What reason does Edward Abbey give to prove that he is the best person to comment on the harm the building of the Glen Canyon Dam has done to the land?

Which of the following passages from Edward Abbey's "The Damnation of a Canyon" best demonstrates his use of ethos to build his argument?A.In the summer and fall of 1967 I worked as a seasonal park ranger at the new Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. During my five–month tour of duty I worked at the main marina and headquarters area called Wahweap, at Bullfrog Basin toward the upper end of the reservoir, and finally at Lee's Ferry downriver from Glen Canyon Dam.B.Lake Powell, formed by Glen Canyon Dam, is not a lake. It is a reservoir, with a constantly fluctuating water level more like a bathtub that is never drained than a true lake.C.The difference between the present reservoir, with its silent sterile shores and debris–choked side canyons, and the original Glen Canyon, is the difference between death and life. Glen Canyon was alive. Lake Powell is a graveyard.D.One should admit at the outset to a certain bias. Indeed I am a "butterfly chaser, googly eyed bleeding heart and wild conservative.

Click to read the passage from Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside, by Edward Abbey. Then answer the question.What does the author use in this passage to support the idea that the dam has ruined Glen Canyon?A.A descriptionB.An exaggerationC.A solution to a problemD.A cause and its effectSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Which of the following passages from Edward Abbey's "The Damnation of a Canyon" best demonstrates his use of ethos to build his argument?A.One should admit at the outset to a certain bias. Indeed I am a "butterfly chaser, googly eyed bleeding heart and wild conservative.B.In the summer and fall of 1967 I worked as a seasonal park ranger at the new Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. During my five–month tour of duty I worked at the main marina and headquarters area called Wahweap, at Bullfrog Basin toward the upper end of the reservoir, and finally at Lee's Ferry downriver from Glen Canyon Dam.C.Lake Powell, formed by Glen Canyon Dam, is not a lake. It is a reservoir, with a constantly fluctuating water level more like a bathtub that is never drained than a true lake.D.The difference between the present reservoir, with its silent sterile shores and debris–choked side canyons, and the original Glen Canyon, is the difference between death and life. Glen Canyon was alive. Lake Powell is a graveyard.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What does Edward Abbey believe will happen if the dam is shut down and the reservoir is drained?

Which of the following passages from Edward Abbey's "The Damnation of a Canyon" best demonstrates his use of pathos to build his argument?A.Up most of the side canyons, before damnation, there were springs, sometimes flowing streams, waterfalls and plunge pools the kind of marvels you can now find only in such small–scale remnants of Glen Canyon as the Escalante area.B.The difference between the present reservoir, with its silent sterile shores and debris–choked side canyons, and the original Glen Canyon, is the difference between death and life. Glen Canyon was alive. Lake Powell is a graveyard.C.The rising and falling water level entails various consequences. One of the most obvious, well known to all who have seen Lake Mead, is the "bathtub ring" left on the canyon walls after each drawdown of water, or what rangers at Glen Canyon call the Bathtub Formation.D.As a result the volume of water in the reservoir is continually being increased or decreased according to the requirements of the Basin States Compact and the power–grid system of which Glen Canyon Dam is a component.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS