LionHeart, a spoken word poet, has spent three years studying the impact of architecture on our mental health. He is credible because I think that the way our environment is built influences how we feel. We spend an estimated 80-90 percent of our time indoors. I feel that one of the most powerful aspects of architecture is its long-term impact on people and their actions. It has the ability to mold our personalities, excellent lighting has a beneficial impact on a person’s growth, and furniture and materials have the ability to affect a person’s development.

Designers/architects should build environments in a way that benefits people, which is the issue that LionHeart is responding to. He describes how “they” changed everything inward facing so people didn’t seem like part of the wilder community in Kentish Town, London, his former neighborhood. He believes it’s screwed up that architects build a location for people to feel at home, but then isolate them so they don’t feel part of the community. He walks us around his area and points out his low-ceilinged bedroom, explaining that it didn’t help him deal with his depression and anxiety at home. Studies reveal that students who have the highest floor to ceiling height learn more and allow their brain to be more productive than those who have the lowest ceiling height. He had to create his own place out of his small backyard shed, and he explains that having that secure space allowed him to disassociate himself from where he grew up. He wants us to understand that tranquil settings, such as a vast waterscape, are almost like a refuge. LionHeart states that the understanding of size, color, texture, light, aesthetics, and compositions or effects are telltale indicators of whether or not someone recognized that we spend 90% of our lives inside, where architecture’s impacts on our brains are accountable.

LionHeart is quite serious when it comes to the well-being of our brains as a result of architecture. Higher suicide rates and almost 9 million British residents living in social isolation existed long before COVID, according to LionHeart, and he believes that one of the reasons might be architectural decisions. At the end of the film, he takes us to the Barbican Centre and claims that the architectural decisions were made to enhance our emotional well-being. The terraces were designed to provide an almost silent atmosphere, so you can’t hear the vehicles or traffic outside. He wants us to see the connections and understand that this isn’t about architectural rebellion, but rather about the mental health of our clientele.

A link to the meme: https://miro.medium.com/max/800/0*vk9pxqOyne0DO9Lp.jpg

The author is currently unknown to me, I can’t find his/her profile; additionally, this image is a meme that I found on google images which has many versions. Memes are used as a visual, often comedic, statements on topics, often, of social issues. The target audience would thus be young adults in the United States. But because this is a meme about a social issue provides some insight about the original creator. He is more likely than not a politically active teenager or young adult, in particularly, one who might hold more of a right leaning democratic to a conservative ideology viewpoint, due to the fact that, he’s correlating evil with the urge of social justice, something democrats and liberals tend to hold a more intense and supporting of opinion.

A little background for those not familiar with the original Star Wars; the hooded figure engulfed by darkness is Darth Sidius, and to sum it up quickly, he is the essence of evil that rose to the highest rank of political power in the Republic and basically destroys it and implements a new regime under his dictatorship control, all while hiding the fact that he is the leader of the evil group. And everything goes from ok with manageable bad to uncontrollable bad, 6 movies worth of bad to fix.

The author is attempting to portray that the movement for social justice is being used as a cover for a hidden motive of destroying the Republic of the United States from the inside out. He does this by mirroring the movie’s fictional character, Darth Sidius, methods of working subtlety with the use of political actions to the current situation.

I would say the genre is of a horror type due to the “uncertainty” surrounding the evil and violence surrounding this character and what he achieves in the movie. And the author’s mirroring of it to what happened/ is happening within the United States where certain persons used social justice as an excuse and create violence, with a possible hidden goal maybe puppeteered by a yet unknow figurehead in power. Through these correlations he uses ethos to attempt to fear his intended audience about real life situations that have been/ are being encountered in the United States.

“The impact of vaccination on the health of the world’s peoples is hard to exaggerate. Except for safe water, no other modality has had such a major effect on mortality reduction and population growth” (Plotkin and Mortimer, 1988)

As it is pretty clear in the picture given above that the author of the text on the cardboard, isn’t visible, and is one of the protestors for the anti-vaxxers for the Covid 19 virus. Therefore, it is obvious that the author isn’t credible. From the text provided above, I can assume that the author may not know enough about the field of science and doesn’t know how the human body functions, therefore don’t know the importance of vaccines. Although there is nothing that I can be certain about. The sign that they are holding up says, “We don’t need no vaccination, We don’t need no forced control”. The author/protestor is representing the issue about how the US government has made vaccination mandatory for all citizens for traveling, going out, and seeking education and they are protesting against it. This is the rhetorical situation described in this paragraph. The author wants to generate awareness about this issue and wants the FDA to engage in this protest. I’m addressing this issue as I want to provoke their thoughts on this problem.

