2nd article - Battling the Bullies

Topic
The article focus on the seriousness of bullies issues that happen in Australian schools.

Content
The article covers about the bullying issues which happen in Australian schools. The issue has become more serious with the increase of reported case. The article gives an example of bully case who involves six-year-old school kid who has been bullied in school. The kid’s mother, Ms Watson realized about the changes of her son when he complain about his health. Ms Watson then discovers that her son being bullied in school after she went her son’s school and watch with her own eye where her son being teased, harassed and physically abused. Educational psychologist Dr Darryl Cross said that it is not suitable to settle the bullying issue by gather the bully and the victim. The statistic shows that the bully issue in school is getting shocking with one in six child is bullied every week in Australia. There is another case in Queensland where a teenager stabbed and killed his 17-year-old antagonist. Many of the victims do not declare that they have been bullied even after observing symptoms such as headaches. Dr Ken Rigby, the researcher in University of SA report that the ways of approach bullying depends on ethos and culture.

Source
The article comes from The Advertiser newspaper in education section page 21 written by Simos and Martina date April 8, 2003.

Audience
The article is written especially for the parents. This clear stated in the article few times that parents should aware about the issues. For example parents should first aware about their children as in “…it’s common for parents not to realize their child is being bullied even after observing symptoms…”. They also encouraged by Dr Cross to take action as “He advices parents to ask how a school deals with bullying before enrolling a child.”
This article also written for teachers in Australia. The reason can be traced by how the writer relate the teachers with the issue in which they are not qualified enough to handle the issue as stated “…because teacher in the main haven’t been given the necessary training to handle these case delicate situation,”
The article also intended for the counselor. This refers to their expertise in terms of human behaviour and they know how to approach both bully and the victims.
In addition, the article is written for school administration. The reason is they should aware about the issue so they can take an action to prevent and to settle the issue.

Rhetorical function
The article is designed to educate, inform and persuade the readers about bully issues in school. Child who has been bullied will react differently; hence, will affect his/ her performance in every matter.

Purpose
The article aims to educate the parents (who have child in school) on the seriousness of the bullies’ issue that happen in school. Beside that, it also aims to inform the counselor and the teachers about their roles in settling the bullies’ issue which are also their responsibility. In addition, it also aims to persuade the school administration to do something and create a new policy to handle the issue to create a save environment in school.

Perspective
The stance taken in the text is condemning the bullies issue that happen in school. The writer provides an evidence to support the stance by using the sentence like ‘…the seriousness of bullying, the victimized teenager had kept his pain hidden”. The writer wants to show that the issue only gives a bad effect especially to the victims
In my point of view, the stance taken is suitable because the bullies issue is a serious case which affects the victims in term of their safety and the study. The writer did a rights thing by exposed these issue to the reader so they will realize that it give more harm than good then an appropriate action will be take to handle the bullies issue.
The implication of the bullies issue will help the victims to get a new life without any fear and to study in better condition. Most of the readers do not realize about the issue and later, they will be aware of the condition in school that is a place to gain knowledge for children.

Positioning
The writer described Ms Watson as a responsible and a caring mother to his son. This is proven by the sentence used to show that she willing to investigate what is actually happen to his son in school as “watching her son in the schoolyard, she uncovered the source of his pain”. Beside that, she changed her son to a new school with hope that the incident will not happen again.
The bully’s victim was describe as innocent and weak. This is proven by the situation that the victim was almost being bullied everyday. The writer also states that there are some cases which can cause to murder like “…Queensland teenager who was bullied by another student stabbed and killed his 17-year-old antagonist”.
In the article, teachers were described as not experience in handling the bully case. The writer used Dr Cross statement that “…teachers haven’t been given any necessary training to handle these delicate situations”.
The writer described the counselor as a professional. The writer use word such as ‘professional’ to describe the counselor as the person who can handle the bullies’ issues.
Impact
The effect on readers is likely to be successful especially to educate, inform and persuade the readers about the seriousness of the bullies’ issues. This is due to the evidence provided to support the writer’s opinion such as by using the psychologist’s and researcher’s statement and the example of bullies case that really happen for example Ms Watson’s son who has been bullied in school. This will convince the readers to pay more attention towards their children. The writer also gives an advice for parents and schools on how they could react to faced these issue.

