Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-las-vegas-fire-structures-lost-20130710,0,2924746.story
While reading this article about an enormous wildfire burning in the mountains of Las Vegas, I was glad that the community were helping each other to safely evacuate and take care of this matter. More than thousands of firefighters from several states worked to protect the spread of the fire as well as the properties that are in the area of the fire.
While reading this article about an enormous wildfire burning in the mountains of Las Vegas, I was glad that the community were helping each other to safely evacuate and take care of this matter. More than thousands of firefighters from several states worked to protect the spread of the fire as well as the properties that are in the area of the fire.
What was surprising
to me was that this author did a lots of researches to utilize on this article.
For example, “Cannery Casino Resorts in Las Vegas has offered 40 hotel rooms
for up to 10 days to displaced families… 15% to 10% as it spread to 25,524
acres.” These information are found in the article, and to gather all these
specific information, the author of this article definitely spent the times to
write and research about the massive wildfire burning, happened in Las Vegas.
Also, the
author interviewed firefighter and the Senate to add more detail facts about
the fire. Further, the author is telling the readers about the huge fire
burning across the West and in Alaska. I honestly think that these large
wildfires must be stopped before it gets any worse.
In
conclusion, the author did an outstanding job explaining about the wildfire
that happened in Las Vegas. However, as I read down the article, I started to
wonder if all these information were necessary. I trailed off in the end
because there were too many information that I quite couldn't understand. Therefore,
I realized that the author should have done more better job of explaining about
how the fire started or why are there many large wildfires happening these days.
I agree that the author gave just too much numbers and facts about the incident. He did not really analyze what had happened. It was really interesting to me that many firefighters came from different states. I think it was possible because the location was Las Vegas. Las Vegas is one of the most important city in America. Overall, I think you had analyzed the author and the article quite well.
ReplyDeleteI think that you wrote too much about what the author did and didn't have enough of your own input on what you thought the article was about. You mentioned a lot of flaws in what the author made. I'm a little confused as to why you wrote about the article in the first place. I feel that it is just a little insensitive to be criticizing the author when hundreds of people have lost everything to the wild fire and have to resort to hotel rooms as their home.
ReplyDeleteHi Jason!
ReplyDeleteI like that you immediately started off your analysis with commentary and not a summary.
However, your commentary could be improved if you incorporated the information you found from the article into your analysis. For example when you quoted the article in the second paragraph, you should have offered your own opinion on those statistics.
Your commentary should be on the article itself instead of the author's work. What are your opinions on the event? Do you agree with the author's stance?
Hi Jason. You wrote an important blog and stated some important elements of the article but I feel that you are leaving a lot out. I can't really tell what the signicance of the fire is. Why was it so important. What happened in the fire. You mostly write about the format of the article and how it appeals to you. Add more commentary especially on your quotes so I can know your opinion. All in all good article
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