Quinn Mattison

Ms. Steinmann

Advanced American Literature

13 November 2016

Good Night, Good Luck Current Issues

Writing Construction

1. a) Marriage

b) Government Structure

c) Political Views

d) News

e) Workforce

2. Political Views – In the movie, difference between a people’s political views is

considered a problem faced by our society. When people openly say, or are accused of, being a

communist, their reputation is drastically hurt, even to the point of potentially attempting suicide,

like Don Hollenbeck.

¾. Lewis, Aidan. “The curious survival of the US Communist Party.” BBC News. 1 May

2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26126325. Accessed 13 November 2016.

Analysis

5. Aidan Lewis, The curious survival of the US Communist Party,

“http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26126325, 1 May 2014,” says that the US Communist

Party has faced a tragic decrease in its power to the extent of political negligibility but the

Communist Party has a lot to offer to the American Society. The Communist Party has a lot to
offer because it focuses on an economic basis that supports all citizens and does not open to

classism. This intent is to give everyone the opportunity to financially support themselves and

live without discrimination through the process of equal conditions. The intended audience is for

the American citizens, to give hope to those who are struggling and to offer and economic

alternative to the on in the status quo. One strength is it helps decrease classism but one

weakness it is founds a government based off of a structure corrupted by other countries giving a

message to the American citizens that the US will abide to hostile countries’ expectations.

6. 1. Communism is based off progressive ideals.

2. The collapse of the Soviet Union hurt the US Communist Party.

7. 1. Politics does not well represent its third parties.

2. The US is not anywhere close to having a communism.

3. Communism is based off of its own set of political views.

Annotation of article:

 March 1939, South Carolina made birth control a public health service.

 Within 4 years, South Carolina maternal and infant death rates decreased by 25%.

 Gives women who are not physically able to give birth the option of taking out the risks

from child birth.

 Most religions support birth control, the only major one that does not is Roman Catholic.

 Federal law now allows for birth control to be used in all states.
Sample Annotation:

“Birth Control” LIFE, May 6, 1940 64-68. Accessed March 7, 2013

http://books.google.com/books?id=1I8EAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=

false

This article, published in the May 6, 1940 edition of LIFE magazine outlines the benefits that a

state-regulated birth control system would have in the Carolinas in the 1940s. The writer presents

the facts and statistics contained within the article without bias and makes note of Margaret

Sanger’s victory in the Federal Appeals court case of the Comstock Laws. The author is most

likely writing a current events article, in order to show fellow Americans what the changing

force of reproductive health looks like. The intended audience is local, state, and national

citizens interested or involved in the reproductive health rights of women. This article makes

clear and undeniable connections to the quantifiable differences that Sanger had already made in

the Southern states.