Visual literacy
The visual aspects of the text are significant because it give the readers a view about what are the writer focuses on. Based on the photo in the article, it shows that the bully is going to harm the victims and the reader knows how the bullies’ case happen. Usually, the bullies are stronger and the victims could not do anything except to follows what the bullies want. Besides that, the writer use the bigger font especially for the word ‘bullies’ maybe the writer wants to stress about the bullies who cause fear to victims. The word ‘battle’ might means that the writer wants the reader to fights the bullies.

1st article - Convicted Killer Back At Work

Topic
The article focuses on a convicted killer, nurse who is allowed to continue her job in a hospital

Content
The article covers about an Australian nurse, Deborah Parry who worked in Saudi Arabia. She was convicted of killing her 55 year old colleague, Yvonne Gilford in Dahran Hospital in December 1996. Parry and the other colleague, Lucille McLauchlan, 32 who also convicted in the same case were freed by king Fahd of Saudi Arabia. That is not the finishing of Parry’s case where she has been penalized by Gilford’s brother, Frank about $1.7 million.
The case gave negative perspective to the nursing governing body, the UK Central Council and they hope not to permit Parry from continue her job. On the other hand, the UKCC’s Conduct Committee, Mandy Lavin consider that the case have been settled and any other evidence will not accepted. However, the decision of allowed Parry to remain in the hospital make George Galloway to refer these case to Health Minister, Frank Dobson to ban Parry from working in British Hospital. He added that someone who has been convicted of that crime should not working anywhere in the country.

Source
The article come from The Daily Telegraph newspaper on 22nd September 1998 on page 20, written by Lucie Morris. The article reported was an original event, the murder of an Australian nurse who working in Saudi Arabia.

Audience
The article is intended for people who works in England Hospital. This is to warn them about the reinstatement of Deborah Parry in England Hospital and their hospital would not as secure as before. The article also written for people who often go to England hospital so they will be more careful because crime could happen anywhere including hospital.

Rhetorical function
The article is designed to warn the readers.

Purpose
The purpose of the article is to warn the people who works in England Hospital and people who often go to England hospital about incident occurred involving the convicted killer, a nurse who is allowed to continue her job in a hospital. This is to make them more careful since Parry will come back at the England hospital.

Perspective
The stance taken in the article is condemning the issue of reinstatement of Deborah Parry, the convicted killer who killed her colleague in England Hospital. The writer supports the stance by using George Galloway’s statement, “…someone who has been convicted of an awful murder of her own colleague is a hospital should certainly not be let loose on the hospital wards again…”. The evidence given by the writer strengthen the stance and these will influence the reader support the writer.
In my view, the stance taken is appropriate because someone who has a criminal record should not let to work at the same place. By follow the decision of letting Deborah Parry to continue her job, the UKCC risk the people in England hospital and people who often visits the hospital in danger that the crime will happen again.
The implication of the issue absolutely will realize the people who works in England hospital and people often visits the hospital to be more careful in their work. They maybe will afraid comes to work as Parry still work at the hospital.

Positioning
The article describes Deborah Parry as she is a bad lady. This is indicated by the word use by the writer such as ‘convicted killer’, ‘angle of death killer nurse’ and ‘convicted of an awful murder’. The writer did not use nice word as to gain the reader’s sympathy such as ‘the innocent victim of a terrible injustice’ rather than use harsh word as referred to Parry.
The Director of the UKCC’s Conduct Committee, Mandy Lavin was described as she is disappointed with the decision of reinstatement of Parry. This was proven in her statement “…we’re not going able to get this case to a final hearing…”.
Frank was describes as a foreign person where the writer only give a minor role to him only when penalized Parry, “…waived the death penalty under Saudi law in return for a sum money thought to be about $1.7 million…”. Although it is not a something that can replace his sister, he willing to forgive Parry.

Impact
The effect on readers is likely to be successful especially for gain the reader (the people who work in the English hospital, people who often visit English hospital) support to discriminate Parry when she succeed return in her old job. This was proven when the writer use Ms. Lavin’s statement, “…to see that, angle of death killer nurse returns to warns…”. The way the writer convince the reader is very effective.

Visual literacy
The visual aspect of the article are significant because it influence the perception and stance of the reader. The reader will judge not only by reading the text, but also by the photo. Based on the photo, Parry wears a complete nurse uniform and the symbol created by the uniform, the watch and the pen symbolized Parry is a dedicated nurse and it is hard to believe that she was a murderer. The writer use us bigger font of the headline to stress that the writer’s stance which against Parry. As related to the photo, the headline have different meaning which make the reader think twice whether to believe what they read.