Synthesis Paper about Trump’s ethos

Length: 2000-3000 words

Format: MLA; please include a list of works cited (see Purdue OWL
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); please indicate the paper’s word count in the MLA header after the date.

Task: Write an essay that synthesizes at least 10 of the readings that we have discussed (or optional readings that we did not discuss) thus far in class and that answers the following questions:

1) What is Trump’s ethos, especially as depicted in The Art of the Deal and The Apprentice?

2) How did that ethos attract or repel specific groups of voters in 2016? You may wish to focus on one or more of the following groups: evangelicals, non-college educated whites, white nationalists, and minorities.

3) Based on your analysis of Trump’s ethos and his relationship to voters in 2016, what changes should we note or anticipate for the upcoming election on November 3rd, 2020? You may wish to consider three of the most important events in the 2020 campaign so far: the Democratic Party nominating Joe Biden to run against Trump, the growth of COVID-19 into a global pandemic, and widespread protests and some violent unrest in response to the police killing of George Floyd and other black Americans.

I have some additional, small requirements for this essay:

1) Your essay should include at least a handful of quotations, with their attendant introductions and explanations, and you should introduce at least one quotation with an independent clause followed by a colon. (See punctuating quotations.) Highlight or underline your introduction that fulfills this requirement.

2) When the relationship between paragraphs isn’t obvious, use transition words or phrases

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at the beginning of a paragraph.

3) Your essay must not use question marks. That means that you cannot ask rhetorical questions.

4) Your essay must not include the phrase “talks about.” Instead, use something more specific

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, like argues, claims, suggests, or explains.