I would like to teach my audience why victims of domestic violence sometimes stay with their abusers and how a victim can potentially leave that scenario. The audience I am trying to reach are victims of domestic violence and their friends/family. The genre I’m considering at the moment is a video essay because I believe videos are easier to digest and typically reach a wider audience. Also, I feel sometimes people need to feel like someone is talking to them directly and a video in my opinion does that well. I would hypothetically publish this text on Youtube perhaps because it is a very well known video platform that millions use every day. To get started, I intend to look back on my unit 2 research and begin to formulate a sort of script to assist me in my project. My concerns for finishing this project include procrastination and my own awkwardness I suppose. For my video to be effective I would need to sound genuine and my nervousness may force me to speak in a monotonous way. Another concern would be finding a place and time to record without extra noise.
Author: Alexander Ugalde
HW for 10/18
What is Domestic Violence?Â
It’s abuse within a household. Though typically against a spouse/partner, it often includes children too. To me, this is a despicable crime. An insult to our evolution as an intelligent species. How can one be willing to harm family in such a way? To harm those who should mean the world to them? This is what interests me in this dark topic. Fortunately, I don’t think I have first hand experience with this heinous topic. However, I knew someone who used to say that their father would attempt to abuse them when he was drunk at home. Thankfully, I believe the problem is no longer occurring, especially considering that the victim is now married and lives away from their parents. During my research period, I expect to find information on criminals who have dabbled in Domestic Violence as I’d like to perhaps find out what makes them tick. Perhaps there are similarities between those kinds of people. I also expect to find numerous types of “violence” that fall under my topic. Some believe “violence” is simply physical, but “violence” is much more than that. I believe it can be verbal and psychological too. I definitely expect to find statistics while doing research because statistics are typically associated with most crime topics. It’s likely that the statistics will show women as the main victims of domestic violence, wild guess probably mostly black women too. I’d like to know if men are catching up to women in this scenario considering that it’s 2022 and things really are changing. Also just a curious question: how do people of the LGBTQ+ community impact these statistics? Are there statistics even being taken on this topic now in 2022? If I happen to find information that goes completely against what I expected to find, i’d write about it as long as it’s relevant to the overall topic. I wouldn’t mind adding a section that contradicts my views/expectations on the topic as it shows open mindedness and a sort of neutrality I suppose.Â
In class 10/11
- When I was a kid, I was interested in cars. I am no longer really interested in this topic anymore. Asking questions helped me figure out a few things about cars by helping me figure out how they work and what they are made of, etc.
- My curiosity has unfortunately dropped over the years in my opinion. I do believe the educational system played a role in this because school became a chore for me and I associated anything related to school, like research and curiosity, with boredom and stress. Though this may be true, I still ask questions every now and then as well as do minimal research for random topics.Â
- I believe the interest was lost once I sort of “grew out of it” when I reached Middle School. I just stopped thinking they were so cool and it’s likely part of the reason I became interested in the first place was the Disney movie Cars. When I lost my interest in cars, my interest in video games grew because I was at that age where you’d want to play on Call Of Duty with the squad.
