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“Code-Breaker “by Jim Holt, he describes a 28 years old scientist Alsn Tiring, his achievements during his life, and being a homosexual during the early 1900s. Holt’s essay effectively engages readers in a deeper understanding of the effect for gay at that time.

Jim Holt uses very specific and extremely vivid details during the essay. For example, Turing was rather sloppy, and he was known to eat an apple every night before going to bed. On the other hand, he once wrote a letter to a friend men-toning a method of suicide.”(P346) Also, in the last paragraph, it says “its (apple) puts her to sleep until the Prince wakes her up with a kiss”. Jim Holt uses enough details in his essay to create a mental image for the reader.

The “apple” is a great example and symbol in the essay. For example, “he had taken a few bites out of an apple that was, apparently, laced with cyanide”. Jim Holt use vivid description to grab reader’ attention, and from this sentence, we can know the apple is not as simple as food, it is a scheme. He makes this essay become more attractive and interesting.

Jim Holt uses lots of paths in this essay. Turning is a homosexual. “It is natural to view Turing as a gay martyr, hounded to death for his sexuality despite his great service to humanity. But it is also tempting to speculate about whether he really was a suicide.”(P337). Then, the female hormones that were given to him made his chest grow and caused weight gain. After his hormonal treatment was over, he "traveled to Europe for romantic liaisons." (345) Holt shows us the humiliating events Turing had to go through to try to get freedom. Also, Jim Holt creates a meaningful ending at end of the essay. “Was Turing’s death a kind of martyrdom? Was it the perfect suicide- one that deceived the person whose feelings he cared most about, his mother-or, more improbably, the perfect murder?”(P346) Holt uses lot of questions to get reader’s attention and leaves a deep impression on the reader

In summary, Jim Holt gives the reader the chance to enter into the world he was created through vivid description and colorful imagery. He shows us a brave man who stands up by himself and exposes how homosexuality is bullied at that time. Holt’s essay effectively engages readers in a deeper understanding of the effect for gay at that time.

“Women confronting war” Jennifer Turpin talks about the how the women use in the war and how they lose their life, and sexual violence on them during the war. I agree Turpin's essay effectively engages readers in a deeper understanding of the effect of war on women.

Turpin uses lots of loges in her article.In the artice, she was talking about the women who become refugees during the war time. She shows that what kind of life for women during the war and become refugees. For example, “In 1971 Pakistani soldiers raped more than 200,000 Bengali women in the Bangladesh war of independence (Hauchler and Kennedy 1994)” Pathos is also used in her article. She talks about the key point about Prostitution, such as “Two of the young and pretty girl were taken to the front of the boat and raped. Everyone heard everything, all of the screams. That is what I remember, the screams. After a while the screams stopped, the crying stopped and there was silence.”(P326) Women lose their family and children during the war, and they don’t have any income for survive, so they have to prostitution to get survived.

Turpin makes the first introduction to the argument in the first paragraph, “Rather than being separate from women’s lives, war making relies on women’s participation. However, conventional views of the relationship between gender and war suggest that men make war, women make peace.”(P324)The first introduction will allow readers to grasp her idea quickly.

Turpin always put her main argument up-front, such as “war’s impact on women has changed with the development of increasingly efficient war-making technologies that make war and militarism more and more deadly.”(P325)Turpin uses specific words to shows her points and doesn’t waste words giving too much background information.

Tone is also important in “Women confronting war”. For example, “ Because militaries many provide huge infusions of capital into the societies where they establish bases, the local government has an incentive to cooperate with demands for women to have sex with the soldiers, and poor women may have little other choice in order to support themselves and their families.”(P328). This statement can grab reader’s attention and give them a shake. We can firsthand understanding what kind of life for women during the war and satirize the political and social climate of the time.

In summary, Turpin’s article improves the attractiveness of the story and leaves a deep impression on the reader. I agree Turpin's essay effectively engages readers in a deeper understanding of the effect of war on women.

Letter to America”is written by Margaret Atwood ,talks about the conflict between 1940’s unites states and 1950’s Unites states. In this article, there are three important changes in Unites States :lifestyle , culture and religion.
Firstly, Margaret Atwood thinks the lifestyle has been changed. For example . “ They’ll be even crosser when they can’t take a shower because your shortsighted bulldozing of environment protections had dirtied most of the water and dried up the rest .”she wants to show the government what level of living standard are people have . Secondly, she thinks the cultural has been changed. She said United States was a funny place when she was a young girl “she sang and dance to the Andrew sisters. You were a tone of fun”. But now, the Iraq war makes people become nervous , such as “Anyway, when did you get so scared? You didn’t used to be easily frightened.” The culture has been changed and it become more and more dangerous and sanguinary. Thirdly ,she thinks the religion has been changed. For example: “You had a way of thinking that the things of Caesar were the same as the thing of God:that gave you self-confidence.”Money and right become more and more important. It is not the same for “You stood up for freedom , honesty, and justice;you protected the innocent.” Clearly , i think Margaret Atwood’s “ Letter to American”wants United States can know right and money are not most important for the people, the most mportant thing is the good state of mind !