Thirteen American Arguements
The Thirteen American Arguments
4th period – Bookmeyer
Kelsey Larsen
August 29th, 2013
The Thirteen American Arguments is a book designed to explain and explore the idea of argument all throughout the world. How the government is ran, and how every past argument this country has had has been a similar one to the one presented beforehand. This process is a never ending argument and debate. The freedom of debate keeps us inspired and free; that this shows strength and not weakness. Not only has the 13 arguments been crafted into something different every generation, they have been shaping this country into the country it is meant to be. The author of this book is Howard Fineman, one of the most trusted political journalists that discusses the American debate of the 13 arguments. One question Howard proposes to the reader would be, who is a person? Still till this day, us Americans are still trying to determine the answer to that. Every generation is evolving into something greater than it was before. According to the Declaration of Independence, it believes that a person is ‘everyone’, but that it took some time to figure this all out through many Civil Right Acts and other movements. The purpose for Howard to write this story was to ‘cut through’ the chaos during each day. The themes within this book go along with the everyday debates; whether through the various types of newspaper arguments such as the Daily Kos of even the Drudge Report. The position that Howard is trying to portray to his audience is that as a journalist, he is displaying the inside scoop of the behind the scenes government. Informing all the people that debate and argument is actually okay. If no one was able to debate or argue, then the world would be boring. It keeps the people on their toes and interested with what is about to be said next. From earlier, debating gives freedom of speech for all, and will continue to give freedom of speech for the years to come. With this, I agree
4th period – Bookmeyer
Kelsey Larsen
August 29th, 2013
The Thirteen American Arguments is a book designed to explain and explore the idea of argument all throughout the world. How the government is ran, and how every past argument this country has had has been a similar one to the one presented beforehand. This process is a never ending argument and debate. The freedom of debate keeps us inspired and free; that this shows strength and not weakness. Not only has the 13 arguments been crafted into something different every generation, they have been shaping this country into the country it is meant to be. The author of this book is Howard Fineman, one of the most trusted political journalists that discusses the American debate of the 13 arguments. One question Howard proposes to the reader would be, who is a person? Still till this day, us Americans are still trying to determine the answer to that. Every generation is evolving into something greater than it was before. According to the Declaration of Independence, it believes that a person is ‘everyone’, but that it took some time to figure this all out through many Civil Right Acts and other movements. The purpose for Howard to write this story was to ‘cut through’ the chaos during each day. The themes within this book go along with the everyday debates; whether through the various types of newspaper arguments such as the Daily Kos of even the Drudge Report. The position that Howard is trying to portray to his audience is that as a journalist, he is displaying the inside scoop of the behind the scenes government. Informing all the people that debate and argument is actually okay. If no one was able to debate or argue, then the world would be boring. It keeps the people on their toes and interested with what is about to be said next. From earlier, debating gives freedom of speech for all, and will continue to give freedom of speech for the years to come. With this, I agree