What are the writers’ goals? What kinds of appeals do they make? Explain how (in)effectively they accomplished their goals and support your ideas with examples.
The first article I read about was students that travel abroad to study in Iowa State University. The writer goal was to state the reason of significant increase in enrollment of international students from asia primarily from China. The writer explained that the increase of chinese student is most probably due to the population itself in China. I find it very true because if I were to compare the population of China to any other Asia countries, China would be the one outnumbering everyone as their population is incredibly huge. Although China's education system is phenomenal but with the mass population that they have, competition among the chinese are very high within their country. Thus, a lot of chinese prefer to pursue their studies oversea. Another reason satte by the writer that what affect the increase would be the liniency between both the states and China in allowing more citizens to obtain an oversea visa. I do agree with it because since the year of 2004, both country did came to an agreement about visa issues which they made several changes. Agents for oversea studies to the states in China massively increased like "after rain mushrooms" as they were promoting offers for graduated student in China to further their studies oversea in te states.
The second article I read was about the alcoholic ice-cream. The writer's goal was to state to what extend that consumer would be regarded as consuming alcoholic. Since Golden Wok have been selling their new flavoring ice-cream which is Guiness. Consumers are buzzed witht he situation whether they would be considering going against the law if they consumed the ice-cream with the Guiness flavor as Guiness alcoholic beverages. The writer state that the Alcoholic Beverages Division only regulates alcohol when it's intended as a beverages and this clearly is not since the only small amount of alcoholic are used in those ice-creams therefore it would be considered as a flavoring product instead of beverage or alcoholic products. Emily Barton, secreatary of Alcoholic Bevrages Division reconfirmed that statment aswell. Thus, ice-cream lovers of all ages can enjoy the ice-cream with Guiness flavoring or white russians without the needs to show the ID. I pretty much agreed with it because there's no harm to the consumer as those flavorings are just in small amount which would not let the consumer "drunk". But if a food that allows diners to " get to an intoxication state", then itwould be treated as alcohol. Other than that, I do think that is fine to have foods with Guiness flavor because typically it is what it is, is just a flavor!
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Hi ng! this is wiwi, i read your journal and i found that you have wrote down good comments on the two articles. you point out what the author published in the articles and then you put in your own opinion on them. However, i feel that you need to include as well the criticism on whether is the author effectively achieve his/her goal in writing the articles. You can include the part of the author's sentences to support your criticism which you did on your the second article so that it would be much clearer. Overall good job~!
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