Analysis Of The Article 'New Yorker' By Senator John Walsh

Readers naturally respond to credible authors when reading articles, autobiographies or novels; it is an channel for audiences to connect to their narrators. When famous actor and director Tom Hanks writes an article for “New York Times”, it will not be disregarded and will grip the attention of readers instantly due to his credibility. By Tom Hanks fame for his award winning movies and roles, his pieces of writings will be publicized and noticed by the public, demonstrating a key concept of ethos; appealing to credibility. Hanks’ article will be listened and analyzed deeply because of his status, especially since he was a student who attended a junior college for his first two years of higher education. Hanks states, “I couldn’t afford tuition for college anyway. I sent my final

In the article Atonement, author Dexter Filkins tells the story of an incident involving a United States marine, Lu Lobello, and the Fox Company battalion. The Fox Company was a U.S. marine unit deployed in the 2003 Iraq war and Lu Lobello was one of the marines in the unit. Atonement captures the painful reconciliation between the military unit and the Kachadoorian family while at the same time informing the American people of the suffering that occurs beyond the battle field. Dexter Filkins utilizes this piece to emphasize the inadequate treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and to highlight the consequences of the ill-defined rules of engagement and their effects upon veterans return to civilian life.

What did Tim O'Brien gain by serving in Vietnam? What did he lose? Support your opinions with passages from the text.

The Coddling of the American Mind, basically means cleaning campuses of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause someone discomfort or that may be offensive. Many authors have written about this occurrence with others having to face lawsuits for having not followed the written code in their writings. In Jeannie Suk’s article for the New Yorker, she asks her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law or even mention the word violate because it could make the students become distressed. Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, had a complaint filed against her for writing an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education talking of campus politics of sexual paranoia. The coddling of the American mind has led to the oversensitivity of students who cannot take a non-threatening joke and whose professors have to be careful of the words they use in their lectures.

PTSD is not taken as seriously as it should be, and this has had detrimental effects on current and veteran soldiers that we do not fully understand.

At one end of the scale, is “the veteran as the superhero,” and at the other is the veteran as a person, “defined by post-traumatic stress, domestic violence, suicide, unemployment and homelessness” (548). Somewhere in the middle is the veteran whose story is not generating paper-selling sensationalism. These veterans are instead neighbors that are quietly living their day-to-day lives and will rarely be singled out. Haynie appeals to the media to exercise statistically balanced and impartial reporting “while shaping the public narrative, which the entire community of veterans will ultimately inherit” (548). In doing so, he believes the media will help to hinder the stigma linking military service, to mental illness, and

In the past, veterans who disclosed suffering from signs of PTSD encountered a great deal of ignorance and bias. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (n.d.), veterans who had the illness were often considered weak, were rejected by comrades, and even faced discharge from military service. In fact, even physicians and mental health specialists often questioned the existence of the disease, which of course led to society’s misconception of PTSD in general. Sadly because of this existing prejudice it appears even today soldiers are still worried to admit having PTSD symptoms, and therefore they do not receive the proper support they need. While individuals are assured that their careers will not be affected, and seeking help is encouraged, most soldiers see it as a failure to admit having a mental health illness (Zoroya, 2013). Educating military personal of this illness, and making sure no blame is put on the veterans who encounter this disease is therefore vital.

He often breaks off in his speech and stares in front of him. If he were not here with us he would have shot himself long ago" (268). This goes to show that the impacts of war have the ability to change people and even leave them with what we call today, PTSD or post traumatic stress

Topic: War, change Theme: War changes the soldier's personalities and perceptions. Thesis: O'Brien reveals that no matter what the circumstances were the people who were exposed to the Vietnam War were greatly affected; O'Brien showed this through the changes in Mary Anne Bell.

This article is about U.S army veterans suffering from PTSD who remain on death row and face execution due to an illegal crime they committed, that resulted from their disorder. The intended audience and discourse community can include: Veterans who suffer from PTSD, Active duty personnel, Military families, and people who want to lend a helping hand. The audience already knows that veterans can possibly suffer PTSD, after serving in the military and can result in some irrational act of violence. What the audience doesn’t know is how the veterans request for understanding and compassion are too often dismissed and overlooked. The audience wants to know how a veteran’s military experience has affected their commission of a crime, and if the death row is justified. The purpose of this paper is to inform the audience about the problems and affects PTSD can have one person. Also, the author is trying to persuade the reader to assist and understand the situations of those who have returned from war with wounds and physical disabilities. In this article, I can identify the usage of formal language as the passage consists of “serious” texts and

1. After reading the New York Times editorial and the National Review article, is one argument stronger than the other?

My knee jerk reaction to Pat Buchanan’s article was irritation. He seems to cherish an almost imaginary America—since when was this nation united in culture? From its very beginnings, the US has seen thousands of diverse cultures; from just the top of my head there were the Puritans, the Native Americans, the unique slave culture that developed on large plantations, the Italians in big cities, the Japanese on the West Coast, and the culture I’m assuming Buchanan wishes could unite America: the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

In the Washington Post, an article, written by Matea Gold, Mark Berman, and Renae Merle, summarizes the rallies conducted in the United States as a result of the new presidency. The article, titled “Not my President”, reflects over the protests in which thousands marched against the victory of Trump in the presidential election. The article describes the damage that was performed by people and contains interviews of anti-Trump protesters. According to the article, car windows were being burned and public property was being damaged. Most interviews recorded that Muslims, illegal immigrants, and U.S citizens feel insecure about their future and feel threatened. While there are countless descriptions and interviews on protesters that are against

In the column “After the Orlando shooting, pundits on both sides read the same tired lines from their scripts” (2016) Jonah Goldberg, popular columnist writer of the Los Angeles Times, argues that “pundits and politicians returned to dog-eared scripts to repeat lines memorized long ago” instead of facing and resolving the issue upfront. Goldberg illuminates the avoiding issue by juxtaposing political parties’ responses (“act of terror”) to others, by contrasting immediate reactions (“radical Islamic terrorism”), and by comparing their methods to not resolve the uprising problem (“talking around the problem”). Using remarks from familiar political men and women (President Obama, Hillary Clinton), he condescends their remarks in order to confirm that not enough effective effort is being put into action to resolve the conflict; in fact, Jonah Goldberg states that “we instantly race to comfortable excuses” as a means to eschew difficult complications.

Furthermore, In Warshow’s review of E.B White and the New Yorker, experience again is at the forefront of his critique, along with a bit of his ever present political views. He makes a very important point at the begging of this review, “The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it.” (warshow 2001, 75) This becomes an interesting argument, even today, as we think about what trends we have seen in popular culture. Do we ever ask ourselves if this is something that has been prescribed to us, instead of by us? Journalism, especially from writers of a certain stature, can often dictate where the culture shifts. If we are able to look at the writing with an objective eye then we are simply learning about another facet of the experience. All to often, though, it is hard for us to be objective. This could be why we, as Americans, have popular culture at all. A journalist tells us what is cool, and we subscribe to that idea as an entire culture. There are always outliers, but when talking about popular culture most Americans are in it for the collective effervesces. I think this point would be highly debated by Warshow. As he says at the end of this review, unable to keep his political feelings at bay, “The purpose of this writing is not to say anything about democracy …but only to arouse certain familiar responses in the liberal middle-class reader.” (warshow 2001,78)