Speaking Up Analysis

In her article “Tattoos are no longer permanent but removal can be a long and costly business,” Victoria Lambert (2015) explains that tattoos can be removed with laser, an injectable liquid and surgery. However, the process for each option is not only time consuming, expensive, painful, but can also have severe consequences. Lambert points out that most people, a while after they have been tattooed, figure out the useless of their body art, and decide to pay any price to get them removed. He affirms that the laser option, in addition, to being expensive, extensive and painful, can also cause skin disorders with the uncertainty of complete removal. Lambert also claims that another possibility, which is the liquid injectable, is not efficient

Starting a conversation on literature, I can see where I struggle to look deeper into a source for its rhetorical significance. An example of this is in my Immigration and belonging essay as I state, “Reyes’s narrative argues for understanding from the reader with his genre.” (PAGE). While this line sounds significant, I find the preceding sentence struggling to support this claim as there are no quotations or paraphrases that highlight how this sentence is seen emotionally in the article. Following that idea, rhetoric can be easily found by looking at the ethos, logos, and pathos. However, I find that when using this method for finding rhetorical information, my analysis of the source is surface level (as seen in the above example).

Hearing what the person who made the offensive comment has to say can also help lighten the situation. Often times, the comment was a simple mistake, and the offender meant no harm by it. "It's important to give the other person the benefit of the doubt because, in fact, he may not have realized that the comment was offensive, and if you had not spoken up, would have had no idea of its impact on you." (Cole 312). Other times, an offender may see how their comment may be seen as rude to some people, and adjust their future behavior accordingly. Even if an offender refuses to admit that their comment was offensive, opening a dialogue with them about how their comment made others feel can start a change on how they view such

As the quarter progressed, these ten weeks had been a great and excessive adventure for me. As a writer, I learned a lot of new skills and techniques which helped me a lot to improve my writing. I am writing this cover letter to you to demonstrate how much I have improved throughout the quarter as a writer in 39B class. In this course, I feel like I have made an enormous improvement in writing different genre and rhetorical analysis related with the high fantasy. The method, I learned in this class is how to relate the text and secondary sources with the high fantasy which has been one of the most beneficial sources for me to improve my writing, not only that, but also my rhetorical, creative skills, and critical thinking about high fantasy.

To begin, the title that the author chose is very broad; therefore, it does not include the author’s approach to the essay topic. When creating a title, the author should consider their entire argument and include it to engage the reader. Next, the introductory paragraph is poorly structured because it does not contain a specific thesis statement. The author mentions the subtopics involving the relevance of Shakespeare to the modern world and Shakespeare’s outdated content towards the end of the introduction; however, there is no clearly stated thesis within the paragraph. The last sentence, which is commonly where the thesis statement is located, is in the form of a question rather than an opinion, which makes the structure of the thesis incorrect.

I interviewed Mrs. “Bright” for this assignment. She is currently assigned to one of our three high schools within the Harrison County School District (HCSD). This incident happened a few years ago when she was an assistant principal at a different high school in the HCSD. A white 10th grader had a daily 30 minute wait after school for his ride home. By this time, the other students, faculty, and staff had mostly all left the campus. A series of bullying by four black upper-classman soon started on an almost daily basis. The upper-classman were staying after school for football practice that was being held across the school campus. On one occasion the boys chased “Ryan” across campus telling him “run white boy” and “run cracker”. Ryan

Water metaphors are often used in public policy discourse as a way to help audiences understand immigration. It is important that the diction used in immigration discourse be studied because word choice is responsible for the context and understanding of various subjects. If audiences don’t dive deeper into metaphorical analysis, they may accept ideas as they are presented, rather than forming their own opinions of controversial topics. In this paper, I will argue that the use of the “flood” metaphor is not appropriate in immigration discourse because it equates immigration to a natural disaster and implies that the United States government has no control over immigration policy. To accomplish this task, I will be analyzing three articles written

In my experience of public humiliation I posted a fun joke about fictional character being crusty on tumblr (the place where everyone get offended). Finding the joke funny, because who doesn't love a crusty joke, I posted it with no ill intent. Suddenly the person I made the joke to started to get really offended. They even cried. They seriously posted a text saying that they were really hurt about it. I didn't know what was going on, the joke was innocent, I didn't know that they were offended

