To complete the "Hitting the Road" assignment, you must finish step 4. Complete this in a text entry. Create your Rite of Passage with activities, rituals and challenges designed to make the transformation of consciousness required. Your Rite of Passage should contain the four elements listed below. ((Include an introductory paragraph or two explaining the purpose of your Rite of Passage and why the Rite is important to both the initiates undergoing the ritual and their community).

1. A separation or beginning ceremony that engages initiates emotionally and emphasizes the importance of this major step in their lives. The ceremony should include people who are significant in the initiates’ lives and community. Decide who will act as “shaman” or leader of the ritual and what will be said and done. You should also include at least one symbolic item and explain the item’s significance.
2. At least three challenges, tests or activities that will cause or stimulate the changes you listed in step three. The challenges should engage initiates emotionally, in their “gut,” in a way that will expand their consciousness and cause them to see themselves as members of the driving community. Each challenge, when completed, should conclude with the presentation of a symbolic item.
3. A final celebration when initiates assume their new role as drivers. Include important people from their lives and community, perhaps people who were involved in the challenges. (May be combined with 4 below.)
4. A ritualistic final step in which initiates (now drivers) symbolically receive their driver’s license. You might include a symbolic item (i. e., a ring, bracelet, necklace, watch or something for the car) that will help the initiate remember the challenges they faced and changes they made during the Rite of Passage.

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and also the mystery girl it might be someone that she might know in her school

1. both men a determined to break douglass.

2. douglass is still considered to be one of captain anthony's possessions.

3. douglass escapes to freedom in the north and changes his name.

4. the events are usually written from a distance in time.

5. the recording of events in chronological order.

formal arguments

in written, formal arguments, the best way to build credibility with readers is to provide them with evidence. no matter what your argument might be and which side you agree with, citing strong evidence to back up your claim leaves the opposition with little to argue.

emotional appeal is often used in oral arguments. written arguments, however, rely on four main types of evidence. as you read further, you will see that some types are more credible than others and "hold more water" so to speak.

statistical evidence

the strongest type of evidence in formal writing is statistical evidence. this ranges from true, hard data presented as a percentage or number, to survey-type data. for example, statistical evidence could be:

4 out of 5 experts claim

85% of women in the united

7 members were present

statistical evidence can be proven as fact. you can actually go out and find hard information to prove your particular claim.

testimonial evidence

the use of celebrities as credibility evidence can be considered testimonial in nature. many people look up to celebrities as role models in their lives. good or bad, when a person chooses a life-path that takes them into public light, there will be many others out there who want to emulate the celebrity. these celebrity endorsements provide the second-strongest type of evidence found in formal arguments.

testimonial evidence can also be collected from experts and authorities in a given field. doctors, dentists, lawyers often provide expert testimonials. their authority is not often questions. they are expected to "know their stuff."

anecdotal evidence

when storytelling is involved as evidence, anecdotal evidence is being used. due to its less objective nature, anecdotal evidence is not extremely strong. when coupled with statistical or testimonial evidence, anecdotal evidence can be highly effective in determining credibility or proof.

storytelling, although based on fact, can include quite a bit of opinion, thus making it less objective. usually, eyewitnesses are used as providers of anecdotal evidence. they saw or experienced the phenomenon at hand are telling their version or side of the story.

analogical evidence

when information is scarce about something and little is known, analogical evidence is often used in a formal argument to increase credibility of the proof. if the phenomenon in question is new and little is known about it, analogical evidence that pulls in known factors about a similar phenomenon to show parallels can be an effective way to provide proof.

due to limited knowledge about the phenomenon, in this situation, analogical evidence can be regarded as the weakest type of evidence used in formal arguments. one can only imagine and hope that the comparison-phenomenon is close enough that the results can be applied to the new phenomenon.

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all that really matters in a formal argument is whether or not the writer has credible evidence to back up what they want to say or what they are thinking. so often, we hear people say, "prove it! " to one another.

one last little formal arguments not only provide credible evidence to support claims, don't forget that acknowledgment of the opposing point of view in an argument also strengthens the entire product.