Words Matter: Week 2

"An Ex-Cop's Remorse"
The New Yorker
October 24, 2016


      "Its main roads are flanked by malnourished trees and low-rise buildings with faded awnings—storefront churches, transmission-repair shops, dollar stores. The year that Forcelli began working there, the precinct was the city’s most dangerous, with more murders than anywhere else in the five boroughs. Almost every day, officers were confronted with knifings, shootings, disembowelments, and “dump jobs”—bodies that showed up in parks or rivers."


      The description really sets the scene, and along with the facts, it lets you know that this isn't the best place to be. Description lets the author control the readers mind, making them see what the author wants them to see. It allows the author to create a mood within their piece that is always in the back of the readers mind and it makes them feel immersed in the story.

Words Matter: Week 1

"Donald Trump's dark warning that dead will rise to rig the election"
The Guardian
October 18, 2016


"On Monday Trump described the press at the Wisconsin rally as “the enemies back there” and repeatedly accused the media of “poisoning the minds of voters … the media is an extension of the Clinton campaign”.

As the crowd chanted “CNN sucks,” Trump answered: “They really do.”

This is just one of the many things Trump has said that is creating a divided America. He is isolating himself from everyone, by attacking them in every way possible. This is a man who could be President of the United States, and he is going out and saying that the media is "the enemy." Instead of focusing on real problems, he spends most of his time, making negative comments, attacking and worrying about people who are just doing their job. That is not the way the POTUS should act, ever.