Homework for Monday Jan 25, 2010. Searching Editorials

When searching for and looking at editorials, I found a wide variation of topics that were being discussed. These topics varied from health care and ratings on Obama’s first year to Wall Street. Also I found a lot of miscellaneous topics that were being discussed from the use of steroids in baseball to movie critics. I did not like reading editorials that talked about Obama, healthcare or Wall Street. I feel all of those issues are based on politics and use a lot of quantitative facts. These topics just bore me to death because when I think about these topics, I feel it is high powered people sitting around arguing about nit picking facts. I find no interest in these editorials, even if the issues can directly affect me now or in the future. The type of articles I would prefer to read would include opinions that relate to war, opinions about sustainability and relief aid to the poor and/or to Haiti. I like these topics because I feel that they are about people doing good in the world for others. I feel these that editorials will talk about the people that are willing to give something of their own to help other strangers around the world live a better life. If I was to respond to one of the topics that I prefer to read about, I would mainly challenge the assumption because the topics about war and Haiti relief do not rely on certain facts or information. Rather, topics such as war or Haiti relief really depend on the whole situation. If I was to respond to a topic which I wouldn’t prefer, I would mainly challenge the evidence due to the fact that politics are covered with facts that could be challenged. The most interesting editorial I found this weekend was an article that was titled” In Ballad, Smoke and Fire”. From looking at the picture, it looked like it would be an article about soldiers and the extraction of soldiers from Middle East and other war zones around the world. But when reading deeper into the article, I found it was really about sustainability. It was about an army base in the Middle East who was burning toxic chemicals and other hazardous materials as a mean of discarding waste. I feel this is my favorite editorial at the moment and I might decide to choose this editorial as my final choice.