I chose Foreign Policy because it's an issue that irritates me. It upsets me that we send over so many soldiers, money, and resources to other countries when we need to get our own country's priorities straight. There are some serious things wrong with our countries, for example, education, economy, and unemployment. I'm not saying we shouldn't help other countries, we are a superpower in the world and it is somewhat our responsibility to make sure things around the world go smoothly but it is not our responsibility to hold every country's hand when they need help. Some countries need to learn how to govern, protect, and work well on their own without our assistance. America needs to learn how to say no, besides how can we expect to help someone else when we don't have our country together? While researching my topic I came across some very offensive, vulgar, and just plain ignorant articles and blogs regarding foreign policy. That’s what I chose to be the basis of my satire, I wanted to make fun of the ignorant notion that Obama loves foreigners and doesn’t care about America while in reality he loves America and just wants to be a good president and world leader. I geared my satire to the audience of teenagers. I wanted to write something funny so it would keep them interested but also show that such ignorance like that is disgusting and that we try and change the future so stuff like that won’t exist. I think someone who wouldn’t understand my satire is someone who genuinely didn’t know what satire was and believed in all of the things in my article. I chose an article because I thought I could make my point better though that media and like I said it was a satire of the other awful articles/blogs that I read.
I agree! There are a lot of problems in America that need to be addressed that aren't because we spend so much time and money in other countries. Overall great analysis it was very descriptive and right to the point. The only change that I saw was you had an error in the second from last sentence.
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Robby
3/4/2014 01:01:45 pm
your stance on foreign policy is definitely agreeable. The USA has been so occupied in meddling in other countries affairs that we have forgotten about our own! Unless another country is begging us to help intervene, i see no point in us sending troops. Now, sending food is a different topic as they might actually be necessary for third world countries that are still struggling.
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