Op-ed

was seen as divisive about gender. Steinem believes that we can “no longer choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees.” I think this is op-ed is interesting considering the role the topic of feminism played in the 2016 Democratic primary. This op-ed describes how Steinem believes feminism should play a role choosing who to vote for. However, in the recent Democratic primary many young women, including those that considered themselves…

The purpose of this essay is to analyze and evaluate the arguments made within the editorial piece entitled “Why Not Regulate Guns as Seriously as Toys?”, in order to establish whether or not the author has successfully engaged in responsible reasoning. Responsible reasoning has the author both arguing his perspective and presenting his supporting evidence in a way that is informative, open to criticism, respectful to the reader and knowledgeable of the context of the issue at hand therefore…

opinion section of the New York Times on May 27th, 2015. Robbins, the author of five New York Times bestseller books, is an investigative journalist who has spent one shadowing nurses in hospitals, in order, research the nursing profession. This is an OP-ED article from the New York Times that gives personal experience, rational reasons, and factual studies to prove that hospitals are neglecting patients and nurses are understaffed. Robbins utilized motivational warrants that references the…

There is this common perception that education is what makes people successful. It is understood by most persons that you go through school, obtain your degrees, then obtain a sophisticated job that you were trained in school for. However, in my point of view education is not necessarily what gets you that job that you obtain. Education is seen as a guide for people to know where to go in life. I feel like coming from two different countries, which have different educational systems gave me two…

In 1996, Sandra Cisneros bought a house in the historic King William neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas. She made improvements to her home and painted it purple to reflect her Tejano heritage. However, her neighbors felt that the purple did not abide by the housing regulations of the neighborhood and petitioned the local commission to force Cisneros to change the color. I believe Sandra Cisneros should/shouldn’t be able to keep her house purple. In her personal essay, Cisneros asserts that her…

of England after the chocolate maker dropped the word “Easter” from its annual Easter egg hunt, but there are those who are baffled at the Church’s reaction because they say Easter is not really a Christian festival but one of pagan origin. In an op-ed published on The Guardian on Apr. 4, Peter Ormerod voiced out his confusion over the negative reactions of the Church of England and even UK Prime Minister Theresa May to Cadbury’s rebranding of its Easter egg hunt. He pointed out that the name of…

Changes is a 1998 rap song, written and preformed by Tupac “2Pac” Shakur with a chorus by Talent, that addresses the issue of inequality. Shakur explains his own struggles through song, living as a young black male in an era of prevalent discrimination. Shakur addresses police conduct against african americans, as well as other hardships in life such as poverty. He recounts his life in a melodic way, while simultaneously educating listeners of worldly problems against the black community. Shakur…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is not the “Christian choice” for Hollywood actress Melissa Joan Hart, who was not planning on voting this year until she found that her views aligned with that of Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. In an interview with The Blaze, Hart said she was discouraged by Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, but she later found hope in Johnson. Now, she has become the Libertarian presidential candidate’s Connecticut state chair and is tasked to…

The Black Of The Bus written by Mary Mebane, was appeared on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Through this article, Mebane uses her earlier bus ride as a personal experience and represents her life living under the segregation laws before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Mary Mebane took the bus to the music lesson on a Saturday and she encountered the situation that the bus driver ordered the black man to get up from the “no-man’s-land” for the white man. The narrator points out that how…

1.Out of the required readings for this class, I really enjoyed the summer reading of Slaughterhouse-Five. Particularly I liked how Kurt Vonnegut wrote each chapter during a different time period because the main character, Billy, was “unstuck in time”. I just overall loved the story line and the satirical message Vonnegut was conveying about war and violence. 2.I believe the best piece of work I did in your class was the Most Influential Person essay on Ashlyn Harris. Out of all of the essays…