Opinions & Critiques

Social distancing and self-isolation have become the new norm, for now, and the foreseeable future in places all over the world.  Celebrities are spreading awareness on various platforms as for how important it is through this COVID- 19 crisis that we follow the rules of staying inside.   Although, that doesn’t have to mean social isolation. The new way of keeping in touch has escalated on a variety of platforms.  Zoom, House Party, Tik Tok, and Instagram Live are taking social distancing to a new level and trying to find ways to spread the message to young adults.  Celebrities like John Legend, Keith Urban and more are live streaming free concerts from home amid coronavirus. Other celebrities are even posting videos spreading awareness as to why it is important to follow the rules hoping that maybe their young fans will listen to them.  The problem is, many children still have yet to care.  So, my question is, everyone is doing ...

This week's top news stories are mainly centered around politics and coronavirus. Although, one opinion piece that stood out is related to women in the workforce. This is a common topic that has been focused on in many of my classes and I think it's important that people are aware of the issues we face as women. C. Nicole Mason opens the piece with an angle of her personal experience. She starts off speaking about the jobs she has experienced creating a personal story for the audience to have empathy and understanding towards where she is going to take this story. She is clear and by the end of the first paragraph, she states, "which is true for many women in the workforce." This is a decent transition into the nut graph which provides the statistics behind the issue. When reading through opinion pieces, everyone goes about a certain style or format depending on the writer. Mason stood out to me because she hit many aspects of the criteria we have looked at in ...