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'The local council of Greenville recently do a intent of marriage for all ho examples and businesses to install solar hot-water systems by 2010. Ho affairs and businesses t don who have not installed solar hot-water systems by thence would be charged a â€Å" babys room levy”. However some residents have uttered anger over the proposition. â€Å"Solar Sell verboten” published in a local newspaper, an opinion piece and its nonessential cartoon written Bob Walsh, contends that the marriage offer which aims to adulterate glasshouse gas emissions is not appropriate for the itty-bitty suburb of Greenville.Walsh uses a sarcastic and angry savour which is quite personal, and aims to clearly outline why the proposal by the government is a bad idea. Walsh manipulates the commentator by using a series of techniques to utter his point of view. The first technique which stands out is the headline, and the use of a graphic. The headline ‘solar sellout’ is con veying the means that the proposal will be exactly that, a â€Å"sellout”. The cartoon stands out instantly due to its coat and placement on the page. The image portrays the character of the Mayor.He’s depicted to be a person of intelligible wealth, shown by the ‘bling’ worn around his neck and his fabulous size. The size of the Mayor as well as gives the impression that he’s a force to be reckoned with and that the people of the town don’t have a chance of standing up to him. The image shows the twain classes of wealth present in the town, one, be the rich, equal by the large, well-kept houses both with solar panels on the roof, yet also clearly the minority. Then the works class which is represented by the collection of little houses that aren’t able to afford the panels.The endorser then sees the families living in the less attractive houses being forced to pay the Mayor their well-earned money. Wash uses a series of tech niques to emphasise his point of view. He commences with emotive language like â€Å"… become a clothed of the radical environmentalists” who have made the council their â€Å"captive”. By describing environmentalists as â€Å"radical”, Mr Walsh evokes a sense of concern in the audience, passing whether environmentalists batch be certain and if they are safe to be consulted with.This leads the reader to question the honesty of the council and their ability to fend off environmental lobby groups who have their own agenda in the scheme. The word â€Å"captive” forces the reader to question the credibility of the council in its ability to make logical decisions on the community’s behalf. Such an implication is presumable to leave readers questioning the real motivations behind the council’s decision. The use of the loaded term â€Å"incredibly” coerces the reader to consider the proposal as ridiculous and out of line.Further more, it belittles those who are supporters of the proposal and leads the reader to consider supporters of the proposal as absurd. The author continues with loaded language maxim that â€Å"this is a blatant abuse of residents’ rights… ” in an adjudicate to appeal to the audiences self interest and desire for freedom. By describing the citizens as â€Å"innocent” Mr Walsh creates a divide amidst the council and the residents of Greenville.This intends to imply to the reader that the residents are the victims of the proposal and the council is fall to take advantage of the residents. In a weight-lift to add credibility to his argument, Walsh utilises statistics such as â€Å"The be? $200 per house, and $500 per business! ” Wash also uses rhetorical question and then answering it himself. By doing so, Walsh ridicules the suggestion of the cost to the consumer. This appeals to the readers sense of financial trade protection and makes the suggest ion seem ridiculous.He also states that even if each Australian household installed hot water systems, â€Å"greenhouse gases would only if be reduced by… yet 5. 1%”. The use of these statistics is employed not only to add credibility to his own argument still to discredit the council’s claim that its proposal would importantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The council claim is and made illogically when the author says â€Å"Greenville only represents a tiny fraction of that 5. 1%” so â€Å"how can one suburb’s actions affect the self-coloured world? The author’s sarcastic use of this rhetorical question aims to embarrass the council and its proposal, thus convincing the reader to believe the council’s argument has been shamed and that Mr Walsh’s is the most valid. Finally,Mr Walsh proposes his own solution to this proposal and challenges the mayor to â€Å"lobby governments for more nuclear agency plants, rather th an squander public money on light-minded solar panels”. The emotive term â€Å"frivolous” intends to ridicule the proposal and coerces the reader to feel hat there are far more rough-and-ready alternatives than the council’s current proposal. Furthermore, contrasting the current proposal with his own proposal, allows Walsh to appear to be well-informed on the issue, thus he knows what he is writing about. By appealing on the readers sense of self-interest, financial insecurity and suspicion of authority, Walsh persuades the reader to consider that the councils proposal would be ineffective and would suppress individual freedoms and rights; inappropriate for Greenville and the great good.\r\n'