Identify three ways that Hardin uses rhetoric in his essay.

The first idea that Garrett Hardin used in his essay is the idea of survival. He argues that people will do anything in order to ensure their survival even resorting to unethical decisions. The next idea is the idea of choosing not to help the poor because it will only diminish the chances of survival. The poor need more resources, multiply fast and have a high-risk factor according to Hardin.

Explanation:

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.