Your task for this exercise is to take the information you gathered at the end of the previous unit and organize it into a logical argument using the Toulmin Method. You don’t have to put all of the information you found into this small exercise; simply take one assertion and present the facts to support it along with a counter-argument and rebuttal. You should find that following this structure should almost always create a convincing argument, as long as the facts are strong enough and the reasoning solid! Your argument can be as long as you like, but it should be at least 300 words.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky