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Rhetorical Analysis

Introduction

Thesis Statement: In this essay I have doneRhetorical analysis of Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the extinction of Dinosaurs, I have analyzed Historical and Public Criteria in my essay.

Author's Main Idea

The article that is rhetorically analyzed is Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the extinction of Dinosaurs. This interesting and informative article is written by Stephen Jay Gould. He discussed science in his article. Science gives the conclusion not the essence. Science provides fascinating facts. He identified the three fascinating facts of dinosaurs' society that include Sex, Drugs, and violence. He identified the sexual mates of these creatures, he said that the raise in the earth's temperature stop the reproductive functions of dinosaurs. There was a drug flowering plant at the time of dinosaur it was a bitter plant that human avoids. In the last days of dinosaurs they die of over dosage of this. About 65 million years ago some asteroids struck to the earth and destroy everything. (Stephen .J.Gould 1985 pp. 22-24) The extinction of dinosaurs is based on these three basic principles according to the author. Their environment did not support them to survive on earth. He also discusses that scientists have uncovered remains of the most primitive dinosaur yet. And it is not very big. The discovery of the 225-million-year-old fossil supports the theory that dinosaurs evolved from a common ancestor, then diverged rapidly into a wide assortment of species.

He used the concept of extinction, the disappearance of major lineages of organisms, related to the study of the fossil record, Because Early paleontologists, studying animal remains unknown until then, they assumed that these people were live in a remote area of the Earth, but the famous French naturalist Georges Cuvier concluded that organizations such as mammoths and mastodons were extinguished. Cuvier assumed that the cause of the extinction would be "disaster" major pale environmental changes affecting entire regions of the planet. (Stephen .J.Gould 1985 pp. 25-26)

Discussion

Expert Testimony

Charles Darwin wrote: "Certainly there is no fact more striking Earth in the extensive and repeated mass extermination of its inhabitants.”He assumed that the species would result in the best adaptation of some species than others, the latter succumbing during the competition for limited environmental resources. The specialist in dinosaur Alan Charig says the question he formulated with most often a paleontologist is "Why are dinosaurs extinct?” The famous American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould that he asked a psychologist why people would attract both dinosaurs.

The psychologist stated that because they were large and ferocious animals and especially since become extinct. Since the discovery of the first fossils of large dinosaurs, we searched explanations about the existence and extinction of these animals in particular, as foreign to most people. Some speculation fell on the ground of mere fantasy, but others were based on scientific data, although incomplete and speculative. (Stephen .J.Gould 1985 pp. 29-30) He developed many hypotheses to explain his disappearance, some serious and reasonable, others absurd and comical, some simple, some complex combining several factors.

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