Nye and Devor

 A). Nye directed his argument to potential people who are considering on following through with a terrorist attack. She stresses the alternative routes people should be taking to solve their issues. She is targeting all people to try and make a change. She speaks to her relatives, friends, neighbors of all races or ethnicities. She believes that killing endless people does not solve any of their own issues and will not ever lead to peace. People should be learning from their mistakes and remembering the fact that we are all humans and we can make changes.
B). There is definitely a point to writing this piece. Although terrorism will not immediately stop because of this persuasive essay, if one muslim is effected the slightest bit by it, it is a chain effect. This essay may contribute to second guess their actions or even think into what they are doing and ask why. Also, it is a very important concept that not all muslims are terrorists. They are portrayed over social media with a negative connotation. The idea that she really wanted to get across was that there are alternative routes besides terrorism and you can change this.

A). "Children start to understand themselves as individuals separate from others during the years that they first acquire gender identities and gender roles"(Devor 65).
B). Devor states that gender roles are enforced at such an early time in your life that it is hard to ever think otherwise. The gender role of being a male or female is taught at birth and it is the natural way of going about things. You adapt and fill the stereotypical actions of that role. If anyone steers away from their given role in society, it is portrayed as unnatural and not the norm. You are looked at differently and known for this action within society.
C). I find that Devor's opinion on this topic is convincing and I agree with it. Gender roles are enforced at such a young age before a child can realize that you do not need to abide by them all. It is a difficult process to go from one gender to the next and that cannot be chosen at an early age, but you have to accept how you are at birth. It is convincing because he stresses the idea that yes you cannot just choose to be male and female immediately at birth, but you can choose the behavior that fills that gender. Whatever this may be, approval from parents goes the longest way. For example, I have a gay best friend. He always was ashamed of this growing up and never expressed himself to the public and more importantly to his family. He did not know how they would react and if they would accept this. At birth he did not know better and his desires and wants were not clear until he grew up. I felt very strongly that he should be able to behave in a certain manner even though he is a male. He then expressed his feelings and choices to his parents and they were nothing but accepting. He was not even asking to change to female or change his entire appearance. He was stating that his behaviors differ from the typical male in society and there is nothing he can do to change that.