Zandrea Sanders

The article explains that in Jacksonville, Florida, two men who loved playing football online were at a tournament for competitive players of the game, Madden. The men were playing for an opportunity of cash being won. The two men died that night from a shooting while 10 were injured from gunshots. The sherif identified the victims who died as Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/us/jacksonville-shooting-victims/index.html

The article was produced on August 27th 2018 in Florida, and it affects the meaning because its something that happened recently and it still is having an impact to this day on people. Something i already knew about the article was the whole idea of mass shootings happening recently, it affects my understanding because its something that i feel we are used to seeing in the news these days. It connects to things in the past because it goes back to even 1989. In Miami, Carl Robert Brown killed eight people with a shotgun at a machine shop. He was reportedly angry about a repair bill from the shop. When he left the scene on a bicycle he was shot by a witness who pursued him. The article was written for maybe other madden players or maybe even other criminals. It definitely has a negative influence on the crowd it reaches. Amanda Watts created the article, and we know she is a senior news editor, her point of view is just from a woman looking in on this situation, probably feeling empathy for the two men and their family. This article was written to let people know what is happening in this world and what's going on, they are trying to convey, that this is something that is really happening to people. This article is important because it opens our eyes, this is relevant to our lives today because its something that is happening consistently.