Question

Can anyone help me with topic sentences. They have never been my strong point.

Answer 1

I. Introduction
A. Hook: In “ Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others” David Livingstone Smith states “Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren’t lying around waiting to be discovered. They’re made, not found.”
B. Bridge: Human rights is a blanket term that covers many subtopics from racism to child labor to dehumanization.
C. Thesis: In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card the main human rights issue is dehumanization, Ender and Valentine dehumanize their enemy much like soldiers do now, the government dehumanizes children and only sees them as tools at their disposal much like people in the real world with abortion, the government in the novel decides how many children you can have what religion you are they take away your basic right to decide things for yourself much like adults do to the child brides in South Sudan.
II. Second Paragraph (Dehumanizing the enemy)
A. Topic Sentence:
B. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: “`it's very difficult, psychologically, to kill another human being up close and in cold blood, or to inflict atrocities on them.’ So, when it does happen, it can be helpful to understand what it is that allows human beings `to overcome the very deep and natural inhibitions they have against treating other people like game animals or vermin or dangerous predators.’” (Less Than Human)
C. Explanation: -Buggers are less than human –Ender says they are human except in appearance
D. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: “During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to Jews as rats. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis wingspanroaches. Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals.” (Less Than Human)
E. Explanation: -Ender and the other children are referred to as soldiers –called soldiers to generalize even though they are 6 to 16
III. Third Paragraph (Tools for disposal abortion)
A. Topic Sentence
B. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: “She’s a medical doctor who—as she describes it—is used to cutting skin, sawing bones, and lifting the uterus out of the abdominal cavity and then putting it back in. No big deal. Doctors do that kind of thing all the time. They’re desensitized to things other people find upsetting.” (McAllister)
C. Explanation: -Adult teachers in battle school used to treating kids like tools or objects
D. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: “They’re stable, normal human beings. To remain that way, they have to use terms like “products of conception.” They have to, in a word, dehumanize.”(McAllister)
E. Explanation: -Ender and the other children are referred to as soldiers –called soldiers to generalize even though they are 6 to 16
IV. Fourth Paragraph (Taking away basic rights child brides)
A. Topic Sentence
B. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: “The teen dragged by her family to be raped to force her into marrying an elderly man. They are among 39,000 girls forced into marriage every day around the world, sold like cattle to enrich their families.” (Doki)
C. Explanation: -Ender and other kids taken to battle school to be used as weapons
D. Example, Reason, Detail, or Fact from the text: “Ageer M., told Human Rights Watch, "The man I loved did not have cows and my uncles rejected him. My husband paid 120 cows. ... I refused him but they beat me badly and took me by force to him.” (Doki)
E. Explanation: -Government uses kids for benefit –Children are only cared about for what the government can get out of them not who they are