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For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage


How and why is a particular social group represented in a certain way?

The article "For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage" was written for the New York times to depict single motherhood as a negative thing that increases poverty rates and the suffering of emotional and behavior problems in children. Bias by omission and bias through statistics is used throughout to marginalize single moms.  The authors have presented the social group in a bad light to support their own personal conservative ideologies. This is unfair as it is the job of journalists to be as unbiased as possible in order to highlight the other side of the story.



How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?

The article "For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage" is about the negative impacts of single motherhood. The author uses bias in order to mirror his conservative ideologies. This restricts the reader only to the information that is present in the article which allows  for the reader to either agree or disagree with the condemning nature of the authors standpoint on the issue.

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  1. Nicole RaghuNovember 21, 2018 at 10:27 PM

    Good job on providing a general statement and narrowing the focus of each question. However, I think your argument could be concise, in terms of how the answer to each question is developed throughout the particular text.

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  2. Nicole RaghuNovember 21, 2018 at 10:32 PM

    not ur best job shakes-pear

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  3. fRANKNovember 21, 2018 at 10:47 PM

    Overall good concise introduction while providing general statements that explain the focal point of the questions asked. Nevertheless you could have done instead of your broad argument it could be more succinct. :)

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