Sunday, July 8, 2012
Blog Post 3
President Lincoln's ending words in the famous Gettysburg Address, "government of the people, by the people, for the people..." has been an example of what our nation's leaders have strived to live by ever since the words were spoken; or has it? Eric Alterman directly confronts this question on how our government is actually run through exaggeration, irony, logic, sarcasm and his overall tone.
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I like this thesis statement because it gives me a very good idea of what the article was about without having read the article.
Objective, straight forward, and too the point. I like it. -Daniel Lane
Drew,
Your thesis is good, about to be very good. Fairly fluid, and I agree with Daniel -- I know exactly what the article's about.
Now for the picky stuff -- "ending" is best used as a verb; consider "concluding".
Try something other than a semi-colon; it technically doesn't work here, and a dash or ellipses would make for a nice effect.
This: " on how our government is actually run" is a bit wordy and awkward. (I suppose it's because "on" doesn't work with "question".) Not a glaring error or anything, though.
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