Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Question 4:

The difference between Herodotus and Thucydides is that Herodotus writes everything down and didn't make a direct opinion on it. Thucydides on the other hand gather all available evidence on what he thought was true, and he shapes his presentation to emphasize what he thought was true.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/nyregion/antiterrorism-registry-ends-but-its-effects-remain.html?ref=sept112001 This link is more like Thucydides's way of writing because the writer is taking more of a side and standpoint, rather than explaining both sides without an opinion. In this article, the writer is being more opinionated about the Muslim and Arab immigrants coming into the United States, and even though they are the same race as a lot of the terrorist, they are not all terrorists. The writer was taking his stance on his story and he used people that terrorism deportation and other things along those lines as his backup.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/nyregion/conde-nast-publications.html?ref=sept112001
This link is a more Herodotus way of writing because even though there is not a lot of information on this particular link, there is no opinion being spoken here. There is also no writing trying to persuade people to think a certain way about a situation. Herodotus style writing is strictly black and white kind of writing, nothing about how you feel about this and that.

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