SWA #10: pg. 336 #10

The three editorials from "The State" newspaper are entitled "One-Stop Homeless Center on Meeting Agenda Today," "What Did Not Work: Effort to Centralize Homeless Services," "Group Still Seeks Homeless Site." They all empoly a similar rhetorical style because they are all arguging the same general topic, about building homeless shelters and services in new locations. The arguments differ from piece to piece slightly, for example, the first article by John Drake argues that Columbia could potentially have a homeless center that features food, rehab, and shelter by next fall; however, it will be difficult, expensive, and somewhat tough to actually make the plans come to fruition. The second article, by C. Grant Jackson, called for the creation of the "Four Corners of Hope" project on Shop Road, but the project proposal failed, so Jackson discusses why it failed, and how its failure may have at least succeeded in directing the communities attention toward the prominence of the issue of homelessness. Jeff Wilkinson's article is short, and its argument is an overview of the first two editorials. The differences in the three editorials is the general attitude toward whether or not these homeless shelters should be built, how much time, effort, and money should be put towards their creations, and the author's beliefs about whether or not the community agrees or disagrees with the need for a homeless shelter/rehab center.