Differences in Two Essays - Our Blind Spot About Guns and Don't Make English Official:

Comparing Two Essays

For your peer review posts (2 and in separate paragraphs), ask a question regarding your peer's response. Note one element of your peer's response that you may not have noticed in your reading and analysis of the works. -Classmate post 1 How do the two essays differ? The first essay, "Our Blind Spot About Guns," by Nicholas Kristof, is about the regulation against guns to be safer and possibly save thousands of lives in the process. The second essay, "Don't Make English Offical - Ban It Instead," by Dennis Baron, is about his opinion on the law on making English the official language in America. Which one is more effective? Why? In my opinion, I think the first essay, "Our Blind Spot About Guns," by Nicholas Kristof, was more effective than the second essay because it made more sense, and I agree with his perspective. Does the source use evidence? Yes, the first essay uses evidence like using data and other sources that did experiments. Cite an effective passage from your preferred essay and describe why it works? "“We didn’t ban cars, or send black helicopters to confiscate them,” notes Waldman. “We made cars safer: air bags, seatbelts, increasing the drinking age, lowering the speed limit. There are similar technological and behavioral fixes that can ease the toll of gun violence, from expanded background checks to trigger locks to smart guns that recognize a thumbprint, just like my iPhone does.” Some of these should be doable. A Quinnipiac poll this month found 92 percent support for background checks for all gun buyers. These steps won’t eliminate gun deaths any more than seatbelts eliminate auto deaths. But if a combination of measures could reduce the toll by one-third, that would be 10,000 lives saved every year." (para. 15-17) -This passage is effective because it shows some types of solutions to regulate guns to save some lives. -Classmate post 2 How do two essays differ? After reading both essays, I found that they are very different, they have controversial topics. Both essays differ in the content thus, both sources have different ideas, and point of view. Nicholas Kistof implements a idea to reduced the fatality rate of violence by year if guns and their owners were regulated. Dennis Baron, offer a proposal to resolve the language impasse in Congress. Which one is more effective? why? After reading both essays, I think that both are effective because each sources are based on ideas, opinions, testimonies, and analysis. Does the source use evidence? Yes. Both sources has evidence that helps to convince the readers, and also gives support to the claims provided. Cite an effective passage from your preferred essay and describe why it works? In the source of " Our Blind Spot About Guns" Nicholas relates " There are similar technological and behaivoral fixes that can ease the toll of gun violence form expanded background checks to trigger locks to samrt guns that regonize a thumbprint just like my IPhone does". Here Kiristoff explains in great detail the idea of how to facilitate to reduced the violence through advansed technologies, background checks sytem for the use of guns.