This thirty second read is about a mother who realizes that her son has memorized the McDonald's script through her consistent coffee runs. She's surprised by how much of an impact it has on children and she's afraid that it makes her family seem lazy. "A mother-of-two said she felt guilty after realising her son had perfected the McDonald's drive-thru patter thanks to her morning coffee runs." Its very simple diction makes it seem like the author shoved this out in five minutes before it was published onto the website. The author also utilizes simple syntax because it's a light-hearted article about a boy that memorized the McDonald's script, "She explained she feared people might think the family eats there 'all the time' but realised the impact the chain has on children." This makes the article easier and quicker to read without too much thought on it. The author's tone in this article is difficult to determine because most of the article is just quotes from the mother. "Nicky, from Cumbernauld, Scotland said her little boy only eats at the fast food chain as a treat, but because she pops by for coffee, he'd picked up the workers' scripts." There's little to no emotion in this article that I could find. The goal was to shed light on how malleable young kids minds can be, if they are exposed to something at a consistent rate they are bound to have it drilled into their head. It's a strong purpose but the entire article is extremely weak, nothing but direct quotes from the mom with one or two sentence explaining the situation and no analysis or anything like that. The author appeals to ethos through the mother's guilt. She feels as though she's done something wrong because her son knows how to say, "Hi! Welcome to McDonald's" at such a young age. The article then randomly transitions to talking about the different types of toys that the boy plays with and has no real conclusion to the whole situation.
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This article is about the impatience that the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition is developing due to the fact that the U.S. Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, has continued to avoid attending a meeting with them in the matter on managing the national monument. The author’s diction is biased and their tone has a hint of an emotional connection to what they're writing about for once. Unlike almost every other article I have read, the author doesn't qualify the argument. They are siding with the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and provides contradicting and racially insensitive statements from Ryan Zinke and his spokesperson. Ryan Zinke himself said that he was “going to ride a horse, like Teddy Roosevelt, and see the land and talk to the Navajo and the nations of tribes,” during one of the conferences. What’s surprising is that he never planned on going to the conferences in the first place, not even informing the people who work for him about it, “An Interior Department spokesperson said she did not know whether Zinke planned to meet with the inter-tribal coalition.” The author only brings up statements like these against the U.S. Interior Department, showing a bias towards the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and how they deserve to have a say in “the 1.3 million acres that are protected with the monument designation contains 100,000 archaeological and cultural sites.” The purpose of this article was to show how racially and culturally insensitive the people who run our country can be and how unfair Native Americans are still being treated to this day.
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