371. The purpose of the first two paragraphs is to contrast life in college and life outside of college. This is somewhat interesting because it shows some of the personal benefits of going to college, the unique experiences. Her thesis statement is stated in the third paragraph when she asks the question: What does it mean to have a college degree? To make it stronger, she could have written it like this: "Having a college degree means proving my mother's sacrifice and being a symbol of what is to come for future generations of my family." In paragraph 3, Le defends the value of university degrees. She takes issue with people who say they're not worth as much as they used to be. His rebuttal is that even though they are not worth as much, they are still worth more than just a high school education.4. Besides appealing to emotions, the only other type of evidence she offers is appealing to logic, but she only does so briefly when talking about the number of Americans with bachelor's degrees. She should have included an appeal to authority or more examples of an appeal to logic, because most of her argument is based on personal experiences, which only appeal to emotions. By using the other two types, his argument would be less important.