2. Editorial No. 1: “I don’t resent what they’ve built”
By Dr. Bill Atwood, Sierra Star
Published Thursday, August 2, 2012
Best article thus far
[Chess.jpg]
Main point: survival of
the fittest[/fattest]
The writer has the ability to oppose
and respect another’s views
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3. Cont.: Techniques and Success
Attachment to writer through childhood;
extended metaphor to capitalism
“Friday, July the 13 wasn’t a very lucky day
for the president of the United States. It
wasn’t a misstep and it wasn’t a gaffe. The
president showed his true feelings about My beliefs
how he sees the economic system of the
United States. I really wasn’t surprised at (feel free to disagree)
his stance but I was surprised that his
handlers let him state it... To be fair, many
an enterprise has begun and through bad
luck or conditions beyond the control of the
businessperson the venture is doomed.
That is how capitalism works. Some make it
and many don’t.” (Dr. Bill Atwood, 2012).
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5. Editorial No. 2: “Obamaphobia for dummies”
By Peter Cavanaugh, Sierra Star
Published Thursday, August 2, 2012
Writer is clearly pro-Obama, anti-Romney
Obamacare and its components
“Obamaphobia” is herein defined as an
emotionally ravaging, soul savaging, highly
irrational fear of anything having the most
remote connection to the 44th President of
the United States of America.”
(Peter Cavanaugh, 2012).
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6. Cont.: Techniques and Success
Although I enjoy his description, I do wish he’d given
an example of “the dozens and dozens of outright
lies fashioned... and fed to millions through the
Internet, talk radio and Fox News.”
(Peter Cavanaugh, 2012).
Statistics
“By way of illustration, although national polling consistently reveals dramatic across-the-board majority
support of the act’s key elements, such approval drops significantly when presented as “Obamacare.”... 56%
of Americans claim to oppose the law as a whole when it’s spoken of as “Obamacare,” most of those
surveyed empathically back its primary components.” (Peter Cavanaugh, 2012). The list goes on: “Sixty-one
percent of respondents favor allowing young adults to stay on their insurance plan until age 26. Seventy-two
percent wish to maintain the requirement that companies with more than 50 workers provide health
insurance for their employees and a full 82% of respondents favor banning insurance companies from
denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.” (Peter Cavanaugh, 2012).
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8. “Now my feelings lasted so long they left stains. They arose
from nowhere, like winds or waves, and battered at me or
engulfed me. When I was angry, I felt myself coiled and
longing to kill someone or bomb something big.”
(Page 222)
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9. “Stains”
Tone: angry
Understandable
Interesting
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10. “I was delivered to my enemies, and had no place to hide; I
could only wail for my young life so unpityingly snuffed.”
(Page 34)
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11. “Unpityingly”
Tone: fear, life-threatening
Interesting
Point of view
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![Editorial No. 1: “I don’t resent what they’ve built”
By Dr. Bill Atwood, Sierra Star
Published Thursday, August 2, 2012
Best article thus far
[Chess.jpg]
Main point: survival of
the fittest[/fattest]
The writer has the ability to oppose
and respect another’s views
Friday, September 7, 12](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)