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https://docs.google.com/a/japioneers.org/document/d/1jL67hzOixNLA3zbp1yxQ_bsTCkGjYOWThz7PCREPAP8/edit?usp=sharing

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He provides different theories on to why crime dropped and from different perspectives.

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The author makes these choices to show proof that crime is decreasing and that the police are doing good.

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Weisel continuously weaves Holocaust stories into the speech. Maybe because we all agree that was awful and in this way he can show us that we need to see his argument as truth as well?

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The author uses statistics to help his argument. He grabs the reader's attention by describing New York's neighborhoods and discusses how the economically depressed areas have had a sudden drop in crime rates.

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He goes from grateful to very dark, then back to hope/challenge: But this time, the world was not silent. This time, we do respond. This time, we intervene.

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The author sets up his argument by setting a scene of the then modern New York and provides evidence that crime has been decreasing.

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Gladwell develops his question:  "What explains the drop in crime?" by giving theories from several perspectives. He also gives great detail, examples and statistics

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He really uses repetition...probably because in a speech listeners need it, but this paragraph is almost haunting like a chant:
Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor — never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees — not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory. And in denying their humanity, we betray our own.

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Gladwell describes crime as an epidemic that moves through the city like the flu.

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With this statement: Indifference reduces the Other to an abstraction.

I see where he is going with his concern over indifference. He's arguing that indifference is what perpetuated the Holocaust, and we are still prone to indifference today!

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He starts off his article with an amazing hook.

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Weisel uses contrast between Grateful and Indifferent to clearly shift tones into the issue he is ultimately arguing in this essay.

So much violence; so much indifference.

What is indifference? Etymologically,8 the word means “no difference

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In the second paragraph of his speech, he repeats different forms of the word "Grateful" in order to emphasize his purpose and set a tone.  This is also his transition between opening illustration and second paragraph.
“Gratitude” is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being. And I am grateful to you, Hillary, or Mrs. Clinton, for what you said, and for what you are doing for children in the world, for the homeless, for the victims of injustice, the victims of destiny and society. And I thank all of you for being here.

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Gladwell tries to get the reader's attention by describing a certain place in New York City.

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When the author talks about indifferent he says it is much easier to avoid and look away from a person pain or problems instead of helping them.

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Elie introduces/tries to say that he hopes that the United States and other nations will try to intervene when there are mass killings in a certain area of the world, and that nobody will simply turn their backs to it. He hopes that in the new century there will be no repeat of the Holocaust.

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In his last paragraph, Gladwell concisely hits home with his point: But it is the nature of nonlinear phenomena that sometimes the most modest of changes can bring about enormous effects.

And then he swings back to comparing AIDs epidemic with crime as an epidemic to make his point that social phenomenon like crime (or reduction of it) reaches a "tipping point"

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Elie expresses his feelings and gratitude towards  them for getting them out of the camps and hopes that the United States will stop the next one and that he will never to go back to one again.

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Gladwell introduces The broken-window hypothesis to illustrate his point that a little neglect here and there will reach a tipping point to epidemic decay of a neighborhood.

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Gladwell keeps going back and forth between medical epidemics and social "epidemics" to form his theory that they are much alike

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The author makes certain writing choices to bring concern and thought to what he is saying. When he talks about all the wars and assassinations he really wants people to think more about not being indifferent towards these things

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Elie tries to get the reader to sympathies by explaining the troubles of the camp and relating it to other events.

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He is arguing that crime has a tipping point like sickness/epidemics.  He says there is a "tipping point" in human behavior

fifty is the “tipping point” in this epidemic, the point at which an ordinary and stable phenomenon — a low-level flu outbreak — can turn into a public-health crisis. Every epidemic has its tipping point, and to fight an epidemic you need to understand what that point is.

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Gladwell is develops his question "What explains the drop in crimes" by giving theories from several different perspectives because he is trying to tell people that crime is caused in different ways

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He expresses his gratitude for getting them (the prisoners) out of the camp.

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This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked in office 255 where all day he press buttons. The screen in his office told him what buttons to press,for how long, and in what order.

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"It suggests that we need a new way of thinking about crime, which is why it may be time to turn to an idea that has begun to attract serious attention in the social sciences: the idea that social problems behave like infectious agents." is almost like Gladwell's thesis, but he buries it in the middle of a paragraph after lengthy discussion.

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Elie makes the choices in his writing to inform the readers from many points of view on what it was like, how they felt and what they did.

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The author makes this choice because he wants the reader to be put into his perspective, and for them to see what he has seen. This is to make the speech that much stronger.

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Gladwell develops his question: "What explains the drop in crime?" by giving theories from several perspectives.

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The author sets up his argument by asking the listener how will the 1900's be remembered and gives examples of some of the bad things that have happened in this century

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The author starts his speech by explaining the day when US soldiers liberated him from the concentration camps. He uses this to grab the readers attention.

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Elie tries to grab the readers attention by making the reader aware of indifference and what it means.

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Elie tries to grab the author's attention by making the reader aware of what he saw when he was liberated from the death camp, and how he and the soldiers felt.

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Gladwell starts with an almost poetic description of NY neighborhoods to set up his argument.  The last sentences of the intro are like a "punch" or surprise: "...which makes what has happened there over the past two and a half years all the more miraculous. In 1993, there were a hundred and twenty-six homicides in the Seven-Five, as the police call it. Last year, there were forty-four. There is probably no other place in the country where violent crime has declined so far, so fast."

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The author begins by trying to get the reader to sympathies with him by explaining his background and his childhood, as well as retelling the day US soldiers found his concentration camp.

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Weisel starts his speech with a 3rd person narrative, which we know is actually about himself.