I thought that Halle's article describing Mimi Silbert and her business of rehabilitating criminals was very touching. She uses some powerful quotes by some of the ex-convicts and ex-addicts and seeing them recognize the importance of the work that she does. They can see how hard she is working and are actually able to recognize that they are getting an impressive chance to go back to society and actually end up appreciating her and calling her an angel. I think her most impressive quote was the “She’s under 5 feet tall, but just a whirlwind of energy,” Henderson said. “To see her in the meetings with mostly these guys who are big, often over 6 feet tall … she just says ‘jump’ and they say ‘how high?’ ” to emphasize just how much effect she has on these guys and that they seriously respect her for what she does for them. The only thing I did not like about this article is that it did not flow, it was mostly a collection of broken up quotes and even the formatting of the article was incredibly broken up rather than a flowing paragraph after paragraph. Overall, her writing style is very good; easy to read and stylistically appropriate in word choice.
Article can be found here: http://www.midisco.org/hearst_journalism/championship.php?type=Writing&year=2007&id=1&view=3
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