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Emma Gonzalez And Famous Speeches: A Comparison Of Two Articles By Bloomberg

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People say it is not the guns; it is the people-, tremendously true, but guns do actually play a factor, they are the tool people use in the mass shootings, the United States has the highest gun owner rate and the highest mass shooting rate; the article written by Emma Gonzalez, “Famous Speeches: “We Call BS,” Emma Gonzalez Speech To Gun Activists”, and another article written by Bloomberg, “Issue Overload: Guns in America”. These two articles differentiate in multiple contrasting ways but are also similar in many different ways, the way the articles perspectives are written and the goals of the articles. The article by Emma Gonzalez and the passage written by Bloomberg compare to each other in numerous ways. The two articles similarities …show more content…

The passage written by Emma Gonzalez is told in a first-person perspective, which show how she wants to get the point across, what she wrote was also a speech to try to make a difference in the world that she lives in and the world that her friends and family lives as well; the article by Bloomberg is told in a third-person perspective, but not like a story form more to show the effects and statistics of gun laws compared to other countries. In the article by Emma Gonzalez, under the heading “"Time For Victims To Be The Change That We Need To See"”, paragraphs one - two, talks about, how gun laws have changed in the past two-hundred years from which the 2nd amendment was written, in Florida how one does not have to have a permit to buy a gun and one can buy as many as they want in one time period. There for, this shows how she is being straight forward getting to the point of how gun laws desperately need to change; how the laws are too loose for today's society, with the semi-automatic guns. In the article which Bloomberg written, under the heading “The Situation”, paragraph three, states, “The U.S. has a higher per-person rate of murders committed with firearms than any other rich nation.”. As a result, this shows the author is comparing gun laws laws and the ability to own gun and carry them in the U.S. with other “rich nations” around the world. Overall, these two articles are diverse in a deeper way than one could think; henceforth, these two passages compare and contrast in many

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