Category: Research/Audience Assignment

The topic for my unit 3 major assignment is the importance of eating healthier. In this day and age all I see are people eating a lot of junk food and not taking care of their bodies. For my first audience I chose a speech college students like myself because even though we aren’t kids anymore, we are still eating a ton of junk food and this is a problem. My second audience is the (FDA) Food And Drug Administration because they regulate all foods and I would like to send them a letter to their headquarters in White Oak to tell them about how harmful junk food is to the body and why it needs to be banned. I chose the genre of a speech to college students so they can listen to the issue of eating unhealthy, if they are emailed this issue they most likely won’t open the email. I chose the genre of a letter to the FDA because that’s the best way other than an email to get the FDA to be informed about your issue.

 

College Students needs to eat healthier 

[Good Morning to you all, my name is Joshua Elcock and the title of my speech is “College Students Needs to Eat Healthier”]

1. Introduction 

1. According to npr.org, “A third of U.S. adults are obese, and 80 percent don’t eat enough fruits, veggie, and whole grains.” 

1. The purpose of this speech is to convince all of you that you can learn to eat healthier, and why it’s important to do so. 
2. To prove that you can and you should eat healthier, I will be using research results and sources such as, npr.org, health direct, the food guide pyramid on health.gov and nhs.uk.
3. In this speech, I will talk about why people eat unhealthily and the type of unhealthy food they consume and solutions to eat healthier.

 

1. Body 

1. There is a problem among us. We are all in college and we’re adults now, so that means we should be more responsible and start to take care of our bodies. However, that isn’t the case, most of us don’t watch what we eat, and consume junk food, order takeout, eat sweets, candy, fatty foods, sugary drinks, pizzas, ice-cream, candy bars, etc. 

1. Eating so much unhealthy foods can lead to obesity.  

1. According to “Health Direct”, In most people obesity is caused by eating too much, if you consume high amounts of energy but don’t burn it off via exercise, the stored energy will turn into fat.   
2. According to “Health Direct”, the energy value of food is measured in kilojoules and to maintain a healthy weight, it’s important to balance how many kilojoules you take in with how many you burn off by exercising. 

1. The best way to make sure your body is healthy is to lower your intake of unhealthy foods and to eat the number of servings of foods presented on the Food and Drug Administration food guide pyramid. 

1. According to the food guide pyramid on health.gov, there are a number of calories needed to consume daily by different age groups. “children ages 2 to 6 years, women, some older adults (about 1,600 calories)”, “older children, teen girls, active women, most men (about 2,200 calories)”, “teen boys, active men (about 2,800 calories).”    
2. According to the food guide pyramid, you should consume (6-11 servings of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta group), (3-5 servings of the vegetable group), (2-4 servings of the fruit group), (2-3 servings of milk, yogurt, and cheese group), (2-3 servings of meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts group), and fats, oils, and sweets should be used sparingly. 
3. According to “nhs.uk”, some tips for eating healthier is to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, eat more fish that includes a portion of oily fish, cut down on saturated fat and sugar, eat less salt and no more than 6 gram a day for adults, get active and start exercising, drink lots of water to stay hydrated, and do not skip breakfast. 

 

1. Conclusion 

1. There is a problem among us, that problem is that we don’t take care of our bodies and eat food that we know is bad for our health but do so anyway simply because it tastes good. This consumption of unhealthy food leads to one of the problems in America which is obesity. 

1. In this speech, I introduced you to a few solutions to be healthier. Some are to cut down on saturated fat and sugar, start exercising, drink lots of water, and don’t skip breakfast. However, the best would be to eat the number of servings of foods presented on the food guide pyramid.

1. To conclude, I’d like you all to think about your health and put this advice into action. That is all, thank you for your time. 

