4                                                   "Teenagers have stopped getting summer jobs"     

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Thompson uses graphs and statistics to complement and prove his argument. Bringing the audience to his side of the argument by showing the relationship between high school graduates and college classes' with the decline in summer jobs.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs--Why?

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Thompson uses stylistic elements to validate the way teenagers are spending their summers.

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Sasse asks his audience, "That was our summer vacation. What do our kids do today?" This encourages the audience to consider how teens worked in the past, to care about the decrease in teen labor, and to wonder what is causing it. This makes readers more receptive to information and makes them likely to believe that there are reasons other than teen laziness at fault.

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Saase compares what kids did in the past and what a lot of teens do in the present. This is to show how different teens have become over the years by not working and laying back and becoming lazy instead of working a summer job.

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Ben Sasse entire article was persuasive writing, he uses personal experience as his way to persuade you into seeing his way on this topic. He uses emotions like saying he is worried about the children and when they leave home fully as a way to show he want to help the next generation, he is trying to persuade you into believing just like him that he is doing good. He also has another persuasive element by using his daughters expericances, trying to prove that summer jobs help expend the next generations comfortability with different things.

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Thompson uses persuasive elements in his last point by using less evidence but inferring from teenage norms that summer jobs have become less popular.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs--Why?

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Thompson uses statistics to analyze how race is another factor which affects work rates.

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Thompson proves his point that teens aren't getting summer jobs because of laziness, but rather to get a better education by providing statistics and a graph. These show that the percentage of recent HS graduates enrolled in college classes and the teen labor participation rate contrast one another almost identically.

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Ben Sasse uses personal experience, other people such as his wife and daughter's experience, and his own opinion. These experiences are mostly first-hand, causing the readers to trust his word and build a trust bond between him and the readers. He gives more of a persuasive way to explain the decrease in teenage summer jobs.

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Thompson lays out his reason when he argues that the rise of low-skill immigration and the tendency of Americans to stay in the workforce longer is depleting the jobs that teens would usually work.

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Lexington develops the idea that the need for a summer job is high and teens are becoming lazy by using statistics and interviewing teen workers around town.

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Lexington discusses Reagan's work ethic in his summer job as a teen, giving a good example of the positive effects a summer job can have on teens when they work hard during their summers.

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Sasse reasons that we have made adolescence too long and that we are enabling our kids to not grow up. He then explains that if we were to allow our kids to get jobs it would help them in their future and they will be more responsible.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs--Why?

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Uses statistics to prove that while employment among teenagers is dropping, education is on the rise.

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The massive decline in summer jobs for teens. Why?

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Employers are less likely to hire teens because low-skill immigration has created more competition in the work force and older americans are taking over the jobs that teens used to do.

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In "What to do with the kids this summer? Put 'em to work" Sasse uses his own personal experience and opinion to establish the argument of how putting your kids to work can build character, and healthy hard working habits.

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Thompson establishes a sense of familiarity with his opinionated statement, "The summer job is considered a rite of passage for the American Teenager." Then he gives examples of tasks included in summer jobs, and how they relate to common adult responsibilities. Then he uses statistics to indicate a decline in teenage summer employment, which implies that these familiar jobs and skills are going away for teens.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs--Why?

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Establishes his argument by giving an alternative to the common viewpoint on the decline of summer jobs

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Sasse uses his story of his friends and him detasseling corn to invoke that it was something that needed to be done, that it was a rite of passage and something everybody did. He does that to display the emotion of pride.

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Thompson supports his argument by bringing up data that shows the amount of NEETS. Which are people neither in education, employment, or training has not changed, but the percentage of high school graduates going to college has gone up 25%.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs--Why?

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Further supports the idea that teens are not responsible for lack of jobs, while including that it may be partially to blame on businesses offering internships and workers filling low-skill jobs.

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Thompson uses the conventional way people think of summer jobs and uses statistics to show the trend that teen jobs are declining.