Blog Review on Naomi Giancola's Post

I believe that Naomi Giancola’s blog post on banning books is very strong. It has a hook that is although isn’t very engaging to make you want to read it more, but it makes you think deeper about about the topic, her essay also states some interesting points that I hadn’t thought of when I was writing my essay on banning books, also the different sources that she uses is very diverse and don’t all come from one source.

The beginning of Naomi’s essay lacks the thought- provoking details that are needed to engage the reader, like me, to think about the topic. What did interest me about her introduction is how she put the word “terrors” in quotations. I find this interesting because in the first sentence of her essay she is discreetly giving us her own position. Because she put in quotations she’s telling us “I don’t actually believe that they are scary or dangerous, but this is how other people think of it.” And then besides putting it in quotations she’s going to clarify to us why it is such a terror to read these books at a young age.

Naomi and I chose the same opinion on the topic of banning books, and now from reading her essay she has shown other standpoints on why banning books is a bad thing. For example she tells us that people who are reading the books are learning about the problems in our world, and with out the books that are being challenged people will never know about those issues that happen. And this is true because we don’t always read books for the fun of it, we can read different genres of books to gain different intel from that topic. If they are banned then we won’t be able to know about it, and we will be lacking information.

Altogether this is a very well written blog post because personally it made me think deeper about the topic that I wrote about two month ago, and there are different hook techniques that could help me improve the type of hooks that I can potentially write in the introduction of my essay.


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Social Action Critical Analysis

The article “Gay Rights and the Justice Department” by the editorial board of the New York Times wants us to know that the Justice Department wants Gay and Lesbian couples to have the same rights as opposite gender couples. The changes that the Justice Department wants to bring will help the Gay and Lesbian couples. One example is how Attorney Eric Holder Jr. made “a bold effort... to eliminate the distinction between same sex- couples and opposite- sex married couples in the federal justice system.” By breaking the distinction of the the same- sex couples and the opposite- sex couples in the justice system it will give them more rights. Another example is the Justice department is reaching out to other departments  for helping people, like the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and they are telling them to give the same types of privileges to the same- sex couples as the opposite sex couples.

The editorial board of the New York Times told us this information because they want people to know that they are accomplishing and what they are doing is more helpful work than harmful progress in getting the same governmental rights for gay and lesbian couples. One way that they are able to show the reader is they give us a couple of people who raise awareness to colleagues informing them about how same- sex couples should be treated the same way as opposite- sex couples. Another thing that they do is they share people who have an importance and have an impact on other people. One example of this is how one of the coaches at the University of Missouri shared his story of one of his football players was feeling that he can be more open about being gay, according to the article it “would make him the first openly gay player in the National Football League if he was drafted in the spring.” By using these techniques the authors are able to show us that there are changes in the rights that gay and lesbians are getting.   

For those who are lesbian and gay, if they read this article then they will be able to feel some internal security, they will know that there is progress in getting the rights as americans that they deserve. After reading this article some people can gain that there is still a lot of controversy and argument over giving support and governmental help to those who are gay and lesbian, and everyone should help and support those who are and not let them down like so many people are.