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The intended readers are the followers of Time Magazine, Joe Stein is a known as a comedian, he wasn’t being serious about his post in Defense for Domination. He made is seem like he was ticking off the audience but he was only being funny.

They all follow the news wether the writer is trying to be funny or not. He understands their hatred towards the Yankees and posts an ironic blog.

1. Yes, He makes a very good argument but is uses rhetoric. He creates a main claim and backs is up with reasonable evidence about the move of A-Rod to the Yankees. From the book Brief Thompson where is says uses evidence effectively and that’s what Stein does, he uses many pieces of evidence and explains them.
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3. People who wish to understand multiple views, because he states common knowledge that everyone agrees on, he makes people that hate the Yankees wanting them to think if what he says is going to be true. Also using his sarcasm he opens up debates about his view on America relating it to the Yankees on being on the top.
4. The sarcastic Heckler that tries to be funny in order to gain more followers by the language he uses.
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9. The Dangers of an essay like this is if the audience didn’t know who the writer is they might take his seriously and backfire at him. His use of diction is very obnoxious and unprofessional if he was being serious.
10. His purpose in this essay is to be funny but also throw a couple of true statements in his writing. He compares the Yankees to America being bullies towards the other nations and being able to do whatever they want to do.