unit 8

This topic is about ‘Drugs and Guns’ written by Peter Hawthorne in Time magazine on 10 December 2001. The South Africa’s President, Thabo Mbeki was in dilemma to choose whether weapon or drugs to AIDS suffers. At the end, Mbeki has chosen weapon than the drugs. This is because the country has politic problems. For him, the weapons are most important to make sure the country is safety. The Mbeki government spends $6 billion to buy the weapon. It seems that the president think more toward the politic rather than their people who suffer AIDS especially pregnant women and children. Even though, NGO offered to freely provide antiretroviral drugs to suffers, but Mbeki government never took the offer. Overall of the story, the action of the president is positive to ensure the country is safe, but it had given more negative effect toward the people on that country.

For me, this article is hard to understand because there are many high lexis words in the article and I never know about the words. Due to this, I have taken a lot of time to understand the article and it also force me to read more than one time to get the main point in the article. If I can suggest to the writer, I want him to write the article in different way. As an example arrange the paragraph properly because in this article seems no paragraph at all. A paragraph was arranged nearly to each other. It makes me confuse about the paragraph and also bored.