For Tuesday, April 23, please read the following article and write a 2 page response (TNR size 12, double spaced, 1 inch margin). Think about the following: What was your reaction to the bombing? What is the argument being made in this article? Do you agree with the argument? Have you ever experienced discrimination similar to what is being discussed in this article?
Don’t worry about making your writing perfect—I want you to focus on your ideas, your arguments, your thoughts, and your opinions. Make sure you print this out before class—I will not accept anything that is printed in class, and anything that I receive after class will receive a late grade.
THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/amy_davidson/search?contributorName=Amy%20DavidsonAMY DAVIDSON
A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment searched in “a startling show of force,” as his fellow-tenants
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/roommate_cops_searched_home_of_saudi_student_injured_by_shrapneldescribed it to the Boston Herald, with a “phalanx” of officers and agents and two K9 units. He was the one whose belongings were carried out in paper bags as his neighbors watched; whose roommate, also a student, was questioned for five hours (“
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/roommate_cops_searched_home_of_saudi_student_injured_by_shrapnelI was scared”) before coming out to say that he didn’t think his friend was someone who’d plant a bomb—that he was a nice guy who liked sports. “Let me go to school, dude,” the roommate said later in the day, covering his face with his hands and almost crying, as a Fox News producer followed him and asked him, again and again, if he was…