Is it enough?

After reading both "What Happens in Vegas" and "Breaking Clean," I kind of have a different look at them. "What Happens in Vegas" is undoubtedly about fact checking. I had my room-mates read it and they had the expression of "So what?" Why would it matter? Fact checking is something that should be practiced especially if someone is going to post it as an article.

There are some people who take information at face value; they don't really care that the facts are wrong or that the facts have been stretched. In some articles if I were to read it I would not care that some of the small facts have been stretched. If fact unless I am looking and analyzing an article. I would not care. So does fact checking matter; is not having the small facts perfect enough? My answer (while not everyone will agree) is that yes for some articles stretching the small facts is okay but not for most larger fact based articles for like scientific journals and what not.

Going on to "Breaking Clean," I, particularly, enjoyed this piece. Maybe it's because I've hear similar stories from my mother and uncle. I was really shocked when I read this because I didn't think "essay" when I read it. I thought it was just a story and I think that is what made this more enjoyable for me. If I can find more essays like this and try them out myself I think that I would enjoy writing even more without having that dread of the (high school equivalent) essay.