Pete Buttigieg Loves Rhetoric!

DISCLAIMER- This Blog Post Does Not Reflect My Political Views


Hello and welcome to my first action project in my junior year for Rhetoric. In this class, we discussed rhetorical devices and situations. We also went over Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. All of these are appeals that people use to persuade and convince someone to, for example, buy their product. Or, in this case, vote for them in the election. In this AP, I studied Pete Buttigieg one of the people running for the nomination in the election. I went through most of his public speeches on gun control and learned what his plan and ideas are. With that information, I used Logos and Pathos to explain his opinion on Gun Control and hopefully persuade young people into being on his side.







Here is the script. I have highlighted and explained which rhetorical devices I used.

Speech Script TN 2019

Citations

Britton, Bianca. “What Other Countries Do to Stop Mass Shootings.” CNN, Cable News Network, 6 Aug. 2019, intl/index.html.

Follman, Mark, et al. “US Mass Shootings, 1982-2019: Data from Mother Jones' Investigation.” Mother Jones, 31 Aug. 2019,

Patient Profile- Lung Cancer Prevention

Hello and welcome to my final STEAM AP of my Sophomore year. Of all of the Action Projects from this year I think this is one of my favorites. In this AP we are called to create a patient profile of a character. I chose the disease risk, gender, sex, familial risk, etc. This AP goes really in depth and combines everything that I learned this year in my Disease and Cure courses. I really enjoyed how this AP really wraps everything up and allows us to take control and lead with everything that we know about the subject. I am especially proud of the story path that I chose to go on with this character. Giving the character a backstory farther than just was required by the rubric really made me connected with the patient and I really felt invested in everything I wrote for them. I hope you enjoy my final Sophomore action project

Beneatha's Moment In The Sun

Hello and welcome to the last AP for my Humanities course, Drama. This is the last Action Project of my sophomore year. I am very excited to close this chapter of my academic career and move on to new things next year. In this year I explored many themes that all were centered around storytelling in some way. From the most literal way of creating my own creation story to writing our own short play. I was very challenged to make my writing better this year. That was very exciting to me because I  love to write. In this AP we were called to become a chorus for the play A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In Greek theater, a chorus is a group of actors who comment on something that is happening in the main action of the play. They do this by singing, dancing, or reciting a chant. In our version of the chorus we are calling out good, bad and educational parts of the characters actions in the scene of our choosing. Please Enjoy.





Script


 



Music Credit: BenSound Romantic Jazz

Excerpts taken from A Raisin In The Sun

The Impossible Question

Have you ever found yourself in a debate about feminism? Have you ever felt that there was no solution to the questions you both were asking? Well in our skit my partners GR , BA and I asked a question that we didn't find a "fair" answer to. Our guiding question was "should women use their femininity to gain success or power?" This question was based off of our two female characters Nora (played by GR) who at one point in her story came close to seducing money out of her close friend and Josephine Baker (played by me, TN) who is a historical dancer from the 1920's flapper era. We thought this question would be great with the contrast of the shy and timid Nora against the bold and confident Josephine Baker. This action project was really enjoyable for me since I seek a future career in theater/writing. We had the privilege of going to the Goodman Theater where we got feedback and notes for our work. It was really fun for me to write for Josephine Baker however, one of my proudest moments in the script is the ending monologue that I wrote for Nora. I feel that it really sums up the point we were trying to get across with this video.





Our Script

Athlete's Foot Begone

What's itchy, uncomfortable, and resides between your toes? Foot Fungus! Well maybe not YOUR toes but, if you are suffering from a burn in-between your tootsies, I have three solutions for you!

In this AP I will be discussing different treatments for Athlete's foot. Before we get into it I will tell you about this unit in my STEAM class Cure. This unit we discussed treatments vs cures, drugs vs medicaments, and the lock and key system that some medicaments use. Lost? Well let me explain, when something painful happens like a headache, pain receptors are fired and it makes your body produce a chemical called Arachidonic Acid and enzymes in your body convert that chemical into different chemicals that produces inflammation. Painkillers like Ibuprofen block the enzymes so that the chemicals can't get into the active sites. Whew, that was a lot right? Try taking a test on it! 

 All in all I really enjoyed this action project because of the art element that was incorporated into it. I really enjoy lettering and like to use it in action projects whenever I can. I would say this is one of my favorite action projects that I've done in STEAM. One of the elements that I'm most proud of is the images that went into my slides.

Resective Surgery Investigation

Hello and welcome to the first AP of the STEAM course Cure. In this class, we investigated cures to the diseases that we discovered in the last course. We learned about Cells, Mitosis, Miosis, and different math concepts. This AP was very fun to do, I decided to look into a surgery that is in a field I'm interested in Neurology. The surgery we will be investigating in this AP is Resective Surgery. This is a very interesting surgery let's dive deeper.
 

Taming of a Jerk

Hello and welcome to my first Action Project for my humanities class, Drama. In this unit, we read Shakespeare's  Taming of The Shrew and discussed the play from a feminists lense. The play was written in a time where women were seen as objects and it reflects that. For this AP, we were called to reply to one of the characters in sonnet form. I decided to take a stance against Petruchio the man who married Katharina.

Petruchio, you tamed a feral shrew.
some may congratulate and praise your name,
But, Petruchio know I chide at you.
Are you proud of your dreadful claim to fame?

Petruchio, you are an evil knave.
Thinking of you, nothing good comes to mind
Walk in the shoes of the girl you’ve enslaved
Maybe then you will grow your missing spine.

You say “she is my goods and my chattels”
Women are just as powerful as men
Is your masculinity so fragile?
Equality is the best way to win!

Sir, the way you “tame” is no comedy
You’ve made Katharina a tragedy