Matt

Oluwatobi Busari
Professor Simpson
ENG 101
17 September 2008
The ideal family? Or just another biased side?
Rick Santorum the Idealist of his time and influence, characterizes an angry manwith the bookshelf as his only medium. Despite the fact that the books of today have a limited influence on the society in general as to the airways of the media, he uses this means in voicing histhoughts, and does not restrict his views in order ‘not to hurt’ the next fellow. Obviously, even as deep as they are in to the educational faculty where the correct representation of details is required,museums among others have turned their eyes away from the essence of the pre-historic - in this case- to making money through the attention of this same public that, should they need the bitter pill ofinformation, the sugarcoated version will be the only acceptable option.
The ways he addresses his readers shows he is open about his bias only pulling his opponents alongside, inadvertently, witha glimpse or two about the positive aspects of their ‘impending failure’ as he explains. The ideas he put forward in explaining the success of the ‘traditional marriage’ in his words are sometimesfarfetched, but then depicts his ideas more than merely putting out the obverse, backing them with some reasonable points clearly, mostly.
These families he has done a great job in telling the wholeliterate world about, is, in the real sense of it, normal. The ‘village elders’ though are far spread and very influential, and instead of the ‘judges’ to take the side of the good of the public as Rickwould suppose, they would rather use their influence for their own individual gains.
The ideal Family is made up of the groups of people that strive to make things work. The ideal family is thebuilding block of the society. Reasoning in his direction, one notices the volume and impact Rick has envisaged, of the magnitude of this situation and the deeper anguish lying just a layer beneath...