Analysis Of The Article 'New Yorker' By Senator John Walsh

In the past, veterans who disclosed suffering from signs of PTSD encountered a great deal of ignorance and bias. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (n.d.), veterans who had the illness were often considered weak, were rejected by comrades, and even faced discharge from military service. In fact, even physicians and mental health specialists often questioned the existence of the disease, which of course led to society’s misconception of PTSD in general. Sadly because of this existing prejudice it appears even today soldiers are still worried to admit having PTSD symptoms, and therefore they do not receive the proper support they need. While individuals are assured that their careers will not be affected, and seeking help is encouraged, most soldiers see it as a failure to admit having a mental health illness (Zoroya, 2013). Educating military personal of this illness, and making sure no blame is put on the veterans who encounter this disease is therefore vital.

Topic: War, change Theme: War changes the soldier's personalities and perceptions. Thesis: O'Brien reveals that no matter what the circumstances were the people who were exposed to the Vietnam War were greatly affected; O'Brien showed this through the changes in Mary Anne Bell.

What did Tim O'Brien gain by serving in Vietnam? What did he lose? Support your opinions with passages from the text.

At one end of the scale, is “the veteran as the superhero,” and at the other is the veteran as a person, “defined by post-traumatic stress, domestic violence, suicide, unemployment and homelessness” (548). Somewhere in the middle is the veteran whose story is not generating paper-selling sensationalism. These veterans are instead neighbors that are quietly living their day-to-day lives and will rarely be singled out. Haynie appeals to the media to exercise statistically balanced and impartial reporting “while shaping the public narrative, which the entire community of veterans will ultimately inherit” (548). In doing so, he believes the media will help to hinder the stigma linking military service, to mental illness, and

The Coddling of the American Mind, basically means cleaning campuses of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause someone discomfort or that may be offensive. Many authors have written about this occurrence with others having to face lawsuits for having not followed the written code in their writings. In Jeannie Suk’s article for the New Yorker, she asks her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law or even mention the word violate because it could make the students become distressed. Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, had a complaint filed against her for writing an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education talking of campus politics of sexual paranoia. The coddling of the American mind has led to the oversensitivity of students who cannot take a non-threatening joke and whose professors have to be careful of the words they use in their lectures.

He often breaks off in his speech and stares in front of him. If he were not here with us he would have shot himself long ago" (268). This goes to show that the impacts of war have the ability to change people and even leave them with what we call today, PTSD or post traumatic stress

My knee jerk reaction to Pat Buchanan’s article was irritation. He seems to cherish an almost imaginary America—since when was this nation united in culture? From its very beginnings, the US has seen thousands of diverse cultures; from just the top of my head there were the Puritans, the Native Americans, the unique slave culture that developed on large plantations, the Italians in big cities, the Japanese on the West Coast, and the culture I’m assuming Buchanan wishes could unite America: the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

The article titled "The man with the snow job" appears in the Opinion Pages, The New York Times. Author, Gail Collins, opens her article with the question: “Who is to blame for this weather?” which hooks readers’ attention and makes them curious about what they are going to read. In her writing, Collins talks about the current snowstorm in the United States and how it is used for everyone’s advantage. She also points out how government officials such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama use the occasion of snowfall for their own purposes. The author borrows images of global warming effects to discuss some controversial problems in the society these days. She applies the following elements to establish the

In this universe, there are many versions of one thing. An outsider looking in at the city of New York may ponder on the lack of manners and inherent coldness a New Yorker may possess. A person that is born there will not linger on such aspects. No individual lives in the same world as another one does. In “Here Is New York,” writer E.B. White defines roughly three New Yorks in which are able to exist simultaneously. His use of the different rhetorical appeals draws an in depth understanding of the coexistence of three worlds that are united by their shared sentiments.

In the column “After the Orlando shooting, pundits on both sides read the same tired lines from their scripts” (2016) Jonah Goldberg, popular columnist writer of the Los Angeles Times, argues that “pundits and politicians returned to dog-eared scripts to repeat lines memorized long ago” instead of facing and resolving the issue upfront. Goldberg illuminates the avoiding issue by juxtaposing political parties’ responses (“act of terror”) to others, by contrasting immediate reactions (“radical Islamic terrorism”), and by comparing their methods to not resolve the uprising problem (“talking around the problem”). Using remarks from familiar political men and women (President Obama, Hillary Clinton), he condescends their remarks in order to confirm that not enough effective effort is being put into action to resolve the conflict; in fact, Jonah Goldberg states that “we instantly race to comfortable excuses” as a means to eschew difficult complications.

PTSD is not taken as seriously as it should be, and this has had detrimental effects on current and veteran soldiers that we do not fully understand.

The Postbellum period in America from 1865 to the 1920s was characterized by a transformation of the American economy and unprecedented growth. Some of the largest companies founded in this time period are still around and thriving today including the Ford Motor Company, J.P. Morgan Chase, and General Electric. In addition to economic growth, there was also rapid urbanization and population growth from 31 million people in 1860 to 91 million in 1910. A shift in the market from agriculture to manufacturing partially propelled this growth. Despite the decrease in agricultural market share, the output increased threefold. By 1910, America increased its share in world manufacturing to 38.8% from 23.3% in 1870. Some economic historians such as Beard and Hacker propose that this growth is due to the Civil War. In general, there were three main spheres of influence spurring economic growth in this time period including technological advances, economic advantages and big business, and institutional changes.

This article is about U.S army veterans suffering from PTSD who remain on death row and face execution due to an illegal crime they committed, that resulted from their disorder. The intended audience and discourse community can include: Veterans who suffer from PTSD, Active duty personnel, Military families, and people who want to lend a helping hand. The audience already knows that veterans can possibly suffer PTSD, after serving in the military and can result in some irrational act of violence. What the audience doesn’t know is how the veterans request for understanding and compassion are too often dismissed and overlooked. The audience wants to know how a veteran’s military experience has affected their commission of a crime, and if the death row is justified. The purpose of this paper is to inform the audience about the problems and affects PTSD can have one person. Also, the author is trying to persuade the reader to assist and understand the situations of those who have returned from war with wounds and physical disabilities. In this article, I can identify the usage of formal language as the passage consists of “serious” texts and

In the article Atonement, author Dexter Filkins tells the story of an incident involving a United States marine, Lu Lobello, and the Fox Company battalion. The Fox Company was a U.S. marine unit deployed in the 2003 Iraq war and Lu Lobello was one of the marines in the unit. Atonement captures the painful reconciliation between the military unit and the Kachadoorian family while at the same time informing the American people of the suffering that occurs beyond the battle field. Dexter Filkins utilizes this piece to emphasize the inadequate treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and to highlight the consequences of the ill-defined rules of engagement and their effects upon veterans return to civilian life.

In the New York Times article “I Owe It All to Community College: Tom Hanks on His Two Years at Chabot College” published January 2015, the author Tom Hanks talks about his experience in Community College. The article being published in the New York Times was directed at an older group of people. Hanks begins the article effectively persuading the reader that Community College changes the lives of the students who attend. Hanks addressed his experience at a two-year junior college in Hayward, California with positive critique. Hanks’ succeeds with his claims of community college being a alternative to students in search of a afforable higher education, through his use of ethos, pathos, and logos.