https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/half-lgbtq-workers-faced-job-discrimination-report-finds-rcna1935

Dan Avery wrote, Half of LGBTQ workers have faced job discrimination, report finds”, he works for NBC News, which discussed the discrimination of LGBTQ+ workers. Some inappropriately mistreated, and no one begins to defend them. It took multiple surveys from LGBTQ+ people to see that numbers are worse than someone may think they can be. For example, “As many as 1 in 4 (25.9 percent) LGBTQ employees said they had been sexually harassed at work at some point” At no point in time should that have been able to happen. Still, due to the discrimination in the workforce, the LGBTQ+ worker gets the blame and gets let go. But now, thanks to Biden, there is the ” executive order directing any federal agency with protections against discrimination based on sex. ” This is a significant step in going in the right direction because it may start helping change the work environment and may help people start to see that there is nothing wrong with what happens in someone’s personal life. The executive order reaches all homophobic that try to treat Dan Avery wrote, Half of LGBTQ workers have faced job discrimination, report finds”, he works for NBC News, which discussed the discrimination of LGBTQ+ workers. They are harshly inappropriately mistreated, and no one begins to defend them. It took multiple surveys from LGBTQ+ people to see that numbers are worse than someone may think they can be. For example, “As many as 1 in 4 (25.9 percent) LGBTQ employees said they had been sexually harassed at work at some point” At no point in time should that have been able to happen. Still, due to the discrimination in the workforce, the LGBTQ+ worker gets the blame and gets let go. But now, thanks to Biden, there is the ” executive order directing any federal agency with protections against discrimination based on sex. ” The executive order is a significant step in going in the right direction because it may start helping change the work environment and help people start to see that there is nothing wrong with what happens in someone’s personal life. The executive order is to reach all homophobic who treat LGBTQ+ members as though they are improper; this is to tell them that things will begin to change. The genre of this text is newspaper because it comes from NBC News Avery is very focused on telling everyone the facts they are not going to fight against his stance in supporting the LGBTQ+ community.As though they are improper, this is to tell them that things will begin to change. The genre of this text is newspaper because it comes from NBC News Avery is very focused on telling everyone the facts they are not going to fight against his stance is supporting the LGBTQ+ community.

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-can-we-enhance-police-accountability-in-the-united-states/

       Police brutality has been an issue for a very long time, especially towards African Americans. It is something that has been unfairly justified and pushed off by other law enforcement. The author, Rashawn Ray, of the article, “How can we Enhance Police Accountability in the United States,” helps point out the issues of police brutality and how to prevent it through rhetorical languages. Ray is a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. He is also a Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research. Rashawn regularly testifies at the federal/states on racial equity, policing and criminal justice reform, health policy, wealth, and family policy. Based on these acquisitions, Ray is more than qualified to speak about the topic of Police brutality. 

      The author attempts to reach out to law enforcement, but he also tries to open up to America as a whole to help prevent police brutality from happening. He does this by breaking the article into different actions by telling his audience what is police brutality, its effects, past incidences, statistics, and ways to fix it. Ray knows that America isn’t fully on board with what he says but he tries to convince his audience to stand against police brutality for the sake of unity. He does this through the genre of statistics and facts. He presents statistics based on the number of times and how common police brutality actually is and how it affects African Americans. Ray shows a youtube video and tweets about how common police brutality occurs.

      It’s clear that Ray’s purpose of this article is to spread awareness about police brutality and ways to stop it from happening. Ray is trying to help stop police brutality from happening by proposing two different solutions. He explains that any officer that has been terminated due to police misconduct should not work in the law enforcement field again. This is to prevent mistakes from these officers from happening again since officers such as Derek Chauvin. Chauvin is known as the officer who brutally murdered Gorge Floyd, but people forget to recognize that he actually had 18 different misconducts before that. The other proposal he gave to stop police brutality was to restructure civilian payouts by moving them from taxpayer money to police department insurance policies. 

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.

“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. 

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Police Brutality in New York City and its effects on New Yorkers by: Enrique Cortes 9/14/2020 

  Police brutality is not something new and something that just happened over night it is something that has been cultivated through many years of racism and discrimination that the United States and many countries have done. Racism stems from slavery and this action is something that most countries want to forget but there are cracks in their cover up and there are people who still believe in this horrendous act that not only destroyed many generations of people but is clearly a violation of human rights, yet in our modern society we still have this problem 115 years after it was abolished. Since slavery was abolished by the 13th amendment in 1865 then that means that many people needed a way of still being in control so that’s how racial conflict happened and was born after the abolishment of slavery. The authors of the text being used are Jeffery c. Mays and Ashley Southall, the authors seem credible because their article is recent and was published on March 25,2021 and was updated on July 28, 2021, furthermore in the article there are sentences that are links to information or even words that the reader might not know. Also, they are journalist from the New York times, and they are a news article company, so they have a credible reputation when it comes to news. The authors are responding to police brutality and how New Yorkers who are victims of police brutality or racial profiling can defend themselves and punish police officers who have abused their power. The reason I know that this is the case is because the entire article speaks about how the police have Immunity to protect themselves but thanks to the George Floyd justice in policing act it allows citizens who were victims of police brutality to sue the police officers. The audience of the text are people who have been victims of police brutality of for those who were not informed about the situation and those who live in places where police brutality occurs. I know this because the whole text is about how civilians can sue police officers for misconduct and how New York is trying to find a way to resolve the situation, the genre of the article is informative and its journalism because the whole purpose of the text is to inform and report what is happening. The authors use images and other links to further inform us how serious this discussion is and how important it is to listen and do something about it its effective because the picture shows that even in a pandemic people are risking their health to have this problem heard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/nyregion/nyc-qualified-immunity-police-reform.htm

My name is Richelle Placencia; my intended major is psychology. My preferred pronoun is They/She.

After reviewing the syllabus, I’m excited about this course because I feel as though I have a sense of what I expected to do. I feel like my AP Courses helped me work on the 8-12 page works. I am anxious about getting everything in on time, having to remember to check if I have any assignments, and learning how to navigate the website on time.

Some qualities of good writing are organization and strain of thought. Good writing needs a planned-out version of a text from beginning, middle, and end. To be a good writer, one must know how to activate an audience with just the words and have a reader understand what you mean and understand your view even if they disagree. Writing well will allow people to communicate in a sense where everyone can understand and be convincing enough to make people understand you differently.

The easiest part of writing would be going along with the flow of ideas. Once my mind has an idea, it continues to grow, which allows me to get lost in my writing and include a more precise understanding to support my points. Something to work on would be rereading my text. I tend to finish and not go back and make sure everything makes sense to everyone and not just to me at that moment.

I will be required to write essays explaining vocabulary words and applying them to real-life situations for my intended major. By being an influential writer, I can have a different way of viewing things and paint the picture.

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.

Erin Egan (she/her) Psychology major

After going over the syllabus, I am excited to strengthen my writing skills through drafting and peer editing. On the other hand, I am nervous about writing longer papers. I want to ensure that my writing pieces meet the length requirement, but also have enough relevant information without repetition. In addition to creating connections in my writing that is clear to the reader.

Writing for your target audience along with using proper grammar, spelling, and appropriate vocabulary are qualities of good writing. It is also important to have a clear and coherent writing piece for your audience. Good writing means that the author is demonstrating a thorough understanding of their topic. The easiest part of writing is gathering information and creating an outline. The most challenging part is using all of this information to create a deeper analysis and explaining this to your readers.

With my intended major being psychology, I will most likely be writing journal articles and reports or reviews of other literary works. These papers and reports require a lot of analysis, which is why this course is so beneficial to my college career during and after.