How Does The Rhetorical Strategy Achieve/Enhance His/Her Argument?

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Record what section you are responding to here according to Chapters, page numbers, or topics
What is the author’s argument?
Quotes that illustrate the author’s purpose and label rhetorical strategies
How does the rhetorical strategy achieve/enhance his/her argument?
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Opportunity
The explanation for this is quite simplle. It has nothing to do with astrology, or is there anything magical about the first three months of the year. It’s simply that in Canada the eligibility cutoff age for age-class hockey is January 1. A boy who turns ten on January 2, could be playing alongside someone who doesn’t turn ten until the end of the year-- and at that age, in preadolencesnce, a twelve month gap in age represents a In describing success stories of Bill Gates and Canadian athletes, Gladwell expresses this idea through the Matthew Effect. The Matthew Effect is based off of book twenty-five chapter twenty-nine, “For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which we hath.” In simpler words, those who have been

You really want to get in on the ground floor, right in 1975, and you can’t do that if you’re still in highschool. So let’s rule out anyone born after, say, 1958. The perfect age to be in 1975, in other words, id old enough to be a part of the coming revolution bbut not so old that you missed it. Ideally, you want to be twenty or twenty-one, which is to say, born in 1954 or 1955. There’s an easy test to this theory. When was Bill Gates born? Bill Gates: October 28, 1955(Gladwell 65).
Rhectorical devices used by Gladwell includes: the rhetorical question: How can we test this theory? using the examples of when the perfect time is to be born in the first quote, Gladwell gives the scenario of a boy born on Kanuary 2, and how that could hinder his hockey abilities for the rest of his time playing.

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