Question

Award-winning author Sonia Nazario is best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Enrique’s Journey. The book brings to life the very real and dangerous journey of a Honduran boy fleeing his home in hopes of finding his mother in America. In addition to the biography, Nazario has written countless articles informing readers of the dangers children like Enrique face. While the biography and the articles serve the same purpose and present the same ideas, they do so in different ways. You will be comparing and contrasting how Nazario informs her audience through a biography and an editorial. You may access the editorial here and the biography here. Write a comparative essay in which you compare and contrast the way Sonia Nazario presents similar ideas in a biography and an editorial. Support your comparison with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient evidence from both texts. Apply MLA guidelines to properly cite the evidence used in your essay. Be sure your essay uses formal and objective language.

Answer 1

Sonia is a researcher who is developing technology that connects online and offline worlds.

Explanation:

She won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book to explore the impact of new technology on society.

The amount of information in the real world is still growing rapidly.

As a result, our ability to connect and to share is becoming ever-more important.

Sonia has been working on this research for a long time.

She is working on the idea that with technology we can create more information and communication, which can lead to a better life for all.

We have to understand that technology is going to make our lives easier, better, and more fun.

She advocates for a better future.