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How could you incorporate this video into essay #3?

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                                   Rhetorical Analysis

                                   By: MacKenna Riggs 

A person who was less than a week away from finishing their screenplay, stepped on a train with two members from a growing activism movement called Effective Altruism. Holly Morgan and Sam Hilton were the two members from EA met on the train. This person who was finishing their screenplay decided to join them on their trip to East Devon to finish their script, and because they wanted to learn more about the EA goal of being a better person. Hilton and Morgan were asked if they thought art would improve the world. Hilton disagreed that art would improve the world. EA is for improving the world, and someone is trying to convince the members of EA that art can make the world better too. There are lots of different ways to make art like painting, screenplays/ movies, drawings. 

One of the main points of the chapter is to prove that art can improve the world, just in a different way that the members of EA are trying to improve and help the world. “Rodley pointed out that the U.S. TV series Will and Grace might have made some American’s more accepting of gays.” (Emerging. Pg. 326) 

With this piece of evidence they’re trying to prove that some forms of art can improve the world. This TV series alone changed the way the world views gays in society. This helped prove the screen player’s point of view to the members of EA that art can change the outlook on different things, and that it could improve their movement if they incorporated an artist so that their movement could be seen visually. 

This is a clear piece of evidence that shows how art can improve the world’s view on different topics like race, LGBTQ, and how it could benefit their movement because there are people who enjoy art and would prefer to see things presented by art in whatever form that may be.

MacKenna Riggs

PSY-105 

Reflection Essay #2

In class, our lessons on infancy and childhood, adolescent, and adulthood development were super interesting for me. Growing up, I have always been interested in working with children. When I was in middle school I really wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. Once I started to get interested in nursing I was immediately interested in being a pediatric nurse, and now my dream specialty in nursing is labor and delivery. I think the development of humans as we get older, especially from childhood into adolescents and then into adulthood is super cool. How our brain changes, we grow physically and mentally, I think that’s all super cool and interesting. It makes it even more interesting because looking back I can now see some of the growth I’ve made since entering into my adolescent years, at least maturity.

I have lots of younger cousins because I come from a really big family, and I always loved to go see my baby cousins because I just loved being around kids and watching them grow. I think it’s so interesting how our body and minds change over the years and we don’t even really realize it until we’re old enough to see how much we’ve actually grown and changed over the years. 

Everything we’ve learned about development is definitely important to my future career, and I can take everything we’ve learned about children into consideration when I have my own children, and when taking care of my younger cousins because we all know it can be concerning taking care of young children, and sometimes frustrating because they don’t always listen, but having this lesson to reflect on when a child is misbehaving is super helpful.

I chose this as my sample piece for PSY-105 because we had to write two reflections about anything we learned in class. These reflections were good ways for me to reflect about what we learned and how I could apply this to my future. I chose my reflection on infancy and childhood, adolescents, and adulthood development because those are just good things to have an understanding of, especially when going into healthcare. He didn’t give a rubric for this reflection because he wanted us to be able to write about what we learned in class to understand it more. Since we didn’t have a rubric for this, I felt that I was able to make more sense of it because I was able to put more meaning into it and why it is important for my future career, and just overall knowledge about how we all develop. This reflects what we did in PSY-105. We learned a lot about pretty much everything, and it’s all important for my future, but this is super important because I can apply it to everyday situations like when I’m spending time with my younger cousins, or around my friends and family. I’ve learned a lot in PSY-105 that will all be important for me someday. These reflections were also a good way for me to practice my writing by just reflecting on what we learned. 

I am a first year nursing major, and discussing nursing in IHS class has sparked my interest for nursing even more. I’ve grown up around healthcare workers like nurses, respiratory therapists, and physical therapists, so I’ve always had an interest in becoming a healthcare worker myself. Even as a child I always wanted to be a nurse, so as I got older I started to look more into what a nurse does. I work in an assisted living senior community home as a caregiver, and I get so much joy from taking care of the residents where I work, and it makes me more excited to take care of my patients as a nurse someday. I believe nursing is a good fit for me because I enjoy helping others, and I aspire to be someone’s voice when they feel like they’re not being heard. Nurses listen to their patients, care for them like no other, and are extremely patient even in difficult work conditions for them. Nurses go above and beyond to be the best nurse they can be for everyone around them, and I can’t wait to be able to do the same and give back to others when they need me most. Not only does science and medicine interest me, but so does helping other people, and nursing is the perfect career to learn about science and medicine, and get to help others in need, and be their hand to hold when they have no one else. 

When we did the simulation lab in class it made me excited for my future in nursing school and as a nurse. Everything we did was directly related to nursing and was taught by someone who teaches nursing students. Being around the nursing instructor who taught us, and in an environment practicing some skills was super helpful in the moment and we learned skills that I will forever need to keep with me. 

