http://www.youthtoday.org/view_article.cfm?article_id=2873
Wagner, Matt. "Teen Curfew Laws Challenged." youthtoday.org. 30 April 2009. Web. 29 Sept. 2011.
This article was about two cases in New York and Massachusetts that challenged teen curfew laws. Part of the arguments against curfews was unconstitutionality and part of the arguments for curfews was crime reduction. These court cases reached the highest courts possible in each state.
The author's intent was to inform teens (intended audience) of recent news that does concern or could concern them. Youthtoday seems to be a site predominantly for teens and about teens. This article was not written in a personal format at all and not once does it have a personal pronoun. It simply states facts and situations, and lets the readers make their own inferences to everything else. Therefore, there are no fallacies or biases.
This article was quite interesting to read. It was cool to learn about other states' curfew laws. It was also applicable to my own life - I think that Brownsdale's curfew (of 9:30 PM) should be changed. It's ludicrous that the town expects people under 18 to be inside by that time. Midnight would be a much more reasonable curfew. I would even push for having no curfew. They're understandable in bigger cities where there is crime and reason to have curfews in place. But in Brownsdale, nothing ever happens!
I like this topic, but I'm not sure there's too much I could really do with it. Or that anyone could do with it for that matter. But if anyone is intrigued by this topic and would like to attempt something, they very well could.
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