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Lately, in America, there have been many parents speculating the amount of safety provided at the schools of their kids. However, the U.S. is not the only country suffering these concerns. In countries such as Nigeria, students, specifically schoolgirls have been being abducted and reported missing, someone for days to weeks at a time and others gone forever. Authors Stephanie Bursari and Bukola Adebayo use their appeal to pathos and an informative tone in order to provide awareness on such a large and continuous issue based on a region where terrorists are known to take girls. A mother by the name of Garba Tela, had said that she hadn't wanted to send her daughter to school in Dapchi because "they take girls there" and now says that after her daughter has been abducted, her remaining kids have refused to go back to school. The fact that parents are afraid to send their kids to school and that kids refuse to go to school really brings pity or sympathy out of the reader. No such should feel like they will be harmed while they are out getting their education, especially not by outside invaders. This applies to parents as well, no parent should ever have to fear for their child's safety in an environment meant for learning and formal relationships. The mother continues to sound hopeless, saying that "we are just village people, we don't have the power to chase the people who took our daughter." This statement invokes a sense of anger and maybe even sadness in the reader because it should be the government's responsibility to keep their children safe, not to leave a small village to fend for themselves against terrorists groups known for abducting young women. Throughout the article, the authors make sure to maintain an informative tone in order to let the reader know that this isn't just an opinionated article, but one of real world problems. In the second section of the article, the authors go into another kidnapping within Nigeria (Chibok), about 170 miles for the abduction in Dapchi. The Chibok kidnapping of about 276 schoolgirls had sparked global outrage and had even caused well-known celebrities to take part in this movement. All of this action had eventually led to the release of many of the captives, but it is estimated that about 100 remain in captivity. Parents of this abduction can only hope that they get thier daughters home safely. Can you ever believe been shot sixteen times and surviving?! Isn't it more unbelievable that you could get shot sixteen times and still not have any ambulance willing to get you medical attention. Well this was the reality for a man, Ronald Newberry, in Cleveland, and the authors of this article use both imagery and diction to describe the insanity of this situation. The authors start off the article by saying "imagine being shot multiple times, getting aid from the police but then not having an ambulance willing to take you to the hospital as you bleed out on the street." This immediately springs an image into the readers mind of themselves, lying down on the ground as their life force is slowly slipping away from them. This image make the reader think that it's absolutely absurd that an ambulance would not be willing to have someone on the brink of death even though its their job. The authors also describe the suffering man as pleading with the police officers for help. This invokes an image of a desperate man, willing to do anything to be able to have a fair chance at survival. In the title within itself, the authors used the word "refuse" to give a negative connotation of the word "couldn't". This makes the reader think that the ambulance just didn't want to transport the gun shot victim due to their own selfish reasons. The authors continue to use diction to further express how Newberry was in dire need of an ambulance or some kind of medical care in order to have a chance to survive. The authors state that the police had gave Newberry CPR and called an ambulance which "never" came. The word never sets a feeling a disappointment in the readers heart because it means hopelessness; "never" meaning that they've waited expecting medical attention within the next few minutes which hadn't appeared. Newberry pleads with the police saying "please" twice within the very short sentences. He continues to say "I can't breath." This makes the reader pity the condition he was in, and invoke anger towards the ambulance for leaving their fellow citizen there to die. In all, this article was informing readers, about the unimaginable nightmare that had occur to this man in Cleveland, Ohio. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/us/cleveland-no-ambulance-trnd/index.html Terrorist attacks in Africa are still and up and running and don't show any signs of slowing down. While these terrorist groups are out and about going out to torment villages and their families, peacemakers are there to try and make their continent a better and safer place to live in. However it's quite ironic that peacemakers were killed in such an aggressive way. The authors of this article utilize diction with negative connotation behind the words as well as their appeal to ethos to express the seriousness of the terrorist attacks still going on in Africa, especially against important leaders. When first coming up this article, the title says it all. One thing that will be sure to catch the readers attentions is the authors' use of the word slain instead of 'killed'. The word slain immediately brings to thought a very violent death, and many readers of this article might think it unjust that people who were only trying to do go had to die in such a terrible way. When reading the article, the authors' immediately make sure to include that this was a "deliberate attack" on UN peacekeepers to make sure the reader grasps the idea that the terrorist groups had planned to kill this leaders, it wasn't a spontaneous action against them at all. This invokes a feel of anger toward the radical groups for killing innocent people who were only trying to bring good to their country. To further express the graveness of this situation authors' use a statement by UN Secretary, General Antonio Guterres stating that its the "worst attack on UN peacekeepers in the organization's recent history". This makes the quote all the more striking because of Guterres close affiliation with this organization. Matthew Rycroft, UN ambassador continues to say this attack was "not just on them as individuals, but on every essence on UN peacekeeping." The authors' had used the voice of an ambassador of this organization to make sure readers knew that it went way past the people who were actually killed, but to everyone behind the peacekeeping as well. http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/africa/africa-un-peacekeepers-killed/index.html The very anticipated movie of the year 'Wonder' is something that has been on everyone's tongue lately. This book describes the life of a fictional character named Auggie with a facial deformity called Treacher Collins Syndrome. This article, however tries to bring to light that Auggie's fictional life is actually a reality for hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. born with a facial deformity. In order to engage the reader and have them connect the book to reality, the author uses an appeal to ethos as well as