SWA #10

The three editorials featured in The State newspaper have very similar ideas regarding homelessness in Columbia. However, they also use different ways of getting their point across. For instance in the first Editorial "Columbia Council Should Support Mission, Homeless," the author does not try to make his/her point discrete. The author from the very beginning tells the reader that they believe that the Columbia City Council should not deny the church from having the property rezoned so that homelessness can be handled better. This article is very much tot he point and the author tells the reader what he thinks the city council should do. In the next article 'Columbia Must Care for Homeless as Well as Bantus." the author still portrays what they feel should be the right action taken however, this article puts more of an emotional value on the issue. For instance, the author talks about issues such as alcohol and drug recovery. Also the author complains about how the city says they are going to make changed but these changes haven't happened before so why would they know? This article is more geared towards saying the city council does not carry out the actions they say they will. This article also talks about how old the problem of homelessness is and how it needs to be solved. The final editorial, "One-Stop Proposal for Area's Homeless Looks Promising," takes a more positive position in supporting the mission and discussing the positive effects the proposal will have for the city's homeless. This article was effective because sometimes people would rather read positive editorials rather than a bunch of people complaining. This article is also very informative because gives the specific facts of what the mission is trying to accomplish and what differences could be made because of it. All of these articles are written in order to be effective and get a point across however, different methods were taken. Complaining and dissing the city council could be effective in order to enrage citizens of the city and trike an emotional feeling in them, while being positive may get people to think "hey, that's a good idea." Editorials are just the authors opinion on a subject and different authors use different methods of getting these points across. These three editorials were all based on teh same issue but each author used different tactics.