Naturalization process in the United States

Appreciating Anesthesia

The article , Anesthesia , the Drug Taken for Granted ' recounts the blessings of anesthesia with all the information that seems to be needed to support the thesis . The thesis of the article is : Anesthesia is indispensable , and a necessity for the progress of medical science . It is an accurate thesis , and the writer makes every effort to support it with facts . According to the article , there was little or no anesthesia available to the people of the past . But the people in our day have easy access to anesthesia , which is

why surgeries and recoveries are successful , and medical science is progressing . The reason for the progress is , of course , that surgeries are too painful without anesthesia , and in the absence of anesthesia , most patients would not enter the operating room

In the process of supporting the thesis , the writer defines anesthesia ' besides recounting its history . This helps the reader to better understand the significance of anesthesia . The author further describes the negative side of anesthesia if it is administered by an unskilled doctor . This discussion allows the reader to grasp the importance of the various facets of the administration of anesthesia By concluding the essay on a positive note about anesthesia , the writer confirms his thesis . Although the negative side of anesthesia is discussed with reference to incompetent doctors , the reader is by no means made to feel that anesthesia is bad . Thus , all of the information provided is integrated to support the thesis . At no point during the perusal of the article does the reader feel that anything mentioned in the article is unneeded or uncalled for

Every paragraph of the article starts out with a sentence to introduce the central idea of the paragraph . The first paragraph begins with an image of a dental surgery , and refers to good

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news as well as bad news . In this paragraph , the reader is reminded that it is painful to have surgeries without the use of anesthesia , and it is bad news when a patient cannot use anesthesia during the surgery The good news in this scenario is that the patient does not have to pay for anesthesia . However , this good news is not very important in the paragraph . The writer describes the bad news more clearly , for it is considered more important for the patient to avoid physical pain by paying the cost of anesthesia

To recount the blessings of anesthesia , the author persuades by appealing to the emotions of the reader - using pathos abundantly - that in the absence of anesthesia , surgeries would be quite painful . As a matter of fact , the use of pathos starts out the essay when the author refers to bad news ' being that We can 't put you to sleep or numb you while we pull your wisdom teeth ' These words related to physical pain immediately affect the emotions of the reader , who would like to avoid pain at all costs . The writer further persuades the reader through...