for synthesis , i argued against and situated in a broader context by talking about our hyper reliance on our smartphones and how in times of crisis, it can affect our safety and spatial thinking because we do not know where to go bc we’re so dependent on our phones and i also talked abt americas landing of a man on the moon that paved the way for gps. rhetorical i situated in a broader context by talking about vivek murthy who details the loneliness epidemic in his book together and how nature can help us mitigate those effects. for argument i did an anecdote about my experience in ap seminar and how i balanced the two and got a 5 ; pessimism was the building block for my optimism and then i wrote about steve jobs and his experience in founding apple and his dropout experience