On Thursday afternoon I received a an impromptu phone call from my mother while getting dinner at the dining hall. She told me to look up the news. When I got back to my dorm room with my roommate, we turned on CNN to a headline of tragedy.
That very afternoon, a shooter took the lives of 13 stationed on Fort Hood, Texas. Since then, the media has been swarming with headline after headline on the circumstances and questions about the shooter who was pushed too far over the edge. Its sadly ironic that a psychiatrist treating soldiers for PTSD was the mentally unstable one. I suppose no one ever thinks about screening the psychiatrist of all people for mental instabilities.
I liked the narrative voice in the opening of the article. I tend to find as a reader of the daily news now, how journalists report these everyday tragedies in a professional, detached tone, appearing unbiased, but also uncaring.
"Major Hasan's behavior in the months and weeks leading up to the shooting bespeaks a troubled man full of contradictions," reads the article. Apparently, the suspect was a troubled individual who attempted to leave the military and was subject to alot of harassment. It doesn't give any license to the man, but it certainly is a psychological telling for motivation in the crime.
Similiarly, sharing the frontpage is an article titled "A Hard Time for Muslims to Serve Their Country." It looks into the complications and hardships Muslim and Arab-American soldiers face when serving in the military. Many feel a contradiction in religious or moral convictions when fighting fellow Muslims. I remember watching an interview of two military men serving at Fort Hood on GMA. One said it was difficult to see their faiths to the god Allah as beneath or second to the military. This both scared and appalled my mother, a former drill sergeant in the Marine Corps.
I think the article sheds a more sympathetic light on the Muslim shooter by association. It still could never justify the shooting, but it allows a different angle into the psychology behind this "gradual build-up" mentioned in the main article.
On the lower portion of the frontpage is a profile article featuring Nelson Mandela and his iconic dream that "retains a vital place in the public consciousness." The smaller, insignificant details paint a portrait of a quiet, aging Mandela though his charisma can still captivate a room. I really enjoyed this profile article.
On page A15, there is an easily-comprehensible breakdown of the support and opposition regarding the Health Care bill.
That very afternoon, a shooter took the lives of 13 stationed on Fort Hood, Texas. Since then, the media has been swarming with headline after headline on the circumstances and questions about the shooter who was pushed too far over the edge. Its sadly ironic that a psychiatrist treating soldiers for PTSD was the mentally unstable one. I suppose no one ever thinks about screening the psychiatrist of all people for mental instabilities.
I liked the narrative voice in the opening of the article. I tend to find as a reader of the daily news now, how journalists report these everyday tragedies in a professional, detached tone, appearing unbiased, but also uncaring.
"Major Hasan's behavior in the months and weeks leading up to the shooting bespeaks a troubled man full of contradictions," reads the article. Apparently, the suspect was a troubled individual who attempted to leave the military and was subject to alot of harassment. It doesn't give any license to the man, but it certainly is a psychological telling for motivation in the crime.
Similiarly, sharing the frontpage is an article titled "A Hard Time for Muslims to Serve Their Country." It looks into the complications and hardships Muslim and Arab-American soldiers face when serving in the military. Many feel a contradiction in religious or moral convictions when fighting fellow Muslims. I remember watching an interview of two military men serving at Fort Hood on GMA. One said it was difficult to see their faiths to the god Allah as beneath or second to the military. This both scared and appalled my mother, a former drill sergeant in the Marine Corps.
I think the article sheds a more sympathetic light on the Muslim shooter by association. It still could never justify the shooting, but it allows a different angle into the psychology behind this "gradual build-up" mentioned in the main article.
On the lower portion of the frontpage is a profile article featuring Nelson Mandela and his iconic dream that "retains a vital place in the public consciousness." The smaller, insignificant details paint a portrait of a quiet, aging Mandela though his charisma can still captivate a room. I really enjoyed this profile article.
On page A15, there is an easily-comprehensible breakdown of the support and opposition regarding the Health Care bill.
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