labyrinthine halls, nearly to my editor’s door. I had no way of proving who I was.
This is why my mother made me get an ID by the age of 17, and told me to always keep it. Not only for the racial aspect but so I can identify myself to others and authorities.
n late August, the administration announced a plan to roll back regulations intended to limit methane emissions resulting from oil and gas exploration,
This quote shows how important the ecosystem is to our planet, and if we don't take of our planet, climate change is bound to happen, and cause dramatic changes to the country.
Rifts in the Amery ice shelf in Eastern Antarctica. In September, a section of the shelf broke away, forming a 600-square-mile iceberg.Credit...Richard Coleman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Reminds me of the movie Ice Age and Scrat the squirrel.
sea levels would rise by an estimated 225 feet worldwide
When I think of climate change, I always think about how the sea levels will rise, and its kind of scary for the states in the East, like New York and south of New York would be Florida next.
unusual event that took place after the last ice age
I feel as if a lot of this Climate Change issue is due to scientist seeing unusual events that occur in certain parts of the globe.
The word “upended” does not do justice to the revolution in climate science wrought by the discovery of sudden climate change.
I like how the writer brings up a particular term and what it actually means to this situation.
he government is also putting social workers in doctor’s offices for “social prescribing”
I think this is good because in today's generation with everyone on their phone, and can only communicate virtually. Social workers can also help psychologically with communities.
More than half of American adults are unmarried, and researchers have found that even among those who are married, 30 percent of relationships are severely strained.
Finding a significant other, or opening up and falling in love can be tough for a lot of us.
Social isolation is more lethal than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, or than obesity, according to research published by Julianne Holt-Lunstad of Brigham Young University.
WOW, this is very interesting, and an arguable piece of evidence.
Working-class white women and women of color were excluded from the cult of true womanhood — t
Racism, or could even go back to slavery and how the women of color would be the care giver of the white children.
There’s the Instagram influencer’s vision of the ideal mother with perfectly groomed, smiling children set against a backdrop of high-end appliances
This quote states what is typical shown in today's media.
There is no law that says you have to live in the most expensive ZIP code you can afford.
Deeper meaning behind this.
It is surely true that this imposes enormous stress on the child or young adult in question, and possibly on the whole family.
Agree with this statement.
stress-tested into elite schools and colleges, and pushed to the brink of suicide or breakdown
With lots of money comes with lots of high expectations, that some aren't ready for.
The winners in America’s meritocracy are suffering.
How can this affect other Americans
For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past.
DEEP.
And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews
I've experienced how black churches can talk about the various issues that happen in society, and how the black community is being treated during service.
But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.
Still to this day.
Those stories – of survival, and freedom, and hope – became our story, my story; the blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears;
This is very significant, this quote is just a piece of how black history was shaped.
we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity.
His presidency, being the first black president defined history.
chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together
Wanted the society to unite and solve the issue of racism, however this would be hard to accomplish.
signed but ultimately unfinished.
Very significant quote, makes the audience think.
The administration of justice is cornered because the ultimate executive authority for that government role includes the people whose behavior is suspect,
The tone of the article is nearly turned into something mysterious or suspicious.
The rule is it is both unethical and a crime for a lawyer to participate in altering, destroying or concealing a document, and here the allegation is that the word-for-word transcript was moved from the place where people ordinarily would think to look for it, to a place where it would not likely be found,” said Gillers. “That’s concealing.”
This quote is overall giving me a very bias view about how certain people in the government handles things, and how secretive some information can be.
Barr was named in the complaint that his office was covering up.
This is something that can be very controversial towards Bill Barr's position in the government.
This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president’s main domestic political rivals.
How can this interference impact the U.S. government.
Democrats don’t actually have a choice. They have to impeach, regardless of the politics, regardless of where it leads.
Very arguable statement to end the article.
Democrats should also heed the shift in public sentiment: not as a warning, but as encouragement.
Here we see how the writer turns this paper to inform the democratic audience about what actions they should take.
The idea that Trump thrives in chaos — that controversy is an asset to his presidency — just isn’t true.
You can agree and disagree with this statement based on how you view President Trump, and how he has shaped the government throughout these past four years.
Does Trump, who thrives on attention and chaos, want impeachment?
Makes the article very bias, because this statement can be viewed as opinionated.
but because the politics are too risky.
What do they mean by this. Are his and the government's politics to risky to change or be impeached? Why?
Plato distinguished between opinion or common belief (doxa) and certain knowledge, and that’s still a workable distinction today: unlike “1+1=2” or “there are no square circles,” an opinion has a degree of subjectivity and uncertainty to it.
Strong connection to this quote, because this is the type of material I was once taught in high school.
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to their opinion.’
This quote makes me believe that the writer will view this saying in a more philosophical way.
For example, some liberals in one study initially worried that action on climate change might hurt the poor, while some conservatives were sympathetic to affirmative action. But after discussing the issue with like-minded people for only 15 minutes, liberals became more liberal and conservatives more conservative.
Critical thinking and discussions can bring cause people to have different perspectives and ideas from beforehand.
High school dropouts had the most diverse group of discussion-mates, while college graduates managed to shelter themselves from uncomfortable perspectives.
What can this mean about different audiences and how they view political issues.
The effect of The Daily Me would be to insulate us further in our own hermetically sealed political chambers.
This quote turns the article in viewing the Daily Me more political.
It should be possible both to believe deeply in the rightness of one’s own cause and to hear out the other side. Civility is not a sign of weakness, but of civilization.
I agree with this statement, because this can actually lead to the 'good' more intelligent and less bias standpoint of politics and viewing today's civilization.
intelligent voices who disagree with us — and too often we plug our ears to them.
This leads to ignorant ideas, and stronger disagreements.
People on both sides were eager to get intelligent arguments reinforcing their views
I believe that this one way of explaining how politics are talked about in today's society.
In one America, a mentally unstable president selected partly by Russia lies daily and stirs up bigotry that tears our social fabric.In another America, a can-do president tries to make America great again as lying journalists stir up hatred that tears our social fabric.
This quote is a way for the author to give the reader an eyeopening topic sentence.