Consider the following quotation from the postmodern work The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace: “Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious . . . in a word, ridiculous. Right out of Kafka: the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing is the person who is ridiculous. [...] Modern party-dance is an evil thing.” In a similar style, write about something in your life that you find ironic. Follow Wallace’s example by describing the event and then analyzing the ways in which it is ironic

Read the excerpt from "children of the drug wars.” by sending these children away, "you are handing them a death sentence,” says josé arnulfo ochoa ochoa, an expert in honduras with world vision international, a christian humanitarian aid group. this abrogates international conventions we have signed and undermines our credibility as a humane country. it would be a disgrace if this wealthy nation turned its back on the 52,000 children who have arrived since october, many of them legitimate refugees. the underlined words and phrases have strong negative connotations. how do they support the author’s purpose? they draw attention to the opinion that the united states is not doing enough to these children. they show that there is a desperate need for all countries to be willing to refugees. they show that the united states has participated in international conventions on how to handle the refugee crisis. they make it clear that the united states will lose the respect of other nations if it does not these children.