Here is the link for the article I reviewed: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/01/iraq.main/index.html
This primary goal of this article is to sum up the death tolls that are accruing monthly in Iraq. Specifically, it focuses on the increase in deaths from February to March of 2008. It lists many figures of fatalities and compares them by month, year and civilians versus military. It also includes what is causing the deaths, and what many governments are doing to control the death toll.
This article solely rests on statistics of death in the current Iraq conflict. Since most of the article’s argument is concrete, it relies on facts to support the author’s point of view. Respectfully so, the author brings to light the many deaths that have potentially gone unnoticed. He attempts to overwhelm the reader by showing months where the death toll continues to rise, yet gives hope by comparing it to past trends of decreasing death tolls. Furthermore, the author attributes the overall trend in US deaths since last year to Iraqi security forces becoming stronger, proving that he believes that the efforts put forth by the U.S. have been generally successful. He gives no mention to pulling the U.S. troops out of the war, but instead subtly mentions how situations are improving based on the decreasing death tolls and efforts by Iraqis.
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After reading this i initially felt that the summary was very broad, when i came to the analysis however, that struck me as a very good summary. I guess I should read the article cause I would assume that it is just a basic list of facts. Towards the end of your analysis you begin to stronger analyze the rhetoric of the article, i just wish you would have focused more on a quote or two from the article that summed up the amount of deaths and also the hope the author portrays that the situation in Iraq is improving.
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