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Text A https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/28/migrants-people-refugees-humanity The title of the article includes the personal pronoun ‘we’ to immediately make the article personal to each reader and cause them to question themselves but still not excluding them as ‘we’ implies the writer will be doing the same. The verb ‘deride’ that follows this is equally as powerful as it means to label negatively and implies that this is what the British public have been doing to an entire group of people. This shows that the article means to shed positive light onto refugees and change the usually negative British opinion on them. The tagline then includes the phrase ‘strip them of their humanity’ which is very emotive and mentions the noun ‘humanity’ which conveys that the term ‘migrants’ is dehumanising. The quote that follows this contradicts it by referring to the ‘migrants’ as ‘mothers and fathers’ and is unreferenced, suggesting that what is said is more important than w...

Sorry, but the Left can't browbeat the British people into accepting yet more migrants http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3228537/Sorry-Left-t-browbeat-British-people-accepting-migrants-writes-STEPHEN-GLOVER.html This is a Daily Mail article written by Steven Glover in 2015. It is about the British people's supposed reluctance to accept more migrants into the UK after the emergence of a 'deeply affecting picture' that was said to cause a 'media hysteria' and 'miraculous shift in public opinion'. However, polls have revealed that this is not true with the majority of the British public feeling as if we should not be letting more migrants into our country. The author is clearly opposed to immigration as they feel they would have to be 'browbeat[en]' to accept it and the semantics behind the word 'migrants' hint at more obnoxious, hateful meaning than the word 'refugee' or simply 'person' would. This suggests that th...

'We deride them as 'migrants'. Why not call them people? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/28/migrants-people-refugees-humanity This is a guardian article written by David Marsh in 2015. It is about the cruel treatment of refugees by the British people and how 'what passes for a national conversation' has led to the word 'migrant' being seen as toxic and taboo. The grammatical features of the article include a series of rhetorical questions (e.g. 'Why not call them people?' or What do the following people have in common?') and these are used to make people question their own views and actions and think more carefully about the ones in the article. The accusation 'those who seek to strip refugees of their humanity' is also very emotive and creates sympathy for those affected and hate for those who have caused it. The main discourse of the article includes an intended left wing audience and a left wing writer (politics...

Article 1 - Vanity Fair Article - The Bling Ring https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/03/billionaire-girls-201003 This is an article written by Nancy Jo Sales and published on February 3 2010. It is about an infamous gang of teenagers who gained media attention when they began to crave fame and material items and therefore took to robbing Hollywood houses at night. They did this by looking up celebrities' addresses and waiting until said celebrity went out to a famous party or to shoot a film. They would then circle the house and search for unlocked doors and windows or a key hidden under the mat to enter with and take expensive items. It was never enough for it to be noticeable but they took to bragging about it at parties and this was linked to two celebrities who had seen the masked teenagers on CCTV. The robbing went on for ten months and the long list of victims included Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Lindsay Lohan. I am interested in this article ...

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