Syracuse has nation’s highest poverty concentrated among blacks, Hispanics

This article speaks about the concentration of poverty in minority neighborhoods. The author Mark Weiner directs this article to people like you and me to inform us on how big of an impact poverty plays in the lives of many minorities. His exigence is stated by “…Syracuse is at the leading edge of a disturbing national trend in which the number of people living in extreme-poverty neighborhoods nearly doubled from 7.2 million in 2000 to 13.8 million in 2013, the highest on record”

The author here uses a lot of statistics to engage the readers into believing what they’re reading by supporting it with numbers. He uses graphs and a map of the US on areas that are most affected with poverty.

Obese kids in Onondaga County: Nearly half of students in some schools too fat

This article talks about a very important public health that many Americans face. In this case, kids in the Onondaga County. The author James T Mulder gives a lot of evidence and statistics of the number of obese kids in this county. He explains his exigence by saying “public health officials say the epidemic puts children at risk of developing diabetes, social and psychological problems, and increases their odds of having heart attacks, strokes and other serious health problems as adults…” His purpose is to bring this issue and make the readers realize that this is something we should all care about.

This author also supports his context with the same kind of evidence that the author from my first article. He uses a lot of graphs and statistics that helps the readers visualize where the problems are occurring. Visual aids are great ways to get readers to engage in the reading and the evidence you are supplying to think about the information in a different way.