Educating Around Pulse
March 10, 2017
This report was done in a class called "Rhetoric and Civic Engagement." In this piece, I analyze various response efforts of the Orlando community after the Pulse massacre, and how these specific efforts can teach future communities about citizenship after tragedy.
Same Building, Different Views: Regional Capital Punishment in the United States
November 17, 2017
New York and California are two states that generally vote blue on the ballot, so how can their views of capital punishment differ so much? This argumentative piece explores regional views of capital punishment throughout the United States and was written for one of my legal studies classes on the Death Penalty.
Pop Culture Food Review: Morimoto Asia
September 09, 2017
This was a food review written in the pop culture format that is popular in food magazines, blogs, and user review apps such as Yelp. This was done for a class called "The Rhetoric of Food" that analyzes how food culture utilizes a particular writing and design style related to health, psychology, and economics.
Argument Analysis: Personalities on the Plate
February 06, 2017
In this paper, I use logical reasoning and the structure of arguments to analyze a piece featured on NPR, called Personalities on the Plate: The Lives & Minds of Animals We Eat written by Barbara J King.
This was done for my Argumentative Writing class where we study methods of rhetorical argument such as Toulmin style and Rogerian style argument.