What fallacious reasoning, through generalization, does the author of "Puerto Rico" provide in paragraph 3?

A. "Puerto Ricans have been presented with two options: being governed by a president in Washington, D. C., who is not of their choosing, or abandoning their family and homeland to seek full voting rights and political representation." B. "Being able to decide one's own future through suffrage." C. "Though the United States has granted citizenship to Puerto Rico's inhabitants since 1917, we lack the key rights of political self-determination that were at the crux of the 1776 American Revolution." D. "The Shining Star-Puerto Rico-has been left behind, to languish in the ill-defined status of a territory possessed by and protected by the United States."

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10 September, 18:35

What fallacious reasoning, through generalization, does the author of "Puerto Rico" provide in paragraph 3?

A. "Puerto Ricans have been presented with two options: being governed by a president in Washington, D. C., who is not of their choosing, or abandoning their family and homeland to seek full voting rights and political representation." B. "Being able to decide one's own future through suffrage." C. "Though the United States has granted citizenship to Puerto Rico's inhabitants since 1917, we lack the key rights of political self-determination that were at the crux of the 1776 American Revolution." D. "The Shining Star-Puerto Rico-has been left behind, to languish in the ill-defined status of a territory possessed by and protected by the United States."

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Kaylin Fitzpatrick · Answer 1

The author of "Puerto Rico" is Benítez de Gautier's and based on his work, the fallacious reasoning that he provides as a generalization based on paragraph 3 is statement D: "The Shining Star-Puerto Rico-has been left behind, to languish in the ill-defined status of a territory possessed by and protected by the United States."