My Lai pgs 250-260

Some of the barriers that I have found with this reading was the text itself.  While reading I found it difficult to fully understand the context because there were misspellings as well as some fictional statements.  The routine misspellings was a major distraction for me.  Another barrier included the use of using vocab. in different forms than I have usually seen it and words that were outside of my realm of understanding.  It took me several rereads  of paragraphs to be able to get through the reading.  I also feel that as I was reading the article I found myself wondering about the true main point of the article.  I possibly was reading too in depth, but it seemed to me that this article revolves more around the good and evil inside men rather than a cultural identity.  Though the topic is interesting I found it hard to focus on true topic at hand because of the continuous discussion in regards to polls and media comments.  Another barrier that I encountered was a lack of interest.  The first few pages really drew me in and I had genuine interest, but as the reading continued there were points in which it seemed like the author was just trying to add length to the article.

Gaps that I encountered with this article also included the lack of vocab knowledge and an absence of a firm understanding for the time in history.  Words such as culling and jeremiad left me puzzled.  As I did not have a clear understanding for the time period and representatives of the US during this time I was compelled to look up  Henry Kissenger so as to have a better understanding for him.  The article lists him as the national security advisor.  However, when I looked him up my results said that he was the US Secretary of State at the time.  With this discrepancy I found myself second guessing the article.  I originally began reading this with the assumption that I would be able to breeze through it and have a clear idea of what the text was about.  As I began reading the text became much more complex and required many rereads to be able to comprehend the material.