Joseph Wangombe
English 102
3/8/2011
Troublemakers.
Frame.
The frame of the essay is the time period that pit bulls attack’s a young kid which is in February and the time that the Ontario legislature banned the ownership of pit bulls. The writer goes to give different generalizations that occurred in different times, however all the other examples revolve around this issue.
The main idea in this essay is Generalization of issues that is common among people without looking at the real facts.
5 issues
In July of last year, following the transit bombing in London, the New York City police Department announced that it would send officers into the subways to conduct random searches of passengers’ bags. On the face of it, doing random searches in the hunt for terrorists- as opposed to being guided by generalizations.
One of the puzzling things about New York City is that, after the enormous and well publicized reductions in crime in the mid-nineteen-nineties, the crime rate has continued to fall. In the past two years, for instance murder in New York has declined by almost ten per cent, rape by twelve percent and burglary by more than eighteen per cent. Just in the last year, auto theft went down 11.8 percent.
As a columnist in New York wrote at the time, “Not just ‘most’ but nearly every Jihadi who attack a western European or American target is a young Arab or Pakistani man. In other words, you can predict with a fair degree of certainity what an Al Qaeda terrorist looks like. Just as we have always known what Mafiosi look like- even as we understand that that only an infinitesimal fraction of Italian- American are members of the mob.”
Why, for instance, is it a useful rule of thumb that Kenyans are good distance runners? It’s not just that it’s statistically supportable today. It’s that it has been true for almost half a century, and that in Kenya the tradition of distance running is sufficiently rooted that something cataclysmic would have to happen to dislodge it.
“I’ve seen virtually every breed involved in fatalities, including Pomeranians and everything else, except a beagle or a basset hound,” Randal lockwood, a senior vice-president of the A.S.P.C.A and one of the country’s leading dog bite experts, told me. “And there’s always one or two deaths attributable to malamutes or huskies, although you never hear people clamoring for a ban on those breeds.
