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United States
Rong Qin
Dr. Julia McCord Chavez
ENG 102
2013/02/03
Essay 1 (Rhetorical Analysis Essay) The article which I want to introduce is “Why I could never hate America”. From my opinion this is a good article. Before I introduce the article I want introduce the author of this article. The author’s name is Mehdi Hasan, who is political editor of the Huffington Post UK and the presenter of Al-Jazeera English’s The Café. He was a senior editor at the New Statesman and a news and current affairs editor at Channel 4 from 2009-12. He is the co-author of Ed: the Milibands and the Making of a Labor Leader. (HASAN, MEHDI, 04 Feb. 2013). The article is wrote about the author who married an American girl so he need go to America frequently. There are a lot of troubles when he gets in America. Although coming to the United States he had a lot of troubles, he still cannot hate the United States. That is because just like he said in the article, he loved one person from the United Stated. This article’s type is personal views.
This is a good article for me. As I am a foreign students from China, I will also face this situation when I finish my holiday with my family in China and get back, the officer will ask me a lot of questions, just like the author said which is very inconvenient. However America is the strongest country in the world, I also could never hate America. For now except the United States has lots of shootings, I feel it is a very good country for people to live, study, and work. Because the environment in the United States is pretty good, we can always see the blue sky and the lots of forest around us; the high tech-knowledge of computer, medical, IT; and there are a lot of opportunities for people to find a good job because there are a lot of International companies in America. And there are the last but not least thing can prove America is a good country that let me could never hate, is that in the United Stated we can get good education, that is the reason



Cited: HASAN, MEHDI. "Why I Could Never Hate America." Why I Could Never Hate America. N.p., 18 Mar. 2012. Web. 04 Feb. 2013. Muller, Gilbert H. "America and the World: How Do Others Perceive Us?" The New World Reader: Thinking and Writing about the Global Community. Fouth ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2014. 66-69. Print.

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