4. Hungary's Roma: How to get out of a vicious circle

An article about the violence and the murders in the Hungarian Roma communities, lack of education was the issue that started it all. Many other neighboring countries like Slovakia and Czech republic are in fear of surprising attacks. Neo-Nazi groups have been formed by local thugs and moneylenders. They have targeted uneducated people, living on the edge of the villages, to hand out money with high interests and loans that can never be payed. The author states that these problems happen because of the "unemployment and the poor health of the country." When a family is in debt, the instant reaction is to get their kids married at a young age, so that somehow they would make money to pay the debts for the family. This leads to marriage at a young age and less time to be educated. These communities are constantly being discriminated, hated, and left without any protection from the law.


The author was not as direct as he should have been. He starts the article with a story of  a father and a son getting shot by a mob, but he ends the article by pointing out that education is essential to a good life, which the people in Hungarian Roma communities  don't have at the moment. I was confused to read this conclusion, when I read it for the first time, because it was irrelevant to what was discussed in the paragraphs that came before. However, in my second reading, I saw that the author relates the poor villagers, who are unaware of the things that an educated person would be of, to the issue of education for all. The author talks about the importance of education as that it helps people live in the society with better knowledge and provides a way to prevent one from being neglected and deceived. This article has an emphatic approach in that the author persuades the reader to see the global issue that this has come to be. He uses causal analysis in this article and discuss minor effects to reveal the big picture. Overall, this article was persuasive in a different approach.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/us/to-save-water-parched-southwest-cities-ask-homeowners-to-lose-their-lawns.html?hp&_r=0&gwh=75BA5575F5FC74FE40A3088731E47D8D