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Anderson

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the purpose is to

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In order to achieve his purpose of evaluating the extent to which people are sold, Anderson asks rhetorical questions in order to engage the reader, and relies on

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In questioning the everyday activities performed by man, Sam Anderson has the purpose of highlighting the things we do on a daily basis as something that we are unconsciously addicted to.

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In questioning the everyday activities performed by man, Sam Anderson has the purpose of highlighting the things we do on a daily basis as something that we are unconsciously addicted to.

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Anderson seeks to denote the poetic essence of business at its most basic. He uses colons and em dashes in order to provide more context into his argument.

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Through analyzing the "selling" of feelings and physical materials, Anderson creates a homily out of

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Sam Anderson begins with many rhetorical questions

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Anderson brings a reality to a materialistically indulged society. He uses ideas and thoughts, as well as his own portion of how he has "cut off family members" in order to show us how we are drained from what is important by getting pulled in by the things of higher monetary value. His emphasis to this subject is created by the use of many appositive phrases which are used to create a follow up to their independent clauses.

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In order to have us question our own values, Anderson gives us ,at first, common things we would trade in for others. He later on builds up to the point in which we stop and think.

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Because he doesn't name a specific rhetorical device, but he does explain the poetic significance of the sentence, I believe his purpose is to illustrate how poetic writing can be meaningful in "normal" writing. If you first read the sentence you may not understand but once you read Anderson's piece, you realize how much of a cause and effect relationship everything has.

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Anderson's purpose in this piece is to draw attention to the fact that the modern world, while we may think we're above it, is in fact what we deserve, as he points out in his last sentence. He alludes to the fact that no one is truly happy or has anything to hold above something else; that we will sell anything for everything. Part of the way he achieves his purpose is through, what in music is called, a tie. That is to say, he takes words from previous sentences and uses them in other sentences -- "I sold them for stability and mental piece ... that would seem to suggest... " that he holds those things above everything else -- in order to emphasize those words and those meanings. Likewise, in music that same technique makes the music flow better.

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Anderson, through the use of an extended metaphor illustrates for us what life truly is in his mind. Anderson in his passage wants to point out the fact that we aren't different from the depictions of the world we live in.

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Anderson begins his analysis of the statement by using metaphors to give examples to justify that life all about trading. Anderson refers to the respiratory system to further elaborate his statement that life is a vast marketplace.

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Anderson articulates modern life through extended metaphor to explain the abstract idea of life, and everyday mechanisms using energy in modern life. The many analogies Anderson uses to urge the idea of nonstop life conjures the reader's thoughts to expand on the act of selling, and creating again.

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Anderson begins his appraisal of the statement with a listing of an asyndeton, which brings a collective feeling of value of personal attachment. The asyndeton creates a feeling of flow when reader interprets the sentence. In the following paragraph, Anderson focuses on bringing the reader's attention into his piece. Anderson demands veneration because he has conviction that what he has to convey is relevant to the reader, so he marks up the beginning of the second paragraph with anaphora.

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Sam Anderson's purpose in this piece is to address the way in which society has exchanged or "traded one thing of value for another". Instead of focusing on what truly matters, we as a whole society focus on the "tiny blinking world inside [our] phones". Anderson accomplishes this message by using an abstract idea to connect it to a more thoughtful and well developed message.

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Anderson's purpose is that he depicts the negativity created by seling things that questions weather you're doing it for happiness or currency.

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Via comparison the metaphor of common purchases, such as buying a pack of gum, Anderson extends the concept of monetary interaction by broadening its definition. As opposed to the standard system where we barter goods for monetary wealth, the concept begins to encapsulate not a purchase, but an exchange; whether it be through ideas, information, or social approval, we are constantly seeking to trade what we have to gain perceived value. Furthermore, Anderson elaborates on the overarching consequences of this exchange.

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Anderson's purpose was inform and educate the readers on the world that we live in today.  Not only does he educate them, but he helps them understand through emotional connections and from different viewpoints of a person.

