<span>It uses a respectful tone but needs specific, credible evidence to support the claim.
There is no credible evidence. The paragraph sounds more like the author is annoyed with the argument. While the author does call out parents and tells people they are using emotion to cloud their judgment, the author doesn't name call or shame anyone so I wouldn't say it uses a disrespectful tone.
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Brown does not carry out the order delivered by Henry because Brown does not hear the order.
The claim of a piece of writing is essentially the same as
its thesis. The thesis, as such, will
generally be presented in the first paragraph (if not the first few lines) of
the text. When we look at the article,
thus, the first paragraph mentions two things:
a gorilla named Little Joe (the hook/attention getter) and that zoos do
a good job at nurturing their animals.
Readers can be safe to assume that the article will cover how zoos do a
good job at nurturing because of how the last sentence within the introductory
paragraph begins with “But less well covered was the very real success…” As such, the claim of this piece is that zoos
succeed at nurturing the animals that live within their walls. Again, it’s important to remember how,
generally, the thesis turns out to be the claim.
The difference between metals and non-metals can be drawn clearly on the following premises:
The natural elements that are hard, shiny, opaque and dense are metals.
Metals are electropositive in nature as they easily lose electrons, so they are reducing agents.
Metals have a crystalline structure, whereas non-metals possess amorphic structure.