Refer to Where Is Niagara Falls? for a complete version of this text. In Chapter 3, people realize that building a bridge across the gorge of Niagara Falls will bring more tourists to the area.

Which detail best explains why building the first bridge to cross the gorge is such a difficult task?

“…tourists had a perfect view of some of the crazy, dangerous things some people would soon do…”

“Even at the narrowest spot, the gorge was eight hundred feet wide.”

“But there was still one thing missing—something the businessmen knew they needed.”

“A ferryboat was built to take people from the US side to Canada.”

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explanation:

she swerves to avoid the turtle.

an argumentative essay presents objectively a topic and its main characteristics. besides, it states all this information and facts by giving authentic and substantiated proof to the audience. by contrast, a persuasive text purpose is to convince the audience about some facts by presenting them according to his/her emotions and feelings. the main purpose of a persuasive text is to convince the audience to agree with the author´s opinion. on the other hand, in the argumentative essay, the author leads the writer to recognize his/her point of view as the correct one.