Prompts:

1) Is technology like smart phones destroying empathy toward other people?

2) Is expanding the human lifespan to 150 years or even infinite life a great thing or a horrible thing?

3) Does the complexity and technological sophisstication of modern life prove a great historic growth in human ability and skills or does it instead reveal flaws in humanity in terms of negative behaviors, needs and dependencies?

Basic requirments:

- 6 pages and a work cited page
- outside source at least 4 sources
- Dirct quotes. *Professor DOES NOT LIKE LONG QUOTES.* 3 or 4 lines is ok. 4 to 6 lines is not ok
- defend your argument (strong thesis statement)
- MLA format citation 8th ONlY this include both in- text citation (body paragraph and works cited page)
- 3rd person pov ONLY

Rhetorical strategies:

- required to use certian types of rhetoric in paper.
1) evidence
2)Logos and Ethos