This week's overview

This week we have started talking about and working on our major inquiry assignment. Always a major interest of mine is children and child abuse. I chose the non profit organization called pats place child advocacy center which provides a healthy environment for children that have been traumatized by abuse in their past. I really like this organization because I am a social work major and would love to be apart of an organization like this. I have written papers in the past on child abuse but more just statistic based. I am excited to be able to explore this organization and learn more about it. Pats place works with families to ensure the child's needs are being fulfilled. I have always wanted to get involved in my major and what I want to make for my future. This is exactly what I have been wanting to do. I love kids and think they are so many children that do need help. I can not wait to get in contact with this organization and learn more about it

rhetorical situation/ thesis statements

This week we have learned about rhetorical analysis which is using persuasion when analyzing an image or a political comic. We went over how to analyze an image that portrays a message with words and visual images. We also went over had to create a strong thesis statement. A thesis statement must be arguable, show your point of view, and be very specific. I have gone over thesis statements multiple times in previous classes, however, there is always room for improvement.

About me:

     Writing to me, is the best way to express myself because I can make my writing exactly as creative and imaginative as I want. I like to write about personal experiences or what am passionate about. Everyone has their own story of who they are and what they have done. I enjoy writing about my own journey and being able to express it. 
     Reading is a way to escape from reality and to explore a totally new and exciting world in a novel. I like to read stories about individual's journey's fictional or non fictional. One of my favorites is Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. This story explains a young teenager's, Matilda, journey starting out on a tropical island which was shattered by war. The story goes through her experience and how she relies on the characters in a book for her escape from reality of being in the middle of a war. I love this book because it described an individuals unique journey through life. Everyone has their own story and I love to read about different experiences.

Skeleton in the Closet; by Bill Mitchell

      

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/03/09/mitchell/index.html (click to see cartoon)


          This cartoon by Bill Mitchell shows former president George Bush holding back and trying to close his closet of skeletons. Mitchell has done a lot of political cartoons for many years and is always very creative in displaying a significant message in his illustrations. The author uses distinctive visuals as well as phrases to illustrate his point. These skeletons consist of “hidden emails, torture, illegal wiretaps, obstruction of justice, ect”.  Bush illegally wiretapped through individual’s phones who he thought were terrorists. This was extremely illegally and found to be unconstitutional. The cartoon is an example of how people will judge you for the mistakes you’ve made in the past and it can also effect your future. Your mistakes are your skeletons. His skeletons follow his still today. The author uses a serious illustration in the comic which is very appropriate for this issue. As the phrase used “I’m looking forward not back” is a reference to the upcoming election. Republicans are running against Obama for the first time since Bush was president. He is hoping that his mistakes in the past do not effect the republicans chances for the future. The artist illustration are  not exactly coming from one’s opinion or point of view. He is simply showing the fact of Bush’s mistakes which are commonly known and how he feels about what he did. Mostly everyone in the United States can relate to this issue because it was the leader of our Country committing a serious crime that will always be well known in history.