“Time to Assert American Values” and “Rough Justice” are two great texts speaking on the same subject. Michael Fay was an 18-year-old American traveler in Singapore who decided to graffiti in Singapore and got caught. While these two texts are about the same subject, they are both very different. “Rough Justice” by Alejandro Reyes is the better text for this information because it provides mainly empirical evidence while “Time to Assert American Values” from The New York Times gives more logical and anecdotal evidence. In “Time to Assert American Values” the text uses more opinion based evidence. “There is a clear problem with this argument” (“Time to Assert” 179). This is simply stating their opinion on the matter instead of giving any actual evidence on how the statement is wrong. In and informational text there should not be any opinions involved since it is informing people about a subject not your feelings about that subject. “So the argument goes, when americans express outrage over a punishment that causes permanent scarring - in this case - they are committing
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In “Rough Justice” there is no opinion within the text meaning that almost everything being said is a fact, thus making the text more reliable for information. “The statement noted that in the past five years, fourteen young men aged 18 to 21, twelve of whom where singaporean, had been sentenced to caning for vandalism” (“Rough Justice” 181). This quote not only shows the type of facts that is given in the text but also shows how much research is done in order to find a fact like that. “Since 1998, government statistics show there has been a steady decline in the crime rate from 223 per 10,000 residents to 175 per 10,000 last year” (“Rough Justice” 182).If this amount of research is done this means that “Rough Justice” is the more factual, more reliable, more evidence based
In “Rough Justice” there is no opinion within the text meaning that almost everything being said is a fact, thus making the text more reliable for information. “The statement noted that in the past five years, fourteen young men aged 18 to 21, twelve of whom where singaporean, had been sentenced to caning for vandalism” (“Rough Justice” 181). This quote not only shows the type of facts that is given in the text but also shows how much research is done in order to find a fact like that. “Since 1998, government statistics show there has been a steady decline in the crime rate from 223 per 10,000 residents to 175 per 10,000 last year” (“Rough Justice” 182).If this amount of research is done this means that “Rough Justice” is the more factual, more reliable, more evidence based