Beginning with the headline "Face-OFF on the Rio Grande", the text is well structured. Here, the author does not only arouse the reader's curiosity but also demonstrates the tension that reigns the city of El Paso and its border. After summarizing the main facts of his story in a subtitle, the author introduces the article with a general statement, drawing the reader's attention on the "dilemma" of inequality, concerning the extreme economic wealth, that differentiates the USA from Mexico. He also leads to the location of his report - the city of El Paso, New Mexico.

Starting off in line 6, he goes over to characterize the Mexicans, that try to cross the board

Taking a closer look at the kind of structure the author employs, it becomes quiet visible, that the paragraphs are being connected through a linear argumentation. Therefore, he uses empiric examples or personal experiences to legitimate his, or other's statements he cited. Through all this example-backup, the story becomes interesting, lively and in effect is more convincing than stating pure facts in disorder. Those references to authorities in form of quotations, the empiric evidence, the examples, the factual background etc. are being employed to illustrate the emotional aspects of these people that try to cross the American boarder illegally in order to find a better life. The tone hereby is quiet personal but also serious. On the one hand it seems very emotional and on the other hand the text is partly factual.

With a hypotactic sentence structure, the story is able to conv

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Approximate Word count = 597
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)