Blog Prompt #7

I decided to do my rhetorical analysis paper on "Should English be the Law." I chose this one really because i found this interesting and feel that this has been a rather hot topic for quite awhile now. I feel that the author's purpose is to show the audience the argument and attempts to actually make English the only language allowed in the US, but was eventually accepted and understood not to be the problem American unity. The author's attitude was serious and informative about his topic. He provided examples and multiple dates and scenarios. I discovered that the author had used politics as his main evidence to defend his argument. For example, the second paragraph states that last year on August first a majority of Congress voted English the official language of the US. He also states that Bill Clinton had signed an English Only bill but says was a mistake. George W. Bush had also said he would oppose the bill in the state of Texas. At this point it begins to show how America is beginning to understand that having different languages is not a bad thing or threatens the unity of America.