Cohen, Andrew. "Creating Monsters: How Solitary Confinement Hurts the Rest of Us." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 18 Apr. 2014. Web. 18 May 2016.
Andrew Cohen’s article, “Creating Monsters”, reviews a documentary that touches upon the subject of inmate confinement. The author examines the effects of confinement on an inmate such as furthering or even creating mental illnesses, leading to an endless cycle of the destruction of confined inmates. The audience level for the article is high school level. There is a slight bias to this article because there is a hint of film promotion. However, Cohen does question the accuracy of the film. He comments on the lack of different races that could play a role in confinement and the lack of why confinement happens in prisons, such as political and economic …show more content…
Smith educates the audience on the major religion of Mary Shelley’s time period and what that meant for the Frankenstein monster. She addresses that while the monster does read some religious stories, he ultimately learns morality from watching the family in the cottage. This article is a college level text. This source is not biased because the author addresses an opposing side of her argument. She uses in-text citations, but do not include a list of works cited. This source goes more in depth in the religion side of Frankenstein, giving a better perspective of Shelley’s view on the central religion of her contemporary society. From the article, readers can deduce that Shelley is not a religious person. Although this article is well written and seems to be accurate, it may not be reliable because there is no works cited. The article can be used to support that the central religion, Christianity, significantly impacted how people viewed “normality” and because the monster was outside of that term, society viewed him as a monster. The evidence will be placed in the paragraph with
Andrew Cohen’s article, “Creating Monsters”, reviews a documentary that touches upon the subject of inmate confinement. The author examines the effects of confinement on an inmate such as furthering or even creating mental illnesses, leading to an endless cycle of the destruction of confined inmates. The audience level for the article is high school level. There is a slight bias to this article because there is a hint of film promotion. However, Cohen does question the accuracy of the film. He comments on the lack of different races that could play a role in confinement and the lack of why confinement happens in prisons, such as political and economic …show more content…
Smith educates the audience on the major religion of Mary Shelley’s time period and what that meant for the Frankenstein monster. She addresses that while the monster does read some religious stories, he ultimately learns morality from watching the family in the cottage. This article is a college level text. This source is not biased because the author addresses an opposing side of her argument. She uses in-text citations, but do not include a list of works cited. This source goes more in depth in the religion side of Frankenstein, giving a better perspective of Shelley’s view on the central religion of her contemporary society. From the article, readers can deduce that Shelley is not a religious person. Although this article is well written and seems to be accurate, it may not be reliable because there is no works cited. The article can be used to support that the central religion, Christianity, significantly impacted how people viewed “normality” and because the monster was outside of that term, society viewed him as a monster. The evidence will be placed in the paragraph with