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 A)

4-19-22

 Dear President of France,

Recently I have been informed of the horrible situation and disaster that happened in your great country. I am so sorry and feel so bad for the tragedy that occurred at the Notre Dame cathedral. When I heard of this tragedy I felt horrible as a huge historical landmark and a part of history was burning down. The whole world knew about this disaster and in a long 3 minutes, it was all over the news and media. Not only this but fundraisers all over the world helped fix the destruction and all over the place, people felt bad and wanted to help out.  

With the strength of communication and the world, we managed to raise awareness and enough money to fix the cathedral, but in other cases, fires that are even worse and more destructive to earth and not just our history are happening without us even knowing. For Example, the earth's biggest rainforest, The Amazon. This forest produces most of the world's oxygen and has plenty of biodiversity. But when it burns down for 3 weeks nobody seems to care. We need to bring awareness to this situation and we need your help to do it.

Thank You, Ricardo

B) 

The form structure and language for my letter and the newspaper both have things in common as well as differences in them. They both are trying to achieve the same goal which is to raise awareness but they are doing it in different ways. I will be focusing on the form structure and language of the two articles and comparing them.

To Begin with, the structure of the letter that I wrote to the President of France was with bigger, longer and less spaced out larger paragraphs. These can bring out a more serious connotation in them. On the other hand, The news article that was written was more informative and short and straightforward and to the point. The news article was written to provide awareness to the situation and to make everyone aware of something major that we as a society need to help us and our earth.

My letter was also written in the form of a letter, this was written to persuade the president of france to help aid the amazon rainforest and the fires that are raging on over there as well as other major fires that can affect the world. This also is trying to persuade him to provide awareness because that seems to be the main issue about the fires in the rainforest. I did this by writing in a letter and using “we need your help” to show how we need the president to provide and spread awareness around the world. On the other hand, the newspaper article was written to inform the general public about the situation that the world is facing and it is just trying to inform them about it. That's why it is trying to show both sides and mention how long it took for news to spread.

The vocabulary of the letter is written in a more aggressive, persuasive manner, using words like “We Need You” and “Need Awareness”. On the other hand, the newspaper article used words like other peoples accounts and words that inform like the “lungs of the earth” and the numbers of forest fires in the amazon forest