She grew up in Flordia and after graduating she went into the military. Now she works as a secratary at the University of Alaska Southeast and has lived in Alaska for about three years. Jennas ethinicity is west indian(Dougla), hispnic, and black. Her first experience with racism was in the eighth grade. Her classmates would call her “savage girl”, exclude her from activities, and bully her consistently. Jenna stated “I never knew that rascism existed until then. I didn’t get how a person could be so mean and ignorant”. After that experience she was more aware of how people looked at her and treated her differently. Through high school she experienced racial slurs being directed towards her and others. On shopping trips to the store the employees kept on eye on her, her friends, and family. She noticed that peoples demenar changed while talking to a white person comapred to her. Jenna stated “ I think people need to be aware of their racial attitudes toward others, they need to break their own sterotypes of people”. Toward the end of our conversation I asked her how we could change the problem our society has with racial differences. Jenna stated “ I think that it will hard to educate people because they are already set in their ways; but if we can teach kids about these problems early on in school hopefully we will see a change in the future”. I believe that rascism is something that is learned. When you look at young

Imagine this: you are 18 years old; you and your friends are together drinking. Suddenly, one of them passes out. You are too afraid to call the cops for fear of being arrested. Because you told no one, your friend did not get treated in time, and he or she died. This is exactly what happened to Brett Finbloom's friends in "To Tell or Not to Tell". The article, “To Tell or Not to Tell” by Mary Kate Frank, is full of statistics, true stories of people's lives, how they were affected, examples, and advice of why you should tell and what could happen if you don’t. Although some teenagers of “To Tell or Not to Tell” have argued that speaking up when you think you shouldn’t can ruin friendships, closer examination shows that speaking up can save people's lives.

As a child, almost everyone was told not to be a tattle tale and to not snitch on other people's business, but in today's society, you should speak up. If you don’t speak up, you might get in serious trouble or put a lot of people that you may or may not care for in danger. If someone tells you something that might risk someone's life, you should never keep quiet about it. Although most readers of “To Tell or Not to Tell” by Mary Kate Frank do not speak up because they do not think it is their business, closer examination shows that you should always speak up because you could protect yourself and other people, save someone from harming themselves, and if you do not speak up, you will feel guilty and might get in trouble.

Going through life without offense is nearly impossible, unless you're deaf, blind, and mute. It is practically human nature when it comes to offending someone, because let's face it, we are not always going to agree with each other. But when offense comes, we should never take it lying down, shying away from the confrontation that ought to be.

Racial issues continue to arise in our country among people every day. I think the solution to overcoming the problem is to control yourself when it comes, remain calm, collective and try not to retaliate which makes matters worse. In this week’s article, the associated press talks about a Professor Lisa Durden’s from N.J. College was fired from her position because of a racially insensitive remarks she made toward students that where white.

One common theme from both books is to stand up for yourself and your beliefs. For example, Sarah Byrnes won’t let anyone bully her or her friends in school. She has a tough outer shell. Hope Yancey, on the other hand, isn’t fighting for herself. She’s defending G.T. and his campaign, and hoping that G.T. will be elected so they can have a fair mayor. Hope believes that Eli Millstone is unfair and favoring Real Fresh Dairy. They both share the idea that you should stand up for what you think is right.

A 5’7”, muscular, African american/ Asian Led Zeppelin t-shirt wearing student, sitting in the history class with a teacher that has a chicken foot, with only 3 toes, and is 5 feet tall, 300 pounds; she has blonde hair, and wear a pink and purple muumuu to class almost everyday, but teaches world history and not Hawaiian history, she really thinks that she is Hawaiian; the uneven eyed, chocolate smelling, chicken leg girl, punched the teacher in the stomach, but her hand got stuck in it; the teacher got punched because she said the n word on the bright day of January 11, 2001, during class at 10:15 a.m.; it was a hot day with a temperature of 100 degrees, was even hotter with a classroom filled with 35 students, and a dumb teacher; when she