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In the paragraph provided below, which sentence explains the…

In the paragraph provided below, which sentence explains the ongoing relevance of the research?  A new report from the research firm Fractl examines the ways in which these words have changed over the past 200 years. For the report, researchers looked for appearances of 21 mental-health-related terms in the Corpus of Historical American English, a collection of 115,000 texts from 1810 to the present, totaling around 400 million words. For each term, they also examined the 10 words that most often appeared nearby. When neurosis was at its height in the 1950s, according to the report, “clinical terms such as mental, obsessional, psychosis, and the plural psychoses were mentioned in the same breath”—but by the late 1990s, the availability of more specific diagnoses had replaced the various types of neurosis. Today, it seems that its utility as an umbrella term had reached its logical end: When a person has neurosis, he’s most often described as having many of them.

Why do you think Klay uses “you” in the following passage? …

Why do you think Klay uses “you” in the following passage?  If I were to shoot you on either side of your heart, one shot . . . and then another, you’d have twopunctured lungs, two sucking chest wounds. Now you’re good and fucked. But you’ll still be alivelong enough to feel your lungs fill up with blood. If I shoot you there with the shots coming fast, it’s no problem. The ripples tear up your heart andlungs and you don’t do the death rattle, you just die. There’s shock, but no pain. I pulled thetrigger, felt the recoil, and focused on the sights, not on Vicar, three times. Two bullets torethrough his chest, one through his skull, and the bullets came fast, too fast to feel. That’s how itshould be done, each shot coming quick after the last so you can’t even try to recover, which iswhen it hurts. What rhetorical (logos, pathos, ethos) effect does his usage of “you” have on the reader and his argument?