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T.S.A. Trains Dogs to Stay One Sniff Ahead of Bomb Makers

I recently read a New York Times article titled "T.S.A. Trains Dogs to Stay One Sniff Ahead of Bomb Makers."  It caught my interest because I love animals, especially dogs.  Like every article, it was full of rhetoric techniques.  It was all about dogs being the best way to detect bombs and chemicals that could be combined to make bombs.  It expressed that training them to detect a bomb is hard enough, but now they have to be trained to detect individual chemicals that could be used in bomb-making.  The article went through how they train the dogs and all the situations that they are trained to be in.

The author started by giving the reader a situation.  He set the scene by describing Ajax, a dog, sniffing around a furnished room early in the morning looking for explosives.  After a couple tries, Ajax finds the explosives and is rewarded by his trainer.  This was a good way to immediately catch the reader’s attention and engage them in the article.  This was a great use of rhetoric.

I also liked how the author took a complex subject and made it readable.  Even when he named specific chemicals, he always explained what they were..  He used credible sources throughout the article (ethos) and he did a great job of summarizing the training that the dogs go through without making it boring.  He used pathos throughout the article by making the reader proud of how much the dogs have accomplished throughout their many years of training.

This article made logical sense and was well put together.  It wasn’t meant to persuade people.  It was an informative article.  It caught my attention and kept it throughout.  It was a good use of rhetoric.
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  1. LexieOctober 5, 2016 at 5:05 PM

    I think this is an interesting blog post because of the fact that they are now training dogs not only to sniff out bombs, but to sniff out the chemicals used in the making of bombs.

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  2. Abigail OverbeyOctober 6, 2016 at 7:52 AM

    This is very smart to be able to prevent bombs being made illegally.

    David Jones

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  3. AnonymousOctober 6, 2016 at 6:43 PM

    This post is very interesting because it shows a solution to a problem we have seen for so long. Now that the dogs can sniff out the chemicals they can be more precise in finding the bombs that are out there.

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  4. UnknownNovember 4, 2016 at 4:22 AM

    This was an intelligent thing to do. Its solves many problems that we have. Good article.

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