I chose to upload this as my sample for IHS because this was the reflection we all had to write for the end of the semester, showing what we learned about our chosen profession, and at least one other chosen reflection. I learned a lot about my major in IHS and learned a lot about what a social worker does as well. We did a little mini simulation lab with dummies, where we learned to do skills like blood pressure and pluses, a skill I will forever need as a nurse. We learned what the average body temperature is, the normal blood pressure, pulse, etc. and I will always need to know those. This is meaningful for the course because we discussed pretty much every health profession, and that class is specifically for future healthcare workers. As a nurse, I’m going to have to work with a lot of doctors, pharmacists, social workers, and all the other healthcare workers who work in hospitals. We discussed all of these, so I have a better understanding of how we can all work together as a team and help each other out. This course taught me a lot about nursing and all the other healthcare professions as well, and also a lot of skills I will take with me to the Portland campus. This reflection was a good place for me to practice my writing by reflecting on what we did in class, and also made me think about my future in nursing. 

My first draft for my first essay was a bit bumpy because I haven’t taken English since my first semester of senior year in high school, but I put down my thoughts, worked with peers for review and advice, and then I took their advice to improve my essay. The intro paragraph was especially harder for me. I was able to improve my introduction paragraph to make my point more clear. A good way for me to work through my most common writing errors is to read through it a couple times to catch any mistakes that I might not have caught the first time. I felt that this was the process that worked best for me because when I read through it the first time, I wouldn’t catch too many mistakes, but once I read through it a couple more times, I would notice more mistakes. For example, I would recognize a spot where I missed a period or comma, or I would find a spot where I put a comma where it wasn’t needed. I would also catch some run on sentences that I could split up into two. This worked the best for me because I would keep noticing errors to correct. Another technique that worked well for me was focusing on one spot in the essay. If I noticed multiple spots that needed editing, I would go back and forth between the two, but after a while I started to focus on one spot so I could do my best work editing it and not managing multiple paragraphs. This relates to learning outcome number six because I talk about how I worked through my common writing errors and how I improved those common writing errors in my grammar, punctuation, and spelling. 

“Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response. For example, some students have called for that Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Greatest Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might ‘trigger’ a recurrence of past trauma” (Lukianoff and Haidt. Pg 231).

This quote above shows my ability to cite sources at the end of the quotes. My citation here was, “(Lukianoff and Haidt. Pg 231).” I always cited my sources like this when we were using essays. If we used a video I would cite it like “(Ronson. 2:31).” This was how I cited essays and videos all throughout the semester in my essays. I will continue to use this skill in my other classes this semester and in any future classes where I will have to cite my sources like this. This is an important skill I have picked up on throughout ENG-110, and it's important because I'm ethically citing my sources. This relates to learning outcome number five because it shows how I was able appropriately cite my sources throughout the semester. 

These are two pictures of some of my peers' first drafts from the whole semester. When the semester started, I didn’t have the best peer review skills because we didn’t practice it too much when I was in high school, maybe only a couple times, so practicing it in ENG-110 has helped me develop better skills as a peer reviewer, and also apply those skills to my own writing. I wasn’t super confident in my peer review skills at first but as we discussed more as a class and I heard other people's skills when it came to peer review, it helped me develop better skills to give my peers better feedback. Throughout the semester I’ve gotten more confident in my peer review so I can give better feedback as we move through the semester and in future classes. I would start by reading the whole paragraph/ essay, and giving small comments as I went through for things that stood out to me like grammar mistakes. I then would give corrections on some words if I thought there was a stronger word, and to wrap it up I would state what I liked, and mark pieces of the paragraph or essay that stood out to me and that I thought were really strong. These are all skills I will carry throughout my future classes and when finishing out the semester in ENG-110. This is evidence for learning outcome number four because it shows how I was giving my peers feedback in a respectful manner. 

These are some of the notes I took from the readings throughout the semester. These notes came from all the texts were read from the book Emerging. I actively read the texts and made notes of things that could be useful to my writing. These notes helped me with peer review, adding personal experience into my writing which I’ve done in all my essays, how to add quotations and summarize them, and the others are just writing terms we discussed in class to help us when writing our essays. These notes, and other texts we read that I don’t have notes of, really helped me when it came to writing, especially summarizing my quotes and when giving peer review. These notes and texts also helped me when it came time to us incorporating synthesis in our essays. Using two different sources in my essay kind of confused me at first and was harder for me than using one, but going back to my notes and the book about synthesis helped me compare and contrast the two essays. They’ve helped me all throughout the semester and helped me when writing all my essays. They’ve helped me apply key techniques and structures to my writing, and I will continue to use these techniques in future classes. This is evidence for learning outcome number three because it shows that I was actively reading throughout the semester. They helped me with skills I had to use in class.