G7Int 3.6 America the Not-So-Beautiful (updated 2024)

inform the reader of the problems of pollution in America

entertain the reader with anecdotes about his life

persuade the reader to do something about the pollution

express his hatred of pollution in modern America

simile (it compares two things using like)

allusion (it makes a reference to something famous)

oxymoron (it combines contradictory things with opposite meanings)

metaphor (it compares two things using is)

eerie

angry

serious

humorous

Poor countries don’t have the same trash problems as more developed countries.

Insect and weed killers thrown away are likely to end up polluting lakes and rivers.

In 500 B.C., the Greeks passed the first law forbidding throwing trash in the street.

The “American Way” of throwing things out is creating major problems

He supports this claim by reminding the reader that the ancient Greeks prohibited people from throwing their garbage in the street. 

He supports this claim by stating that the American economic system is based on throwing things away and buying new ones.

He supports this claim by reminding us that we all have poison in our houses that we don't know what to do with.

He supports this claim by saying that we now have to build houses where dumps were.

Anyone, but especially Americans

Everyone, but not Americans

Only people who create landfills

Only chemical companies

a place where planes landed

a place where land is filled

a place that is filled with trash

a place where trash is deposited

the size of something compared to something else

the comparison of a scale to a balance

a balance or something that weighs

wasteful

watchful

willful

wrathful

The people of the city of New York throw away nine times their weight in garbage and junk every year.

Not only that, but Americans spend more for the packaging of food than all our farmers together make in income growing it. That's some statistic.

Some of the things we're throwing away are poisoning the Earth and will eventually poison all of us and all living things.

The more civilized a country is, the worse the trash problem is. Poor countries don't have the same problem because they don't have much to discard.

The author says that it is easier to throw things out when it is harder to replace them.

The author says that in countries that aren't prosperous, people must not hold on to things to get as little use out of them as possible.

The author says that it is harder to throw things out when it is easy to replace them.

The author says that because the United States has an abundance of things we want and need, we make more waste. 

the author means the very opposite of "barbarity", because he believes barbarians are the only ones who can make a trash problem worse 

the author means “wealthy”, but it is used somewhat ironically because he argues in the same paragraph that civilized countries have a worse trash problem

the author means "polite and courteous"; someone who knows how to say "please" and "thank you", because he believes polite people do not contribute to the trash problem