allusion to further connect Auggie's character other's with facial deformities. One of the main tools utilized in this article to bring out the claim was the author's appeal to ethos. Credibility in her statement had opened the reader's eyes to a world that they had only read about in a book, but haven't gotten the chance to experience. Her credibility through kids around the same age as Auggie provides further insight on the life of a young child with a facial deformity. Shane Vysocky, a 7-year old with Crouzon syndrome, a syndrome affecting the growth of the skull, had started his first day off school. He had brought everything a normal student would bring on their first day off school, except one special thing he had brought was his CT scan of his head. This was so he could inform new kids of his condition that hadn't know him previously. Most first graders haven't ever had CT scan, let alone bring them to school so you could explain to your friends why you have the scan with you. Shane also describes the halo he had to wear around his head during the summer months after a big surgery, and according to him that halo was "screwed to [his] skull. [He] couldn't take it off." The image of such a young child having to go through this really opens that eyes of the reader to a world that they often overlook. Allusion is also another tool that the author implements a little bit to connect real life experiences with kids with facial deformities to Auggie's story. For example, the author of the article uses Auggie's first day of school and compares it to Shane Vysocky's first day. This obviously emphasizes the title of the "Real Life 'Wonder' Families." Another young individual, Emily Merrill has a very rare facial condition called goldenhar syndrome, which is basically the incomplete development of the face. According to the article, just like Auggie she has had to have over 20 surgeries to try and improve her face. This makes something that seems so far-fetched in a fictional book come to life to someone who has had to go through over twenty surgeries in order to improve their quality of life. In the article it states that in the book 'Wonder' Auggie says that Halloween is the best holiday in the world and it's Emily's as well, probably for very similar reasons. Emily says that "I get to go around like every other kid with a mask and nobody thinks I'm weird. Nobody takes a second look." If one reads the book, they would know that Auggie had wore a helmet everywhere he went which was his "mask". In all the author had given these allusions to draw comparisons from Auggie's fictional life to these kids reality. This article is meant to open the eyes of readers and make them understand that this isn't just something that you read in books or watch in movies, this is a very harsh and insecure reality for thousands across the country. This is Shane Vysocky and his 'halo'. He had to wear this for four months after he had a major surgery to rearrange his jaws. He wasn't able to take the device off because it was screwed to his skull. http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/19/health/wonder-movie-real-parents-profile/index.html Hurricane Maria has been over for about a month and people are still strongly feeling the effects. The author of these article uses an appeal to logic as well as imagery to further bring out his statement that Puerto Rico is in dire need of our help. The author appeals to the readers logic throughout the whole entire article. An example of this would be when he had stated that there are "3.4 million people in Puerto Rico and 35% of households don't have access to safe drinking water." This brings into perspective that over one third of homes in Puerto Rico are without a safe source of the basic component of life. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has stepped in and had given 23.6 million liters of water to these people, yet according to the article that is only 9% of what is actually needed for the entire territory. This means that not even one-tenth of the nation is covered with safe water. When the author isn't using very specific statistics to back up his argument, he is using information to illustrate the condition that Puerto Rico is in. The author immediately starts of by saying "...Hurricane Maria toppled the bridge that connected him to civilization and ripped of the roof and walls of his house". He uses the word "ripped" to illustrate the not only destruction that Maria caused, but the way that it had so negatively affected people, especially in more remote areas. The author continues to describe the mountains of the island has mountains covered in "branch-less trees, stuck in the dirt like walking sticks of giants." This creates an image of havoc in the readers mind knowing that the forest has been torn after by something so powerful. The author goes on further to say that "power lines are tangled about like spaghetti dropped in the sky" and "sheet metal from roofs and fencing has been turned in floppy strips of chewing gum." In this image one can just image the difficulty that people are having with living in these conditions. Without their power lines, there is no power which can mean no heat or air conditioner as well as their completely trashed land due to the debris of Hurricane Maria. The author had really made sure that the reader connect the statistics to his descriptions of Puerto Rico at this time to emphasize the amount of help needed in such a county. http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/health/puerto-rico-one-month-without-water/index.html It's four weeks after Hurricane Harvey and people are still dying from the effects of the water the hurricane had caused. This article uses strong denotation and appeal to logic to get across to the reader that the effects of Hurricane Harvey run deeper than you think. A 77-year old women had encounter "flesh-eating bacteria" from the water and had eventually died. The use of the word "flesh-eating" instead of a word such as "harmful" denotes some kind of parasite, making it sound like something that should be feared. This supports the statement made by someone living in a Texas saying that in their community no one had "directly" died from Hurricane Harvey. "Directly" meaning that know what drowned or was abandoned in their house, but their were reports of people who had died shortly after due to Hurricane related causes. In addition to the strong denotation used, the author had made sure to back up her claim using a appeal to logic. In the article there is a video clip inserted that showcases the amount of bacteria in the water in Texas due to Hurricane Harvey. Fecal matter bacteria such as E. Coli were particularly high. Out of there water samples, levels of E. Coli had reached 8,600 CFU when the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) standard was zero. Another indication of bacteria found was coli form. Levels of coli form found in the waters of Hurricane Harvey were up to 57,000 CFU when the EPA standard is below zero. Just the thought of so much harmful bacteria that has been sitting in people's homes and out on the streets can bring fear into any heart that they could easily become very sick due to the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/health/houston-flood-flesh-eating-bacteria/index.html
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