Singapore Strict American Values Summary
Singapore’s Strict Government
America has one of the largest crime rates in the world, there are approximately about 18,000 murders yearly and about 15.6 billion robberies each years. In the story “Time to Assert American Values” by New York Times, Singapore’s founding leader, Lee Kuan Yew, returned to a favorite theme in defending the threatened caning of Michael Fay, an 18 year old American found guilty of vandalism. In the story “Rough Justice” by Alejandro Reyes, The Vandalism Act of 1966 was originally conceived as a legal weapon to combat the spread of mainly political graffiti common during the heady days of Singapore’s struggle for independence for independence. After carefully analyzing the two text, the reader realizes the article that the article “Rough Justice” has the most relevant and sufficient evidence to support it because of the way author Alejandro Reyes is the best article because it gives specific detail about the laws in Singapore and why the trial wasn’t fair to the eighteen-year-old American. …show more content…
A quote from this texted is “There is a clear problem with this argument” (“Time to Assert American Values” 179). This quote shows that the argument about whether the eighteen-year-old American was guilty or not has no real basis. Clearly, in the article “Time to Assert American Values,” Singapore is a very dangerous and corrupt place; a quote that shows “There are millions of acts of brutality that cannot be exposed and combated” (“Time to Assert American Values” page 179 ). The creator of the article was trying to prove to the readers just how dangerous Singapore
America has one of the largest crime rates in the world, there are approximately about 18,000 murders yearly and about 15.6 billion robberies each years. In the story “Time to Assert American Values” by New York Times, Singapore’s founding leader, Lee Kuan Yew, returned to a favorite theme in defending the threatened caning of Michael Fay, an 18 year old American found guilty of vandalism. In the story “Rough Justice” by Alejandro Reyes, The Vandalism Act of 1966 was originally conceived as a legal weapon to combat the spread of mainly political graffiti common during the heady days of Singapore’s struggle for independence for independence. After carefully analyzing the two text, the reader realizes the article that the article “Rough Justice” has the most relevant and sufficient evidence to support it because of the way author Alejandro Reyes is the best article because it gives specific detail about the laws in Singapore and why the trial wasn’t fair to the eighteen-year-old American. …show more content…
A quote from this texted is “There is a clear problem with this argument” (“Time to Assert American Values” 179). This quote shows that the argument about whether the eighteen-year-old American was guilty or not has no real basis. Clearly, in the article “Time to Assert American Values,” Singapore is a very dangerous and corrupt place; a quote that shows “There are millions of acts of brutality that cannot be exposed and combated” (“Time to Assert American Values” page 179 ). The creator of the article was trying to prove to the readers just how dangerous Singapore