A Twisted World

I enjoyed reading this persuasive essay, it was not only unique but it was also well written and interesting. The way he used reducto ad absurdum (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reductio+ad+absurdum) was extremely intelligent. Writing persuasive essays in this format can be really risky but if they are done right like in this essay, "A Twisted World" in the book Embracing Writing, it can be a really good essay. Writing about serious (and usually boring) topics such as politics can get old, and dull really quickly. However in this piece James uses humor, by writing about the notion of putting celebrities in charge of the United States. He did this to prove that even though we may be facing hard times it could most definitely be worse, and instead of being serious he had fun with the topic. This made reading the essay and writing about it a lot more fun, than if it was just a typical persuasive essay about politics.