The target audience for this issue is the federal government of America, as this picture was taken from the New York Times, of the protestors outside the New York City hall, therefore the protestor is a resident of the United States. They are assuming that the FDA has made it mandatory for the citizens to take the vaccine, this is not true, taking the vaccine isn’t compulsory, America is a free country, and people who haven’t taken the vaccine can still come out of their houses and move freely in public areas with or without the mask at their own risk. The main purpose of this text is that people should be allowed to go everywhere, i.e, bars, restaurants, schools, colleges, theatres, so on. and their vaccination status shouldn’t matter. They are stating this point implicitly with the help of a signboard at a protest. The central point that the author is trying to make is that, vaccinated or not, they should be free to go anywhere they want. As this picture was taken from the New York Times, its genre is somewhere between a news story and speech/debate. The author wanted their point to be firm and as it was a serious issue they chose to use a signboard that conveyed their problems in a direct form. Their attitude towards the issue could be described as anger, sorrowful, and seriousness. the tone of this message was assertive.

A vaccine activates our immune system without making us sick. Many dangerous infectious diseases can be prevented in this simple and effective way. Therefore, I don’t see anything wrong in taking them, they don’t cost you anything but your time.

Rhetorical Analysis of Text : “Texas’ abortion ban are the most restricive in the developed world” By: Robert Picheta of CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/world/how-texas-abortion-law-compares-to-world-intl-cmd/index.html

For many countries in the world, health care and anatomical rights are viewed as controversial subjects. Many countries putting up strict restrictions to access to certain health care, and many leaving it up to the citizens to decide. In the United States, the 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade allowed complete anatomical right and protection of women’s reproductive health. Meanwhile in that state of Texas, in 2021 a state bill needing Supreme Court and House of Representatives approval could mean the loss and infringement of female reproductive health rights due to a proposed 6-week abortion ban.

The author of the text I read is Rob Picheta, I believe the author of this article to be credible as he is a certified writer for CNN. The article titled “Texas’ abortion ban is one of the most restrictive in the developed world” was written in September 2021. The issue that the author of the article is responding to is the news of the new abortion ban proposal in Texas, USA. The author is writing about how from many perspectives of citizens, the possible abortion ban is an infringement on human rights and health care rights. Picheta did a lot of comparison to the current issue in Texas to other current or modern abortion bans in countries all over the world such as Mexico and Poland. The author also compared to states that don’t have strict abortion laws such as Canada. 

The target audience for this text is women in the United States, Texas, and other countries struggling with proper reproductive rights. This is the intended audience because the issue is occurring in the United and other countries to women, with the intended purpose to inform of the issue, the assumptions this author made about the audience is that most people would agree with the more progressive side of the argument. The central point or purpose of this text that the author is trying to make is to reveal that governments control conflicts with citizen’s health care rights frequently and that it is difficult for many citizens to receive fair and safe treatment based on small representative group’s opinion. This point was not made explicitly but was made by comparing issues around the world on the same topic of controversial abortion bans to inform to achieve the goal of the audience participating in political policies, protests and be informed of current issues involving women’s rights. The genre is social and political issues and rights. The author shows features of this genre by talking about politics and government decisions in many countries. I can’t tell the author’s stance on the subject, this is because it was not clearly stated (which helps make the piece unbiased).

The author uses all rhetorical strategies of persuasive appeals to appeal to the audience. He first used logos by representing data of the US states and their restrictions on abortion to compare and contrast different state restrictions, such as the states of NM, NH, and CO having no limit/ restrictions on abortion dates, but PA and FL have a third-trimester restriction and TX with a 6-week restriction (Gutmaccher, 2021). The pathos method was used by showing protests in different countries such as Poland of people supporting their peers and other women, protesting for better representation from the government. While pathos was used by showing the damage of lack of proper health care and representation to women, in terms of illegal and unsafe abortions. Overall, this article was an informative piece talking about current health care access and issues in the United States and other countries in the world, the data in the article shows how truly important this topic is and how not having proper safety access, many women are at risk. 

• Picheta, Rob. “Texas’ Abortion Law Is One of the Most Restrictive in the Developed World.” CNN, Cable News Network, 3 Sept. 2021, www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/world/how-texas-abortion-law-compares-to-world-intl-cmd/index.html.