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My topic is energy drinks and the issue is the risks associated with them. I chose this issue because there are plenty of different viewpoints on the topic of caffeinated beverages. This issue is fitting for this assignment because it is discussed across multiple types of media and each author has his or her own purpose for speaking or writing about the issue. Ranging from doctors’ professional opinions in journals to caffeine-crazy adolescents on Twitter and energy drink advertisers on television to a mother who lost her child to an accidental caffeine overdose: there is a lot to say about energy drinks. The tone of the piece will depend on the author’s expertise and association with energy drinks and his or her opinion on how serious the risks are to them. People who have seen the negative consequences of unlabeled, highly caffeinated drinks will speak about the risks very differently than caffeine dependent people who rely on energy drinks to get them through the day or advertisers...

Charles Seife does an amazing job at getting his point across in The Loneliness of the Interconnected . His purpose in writing this piece is to give readers new and fresh insight. The use of a quotation at the beginning of his writing helps him catch the reader’s attention and give a glimpse of the topic he will address: human interaction. The evidence he provides gives his writing credibility and further supports his purpose to educate/inform about all aspects of information including its impacts on societies interactions and “common” beliefs. Seife explains that even though people feel comfort in numbers there is loneliness because their crowd becomes limited. He encourages others to question their environments by listing numerous times the internet has negatively led to isolation in society. People get caught up in their own information bubble because of how the media markets specifically to every individual. The author highlights the narrowness that media has created and explains...