“Time to Assert American Values” and “Rough Justice” is a full on debate about caning of the perpetrator Michael Fay. “Rough Justice” by Alejandro Reyes mainly speaks about caning being a proper punishment and not the worse a punishment can be in Singapore. After carefully analyzing the two texts, the reader realizes that the article “Time to Assert American Values” has the most relevant and sufficient evidence to support it because of the way the article from “The New York Times” provides mostly opinions and factual evidence. “Time to Assert American Values” is working on defending the sentence of caning towards Michael Fay, an American boy charged for vandalism. The article talks about the punishment being an act of torture and leaving behind …show more content…
Through this they come to the fact of cruel punishment and torture for a crime is unconstitutional. They show it by stating, “At times like this, Americans need to remember that this country was also founded by dissidents- by people who were misfits in their own society because they believed, among other things, that it was wrong to punish pilferage with hanging or crimes of any sort with torture” (“Time to Assert” 179). Portraying back then even others than just Americans found the act of cruel punishment wrong. Also adding on to the fact Michael Fay is a American boy the should’ve allowed the president since the was in a different country. Prime example the Ball brother LiAngelo Ball, getting arrested in china, the president was the one to bail him out of his crime because he was in a different country. This all goes back to the one individual being more important than the