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A Red Light For Scofflaws Rhetorical Analysis

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Imagine yourself throwing a plastic ring from a six pack of soda on the ground. Next, picture that same piece of plastic that was thrown on the ground wrapped around a sea otters neck, and it being trapped. Makes you want to pick up that plastic ring, doesn’t it? Frank Trippett in his article, “A Red Light for Scofflaws” argues that social order is broken when citizens who normally would obey the law become scofflaws. The author starts by explaining which laws he believes that are most broken everyday. He continues by mentioning that the laws being broken are the ones created to protect and nourish society. The author creates a concerned tone for minor laws being broken. Social order is broken when people break small laws because they are ruining
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