Chapter 1

The first chapter of the textbook Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy explains how a college student writes. The main point was that I will writing using rhetoric, which is known as the art of persuasion. In doing so I will begin to express my viewpoint on topics. The government has demagogues, who are political figures that try to take control of everything, and example is Hitler. The demagogues will try to imply that other nations and leader are doing the wrong thing and must be stopped. These figures use propaganda, which is falsified information sent to the masses in hopes of controlling their ideals. The term ideology is a person's beliefs and thoughts on the world.