Answer:
as a terrorist threat who does not deserve the rights of a citizen
Explanation:
Zeitoun is a Muslim man who in an act of courage and humanitarian aid took a boat and decided to help his neighbors who had been victims of Hurricane Katrina and who were stranded, or looking for a loved one who had been lost in the flooding generated by the storm. Although Zeitoun was helping, the local police, because of his Arab ancestry, arrested him, thinking he was a radical Muslim, trying to provoke a terrorist attack.
Answer and explanation:
The purpose of using dashes in this excerpt is to set off an appositive sentence that contains commas. An appositive sentence is a structure that offers further information on something mentioned before it. Appositives can usually be set off by commas but, when they are long and present commas in their own structure, they are set off by dashes.
In the excerpt we are studying here, the appositive "-so-called because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true, okay, as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not-" is a very long one and full of commas. It is supposed to offer further information on what declarative sentences are.
Several ways you can determine the validity is
1.) The author and his credentials.
2.) Sources that back up the article/publication.
3.) Whether the article features bias or none, when appropriate.
They better support the development of his theme.
A) by using hyberbole to describe the horrors of hell