I Saw It All. Then I saw nothing.

This article written by Daniel Hellinger was a first-hand account of him witnessing the two towers of the World Trade Center collapse. He immediately starts off by giving the dramatic action in chronological order in the first paragraph, "I saw the airliner at the instant it hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. A little later I saw the flames burst out of the south tower when the second airliner hit it. I saw people fall from atop the World Trade Center. I saw the south tower fall down. A little later I saw the north tower fall down. I have, in the past several hours, looked into lower Manhattan, and in each time, where the World Trade Center stood, there is absolutely nothing."
He goes on to say this is something that he is going to wish he had never seen. It will probably haunt him for the rest of his life. He talks about the joy of commuting into New York City every morning, seeing the Statue of Liberty and all the skyscrapers in the beautiful blue sky. Next, he flashes back to earlier that morning when he came to the city 15 minutes earlier to pick up a tuxedo at Brooks Brothers, right across the street from the World Trade Center. He then was walking to a small cofee shop at 8:45 AM as he witnessed the first plane hit the Trade Center.
He vividly describes exactly what he saw that morning. "There was a wide gash across the north trace of the tower, very high up, and gray smoke was billowing out of the gash, and there was a large fire inside the building. The sky was filling up with a massive wall of black smoke and orange flames."
He concludes by saying, "I kept looking up at the sky, above the famous old Woolworth Building where the World Trade Center stood, its two side-by-side towers, so high against the sky. I always saw the same thing, which was nothing."
This was a very emotional, descriptive, and overall well-written article. He uses many of the narrative techniques and even gives us a sense of actually being there at the time by painting such a good picture of this tragedy he witnessed.

Lopez Article

The article I chose by Lopez was "Strangers' Paths Cross: a Boy's Life Hangs in the Balance". The main character is former San Diego fire chief Jeff Bowman. This article uses internal dialogue in first person point-of-view. For example, Danny says "I thought, Oh my God, whats going to happen? Am I going to die? My brain had no idea what was going on but my body said hold on.
There is a form of irony in this article. It is that Danny was supposed to play Patrick Henry in his school play with his big line being "Give me liberty or give me death." The poor boy is fighting to live and will either be free or die.
The author uses narrative to tell this amazing story of how the courageous boy survived. It is mostly third person with some first person internal dialogue by Danny.
Some of the techniques used included:
Character- Danny
Dramatic Action- Danny being hit and dragged by a car
Place- Palisades Circle, LA
When-September 20

Eat this you fat idiot!

I found this article by Morford quite interesting and entertaining. I do not necessarily think he is insulting the reader, rather he is giving his own very strong opinion about the fast-food industry, especially Wendy's new burger the "Baconator". Although, it might be offensive to people who enjoy eating fast-food regularly.
I liked his style of writing because Morford got straight to the point and told the truth(at least in his opinion). He used descriptive, eye-catching words, and I never got bored while reading this article. The thing that turned me off was how he targeted Wendy's and may have insulted people who eat "sickenly brownish-gray, chemicalblasted 1/4 pound beeflike patties, intersliced with two slabs of neon-orange cheeselike substance,slathered with mayonaise, all topped with six strips of bacon."
I think this article would be more suited for people in bigger cities like San-Fransisco and Chicago because of the diverse populaltion of people. Also, I have noticed while visiting large cities that people tend to eat healthier and live healthier lifestyles than in smaller cities so they may be more likely to agree with Morford. With that said, I do not think it would fly too well in midwest cities such as Springfield and smaller surrounding towns.