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Personally, I couldn’t really tell if this is an inquiry
essay because of many reasons. For starters, it seems like a lot of personal
anecdotes and stories. Saying this, I enjoyed reading the article because it
was like a fictional story that you would read for a book report in high
school. The beginning of the story provided no facts or quotes from other
articles to back up her assertions up. She says, “We can’t go places because of
gangs…We can’t go to the mall…I just hate it.” This may be true, but there is
no factual evidence that backs up her story. As the story continues however,
she adds quotes from the “New Yorker” to support her thoughts on racism. One of
her sources though, was the black entertainment television channel, which is a
very liberal channel so it is a biased source. The second half of the article
seems much more like an inquiry because it adds conversations and facts from
the other side of the political spectrum. You can tell this when she says, “I
don’t want to sound racist but it is the black kids a lot of the times that
have the attitudes and are always talking back to teachers.” So, in my opinion,
if the article was split into two halves, the first half would be just a
fictional story or personal tale. The second half adds some reputable sources
along with personal anecdotes to provide for a fairly decent inquiry essay.
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