Purpose: To make an argument and persuade your audience to take a course of action regarding a current issue that will affect future generations.

Overview: Think for a moment about how much life has changed in the past fifty years…Thanks to advancements in technology world cultures have changed dramatically, and will continue to do so as the effects of these “advancements” become more apparent. In a recent Disney film titled, Wall•E, many of these issues have been brought to light, but what is interesting is that it has been done in a film targeted for an audience of children. You are to pick one of the issues highlighted in the film and write an argumentation-persuasion paper regarding that issue. For example, all of the human characters in the film are obese. What does this imply? What are some of the causes of obesity generated in the film and how can this be remedied?  

Audience: You will be writing for an academic American audience.
Point of View: You will write in third person point of view. (Avoid the following pronouns: I, Me, My, We, Our, Us, You, Your)

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