Discussion Topic Everyone has strong opinions, so opinion essays are usually not hard to do.
Executing this type of essay well demands that you understand audience well
and know what arguments, and what tone, will best sway them. Look for opinion
articles, one you with which you agree with and one with which you disagree.
Analyze both to see how even the opinion that "offends you uses persuasive
writing techniques. Write a paragraph about how the writer you disagree with
tried to appeal to an audience (not only those who agree with him or her but
also the 'undecideds).

Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.