Everyone deals with their own personal problems, whether it is financial issues, family issues, work issues, college issues, etc. Those dilemmas are their first priority to fix because whether it is a bill to pay before a due date, a family member sick, project at work due or a homework assignment deadline, these are all problems that have a date given and the individual knows he/she must figure a way to solve the issue by that date. In the article, “THE REALLY BIG ONE”, Kathryn Schulz, discusses an earthquake that is impending and that will bring extreme devastation to the Pacific Northwest and how nobody is equipped for it. However, no one knows for absolute certain when it will occur. Therefore, people have a lack of concern for the earthquake,
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In the wonderful words of Schulz, “Take your hands and hold them palm downs, middle fingertips touching. … The place where they meet is the Cascadia subduction zone. Now slide your left hand under your right one. That is what the Juan de Fuca is doing: sliding steadily beneath North America (Schulz)”. She understands not all of her readers will understand her article completely until they understand how the earthquake will happen. This hand demonstration is a very clever technique used by Schulz. Once the readers comprehend the way the earthquake will happen, they would want to continue reading and would have a better understanding of her point and realize how accurate she is. This method she used, is effective because she allows the readers to understand this text even if they have no knowledge about …show more content…
Schulz acknowledges, “… we now know that the Pacific Northwest has experienced forty-one subduction-zone earthquakes in the past ten thousand years. If you divide ten thousand by forty-one, you get two hundred and forty-three, which is Cascadia’s recurrence interval…Counting from the earthquake of 1700, we are now three hundred and fifteen years into a two-hundred-and forty –three-year cycle (Schulz)”. Schulz uncovers information on earthquakes in North America and finding this disclosure really helps support her argument of the Cascadia earthquake to come in the near future. According to history, every two-hundred-and forty-three years, North America should have an earthquake from Cascadia, but the last one was over three hundred and fifteen years ago. Meaning, the earthquake is bound to happen at any given moment. Using history to aid her case is influential because she is using legitimate sources to support her claims. Schulz is justifying her argument of the earthquake to come in the near future and nobody is taking any action to prepare for
In the wonderful words of Schulz, “Take your hands and hold them palm downs, middle fingertips touching. … The place where they meet is the Cascadia subduction zone. Now slide your left hand under your right one. That is what the Juan de Fuca is doing: sliding steadily beneath North America (Schulz)”. She understands not all of her readers will understand her article completely until they understand how the earthquake will happen. This hand demonstration is a very clever technique used by Schulz. Once the readers comprehend the way the earthquake will happen, they would want to continue reading and would have a better understanding of her point and realize how accurate she is. This method she used, is effective because she allows the readers to understand this text even if they have no knowledge about …show more content…
Schulz acknowledges, “… we now know that the Pacific Northwest has experienced forty-one subduction-zone earthquakes in the past ten thousand years. If you divide ten thousand by forty-one, you get two hundred and forty-three, which is Cascadia’s recurrence interval…Counting from the earthquake of 1700, we are now three hundred and fifteen years into a two-hundred-and forty –three-year cycle (Schulz)”. Schulz uncovers information on earthquakes in North America and finding this disclosure really helps support her argument of the Cascadia earthquake to come in the near future. According to history, every two-hundred-and forty-three years, North America should have an earthquake from Cascadia, but the last one was over three hundred and fifteen years ago. Meaning, the earthquake is bound to happen at any given moment. Using history to aid her case is influential because she is using legitimate sources to support her claims. Schulz is justifying her argument of the earthquake to come in the near future and nobody is taking any action to prepare for