 

 

Dear Food And Drug Administration:

 

I am living in New York where the price of vegetables, healthy food costs more than junk food. Every store I go to I see chips, cakes, ice cream, chocolate, french fries, pizzas, churro, cookies, and sodas costing no more than a dollar or at least a little above. Meanwhile vegetables costs way more  Then there’s also the dollar menu at McDonald. This is bad because not a lot of people, like children for example carry around a lot of money, so if they’re hungry they’re forced to buy junk food. For most people in NY, we don’t have a lot of money and sometimes only carry a dollar in our pocket and if we’re hungry we’re forced to buy chips, two of the fifty cents honey buns, or the dollar pizza at the corner store. This consumption of unhealthy foods leads to one of the problems in America which is obesity. Junk food has way more calories than fruits and vegetables and since they’re cheaper, we consume them more. Those calories turn into energy and as the energy builds up, it gets harder for your body to fully burn off those calories turning it into fat. Everywhere I go, the trains, buses, movies, parks, restaurants, all I see is people who are eating junk food, and some themselves are either big or obese and they are still eating junk food. Now this isn’t their fault, in NY their aren’t a lot of high paying jobs for everyone and you can’t really get money to buy healthy foods like maybe a salad because its expensive. So the only option left when you’re hungry with little money in your pocket, is to go to the store and buy junk food to fill you up. I myself do this. Every week my mom makes salad for me, herself, and my sister, but since there’s three of us, its finished fast and my mom doesn’t cook that much because she’s so tired after work. Me or my sister doesn’t know how to cook but we always have at least a dollar in our pockets so we buy junk food and soda to drink. I don’t want these harmful junk food in my body, I want to be able to afford to buy fruits and vegetables and the same for my fellow New Yorkers. The FDA jobs is to regulate food and not allow foods to be produced and sold if they are harmful to human beings. The purpose of this letter is to tell you that they are indeed harmful to our health. I am asking you to ban junk if not worldwide, but in New York so that the prices of fruits and vegetables can go down.

 

Sincerely Joshua Elcock

 

 

Bibliography:

75 Percent Of Americans Say They Eat Healthy – Despite Evidence To The Contrary

Allison Aubrey-Maria Godoy – https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/03/487640479/75-percent-of-americans-say-they-eat-healthy-despite-evidence-to-the-contrary

https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2000/document/build.htm

What Causes Obesity?

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/what-causes-obesity

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/eight-tips-for-healthy-eating/​

Junk Food Costs Less Than Fruits and Vegetables: Are We Surprised?

Ed Levine – https://www.seriouseats.com/2007/12/junk-food-costs-less-than-fruits-and-vegetabl.html

Human Foods Overview For Imported Products

Office of Regulatory Affairs – https://www.fda.gov/industry/regulated-products/human-foods

About two years ago, my sister registered herself in the military. There have been stories coming out about many families having being split apart, and it’s been happening for years, and there have been protests, however, it’s mostly a problem for the Latino/Hispanic community and little to know about other races/ethnicities and that’s why it isn’t a big topic in the U.S. With immigration, there are so many different problems and situations affecting everyone in the country and so many different policies and programs depending on various circumstances and government policies made by the president and ICE. Not everything involving immigration is relevant to the news and that’s a big problem, such as this issue regarding those immigrants that have children that voluntarily signed up to be in the U.S Military and now have to be deported and separated from them. The only person that has the right to change any laws or policies regarding the military or immigration is the Commander in Chief, the President of this term. I chose to write a letter to him because it was an appropriate way from him to receive my message, I explained what my thoughts were regarding the issue and what the issue with his decision to revoke a policy that semi-helped immigrants stay in the country, The reason why I said semi is because it wasn’t all that effective either but it was the best thing to help those immigrants with a little more time. I explained to him the research I found and how revoking this policy is unfair and has to be recognized only because there are people fighting for you and this country and now you’re taking away their family and separating them. I went to explaining a societal impact that deportation has on communities and how global migration can affect our country in the future, that research was from Ted Talk. Speaking and sending out my message might convince or show him another side of the perspective of this nation wide issue and this may allow him to review a new policy that him and many other important figures of the military. My other audience is mostly focused on the Latino/Hispanic community along with the small percentage of other races and ethnicities that are mixed into this same issue. Now is the time to speak up all together, many people might not be aware of this situation because it doesn’t regard many others, however, sending out my message in a speech is a perfect way to be heard around many others that understand. It gives a chance for many others to hear about the issue and stick together because the more people that enforce a problem, it will be heard sooner or later. Stating the facts and telling the stories of many others will get attention and it might lead to a change.

