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Question:

The description of this book reads:

1. For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are the most stringent in the nation. And Arizona has the highest number of migrant deaths. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains...Using Arizona as a microcosm, Regan explores a host of urgent issues: the border militarization that threatens the rights of U.S. citizens, the environmental damage wrought by the border wall, the desperation that compels migrants to come north, and the human tragedy of the unidentified dead in Arizona's morgues.
Although you only read a single chapter of the book, you should have a decent feel for how Regan uses "Arizona as a microcosm" to "explore[ ] a host of urgent issues." Explain why highlighting a single person's story can work well in a research paper. How can a personal story influence a piece's persuasiveness? How can a writer demonstrate that a single incidence functions as a "microcosm," or part of a larger issue?

2. How does Regan open the chapter? How does she gain your attention/interest

3. What do you imagine Regan's overall point/argument is in writing this book?

4. Although this chapter does not contain many statistics, other chapters in the book do. What kinds of research do you suppose Regan did in writing this book? What kinds of statistics/evidence do you think she used in the book's other chapters?