My youngest sister was the joy of our close family. When a teenager murdered her and her husband in 1990 in suburban Chicago, she was pregnant with their first child.
What is ethos?
100
Gray matter, which brain researchers believe supports all our thinking and emotions, is purged at a rate of 1 percent to 2 percent a year during this period.
What is formal tone?
100
The Walking Dead
What is entertaining?
200
law against cruel and unusual punishment
What is the Eighth Amendment?
200
the first part of the first sentence of a precis
What is author's name?
200
The rationale for these earlier decisions is simple and equally applicable to the cases to be heard: Young people are biologically different from adults.
What is logos?
200
Hey, they’re only kids.
What is informal tone?
200
"Startling Finds on Teenage Brains" by Paul Thompson
What is informing?
300
part of the brain responsible for inhibiting our violent passions, rash actions, and regulating our emotions
What is the frontal lobe?
300
articles, books, essays, reviews, and columns
What are text types?
300
This warped vision of America’s youth was given an unfortunate boost with the recent arrest of two seemingly “good kids” in the brutal slayings of two Dartmouth College professors.
What is pathos?
300
Meanwhile, in Texas, a lawmaker has had it. You want to throw the adult book at kids? Fine, says Democratic state Rep. Ron Wilson of Houston.
What is informal tone?
300
presidential debates
What is persuading?
400
Indiana prison with a dedicated wing for Youth Incarcerated as Adults
What is Wabash Valley Correctional Facility?
400
Words we use because we don't use "say" or "tell"
What are "show, point out, suggest, inform, persuade, convince"?
400
Specifically, my own research group at the University of California, Los Angeles, and our colleagues at the National Institutes of Health have developed technology to map the patterns of brain growth in individual children and teenagers.
What is ethos?
400
They feature propaganda photos of 7- and 8- year-old child models on the cover, with misleading headlines that the United States was “sentencing children to die in prison.”
What is belittling tone?
400
newspaper article
What is informing?
500
Supreme Court case that banned mandatory life sentences for juveniles convicted of murder
What is Miller vs. Alabama?
500
Choices the author makes in their writing that let us know how he or she feels about their topic
What is tone?
500
The Innuit people of northern Canada had no juvenile crime at all until 1980 and the introduction of television into their culture.
What is logos?
500
As a former juvenile court judge, I have seen firsthand the enormous capacity of children to change and turn themselves around.
What is authoritative tone?
500
"On Punishment and Teen Killers" by Jennifer Bishop Jenkins