Letter

Dear Commander in Chief,

This letter is concerning the deportation of immigrants in the United States of America. You might think you already know what you need to know in making the decision in forcing millions of immigrants to be removed, however, I am writing this letter to further educate you about the issues in the small communities you might not be aware of. I would like to remind you what this country was built on, immigrants, throughout the past century millions of immigrants have been entering this country in search for a better life, not only to leave their own country but to work and voluntarily take those jobs that other citizens wouldn’t take, and to have a family, that those children become more educated and have the opportunity to be successful. Many of those children grow up to make the decision to join the military. In an article I was able to find statistics using data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows information based on the immigrant veteran population focusing on ethnic background. “The racial and the ethnic composition of foreign-born veterans is much more diverse than that of U.S.-Born veterans”, meaning the amount of diversity in the military is increasing compared to how it was years ago, having mostly native-born or white. “Among U.S.-born Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander veterans, significant shares came from immigrant families: 57 percent of native-born Asian/Pacific Islander veterans and 46 percent of U.S.-born Hispanic veterans had at least one immigrant parent.” The significant amount of people that join the military also have an immigrant parent in the household, keep this in mind. I am aware that your intention is to “Scale back a program that protects undocumented family members or active-duty troops from being deported,” and that Parole in place, the name of this program, helps immigrants be placed in one-year increments if they are a primary family member, however, that is not enough because only a limited amount of immigrants will have this protection but again only in under rare circumstances, even if granted, it only allows them to adjust their immigration status to only stay in the U.S temporarily. Margaret Stock, an immigrant attorney, who represents recruits and veterans in deportation proceedings say “It’s going to create chaos in the military”. An immigrant attorney made a statement that, “The troops can’t concentrate on their military jobs when they’re worried about their family members being deported”, what would this mean in future references knowing troops are out in other countries risking their lives protecting this country, while they are fighting for this country, this country is betraying them and removing their families away from them. It’s important for you to understand what message your sending the country and also the impact it has on the soldier emotionally, listening to Ted Talk, a guest speaker Duarte Geraldino talked about the missing information we choose not to see when it comes to debate about immigration and it’s something I think you should listen to. He talks about the social circles that immigrants have around the communities and how it can affect society and the country as a whole as deportation increases. He studied global migration went on to say, “When the social circles are weakened, a country itself is weaker. Rather than focusing on individuals, we should focus on the circles around them, because these are the people who are left behind; the voters, the taxpayers, the ones who are suffering this loss. And it’s not just the children of the departed who are impacted. You have brothers and sisters who are separated by borders. You have classmates, teachers, law enforcement officers, technologists, scientists, doctors who are all scrambling to make sense of new realities when their social circles are broken.” This will soon impact you, the country was built on immigrants, having them removed would have some sort of effect on the country whether it’s economically or socially, it is you job to take charge of this country and make it better. I want you to understand the issues that come with you making the decision of you wanting to withdraw a program that helps immigrants in this nature or not even considering to try and make another program that help immigrants. This is an important issue in our communities, and to those serving in the military, that help this country. If you were to consider changing your mind, my goal is to pass a program, or act, maybe even an actual law to help any immigrant stay in the U.S with those primary family members in the military, deployed or not. I’m speaking out to you because you are the only one that can make a great change like this and help hundreds of thousands of immigrants stay here creating a better life for their children as well as seeing their young ones serve in the military and protect this country.

