What Would Be Terrorists By Naomi Shihab Nye

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In “Naomi Shihab Nye’s: Letter to Any Would-Be Terrorists”, I do not think numbered her points was an effective technique. Throughout the first page of the article, Nye describes her life growing up with a Palestinian father, while living in the Mexican-American neighborhood. She talks about the serotypes she grew up with, and how the World-Trade Center bombing increase the serotypes for the Middle East. I do not think numbering her points was effective because she did not emphasize them enough. When Nye began with her points, she simply said “1.” Then, wrote her explanation. This did not catch my attention. I did not realize she was labeling each point until her third point. I think if she would have begun her paragraph with “First,” it would

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