Write an argumentative paragraph that uses the claim that parents should encourage their children to play role-playing video games to build reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Your paragraph should acknowledge the counterclaim and respond to it using only the most relevant and credible pieces of evidence, provided below. Claim: Parents should encourage their children to play role-playing video games to build reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Counterclaim: Video games are less effective in building reading comprehension and critical thinking skills than reading for extended periods of time.

Evidence: A famous blogger says that he did better in school growing up because he played video games after school.

Evidence: Jamie Sanchez, a teacher, writes in her journal article that the standardized test scores of the students who play video games in her district are overall higher than those of students who do not play video games.

Evidence: Child psychologist Dr. Arnold Rickman tells a newspaper reporter that he found that his patients who play video games are more able to solve complex problems than patients who don't play video games.

Which two of these excerpts from homer’s odyssey depict the gods’ involvement in mortal affairs?

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

How is president obama using an appeal to reason, or logos, in this excerpt? by explaining why each person must work hard in order to succeed by explaining why working together is necessary for success by explaining why attempts at working together in the past failed by explaining why each person must look out for him or her self