Columnist: Gail Collins

Language is a beautiful thing as it expresses every emotion, every feeling, and every beautiful image that exists. Words hurt, words bring smiles, words bring realizations, words make a huge difference in the world and once they’re out there, they’re out there and cannot be taken back. It’s not like something you can erase or rewind; therefore it’s important to be very careful about how words are phrased, said, and interpreted because people respond in all kinds of ways.

Gail Collins, a New York Times columnist, is an extraordinary author with a very fresh point of view on contemporary issues. Her general focus is primarily focused around politics as we are getting closer and closer to this year’s presidential election. This columnist doesn’t beat around the bush but delivers true and genuine facts to her audience by implementing things like rhetorical questions, metaphors, and witty humor almost all throughout her columns. By implementing these stylistic devices, the columns are easy to comprehend, informative, and fun to read and therefore the columns deliver the audience fresh facts that can give them a good laugh along with important and current information.

“The 20th Republican debate!” (“Four Dudes and a Table”). Now doesn’t that make you want to jump up and down in excitement? In truth, teenagers could care less as the concept of politics is an incredibly boring topic to touch upon however, when humor comes into play, it’s perceived entirely different and suddenly appears interesting. A paragraph is opened up with a witty and sarcastic rhetorical fragment like that and automatically gets the attention of republicans all over the country as some may be excited for the debate while others may be just the opposite and read on for the purpose of putting their own curiosity to sleep. “Still, welcome back, Ron Paul! Good luck with that recount of the Maine caucus vote!” (“Four Dudes and a Table”). To gain a better perspective of who is a better candidate the...