Gun violence is a very serious issue that has been going on for decades and over the years it just keeps getting worse. In my previous essay, I talked about gun violence and how we could stop it and, in this essay, I plan to continue that. My intended audience for this essay is state agencies and the federal statutes because they are in control of guns. My audience for my last essay was American citizens but, in this essay, I’ll focus on how I can use my two genres which are pictures/images and videos to make the audience understand that we need to stop gun violence.  This essay will be more of a visual essay that’s why I think using pictures and videos will help me achieve this along with using scholarly sources but I will still use logical reasoning as well to support this. The primary characteristic of my audience is they make guns and control gun laws. I want my audience to understand that we should be doing more to stop gun violence especially if we have the power. Using pictures and videos to persuade my audience is effective because pictures and videos have more meaning and power compared to when it’s just words. The rhetorical strategy I plan to use is ethos and pathos because I’ll make it so the audience feels like they can trust me and also appeal to emotions to make my audience feel sympathy about gun violence.  

For my research, the topic I chose is gun violence and my question is “how can we effectively stop/reduce gun violence in the US?”. I chose this topic because it’s very significant and affects a lot of people in the US and all over the world. Over the years gun violance has drasticllay increased and thats what interests me and motivated me to ask the question “how we effecttivly stop/reduce gun violance in the US”. My audience for this essay will be the American people/citizens and people of a higher power as in state agencies and the federal bureau. This would be my audience because we/ people are directly affected by this and are the only ones who could make this stop because we are the ones causing it. I also put the state agncies and the federal beura because theyre the ones who control and have access to guns. I have a model essay below for which my essay is appropriate to it shows ways that we can stop/ reduce gun violence. Investment in Violence Intervention is a Positive First Step to Address Gun Violence. – Document – Gale Academic OneFile (cuny.edu)In this article it talks about steps that could be taken to address gun violance. By the 19th of October, I would have organized my research proposal. For my research sources I hope to have completed them before the due date which is the 22nd of October, by the 25th I should have an outline of my draft and by the 29th I should have been done with my final draft.

Police brutality is a social issue that interests me and it’s a very important social issue. It’s the unwarranted use of force by law enforcement where officers exercise excessive force against a person, to be more specific this happens more to people of color. it’s a very disturbing and extreme method that is not right. It includes beatings, racial abuse, unlawful killings, and torture by the police. The US police kill civilians at a much higher rate than any other country in the world. About 1000 people are killed each year by the police in the United States. The black lives matter movement brings attention to police brutality and what we tend to see in these protests is that people get shot/abused more than ever in these protests, even when we are trying to make a difference peacefully we still end up getting killed or shot at by the police. This is an issue that has been going on for a very long time. this topic interests me because it’s so significant and it affects people from all over the world. What’s really upsetting is that police brutality keeps increasing. There should be no reason why the people who were supposed to feel protected by are the ones that are making us feel unsafe. it has to come to a stop, it’s not right in any way.

Moving Beyond Diversity Toward Racial Equity (hbr.org)

Racism in the workplace is an issue I think needs more awareness. Being white or black shouldn’t mean you get more of an advantage over the other because of your skin color. In the workplace, white people have always had more of an advantage than people of color and it’s not right. The author of this article is Ben hatchet. I think this author is credible because his writing is accurate and he’s the president and CEO of living cities. The author has led the organization’s transformation into one of the nation’s leading economic justice organizations. The problem in this article that the author is responding to is race/racism. I know this because the article is talking about how unfair the workplace is towards blacks/people of color and how white people are always the ones in charge and have more of an advantage in the workplace.

The audience is business owners and people of the workplace. I know this because the author says that business owners need to be more aware of the unjust race issues going on in workplaces and he even used himself as an example. I also know that the audience is also people of the workplace because this is geared towards them because this directly affects them/people of the workplace. The purpose of this article is to make businesses more aware of the racial injustice in the workplace and to change the ways things have been done to making it more equal to everyone and not just white people or giving white people more of an advantage than people of color. The author’s stance towards this race matter going on in the workplace is very clear. The author is definitely against it and thinks that action should be taken now, he(ben hatchet) has already come up with a new process in his organization that makes things equal/fair. I know this because in the article the author states several times that he doesn’t think it’s right and it should be changed.

My name is Abdulai Bah, my intended major is psychology but now I’m not sure. My preferred pronoun is He.

After reviewing the syllabus one thing I’m excited about in this course is that we get to chose what we want to write about and this course will make me become a better writer. One thing I am anxious about is writing so many pages on the essays, writing 8-12 pages isn’t exactly something I’m used to.

Qualities of good writing are structure, focus, and coherence, these are important because you want your writing to be specific and you want it to make sense. I think being a good writer means knowing how to focus on what exactly you’re talking about and not going off-topic and also clarity because you want things to be simple and clear for the person that’s going to read it. It’s important to know how to write because almost everything we do includes writing and writing is another way of communication so it’s important to know how to write well.

For me, the easiest part of writing is the introduction even though sometimes the introduction can be the hardest part, the hardest part of writing is sticking to the point and not going off-topic. Being an effective writer can affect your career opportunities in a positive way because you can get better opportunities.

At the moment for my major, I am undecided I chose psychology as my major but I’m sure now that that’s not what I want to major in, so I’m just keeping my options open in terms of majors.