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numbered 1-4. Then pull details (ethos, pathos, logos) for each of your paragraphs.
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Essay topic:
Hollow Earth
Thesis:
Edmond Halley’s model of a hollow Earth is the true
model and shape of Earth.

Main topics for each paragraph

Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 Topic 4

Examining Halley’s famed Arguments against Halley’s Cyrus Reed Teed Model Koreshan Unity/Morrow’s
model of a hollow Earth. model and him proving his experiments, and proof
model that Teed’s model is
wrong

Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4

Claim 1 Claim 2 Claim 3 Claim 4

Edmond Halley, from Being a true scientist Halley Cyrus Reed Teed The Koreshan Unity and
Halley’s comet, believed also provided possible provided a vastly different Ulysess Grant Morrow’s
that the Earth was hollow, arguments against his model model for a hollow Earth. experiment fail to prove
creating a concise and and evidence to back it up. that Teed’s model is the
compelling model. true hollow earth.

Evidence 1 Evidence 1 Evidence 1 Evidence 1

Halley depicted a model of Halley identified some
a hollow earth of 3 layers arguments against his theory,
and a central core that one being how the oceans
“surround[s] a central don’t leak into the Earth’s
core.” layers. These
(Source 1/5) “apprehensions about
seepage are groundless,”
though due to the fact that
beds of chalk, clay, stone
and even sand are able to
hold it up.
(Source 4, paragraph 10)
Teed’s model is bizarre in
nature and in thought, for
we are inside of the
hollow Earth, the sun is in
the middle of this hollow
earth, and that the sky
and space are all just
illusions.
(Source 2, The Cellular
Cosmogony)
Teed gained followers with
his “inside-out” model of
the Earth, and created a
communal society that
taught celibacy and
Teed’s model, which
attracted geodesist
Morrow.
(Source 2, Put it to
experimental test)
Evidence 2
He believed that the only
way to explain the
anomalies in the magnetic
field of the Earth was if
there were four magnetic
poles.
(Source 4, paragraph 9)
Evidence 3
With the Earth structured
as Halley’s model, the
poles would be placed
with two at the north and
south poles, while the
remaining two as a
moveable pair at the
central core of the model.
For this would explain
Earth’s great gravitational
pull, as if it were a “great
Magnet.”
(Source 4, paragraph 9)
Evidence 2
As for how these 3 layers
don’t crash into each other,
the pull of gravity from the
sun and moon keep them
from colliding.
(Source 4, paragraph 12)
Evidence 3
It has even occurred in
nature, Saturn’s rings are
proof of it being able to
support its multiple rings that
are separated together.
(Source 4, paragraph 11)
Evidence 2
Claiming the “light rays
take curved paths to
reach the earth,” which
explain the Sun's different
positions in the sky.
(Source 2, The Cellular
Cosmogony)
Evidence 3
As for day and night, “the
sun is half dark [and] half
light,” which gives off the
appearance of a solar
day.
(Source 2, The Cellular
Cosmogony)
Evidence 2
At Teed’s behest, and his
own willingness, Morrow
set forth an experiment to
prove Teed’s model, by
testing the water level of a
straight 4-mile line of
specially made water
troughs. If the water levels
tended down the Earth is
round, if they tended up
we live inside of a ball.
(Source 3, Hollow Earth)
Evidence 3
The Naples experiment,
as it was called, ended
with the water levels
tending down, thus
proving the earth as
round. Showing Teed’s
model as impossible,
though he still persisted
when Morrow “corrected
‘human errors’ in reading
[the] water levels,” that
pointed to Teed being
right.
(Source 3, Hollow Earth)