The fight about abortion still continues and is even more complicated today with teen pregnancies skyrocketing. Many teenage girls are peer pressured into having sexual intercourse with their boyfriend, or just in general by their friends. These persuasions lead them to teen pregnancy and also dropping out. I would like my essay to be pro-choice because everyone deserves a second chance even after making a mistake. I believe there should always be a choice for teenage girls. My intended audience is young adults, advocates, and people who are pro-life. What I would like to accomplish by writing this essay is I want them to understand it is a woman’s choice if she wants to keep the unborn child, because she will be the one carrying it, supporting it, and will face the emotional distress. The genres that I will be using are political cartoons and memes, my reasoning is because political cartoons are used in schools for students to learn and many young women and men should learn about abortions because they could possibly need them as an option in the future. Memes would make this very intense subject easier to discuss. The rhetorical strategies that I will engage with my audience are ethos and logos. I will be using ethos to persuade my audience by talking about how more children will be put into orphanages because their parents do not want them and many children will feel unwanted by their parents. The way I will be using logos is by explaining that the mother is carrying the unborn child and will use over-the-counter drugs to kill the fetus. 

For my next essay, the research question I have chosen is “how does cultural influence have an effect on a child’s development?” I am a first-generation Dominican who lives in a suburban town where more than half the residents are caucasian. I have seen the differences between my fellow classmates and me. My friends from my hometown and I  have two different lives, their parent went to highschool, mines didn’t, their parent has stayed in the same state all their lives, mine had traveled to a new country without their parents.  There are also so many memes that show the difference between how a Dominican mom would look at the situation and a caucasian mom. I believe that your cultural background will reveal how you handle different situations or problems. Being a person of color you are not allowed to do many things that a caucasian person is able to do. It is very intriguing to me how when two people that are both from the same town and went to the same school all their lives, have two different minds because of their cultural background.

As I was thinking about how to complete this assignment I first had to pick a place, picked the Dominican Republic. But, then I had to pick an issue which was the most difficult part because there are so many issues out there such as there is an enormous amount of low-income people that live there, the inequality of a white Dominican and a black Dominican, and the high crime rate, and many more. As I got to thinking there is one issue that is very little talked about, I didn’t even know this was a problem, and I know not many Americans know about this issue. Since I’ve always lived in the US I have become naive to believe that the treatment I get here is the treatment everyone gets all around the world. It seems to me that I have forgotten that there are other countries outside of our tiny little bubble that still see women as objects. Many people forget about how Caribbean women are treated. Everyone sees it as a beautiful island with beautiful women who know how to cook, dance, and clean, but they forget to see the true side of this small island, how horribly treated they are. I connect with this issue personally. Last summer I took a trip to DR  for a month and had met a girl. She was telling us about stories of living there and had said that there would be times when she would be walking to wherever she was going to and men would catcall her all the way there. The saddest part was that there was no way for her to stop it, even if she had called the police, they wouldn’t have done anything about it.

This image is capturing what India really looks like in black and white and what people outside of India see through the eyes of social media with the text saying Beautiful India and in the back there is garbage and the text is broken India.

The author is Martynas Klimas. He may not be credible because he does not normally write about social issues or any issues at all. He writes reviews about video games, is a copywriter, and used to write movie reviews. Even though he is not credible he did do extensive research when writing this piece.

There are many issues that are going on around the world, but the one issue that Klimas is communicating with the audience through his words and the pictures is that there is always a side not many people want to capture and show the world. Social media sugarcoats on what truly is happening. I know what he wants to say to his audience because it is clearly shown that you may never know what is happening because your only view of what is happening, is the small picture.

When I say audience I talk about Americans who use social media. This group of individuals is the targeted audience because Americans are known to take pictures of the pretty view but not of the sick children. The author’s assumptions about the audience are that Americans are naive.

The purpose of this image is to capture what many people see India as but how it really is the opposite. While Klimas was writing this piece I believe he wanted it to be informative by using these pictures to represent that there is always another side when posting that not many see or want to capture.

Hello, my name is Arlyn Tejada, and my pronouns are she/her. My intended major that I will be studying at CCNY is English. While reading the syllabus my emotions were all over the place. I was anxious, nervous, and excited all at the same time. This class is for people who want to learn how to read and write sophisticatedly. Which I am very excited about because I know by the end of the school year. This class will have helped me clearly express my thoughts in writing. I do have nerves about this course since this is a college class which will mean the questions are more advanced and also knowing someone who has a degree in writing will be critiquing my work.

Even though there is no way to identify good writing, there are qualities that can be recognized, such as it has a central idea, it is clear, has a focus, and it will leave the readers thinking because that is what writing is all about, giving the readers something to think about, changing their perspective. Being able to write a clear statement will help communicate our thoughts and feelings. The easiest part of writing for me is coming up with what to write. I can comprehend and analyze the question. In my personal experience, the hardest part about writing is writing my thoughts and ideas onto the paper in a constructive and sophisticated way. Being an effective writer will affect my career because in my career in journalism I will be expected to be in touch with current events and write a comprehensive summary about them. When my writing isn’t clear it will be considered unreadable.