This article discusses the recent tragedy involving two members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. The journalist, Jen Floyd Engel, opens the article using logos in which she describes when and where the car accident occurred. She then uses pathos and explains how police found the scene: with Josh Brent trying to save his friend Jerry Brown. She explains, however, that Brent failed and his friend died. Engel then transitions into other decisions that people should make instead of drinking and driving--to call a cab or a friend to drive them home so that accidents like this could be avoided. The journalist includes statistics from MADD about how many people are killed by drunk drivers every year. Engel explains that these statistics should be "sobering" --literally--but unfortunately they are not. She then references other tragedies involving football players: another Cowboys player, Goodrich, who struck three people when driving drunk and ended up in jail, and the recent tragedy caused by Jovan Belcher, a Kansas City Chiefs player. Belcher shot his girlfriend and then committed suicide. Engel says that this incident was a choice and states also that the tragedy caused by Brent's decision to drive when drunk was also a choice, not an accident as the public continues to say. Engel then puts her own opinions into the article where she states that people need to start taking responsibility for their actions and make wise choices that will not result in such "accidents." Through these statements, she conveys that something needs to be done about all of the tragedies that result from such bad decisions as drunk driving.
link to article: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/dallas-cowboys-josh-brent-intoxication-manslaughter-charge-jerry-brown-biggest-tragedy-it-was-preventable-120812
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