Thomas Friedman writes an essay called “30 Little Turtles” on outsourcing, and how it makes a safer world for young people. Outsourcing is when a company hires someone from another country. In this case it was young people from India.

The voice of this essay is calm and in a way educating. Friedman starts it off by telling us how he was in an ( Read more... )

In O’Rourke’s essay “I Agree with Me” he talks about politics and the point to arguing. When I first read this I found it a little hard to follow. I don’t particularly like politics or choose to follow them, and seeing this essay has many politic references it made it more difficult to understand.

The tone of the essay seems to be informing, but in ( Read more... )

Yuki’s Tanaka essay on the War and Terror is about the difference between Kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers.  He explains the reasons behind people’s decisions to become a Kamikaze pilot or suicide bomber.

The tone Tanaka uses is calm and in a way informing. Tanaka is informing us on the reasons to becoming a kamikaze pilot or suicide bomber. At ( Read more... )

Isabelle Leymarie discusses the relationship between music and violence. She talks about the effects is has on us and what it can make people do. As well as the negative action it triggers.

The tone in this piece is informing, Leymarie wants people to be aware of what certain genres of music can affect the actions of people. Also to make us really ( Read more... )

While I was reading Taiaiake Alfred’s essay I must say that I found it a little hard to follow. It seemed as though he was giving a history lesson. It is obvious that it’s more intended to higher educational reader.  The way he words things makes it a little difficult to understand. Even though I struggled while reading this it’s clear to see that ( Read more... )

When it comes to homelessness I never really put much thought into it. I know that it’s sad and very unfortunate to have to live on the streets but as harsh as it may seem I kind of ignored it. Lars Eighner gave us a personal insight on a life for a homeless person. His story was very touching and emotion when he goes on to described how he ( Read more... )

    David Suzuki is not some-one that I was familiar with. Maybe I should be? But I really didn’t know much about him and who he was I have heard of him before but that is about it. This piece of writing seemed more difficult for me to quite fully understand as I found it a little hard to follow. He was making references to Josef Mengele, Muller- ( Read more... )

First of all this was a very inspiring piece of writing, I was well aware of what was going on in Africa but had seemed to forget those issues. This was a difficult article to write about since there was so much information to take in. But you learned so much more about Africa.  After reading this, it has opened my eyes to realize so much more ( Read more... )

Within the first couple of sentences of Letter to America you could simply tell that the tone of the story was serious. Right from the start I had an idea of what Margaret was going to address in her letter. From when she said "I'm no longer sure who you are." was clearly about how the US has changed a great deal from a couple of years ago to ( Read more... )