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Essay / C&E - 1401
In the story "A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun", she talks about all the reasons why a woman who lives in the middle of nowhere would want to carry a gun with her for herself. -the defense, and the reasons that led her to carry a gun in public. The author who wrote this story was Linda M. Hasselstrom. Linda M. Hasselstrom was born in 1943 and grew up in rural South Dakota on a cattle ranch with her family. Linda M. Hasselstrom went to the University of Missouri after college, returned and decided to start her own ranch. Now that she's grown, she travels between South Dakota and Cheyenne, Wyoming. The type of expertise that Linda M. Hasselstrom has in carrying a gun for self-defense lies in the situations she has had to go through without a gun, listening to the stories of people who have been attacked while that they were excellent martial artists, and since she lives in the middle of nowhere, even if she were to call for help, the police would take a while to arrive. The intended audience she was writing for was not only girls who live alone, but also anyone who might believe themselves to be too vulnerable and in need of protection. Some of the evidence in the text that supports what she was writing is when she mentions that she lived alone and the story she heard about people being attacked even with knowledge of self defense. The intended purpose of writing this essay was to prove how much safety a gun can provide and the gun controversy over whether people should really carry a gun for safety reasons . Part of the text that was used to support the purpose of the writing was when she mentioned how she had to hire a group of guys who were throwing trash...... middle of paper..... .I would be really stubborn and I think I would be able to wait for the pain to go away and heal while I attend training. I was tribally wrong, as the pain alone continued to progress I was getting weaker and weaker and before I knew it would start to hurt as I causally walked to class. At that point I knew I had to do something or else I wouldn't be able to attend any more races without injuring myself further. When we went to the doctor at first, I was reluctant to wear the leg support because I thought it would make me look weak, but after wearing it several times in training, I was surprised at how much my condition had improved and how no one cared about the strap around my leg. After wearing the corset for a while and resting, I was able to improve a lot in running and later make it to the city championships..