Fareed Zakaria's Article Analysis

On January 23rd, 2012, Newsweek writer Andrew Sullivan wrote an article covering presidential candidate Barack Obama. The front cover displayed a serious and wise looking Obama, with the

In conclusion, America is losing superpower stature related to greed and over-consumption, bad politics and the need to remain in wars without ends. Americans need to unite as a political force and stop bickering like children between party lines. Instead of saying “no” to everything from the opposing party, be more constructive to find solutions. That shows strength instead of the weakness portrayed by arguing. American’s need to become a more industrial nation as we once were and stop sending the production to other countries to save on the bottom line. Also, a stop to borrowing for mere consumption needs to end. The borrowing should be put to advancing the country

(Marcus, Paragraph 12) She tells that he did not have words to describe Obama’s statement and choices; therefore, he could not give an honest opinion on any of the fiscal matters. (Marcus, Paragraph 13) This gives a great example to the main point of the article. Where is Obama in today’s issues. What is he doing to help our nation? He fails to do as he said he would while he was running. Marcus does an outstanding job in writing this by explaining her position in the matter and giving her honest opinion. Although she could have used many more examples she did well with the work she had. She was very convincing with her argument and did well presenting her outlook on Obama. Marcus left it open for the reader to form their own judgement of Obama’s

take on our countries foreign policy and by the end of the article questions whether or not our

The article written

First of all, I was very intrigued and genuinely interested by what Nicholas Kristof was writing about. I think he really cares about what he writes about and wants other to know, as all of the columns were all very informative. When I picked the columns, I looked for articles that were from the past few years and had a interesting story. It wasn’t necessary random but it was varied enough that it was easy to tell that most of Nicholas Kristof’s articles are enlightening. Each had a purpose to inform others about a social injustice or flaw that needs to be corrected. From animal cruelty to motherhood mortality, the articles shed light on topics that most other news outlets do not usually touch on. I can also tell that he is committed to each article and is interested in traveling, in many instances for his articles. In just the articles I read, he traveled to Houston, Texas, Buchanan, Liberia and Kathmandu, Nepal to get interviews and shadow professionals to make his articles have credibility and gives a real life spin to them.

The first article I have decided to analyze is, “Obama Secures Iran Nuclear Deal with Barbara Mikulski Vote,” written by Ted Barrett, Jeremy Diamond, Elise Labott and Laura Koran. The article over views the nuclear deal with Iran

Nicholas Kristof has been a journalist for the New York Times for over 15 years. Kristof was educated at Harvard and Oxford University, and knows several languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic. His articles focus on human rights, women’s rights, health, and global affairs. Through his writing, Kristof has won two Pulitzer Prizes, the Anne Frank Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and several other humanitarian awards. In addition to writing with the New York Times, he was the first blogger with the New York Times and has written several books alongside his wife. Some of their books include A Path Appears and Half the Sky. His writing has helped influenced and educated many.

It is finally over. The semester has come to a close. Another chapter in life has ended and now it is time to say goodbye to my beloved columnists David Brooks and Max Boot. Or is it? For me, it is not goodbye, but rather, I will look forward to working with you in the future. After spending long nights snuggled up with these both of these gentleman’s’ articles, I really feel as if I know them and I do not wish to say goodbye anytime soon. Realistically speaking, no matter how much I want to, there is no way I will be able to read all of their books and read every column they produce every week because I am barely getting my few precious hours of sleep now. I do look forward to reading more of their work, though, even if I might not do it as frequently now. I have always loved knowing what is going on in the world, and I trust these guys to give me both the straight facts and their views on it.

Geoffrey Zakarian is another amazing chef that inspires me not just on the food network. Geoffrey inspires me to continue my success as a chef, and that there is always something new that even an experienced chef like himself can learn and teach others at the same time. His experience showed me that you can be one of the greatest chefs in the world with patience, because it took him like most chefs a while to get where he is today and he’s extremely good at what he does because of this. And with wisdom comes great wisdom to pass down to others.

“America was conducting business as usual, but others were joining the game.” (Zakaria, 221). All this time we thought we were on top, we were actually slowly becoming less and less of leader and more a bystander as the rest of the world is slowly rising around us. Zakaria shows in that quote that as America has been continuing business like always, and because of this we have failed to realize our standing with the world around us. In the book The Post-American World, Zakaria shows us the challenges that America faces today. I believe the United States is most affected by our ignorance, competition, and worldly participation.

This article reaches out to an older crowd of adults or even some teens in their later years. This article being compared to my other

However I think that the journal article of Tan, could do better in terms of breaking down each of the information of the topic into subheadings.

The Next Decade, a novel by George Friedman, talks about the predictions of countries in the upcoming decade and how the United States should react to the various challenges. The novel’s first major claim is that the United States is actually an empire, similar to how Rome and Great Brian were. However, unlike the previous empires, the United States refuses to acknowledge its status as an empire. “What makes the United States an empire is the number of countries it affects, the intensity of the impact, and the number of people in those countries affected.” The implication of this quote is that the US has gotten to be so large, if the US decided to draw out of global affairs, the impact would be detrimental. Instead of escaping its duty to the world, Friedman claims that the United States must acknowledge its status as an empire and function as such in order to maneuver the next decade. This claim is a wise claim made by Friedman, but it his only claim of worth in the novel. In The Next Decade, Friedman fails to make his thesis credible because he doesn’t his sources, provide logical arguments on his predications of the future, or examine alternative possibilities.

In the book The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria, he spoke of the three economical shifts in the world throughout history. Each one of these shifts has changed the world drastically, with political, culture, and of course, economical differences in every country in the world. What Zakaria had brought to my attention very early in the book was that we are currently living through the third economical shift right now. To be honest, I had never really thought about where the world was heading, and if I hadn’t read this book, I would’ve thought that the United States would remain the main superpower in the world and the rest of the world would sort of stay at their current status. Poor countries would remain poor, and every developed country