Tuesday, September 4, 2007
The Talk of the Town & Tools of Writings
The topic of my article was intriguing, yet something I'm not very interested in. It was an article about politics. Interestingly enough though, it started the article out with a Saturday Night Live interview. It was an interview with Al Gore. The article talked about how Al Gore lost in the 2000 election, and from the author's view point should have easily won. He talks about how our world in general would be different than what we live in today. He makes comments like we could have possibly avoided 9/11 because Gore's administration knew more about the threat we had from the Middle East. The author explains that we could have potentially gotten over global warming with the help of Gore's administration. His overall tone throughout this article is almost bitter, as he continues speaking about how better of a world we could live in if we had or if we could have Gore as our president. It does work well though as he goes to prove his points of why our world would be better. His diction is formal, as he is speaking about politics and wants to sound as intelligent as he can on the topic. He definitely chose the right type of diction for this article because in any form of politics I think the bigger words you use, the more people like you because they think are you are smarter. The structure of this paper is set up from an interview at Saturday Night Live, which grabs the readers attention because usually the two aren't found together. HIs voice is used to prove his point of how we should continue to support Gore because our world can change into a much better place if we leave him in charge. Personally, I'm not really sure how I feel about Gore. I'm not very big into politics.
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I think that it's a bit bold to say Gore's administration would have curved the Global Warming issue...I really dislike Bush, but Gore wouldn't have stopped Global warming hehe...
Good start Erin. Next time, I'd like for you to dig into why the author might use the "tag" of Saturday Night Live. Does that, perhaps, point to the audience he's targeting? Show us , also, the devices that the author uses to accomplish his thesis. What types of words does he use, etc.
I doubt that the author of your article suggested that global warming could have been stopped with Gore's administration. Do you honestly think that any author of one of the esteemed magazines lent out to us would suggest that one man's presidency could put a halt to a process that has been occurring long before humans even existed?
"The structure of this paper is set up from an interview at Saturday Night Live, which grabs the readers attention because usually the two aren't found together."
-What do you mean by that? That politics and SNL aren't usually found together? Magazine articles and SNL aren't usually found together?
weeelll. i am not really too fond of bush myself. he hasn't been doing to well since he as been in office. but who's to say that al gore would not have done an equally "sucky" job, if not worse?
I would have totally ignored an article about politics, because I'm not into that either. Next time, you should write about something you feel strongly about. It'll make it easier to discuss and it would make doing the assignment much more pleasant :)
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