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Jane Goodall Persuasion Techniques

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The essay “I acknowledge mine by Jane Goodall” uses better persuasion techniques than the piece by American Medical Association. These articles both show great examples of persuasion techniques. The American Medical Association used more logos and Jane Goodall’s piece used more pathos. Their claims represented two sides of a very heated argument over animal rights. The claim in Jane Goodall’s paper is that animals should not be used in human studies more specifically chimpanzees. While the American Medical Association says that all this testing is required for the advancement of medicine. They both choose to support their claims very differently. The American Medical Association (AMA) says many facts and state all the scientific breakthroughs that were achieved through animal testing. Jane Goodall talks about all the pain and the suffering that the animals are going through and relates them to humans. Evidence, Jane Goodall’s play on the reader’s emotions in her evidence is strong. She says, “I watched as monkeys paced around their tiny prisons, making bizarre, abnormal movements” (Goodall 608). She has a way of using our morality of humans so that we can relate to these poor little monkeys. The AMA says “Animal research holds the key to solutions for AIDS, cancer, heart disease, aging and congenital …show more content…

It also says that all these restrictions are just slowing down and discouraging scientific research. Jane Goodall brings up JoJo and the difference between wild chimps and chimpanzees used in scientific study. She states that chimps don’t benefit the study of AIDs because they rarely exhibit symptoms. Jane Goodall says that the chimps are prisoners serving for a crime they didn’t commit. That the animals are so like humans that the need to be with their families in the wild and shouldn’t be treated in a

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