Speech

I want to speak about an important issue that I am concerned with as well as the Latino/Hispanic community and so many other immigrants that will soon see a resolution, as its my goal to see a change in the future. As parents, we should be proud that our children have committed themselves to the military to protect and serve this country. As parents, we should be able to stay as close to those soldiers as possible, they can be deployed at any time and them leaving is not a good experience, but the fact is, we are excited to see them come back. These soldiers go and fight for this country, they expect to return home to their families. How can that happen when there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants being deported. There are millions of undocumented immigrants in this country and many others that have a temporary stay, which goes by fast and it’s very difficult to regain that paper in time for that expiration date. The issue is, there’s many immigrant parents that have their children in the military and yet they face the tragedy of being forced to be removed from the country. Here are the facts, “Additionally, almost 1.9 million veterans are the U.S.-born children of immigrants. Together, the 2.4 million veterans of immigrant origin, either because they themselves are immigrants or are the children of immigrants, account for 13 percent of all veterans,” cited by a migration information source, these are the statistics of those in the military and their origin, that much can be shortened down to hundreds of thousands of immigrants having to leave and those all have someone serving in the military. We are lucky enough to have a policy that can help families, the Parole In Place, which allows military family members, who can not adjust their immigration status, to stay in the U.S temporarily. The objective was to minimize disruption to the life of a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine, if a soldier was deployed, they wouldn’t have to worry about their parents being deported. The trump administration wants to scale back this program that protects undocumented family members of active-duty troops from being deported as well has declining all questions to discuss the reasoning of ending this program. Carlos Luna, founder and president of a green card veteran chapter of the League of Latin American Citizens, said the ending of parole in place is yet another example of what he called the Trump administration’s “war against immigrants”, “There are fewer and fewer opportunities for these people serving the country and their veteran family to go through the ‘legal channels’ and stay here in the country, which for many is the only place they’ve ever known,” Luna said. How can we let this go by, even in the future, many more policies could be revoked. However, as much as this is a huge complication for many immigrants that this can help, this isn’t as effective as what many would think, these protections are only available under rare circumstances. I believe the intentions of creating this policy is just but the variables that allow some immigrants to be granted of this policy is unlimited and unfair “In the last several years, Parole in Place has been used sparingly, and has not protected all of the dependents of service members from deportation. The federal agency responsible for all adjudication of immigration cases does not track the number of waivers or deportations of service members or their dependents that it has processed.” Many are aware of the circumstances that comes along with it, but many can’t take advantage. My position here is to push forward and stop the withdrawal of the immigration policy that supports those with primary family members in the military and better that policy making it more effective and taken advantage of. To be heard. To educate many that aren’t aware of this, families should not be ripped apart and we need to make some changes to immigration policies.

Bibliography

Zong, Jie, and Jeanne Batalova. “Immigrant Veterans in the United States.” Migrationpolicy.org, 30 May 2019, https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigrant-veterans-united-states.

Ordoñez, Franco. “Trump Wants To Withdraw Deportation Protections For Families Of Active Troops.” NPR, NPR, 27 June 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736362986/trump-wants-to-withdraw-deportation-protections-for-families-of-active-troops.

Geraldino, Duarte. “What We’re Missing in the Debate about Immigration.” TED, June 2017, https://www.ted.com/talks/duarte_geraldino_what_we_re_missing_in_the_debate_about_immigration.

Ordoñez, Franco. “Facing Deployment While Fearing That Family Members Will Be Deported.” NPR, NPR, 12 July 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/07/12/739841785/facing-deployment-while-fearing-that-family-members-will-be-deported.

Copp, Tara. “Military Families May Soon Lose Key Immigration Protections.” Military.com, 2 July 2019, https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/02/military-families-may-soon-lose-key-immigration-protections.html.

 

 

For this Unit 3 major assignment, please post a one-paragraph intro before your two messages. In your intro, please give a brief description saying why your issue is important and also a justification for why you chose your two audiences to hear your messages. Finally, say why you chose the genre (medium for your message as well as the venue of publication) for each of your audiences.

Remember to include a bibliography at the end of your assignment (using proper MLA citation) with at least five sources.

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Research and Audience Assignment (major assignment for Unit 3)

In this assignment, you will research an issue that you feel is important. Your job will be to identify two different audiences/communities that are impacted by your issue and then to write two different messages (one to each audience) that either persuades each audience of a particular outcome that should happen to resolve your issue OR that educates them about the dynamics of your issue. If you choose to educate your audience, think about your goal – why is education important in this context; what will new knowledge bring? Be sure to have a goal in mind when writing to each audience – what do you want to get them to do, think, or feel – and why?

You should have at least 5 references. This is a research assignment – do research to better understand your issue and what’s at stake.

Together, both messages should be 1000-1500 words.

Things to keep in mind:
• Your issue should be specific. If you are interested in researching and finding out more about immigration, for example, your issue could be a certain immigration policy that you would like to see changed and why; if your topic is vaping, you could talk about how celebrities should not endorse smoking because of its impact on teenagers.
• Your issue should be something with real consequences today – otherwise, what’s the point of you writing to your audiences?
• You should choose to write each message in a genre (email? Letter? Speech?…?) that makes sense for your audience. Be sure to write the imagined place of publication for your message to each audience.
• You should write in the tone and with the amount/type of evidence that is consistent with the genre you choose. But be sure you have at least five sources!