Category: Unit 3 (Page 3 of 20)

In the beginning of the semester in my opinion I think my work was better because I was genuinely trying to improve my writing.Yet now I feel as if I lacked motivation. I think it’s probably the times that were in and the place that I work at amongst a whole lot of things. Yet I know heading into the next semester what things that I need to do to gain back the motivation that I had in the beginning of the semester.  My favorite assignment was the one where we wrote for 7 mins with no interruptions and ended up crossing it out. It was my favorite because it was free writing and I noticed that when I write freely I say a lot of things like a whole lot. I could start off talking about the moon and end talking about hell. Some noticeable lessons that have stuck with me is to always read and understand what your reading, don’t just read to read. Some of the early assumptions that I had about myself when it comes to writing is that I’m not the best at delivering my message to the audience. One thing that I knew that I’ve always done during highschool was to have evidence that supported my claim, yet the issue was showing my audience what I was trying to get at. When some read my work they knew my claim and understood and others not really. 

Congrats to myself for seemingly making it through my first semester of college, which I do not consider to have been “easy” by any account due to the fact of taking four classes one of them being six hours long while simultaneously dealing with other responsibilities such as work and an unreliable car. I have accomplished most of my goals but not all as some of those goals have yet to be completed but lets focus on the positive, I have improved my writing skills drastically (I hope) and have become more adept at math as well as, (because of numerous assignments) my typing and spelling skills have improved and now I find that there are less red underlined words at the end of each assignment when it’s time to look it over before submitting. My intended major of architecture engineering has proven difficult sometimes and I am still not completely sure that it is what I want to pursue but even if I were to change my intended major it still provides some extra knowledge of how things function so no harm in that. I am looking forward to winter break as a chance to relax and have some fun before the next semester starts, I plan on “hitting the slopes” as soon as possible. Overall pretty decent semester and a great English teacher who helps get through each assignment and to understand what is expected clearly and concise 10/10.

The research I did in unit 2 is about police brutality/ racism. This was one of the topics that has impacted so many people especially Aferican-American people. Their life was most vulnerable to this matter. Police brutality issue is one of the most important issues that’s been going on for over decades. Recently police brutality is happening more often than usual and people are slowly starting to normalize it. Recent death of George Floyd by the police causes a lot of anger in people which causes the protest. George Floyd was choked to his death by cops in Minneapolis. The cops name Derek kneed George on his neck and George was gasping for air for 7 minutes and he kept repeating i cant breath so many times but the cops did not listen to him and he ended up passing away. What caused people to rage? After hearing he could not breathe several times the cops did not listen to him, causing people to outrage because he was gasping for air and the cops did not let him breath. Events like this keep on repeating itself and we don’t see any changes to stop this. When we demand changes and protest the government is trying to stop us from protesting. 

Audience: politicians and people who aren’t well educated in BLM matter.

The reason why I’m targeting politicians as my audience is because they are the one who plays a critical role in government and they are the one who can bring huge changes in our society toward BLM movements. Politicians should be involved in police brutality problems because they have the government authorities power. The state government could increase police accountability by engaging with civil payout to victims of police violence in type of insurance policies. Passing this type of regulation will make people happy. Politicians have lots of data and information toward the issues. they can generate lots of money also they are the one who funds the police. The most important thing I want my audience to know is that a lot of innocent people’s lives are being affected because of these long ongoing issues. Every year a lot of families lose their loved ones who are innocent. This issue is emotional and it’s painful for people who go through it. They always live in fear. in order to reach my audience the genres I’m going to use are political speech and comedy. I’m going to use this genre because it’s a unique way to reach my audience and keep my text interesting. I want to tell my audience that they have a choice to make a difference and save a lot of people’s lives. They can bring changes that people had a hard time to do. 

Genre #1: Speech

Do you like the world we live in now? Do you care about it? Well I don’t think so because why is that we see police brutality happening more often? Why aren’t there any changes? You use social media and you share posts about your favorite celebrities and other issues which are worthless compared to police brutality issues. It’s not that hard to spread information and learn more about police brutality. We all should work together and fix this mess that we created a long time ago with our own hands. This is not just about police brutality. This is about our communities its about our people specially Aferican-American people who are really hurt by this issues. Our innocent friends’ families who are suffering the most. Well if you like i don’t care, i want you to think what if that was you in their shoes you walking in the street and then you getting choked to your death for doing literally nothing. It can be any of your family members. If you dont care  do it for your loved one you never know what can happen. All I’m asking you to do is spread the word and help us bring changes to our society. Create better law. No one should be judged based on their skin color. All lives can’t matter until black lives matter. Police brutality can happen to anyone. We should start bringing changes and educate people more about this issue. Our communities are in danger and it’s up to us to fix it.

This speech is meant to inform our politician about the situation and persuade them to take action. For example, I talked about how many people including politicians can face police brutality and how it can affect any of us. Also I touched upon how people may be affected by police brutality including their loved ones. When it comes to their loved ones people will do anything to keep them safe. When you say it in a concerning tone it gets to them even more.

Genre #2:

With this short comedy I’m trying to covey is police brutality is a serious matter and even people like Seaton smith is scared of police movie because of police brutality. This comedy is a fun way for younger base people to take police brutality seriously and take action and bring changes. This is mainly for youth because comedy is the best way to keep them interesting and teach them about the topic.

Artist statement

What really got my interest in this topic was the death of George Floyd and all the protest that was going on after George floyds death. I was really inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. After watching all those protests and doing some of my own research I started to question myself that why is this same issue repeating itself for over decades. What started this. Why isn’t the government taking any cautious step to prevent this issue and a lot of other questions that started to come up in my head. I decided to write in political speech and comedy as my genre because I think these are the best way to reach my audience and explain to them what’s going on and what I’m trying to make them understand this way they can bring changes in future to help us with police brutality.  I chose politicians as my audience because if I could get my point across and educate them more, they could help us bring changes and pass new law to protect us from police brutality. Politicians are the one who can bring huge changes because they can control the funds for the police and also they can pass new laws. I decided to talk about this topic in my research because this is a serious issue that involves lives with it and a lot of innocent people are suffering from it. The main purpose for my pieces is to get answers to the questions I have and hopefully to educate some people through my writing. For my genre I made a speech by myself and then later tried to explain it. One important part was that “people will do anything for their loved ones”. I hope I got to my audience by my genre. What I would do differently is nextime i should try to interview people who dealt with these issues. But however I hope that my audience understands the main point and I hope to see changes in future and no one should live in fear.

Protestors march up and down the Post Road chanting slogans in a Black Lives Matter protest in Westport.