Acid in the face

It was learned this week that Bethany Storro from Vancouver, Washington was not a victim of a random street crime where not a gun or knife was used, but a cup of acid that was thrown in her face as the weapon. When I first heard this awful story of her attack my thought was "there are some crazy people out here in the world!". Police in Vancouver announced that Bethany Storro was not only the victim but the assailant as well. My thought however has not changed upon learning of this not so earth shaking event "there are some crazy people out here in the world". Over the past twenty or so years the news have been filled of stories of people that claim to be the victim of the crime when it is themselves who has done the crime, don't get me wrong at least she did not kill anyone (Susan Smith who killed her two children and the infamous Charles Stuart who in 1989 in Boston, Mass shot and killed his pregnant wife) but in all cases the "so called" victim blames a black person for the crime. I have two major issues here if your going to do something so dumb do it to yourself and do not hurt anyone just because life is hard or whatever the situation is, please seek help and secondly blaming anyone for that is horrible black,white, or green. Ms.Storro could have ruined someone's life behind her inability to cope with whatever. Leaning from past events as the ones named really shows that unfortunately people just do not seem to understand the actions of one's deeds. I hope that Ms. Storro can after (law enforcement gets down with her) seek the professional that she so desperately needs, and I personally feels she needs is just self love. That is something that if she had she would never willingly disfigure her own face with acid! I'm not so outraged about her using a black person as the scapegoat. Again, stories such as this have been happening for over twenty years. I'm just happy when the truth comes out and some innocent person can say "I told you so". I must commend  the Vancouver police who took her lies with a grain of salt and did not go into "panic mode" to find anyone that would for the crime. Maybe we all should wait to hear the full story of a crime before a rush to say "how awful". There are more deserving topics that do deserve are attention that are happening and that we really should say "how awful" God forbid. We are all guilty of hearing these news stories and feeling rage, fear, and concern. The only thing that does make it just a bit more livable is that there is no "boogie man" just bad people that at times breaks out of the darkness just to be the person in the mirror. Maybe that acid in the face just revealed what her heart is like? I must say that when I read on the internet that she committed the very crime she blamed on someone else all I could say was "acid in the face there are some crazy people out here in the world"! I just wonder when the next story of a mystery crime happens, I pray it does not.

I leaned about Ethos,Pathos, and Logos

I never thought that ancient Romans could be so insightful. Using ethics, emotion, and logic to convey a point was something that I never valued in writing. I guess I felt like "what I have to say is important, and I do not care how the reader takes it". I have been wrong for years in hindsight. It was very important to "strike a nerve" with the reader of your material to ensure that the very point you are making is understood in no uncertain terms. 

English 111

I think I got this right!