Article and questions attached

Article Submission #2
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Answer the Following Items Below Your Response
Identify (5pts)
Author
Date
The author of the document is Amy Harmison.
The article is dated September 19, 2010 by the New York Times.
Analyze (5pts)
What are the main ideas of the source?
What purpose did the author have in mind when creating this source?
What may have motivated the author to create this source? The main idea of the article is a drug to cancer.
The author seems to have been focused on educating people on issues such as diseases by sharing the important information. It is a story of two cousins suffering from a menacing disease.
The author may have been motivated by the story of the patients since science is challenging ethics. Trying a new way to a desperate patient seems unethical. Nevertheless, the author seems to be thinking that since it is the only shot to the patient’s life, it is worth making an effort.
Contextualize (5pts)
Who may have been the intended audience for this source?
What effect did that audience have on shaping this source?
What effect did the author intend to have on that audience? The audience of the source may have been desperate patients and conservationists in the society.
The audience had a great effect on the source by shaping it in the right direction. It is safe to say that much of the information in the source is now widely accepted.
The author intended to encourage the audience and challenge established laws on drugs and patient’s welfare.
In essence, the government and medical departments should invest more in the research.

Evaluate (5pts)
What are the underlying assumptions of the author?
Do you detect any political or ideological bias on the part of the author? What is it?
What is the purpose of the Uniform Crime Report?
The author assumes that no ethical issue will arise from readers regarding the source. The author also assumes that readers will read the material with an open mind to try to understand things in his view.
Yes, I detect some political bias on the part of the author. The political biases come in the author’s challenge to the established norms about drugs and disease treatment.
The Uniform Crime Report is a database headed by the FBI to record all forms of crimes. It is a form of statistical compilations used in conducting valid research and planning.