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Anderson depicts the world of negativity created by addiction, specifically of technology, from the perspective of the average person; this then allows us to relate as the life desribed relates to many people in society today. The problem of cutting off others for electronics has been present in far too many lives than it should be, once again being acknowledged by Anderson and even presented to such an extent that it is compared to cigarettes.

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Even though Zink's quote helps his readers understand the modern world, Anderson helps his readers understand the concept of selling and realize what we "really value" by using rhetorical questions that hooks in the readers, and metaphors that

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Sam Anderson's purpose was to inform the readers about the modern world and the different views. He grabs the reader's attention by asking a variety of questions that makes the reader think. Anderson's main claim is supported by how the paragraph ends, "Perhaps we are fooling ourselves about what we really value."

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Anderson brings in a completely abstract idea on the way each of us live our lives. It made me think how many yearn for a different life, how they try to "live in the now." I often feel the same way and desire a change. But I have never thought how often we, instead of changing things for the better, we take decisions to make it worse. I knew that we each had that power to change our future, but even the smallest decisions could impact us. From huge decisions like cutting family ties to small decisions like using the phone instead of doing a hobby, we choose to either make our life worse or change it to the better. i believe that this is the exact purpose of this entry, It is to make the audience realize that our future is what we make it. Our future, every single ounce of it, is in our hands. And yes, distractions and wrong decisions could like nicotine, and quitting it won't be easy. But it is worth a shot.

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Sam Anderson overall purposefully brings fourth an idea

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To start off his response, Sam Anderson

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Sam Anderson introduces the text starting off with a list of rhetorical questions which hooks the reader in. He then achieves his purpose which is to develop an argument that everyone has the ability to "sell" something of their own value for another to preserve stability in one's life.

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Sam Anderson's purpose is to share with readers what he observes happening in the world of today. He turns a word we often use for things that have to do with monetary needs - the word "sell" - into a word that has a connection to social interactions/people. The way he does this is through thorough explanation of what he means when it comes to selling things.

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Anderson's purpose was to engage his readers by asking us what we would give up in order to maintain our own happiness. He uses a dramatical syntax to and an overuse of rhetorical questions in order to engage his readers into his text. When using the dramatical syntax, he puts himself into that same perspective on what he would do, though it may seem selfish. Constantly telling himself and his readers that it is okay to let people go in order to be exempt from their negativity.

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New Sentences: From ‘Nicotine,’ by Nell Zink

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New Sentences: From ‘Nicotine,’ by Nell Zink

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“You can’t understand the modern world if you can’t imagine selling what you love best.”

From Nell Zink’s “Nicotine” (Ecco, 2016, Page 38), a novel about a New Jersey house filled with anarchist squatters. Zink is also the author of “Mislaid” and “The Wallcreeper.”

What do you love best? Your son, your daughter, your dog, your mother, your work, your country, your planet, your life?

In what ways do you already sell them?

Remember: Selling is a complicated act. It’s not only collecting money over a counter in exchange for a pack of gum or a used sedan. Selling is trading one thing of value for another. It can happen almost without our being aware of it, almost without our consent. Life is a vast marketplace in which we negotiate value constantly, overtly and covertly, in hard and soft currencies. Our lungs sell carbon dioxide for oxygen; our cells sell glucose for energy. In an office hallway, we sell a chuckle for three units of social approval. It is a capitalist fantasy that all transactions can be simplified and made clean by translating them into money. They can’t.

I like to think of myself as an ethical person, but there is almost nothing I wouldn’t, in some sense, sell. For instance: There are close family relationships that I have cut off, without even really deciding to, for years at a time. I sold them for stability and mental peace — transactions I think of with doubt and unhappiness every single day. This would seem to suggest that I love my stability and mental peace above all else. And yet I sell those too, at cut-rate prices, again and again: I sell them for the tiny blinking world inside my phone, the anxious grind of tweets and news alerts and emails. We sell what we love best almost every moment of every day. Perhaps we don’t really love it. Perhaps we love what we sell it for. Perhaps we are fooling ourselves about what we really value. Perhaps we deserve the modern world.