Read the editorial carefully. Analyze the argument by identifying its claim, reasons, and evidence. Identify any rhetorical devices or logical fallacies used and explain why the author included them. Parents should limit the amount of screen time their children are exposed to. Research now indicates a correlation between the amount of time toddlers spend on digital devices with poor developmental scores later on. That’s not to say one definitely causes the other, but rather that an association between the two has been found.

Doctors recommend that parents limit children’s use of technology to one hour per day. They also recommend that outside activity and exercise replace couch slouching and staring at the TV. Additionally, a recommended eight hours of sleep is prescribed. Many children use a handheld device to lull themselves to sleep like a teddy bear, but screens have the opposite effect. They stimulate kids and cause them to stay up later than they should.

All parents should take this new information seriously and put limits on technology use by young children.

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feel very well should be good

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.