Edgar S Alvarado

ENGL 1010
Jaime Kay
Rhetorical Analysis

How close do we get to nature in metropolitan 21st century USA? We all keep in the back of our
minds that wonderful idea, of getting out there at least once a summer, one of these days Im
going up to the mountains is our constant saying. Some of us immediately disagree with the
news, when they touch on the environmental issue of the day and, are quick to call others tree
huggers if they are encouraging us to get aware of our surroundings, and care for it.
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The Nurture of Nature: By Deb Aronson
Deb Aronson is a member of the National Association of Writers. She earned her B. A. in
anthropology in 1993 from Harvard University and her M. A. in Middle Eastern archeology in
1998 from Yale University. She served as the senior news editor of the office of communications
at Washington University in St Louis from 1994 to 1996. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.
Debs Aronson essay The Nurture of Nature is talking to all the world in regards to our
common stressed out lives. Her message brings a simple solution, Nature, and how to overcome
our struggles of daily activities and responsibilities as adults. In her essay she presents studies by
various remarkable professionals, backing her conclusions of a solution to our problematic life.
Her purpose is to persuade us to get back in touch with Nature in order to begin that
transformation must needed. She is speaking to our hearts and minds, with simplistic solutions to
what seems like an unconquered problem.

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Ethos------ > Stressed, anxious, sick and afflicted, young and old.

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Researchers

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Andrea Faber Taylor

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Roger Ulrich and Colleagues

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Kathleen Wolf

Fields of Studies
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Environmental Psychology

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Forest Resources

Universities
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Illinois

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Texas A & M

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Washington

Residences
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Chicago Housings

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Sherwood Forest

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Urban Areas

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Pathos-----------> Contact with Nature

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Passive

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Looking at trees

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Walk in the woods

Direct attention
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Focus

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Tiring

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Fatigue

Involuntary attention
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Watch a fire

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Meditate

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Looking at nature

Commuting
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Scenic roads

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Billboards

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Buildings

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Parking lots

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Kairos ------------ > Aerobics, yoga, anti-anxiety pills, therapist.

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Planting

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Gardens

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Have a house plant

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Pictures of nature

Family cataclysmic
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Divorce

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Lost of Job

Increase
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Contacts with nature

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View from homes

Results
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Concentrate

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Control impulse

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Resist peer pressure

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Sexual pressure

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I Say ------------ > we need to get in touch with Mother Nature

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Adults and young alike

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Working

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College

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Unemployed

Family Challenges
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Abuse

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Single

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Addictions

Re-structure
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Daily activities

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Move

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New Job

Involve
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Health

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Vacations

With our constant go, go, go life, we have lost touch with what we are an important port of,
Nature. The fresh air, the running water, the beautiful scenery and, why not the wild life; Getting
close to where we come from, will not make us tree huggers at all, it will bring us to remember
who we all are in this world.