Editorial

The author Brent Staples begins his editorial “A Broader Definition of Merit: The Trouble with College Entry Exams” from the New York Times by giving a hypothetical story which introduces the topic of college entry exams. Staple’s purpose for his editorial is to argue his problems with college entry exams which may influence the reader to think a different way. His argument relies on both logic and emotions. Staples’s intended audience is people associated with college which he writes to in a…

aspect of emotion that led to a chaotic human behavior. One of those people that got destroyed by insanity is a man named Carl Solomon. Carl Solomon is a man Ginsburg met in the Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric Institute, from 1949-1950 (Shmoop Editorial Team). Ginsburg explains that the "best minds" are wandering in the streets searching for an "angry fix" (Ginsberg, 1956). An "angry fix" is drugs, and the "best minds" are searching for drugs to help ease their anger and pain to alter their…

For this assignment I decided to look for an editorial cartoon. As I began my intriguing search, I started to realize that there were so many subjects to choose from. With Thanksgiving having been just last week and all of the discussions regarding Black Friday and whether or not Christmas shopping should officially begin on the evening of Thanksgiving or the early morning hours of Friday, I thought it would be appropriate to find an editorial cartoon on this very subject. "Thanksgiving Through…

Julius Caesar, are building an army preparing to either strike or best protect themselves for the better of Rome. Brutus and Cassius prepare for the unknown future looking to change Rome for what they think is the predominant good.(Shmoop Editorial Team)(Shakespeare Julius Caesar IV.ii-iii) Probably the most informal scenes about Brutus and Cassius’ position post-Caesars slaying is Act IV, Scene 2-3. Scene 2 is a short scene that takes place at a camp near Sardis, located in…

Introduction In The New York Times “School Lunch Without Shame,” the Editorial Board indicates that there’s an issue in schools with children being hungry, and humiliated due to the inability for their parents to pay their meal bills. Children are hungry and being shamed due to their families’ low-income status is the issue that we are being faced with in “School Lunch Without Shame” by The New York Time’s Editorial Board. Something had to be done to provide our low-income children with…

Dana Summers is an editorial cartoonist who wrote for the Orlando Sentimental for thirty years before leaving. His main focus for all of his editorial cartoons is politics in America, and problems surrounding said politics. Summers uses multiple different techniques to get the point across to the viewer of his cartoons. Color is one of the biggest, color sets the tone and mood for the entire cartoon whether that may be bright or dark. Another strong technique he uses is the appeal of logos,…

Lowell Cohn is a sports writer for San Francisco Chronicle, who wrote an editorial responding to the letters he received from doctors concerning his stance towards the banning of boxing game. In the editorial titled Boxing, Doctors—Round Two, he argues that the main reason behind AMA’s call to abolish boxing is not medically grounded, but rather a moral issue stating that doctors, “don’t like the idea that two men intentionally try to hurt each other.” (9) Although in the past, the AMA was…

In the online article “OUR OPINION: Gun Owners ' Support Needed to Stop Mass Killings” by The Editorial Board written for CentralMain.com, The Editorial Board states how conservatives are the ones that hold the key in order to make any changes with the gun control laws, they also go on about how Americans should stop throwing the same old arguments at each other and actually do something…

Some may argue that teens are good for business, but they are wrong because teens are responsible for many negative things that harm businesses. To begin with, Businesses should be able to ban teens because they cost them money. In the newspaper editorial it uses the quote “Rather than hang a going out of business sign on their front door, some business owners try to take the bull by their…

to the literary genre known as romance. In romance literary pieces, courtly love and chivalry are two idealized standards of behavior. Loyalty, courage, integrity, purity, and courtesy are all attributes of a knight that displays chivalry (Shmoop Editorial Team). Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and a knight of the Round Table can be seen as an epitome of chivalry. At the beginning of the poem, he is an eager, optimistic, and loyal knight, obeying the “Rules of Courtly Love and Chivalry” as he…