Juan Rangel
Professor Leigh Dillard
English 1101
4 October 2017
Silent Death
Like a sick sparrow struggling to find food to give to her hatchlings, mother earth is slowly losing the ability to maintain fresh,clean, and crisp air for all of it’s seven billion inhabitants. Humans are now paying the price for poor environmental practices with their lives. In the magazine article “Something In the Air” the author Eleanor Ross, hones the focus of pollution onto a smaller scale and unravels something rather alarming that is taking over the city of New Delhi and its residents. A thick layer of smog is lingering over the city and its affecting the lungs and lives of all who inhabit the area. Ross starts the construction of her credibility with personal facts and concrete sources, showing convincing facts and statistics, and beautifully implementing emotional appeals with pictures. Throughout the article, Ross does an astounding job with reaching into the emotions of the reader even more so towards the end of the article by mixing emotional appeal with stone cold statistics.
In her article, Ross first creates the scene by figuratively describing how the city of New Delhi is feeling about the increasing pollution of the air. Ross mentions how all of this is happening because of many things such as
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Among these sources are, “photojournalist and Delhi resident Zacharie Rabehi” “a recent study from the Health Effects Institute” and “a 2015 study by the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute” (qtd. in Ross). Citing these sources gives Ross credibility by showing that she has done an extensive research to provide us with facts and statistics, as well as a secondary insight, like her friend the photojournalist, to not only back her claim up with facts but also with