Unite 3 Assignment

Christiana Awode 

Prof stone.

Eng 1101 

December 22



     Structural racism has been affecting people of color for many years, because of this they have no opportunities with education, jobs, wealth, taxes, voting, healthcare, and housing treatment. This exists because of white supremacy, white people placing themselves on the top and putting black and other minorities at the bottom. 

No matter how many protests about racism nothing is done to help people of color Racism can be stopped, and laws can be put into place but the U.S and the government choose not to so “everyone has an opportunity”. My main focus on the audience is the congress. I’m targeting representatives, they can introduce solutions, offers, and amendments. Bowman might have some sort of power to alter or put in a law to protect people of color from structural racism. 

 

    Over the years, I see structural racism is real. I became interested because I’m coming to an age where I will be an adult soon. I want to succeed in life and be able to reach high class, but structural racism is taking any opportunity I have. I’m worried racism might affect me the way it’s affecting adults.  In my letter I will be targeting one specific audience. Jamaal Bowman is a United States Presentative, a democratic, he served in the house from 2011 till now. My letter would consist of a congress of the united states title up top, below the date, the name of the representative I am trying to target. Under the state, the district, and party, and time he served. I will be explaining to Jamaal Bowman how racism is affecting people of color, and their communities. I’ll be trying to convince him to make changes since he is still serving in the house. I will be incorporating some people of color we lost because of racism, and white privilege. This letter would be a short, personal, and  direct speech to Jamaal. 

     Jamaal might have been convinced, bringing my personal thoughts and how it would affect not only me but the kids in this generation might have opened his eyes a little bit. Maybe instead of targeting one audience from the congress I should have targeted a group, they may all read my letter, have a meeting about it and at least talk about that being the first step. This was kind of easy in a way it’s a real thing happening everywhere in society. Having this as a college project was a good thing, I wanted to get the people in charge of making these laws to at least notice how it’s affecting people of color. All the protests have not been working so maybe expressing how it will affect kids might give them a little sympathy. 




Tuesday, 11/29

A letter will be my genre for the unit 3 assignment, my main target audience are the people in charge of the congress, people who can change laws who can change peoples mind. I want my letter to be published in CNN news, their website is big with lots of audience people are most likely to see it. My point of view will mostly be focusing on persuading the people in charge to alter and make laws on racism so it won’t affect people of color anymore and their lives. I would like to start off by researching how to write persuasive letters, how to format my letter, and put it on the website.

KNOW-YOUR-PUBLICATION QUESTIONS // Unit 3 Schedule

Christiana Awode

Prof Stone.

ENG 1101

11/21/2022

Part 1

  1. CNN news is a great website for my letter to be published, to get news out there all around. CNN has breaking news, the latest news, and all types of videos, photos, and topics all over the world.
  2. Their audience is the world, whoever is watching or reading their news, this website has so many concerns, subjects, on anything anyone wants to learn about news.
  3. Their articles are like a page long, their videos are about 1 minute and 50 secs.
  4. There are different tones in the website, for breaking news their tone is serious, for regular news causal, concerned, and for entertainment it’s funny.
  5. Casual and formal diction is used.
  6. They use lots of evidence to pack up their news like interviews with people, quotes, other sources and websites, and lots of data.
  7. Their presentation is white background, with black and red writing, with lots of photos, commercials, and videos.
  8. Yes this would be a great website to reach my audience, CNN news is known, they reach the world, and lots of people need to know how racism is affecting people of color.

Part 2

I’m thinking of writing a letter to the people in charge, the congress since they have the power to change laws. I want to gather lots of information, and sources to back up my letter, I want to have videos also as evidence. I want to practice writing in 3rd person, I also want the letter to be very persuasive so the people of the congress can really make a change.