"Dying Ohio Man On Gurney Leads Daughter Down Aisle On Wedding Day" -- Associated Press Article

Dying Ohio man on gurney leads daughter down aisle on wedding day

Published October 13, 2013 / Associated Press

This article was posted by the Associated Press which tells a story about a terminally ill man “escorting” his daughter down the aisle during her wedding by means of a hospital gurney.  The daughter’s ultimate wish was to have her father walk her down the aisle during her wedding…however her father is terminally ill due to Urethral Cancer.  He was, however, able to fulfill his promise to bring her down the aisle with the help of hospital staff bringing him to the ceremony via ambulance.  There were only facts within this article asserting the specifics of what occurred.  The article included Aristotle’s “Pathos” means of persuasion as the story puts the reader in a sympathetic frame of mind and provides an emotional appeal.  The models used included the Inverted Pyramid as it provided the facts (who, what, where, when…) but also was extremely Pathos-Centric, again due to the emotional context.

U.S. Will Ban Some Samsung Products

The article addresses that the U.S. court decided in Apple's favor in terms of "the war" of Smartphone patent infringement, so Samsung cannot import or sell some mobile devices that infringe on Apple Inc. patents in the United States. Several years ago, Apple was claiming that Samsung has infringed on its patent. The ground was that Samsung's mobile devices had quite similar design with Apple's product, especially tablet PCs. The tablet has started a legal war between Apple and Samsung. Samsung also had filed a countercharge against Apple with a claim that Apple product infringed on three Samsung patents regarding 3G technology. Moreover, Samsung did a counterargument against Apple, saying Apple used many of Samsung's ideas in the design. In order to build credibility (ethos), Samsung has said the tablet PC's newer models incorporate features that work around disputed technology, and that those changes have been approved by the International Trade Commission. However, according to U.S. Trade Representative's office (rebuttal), the Samsung devices infringed on portions of two Apple patents on digital mobile devices related to the detection of headphone jacks and the operation of "touchscreen." I think Apple won on the legal battle because they have more grounds that Samsung copied Apple product's design. Samsung has failed on their rebuttal that Apple's claim that Samsung has infringed on its patent in the court.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/10/08/us-ban-on-some-samsung-products-to-go-into-effect/

China gives U.S. lesson in grown-up policy making

The article I read is the most popular news in CNN today – China gives U.S. lesson in grown-up policy making written by Global Public Square staff from CNN. This article is shown is then full-blown classic model.

The claim in this article is American government should learn from Chinese government on making policy decision.

In the introduction part, it describes news bout APEC and then asks while the presidents of China was in last week’s APEC, where President Obama was.  Then the author lists what Obama missed last week. This introduction is impressive. It begins with a fact and a question to make people think the reason and want to learn more.

After the introduction, the author doesn't make the claim immediately. Instead, the author lists what Chinese president and premier did and what achievements they made last week as the first supporting point. And then the article talks about the developments of China during the last several years. For the last supporting point, the author uses a part from news: World wants U.S. soft power. Basically, the last point shows us how China’s leaders learn from the mistakes they made and try to display a soft face to other countries.

In the conclusion, the author makes a contrast between China and the U.S. and raises the claim that American government should stop repeating returning to deadlock and continues to govern from crisis to crisis. I think this is the delayed thesis structure talked about in our textbook and it works very well in this article. Political topics are always controversial and easy to be attacked. So putting the claim at the end of the article makes the claim easy to be accepted after so many facts are showed. 

Link：http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/12/china-gives-u-s-lesson-in-grown-up-policy-making/?hpt=hp_bn2