Show Me the Honey Review

The article "Show Me the Honey" by Taylor Hengen provides clear-cut statements about how there is a growing problem with a phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder, which means there are becoming fewer and fewer bees that are returning to their hives. The author uses the stasis to explain and expand on this problem so that any reader will be informed about what it is, what causes it, whether it's positive or negative, and what the reader cam do to fix it. 

The author does a great job of answering any questions the reader might have about this topic that she is presenting. She explains it so thoroughly that I felt like I was right there with the author fighting for the sake of the bees and their existence by the end of the article. This way of informing while still evoking passion from the reader is very effective.

The author fits this article into the stasis by first telling the facts: the problem is Colony Collapse Disorder and the real problem is that "bees leave their hives and don't come back". Next she goes on to tell the cause which she examines to be "parasites, viruses, mites, chemical exposure, and even radiation from cell phone towers". The author then tells us her opinion on this subject which is that it's a very horrible thing and the furthering of this problem will become an even bigger issue because "billions of annual agricultural industry dollars" are due to the pollination that bees provide. The pesticides cause these bees to become disoriented and then they cannot pollinate and sometimes this is why they do not return to their hives. Lastly the author shows us her policy to fix this problem which includes appeals to Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But she claims that if the reader wants to do their small part to help then they should "plant flowers that attract and sustain local honeybees populations". 

The way in which this author moves from fact to cause to value and then onto policy shows us that she is trying to be very clean and concise in the way she constructs her article so that the audience will feel they are more educated and want to help this cause by the end of the article. I think she does a great job.