How has the text borrowed from other texts, and with what effects?
This opinion column come from the Ringer and it is about the best performing NFL player on the worst football team. The column extracts a variety of different statistics in order to make an argument for each NFL player being the best performer on his football team. Furthermore the personal statements used about the performance of the player shows the personal biased the author but it is eliminated by the statistics given because statistics aren't biased.
How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
This editorial, comes from fox news and it is about migrants trying to pass the border to go to California from Mexico illegally. This story portrays the migrants as animals trying to find salvation and President Trump stated that the Border Patrol would not going to put up with this kind of behavior. Furthermore US authorities would arrest anyone who would pass illegally the border. This portrays the Mexican immigrants who are trying to find a new home, full of opportunities as enemies of the state and a threat to Americans. This is happening because the President is trying to enforce the rule that if anyone tries to pass the border illegally they would be imprisoned if caught in order to not make this phenomenon a norm
Wednesday 21 November 2018
New York TImes Article towards birth outside marriage
1: How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?
The article "For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage" is about births outside marriage being the normal. This text can be read and interpreted differently by people. The conservatives are all about tradition and they are less adaptable to change, which means the prefer to marry before having children whereas liberals are more open to change and throughout the decades the are the ones shifting and going away from tradition in order to achieve their own happiness. Furthermore liberals reading this can be empowered and encouraged as well as feel empathetic towards "Amber Strader" because of having to grow a child alone and not willing to marry but conservatives might be appalled, because of the break in tradition
2: Which social groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within the text?
Within the text, the author excluded minorities with the use of bias through selection and omission. For example the boyfriend of Amber was portrayed as a part-time house painter who was reluctant to wed, which immediately paints a bad image for guys in relationships in general. Another instance where social groups are marginalized is where the author through the use of bias through statistics states that blacks have more kids outside marriage in comparison with latinos and whites.
The article "For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage" is about births outside marriage being the normal. This text can be read and interpreted differently by people. The conservatives are all about tradition and they are less adaptable to change, which means the prefer to marry before having children whereas liberals are more open to change and throughout the decades the are the ones shifting and going away from tradition in order to achieve their own happiness. Furthermore liberals reading this can be empowered and encouraged as well as feel empathetic towards "Amber Strader" because of having to grow a child alone and not willing to marry but conservatives might be appalled, because of the break in tradition
2: Which social groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within the text?
Within the text, the author excluded minorities with the use of bias through selection and omission. For example the boyfriend of Amber was portrayed as a part-time house painter who was reluctant to wed, which immediately paints a bad image for guys in relationships in general. Another instance where social groups are marginalized is where the author through the use of bias through statistics states that blacks have more kids outside marriage in comparison with latinos and whites.
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