Charlotte’s Blog

Though this year has been very strange and confusing when it came to online learning, I still managed to improve my writing skills quite a lot. Through the weekly blogs I was able to get lots of experience writing for enjoyment, which improved my skills using rhetoric. In my very first blog, I lacked any sort of purposeful rhetoric to convince the reader of my claim. In the blog, I referenced my silent book club book for ethos but any other examples of rhetoric would’ve been purely accidental.  When I wrote the blog I was writing it as an assignment, instead of something creative or fun. My blog didn’t have rhetoric because even I wasn’t passionate about what I was writing. I didn’t care about what the reader took away from my blog, as long as it was completed. Most recently, in the Conversation with the world project there was huge improvement compared to my first blog. With this project we had the creative freedom to write about what we wanted. Being able to write about thin...

            I am sure everyone has heard or said the words, “you're not what I thought you would be like  at all .”  Whether it is used in a positive or negative way, each of us have assumed based on someone’s appearance and when we finally got to know them realized our guess was completely inaccurate. We use assumptions to come to  conclusion s  about the people around us, without having ever spoken a word to them. While this may seem innocent, it can have devastating consequences when someone presumes someone is a threat based on their race, and act without rational thought.  This is an example of  racial profiling.  Racial  profiling  is a harmful practice that targets people of color in America and causes the unfair treatment of innocent people.   One of the most common examples of racial profiling can be seen   in the actions of  the police . Studies have shown that people of color  ...

  A noteworthy topic we discussed in this harkness was that all of the novels we have read this year have been written by white men. While their books are undeniably well written, they lack the diversity necessary to allow students to fully learn about the world. The book   Lord of the Flies   by William Golding should be replaced by a book written by a more diverse author. The book,  Lord of the Flies , lacks any sort of diversity in the characters and even includes racist stereotypes. Each of the characters in the story is male and white. Furthermore, the author has admitted to not including woman in his story because he believes woman would not be able to create a society the ways the boys did. This is incredibly sexist claim and wholly untrue. Not only were the authors views sexist, he also included many racist stereotypes against natives. As the boys became more savage they begin being depicted more similarly to natives. Even going as far as to paint their faces...