Status Update

So far along in the process of the “Ten Page Paper” I have been able to go to the field site and have an interview and watch the way reporters interact with each other and how they do their work. I have done research but the result tends to be the same information over and over again. It is always about numbers and statistics and how times have changed. Unfortunately I still have to find a claim, because I cannot find anything to exactly argue for or against in regards to my subculture. In peer review, I wish that someone would tell me what my claim should be, but I know that should not be my question. I think my question would be if my ideas and my thoughts are coherent, because that is a problem I really have when it comes to writing and I feel extremely confused about what I am doing.

A House for the Homeless

1. A House for the Homeless is basically arguing that the generalizations made about the homeless cannot be applied to all of them. As the author Ivana Nikolic points out in her story that the term “homeless” can be applied to many people of different races, cultures, backgrounds, with a wide variety of education.
2. I think that the style of argument for the story was classical because in her introduction she opens up by hooking in the audience and she uses ethos as well by discussing her life as a refuge. Then she goes on to state her case and so forth. Also, at the end in her conclusion she appeals to the emotions of the audience.