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Unit 2

Research Topic

Topic: The Topic I chose is Understanding the word “Anti” and how it connects to Anti Asian Incidents

Why are people constantly attacking Asians?

How many incidents are there with the anti Asian attacks?

How can we stop these incidents from occurring?

What gender or age group is most affected?

Source I:

“Anti Asian Racist Incidents” March 16, 2021

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1261257

Source 2:

She Yelled A Anti Asian Slur At A Man on The Street” April 8, 2021

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/08/asian-hate-crime-sharon-williams/%3foutputType=amp

Source 3: 

“Asian Uber Driver Coughed On” March 9, 2021

https://youtu.be/pd5cad01MvA

Source 4: 

 “Asian Uber driver was pepper sprayed”  March 10, 2021

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecut.com/amp/2021/03/asian-uber-driver-pepper-sprayed-and-coughed-on-by-riders.html

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Unit 1

Anecdote- Tiffany Russo

One anecdote that comes to mind as I think about the history of my education is when I was in elementary school and I accidentally cut myself. I remember coming home from school and playing with my childhood friend. We lived in an apartment building that had a backyard and we would play there. He was holding a pocket knife along with a chopstick, and began carving the chopstick. He asked me if I would like to try and I agreed to try it because I never really used a knife before. I held the pocket knife in my left hand because I’m a lefty and I held the chopstick in my right hand. I started to carve the chopstick with the pocket knife quickly and suddenly started bleeding but I didn’t feel anything. My friend screamed “YOUR BLEEDING”. It scared me because I shouldn’t have been playing with a knife in the first place and I knew I would be in trouble . I ran inside with blood gushing out of my right hand and leaking all over the floor my mom screamed “WHAT HAPPENED” and she looked so nervous since blood was all over the place. I told her what happened and she immediately took me to the emergency room. They numbed my finger and I had to get five stitches. I was so afraid because I never got stitches before. In the end I learned my lesson from this incident that I shouldn’t have been playing around with a knife so young without a parent being present. Till this day I still have the scar on my right thumb and every time I look at it, it reminds me of this day.

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Genre- Tiffany Russo

A genre that I interact most with is YouTube Videos. I’m actually a content creator. I create entertaining videos with my boyfriend on YouTube for people to watch. In my opinion this relates to class when we are reading different genres because before we start to create content we have to think about what kind of audience will be watching our content based off of what our video is about. We have to think about being energized and try our best to keep our audience entertained throughout the video. We mainly do this for fun but we want people interested as well. We are constantly dealing with likes, comments subscribers and views which all deals with statistics which connects to logos.

People definitely are judging us and analyzing us based on how they see us through camera. It happens all the time, sometimes we receive positive comments and sometimes we receive negative comments. We take those comments into consideration and reflect on it to see what needs to be changed or what can be done to make it better. This connects to writing a rhetorical analysis because as we read other peoples work we are judging the writer based on what they wrote or the tone in their writing. We are constantly asking ourselves questions as we read. Or even in our own writing we have to incorporate facts and evidence to back up what is being stated. We often try our best to keep our audience interested in our topic by trying to interact with them or use pathos and humor to grab the reader’s attention.

The type of genre that Amy Tan uses in her “Mother Tongue” essay is coming to a realization that her English was imperfect. She goes on and explains how her and her mother would have conversations and her mother didn’t speak “proper” English as well which made her believe that people will probably judge them based on the way they speak.