Wednesday, January 14, 2015

     It was really interesting to read some opinion editorials which really help you to see people's powerful way to persuade.  They include a lot of passion, honesty, and straightforward approaches to get their point across.  The first article in which I read was about the dress code of BYU.  Even though that was to be the topic of the article it really covered more of the overall obedience of BYU students.  The writer stated her experience but seemed to avoid the true issue she claimed was at stake.  She didn't do an amazing job to keep us focused on the dress code, but in the end we did learn that, due to our religious obligation, we should honor the rules.  The second article was of kissing on campus.  I didn't like this article very much as the writer states from the beginning that she is not a good source or credible writer for this subject.  She is probably very young in dating experience and does not seem like the person who is fond of relationships period.  She seems to have a very bad thought process of dating.  She did include some great points of which we need to be more aware of what we are doing around who, but in her tone we find her a little patronizing.  The last article was the best.  It is of wrestlers that, due to weight loss in competition, have died "crawling to the scale."  It was a very dramatic article which definitely picked at your feelings.  In the end you can see that a lot of the stories he tells us might be a little exaggerated.  Especially seeing that this article was written in the 1990s it is safe to assume that wrestling rules of college have been improved.  However, through the gripping word choice, and relevance to people in my life I found it to persuade me to dislike the sport and what it does.  Well done!

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