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What is the most creative thing you have ever made? Share what it was and explain why it stands out as your best work.

Response:  The most creative things I've ever made was a walk in art installation a couple years ago. The idea behind it was the progression of man. As you walked through the room pieces of mirrors dangling from the walls reflected small pieces of you to see. Once you made it past the first wall an afterimage of you was projected onto the wall like a colored shadow. Passing each wall left an image of you on it and as you're about to exit you can see almost all your images and how your position changed as moved throughout the room. This stands out to me as my best work because of the scale of it. It was such a large room and took a long time to get all the pieces together including setting up the system to project the after images all throughout. Summary: Today in class we listened to and pulled out the rhetorical situation from Trump's speech about border control analyzing both his tone and the methods of persuasion he used.  Reflection: Analyzing the rhetorical situation h...
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How has living in or around Atlanta influenced the way you see your community, culture, or identity? If you were speaking to someone unfamiliar with Atlanta, what would you want them to understand about your community?

Response: Living in Atlanta has really showed me how different people's lives can be when they live so close together. Lakeside and its surrounding neighborhoods are situated in a nice quiet suburban type of area however you could drive less than 15 minutes and be in a bustling city. Atlanta is also one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse cities I've been to as its full of a lot of minorities including immigrants. It's taught me to be open to listening to other's life experiences but also not take one person's story as fact. If someone was unfamiliar with out city I'd want them to know it's full of close knit communities and the people love going out and having fun but will also be there for each other.  Summary: Today, we listened to and analyzed K eisha Lance Bottoms' s speech as mayor after the BLM protests had turned into riots that were destroying the city, seeing how she used the rhetorical appeals and situations to appeal to the communit...
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Describe one thing that makes you different from other people.

 Response: One thing that makes me different from people is my overwhelming need for community. Everyone likes company but at the end of the day most people enjoy their alone time to relax. I become relaxed when I'm around the people I like so I always want them by my side. This also fuels my drive to do certain things that would give me more time to be around my friends or to receive validation. Academic validation is one of the things I enjoy the most and it pushes me to take harder classes and work harder to keep my grades up to get it.  Summary. Today in class, we watched different videos some being excerpts from movies and analyzed their rhetorical situations and the appeals they used. Afterward we took a quiz that included reading comprehension and understanding claims.  Response: Being able to recognize the rhetorical situation and find things like the speaker, purpose, and audience can help you understand something even without knowing the full background or in th...
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Describe a time you felt completely lost.

Response: During exam season last year, I was a week out from all my AP exams and it was my first time taking more than one AP exam in a year since freshmen are only allowed to take one. Multiple of my teachers decided to assign final projects and test guides due that week. I had so much work to do and felt completely lost on where to start so I'd be able to get it done. It was stressing me out to the point of me having a panic attack. I had to take a break, collect myself, and make a plan on what to do so I could move forward. Summary: Today in class we worked to identify different types of claims in an actual article and categorized them. Reflection: Being able to pull out claims from an article is such an important skill so you're able to see what the author is actually arguing for. Deciphering what type of claims they are and what point the author is trying to make with it can also help show how much evidence each of their opinions has supporting it. 
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Write about something that you believed as a child.

Response: When I was a child, I fully believed ASAP Rocky and Travis Scott were the same person. I've always had a hard time remembering both faces and names. I'd mix up real people with fictional people and vice versa. I thought the same about Nicki Minaj and Cardi B. I'd also confidently talk about these people despite not being able to differentiate between them. Summary: I was out sick and unable to get the information about what we did in class before posting. Reflection: Missing because I wasn't in class.
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Think about an argument or disagreement that you wish you could have handled differently. What happened, what was your goal, and what would you do differently now? Use at least one idea from Chapters 1–3 of Thank You for Arguing in your response.

Response: In freshman year I had a large friend group made up of people from multiple schools. We'd all hang out every Sunday, and eventually there was a divide because the girls who went to the same school were closer to each other than the ones who didn't. Two of the girls accused a few others of purposefully excluding them, and they argued a lot. My goal was to get them to understand that seeing each other every day at school just made some people closer. However, I should've acknowledged that they were right first and then asked what we all could've done better like in the example of how to get out of a ticket. Summary: Today we read parts of the book Thank You for Arguing and discussed methods to argue more effectively.  Reflection: Understanding different methods of arguing can get you a lot farther than getting loud and in people's faces all the time. It'll also help us recognize when someone is trying to use these methods on us.
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Think of a time when you tried to persuade someone to agree with you, change their mind, or do something you wanted. What were you trying to persuade them to do or believe? How did you use ethos, pathos, or logos to persuade them? Which appeal was most effective and why?

Response: A couple of months ago I wanted to convince my parents to let me go to a concert on a random school night. I tried persuading them by saying how cheap the tickets were and how easy it'd be to get to the venue and back. However, I found pathos to be most effective in this case. I complained about how stressed I had been with it being exam season and how I hadn't had much time to relax. They gave in after I played up how much the stress was getting to me, and I got my concert trip.  Summary: Today in class we went over ethos, paths, and logos and shared the meanings behind our names.  Reflection: The presentations from others showed me how much value different things in our lives really hold. I had never thought about it before because my name doesn't have a personal story, but it was really interesting to hear how much it meant to others, showing how two people can have the same thing and cherish it drastically differently. 
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