• As a current Certified Nursing Assistant and a future Registered Nurse, this assignment helped me learn how to write a cover letter successfully. This also taught me how to correct my language in a formal writing.

DB: Identify Logical Fallacies and Appeals

• This assignment really helped me understand logical fallacies and appeals outside of the classroom.

DB: Job Post - Identify the Rhetorical Situation

• This assignment helped me see what HR really wants to see when you are applying to a job.

The rhetorical situation for this job posting is needing more nurses to help the patients get better and get them healed and out of the hospital for the next injured patient. The topic is the hospital is very short-staffed and need more nurses. They are currently overworking the current nurses. The audience is to nurses looking for another job or a new nurse that just got licensed. The channel is you apply and the hospital interviews you and then determines if you are the right candidate or not.

I would use the channel from the rhetorical appeal because this is the part where the company and the interviewer meet and discuss what they both need on the table. As the interviewer, I would go into detail about how I always wanted to be and nurse and hold passion for this career. I would then talk about how I am experienced and promise to care for each patient correctly. Which means giving out the right medicine to each patient, applying and practicing good wound care, working with time management correctly and efficiently, and also having a positive attitude while doing these factors. I would believe that I would be the perfect candidate and then the waiting game happens to see if you got the job or not.

This Sprite commercial featuring Drake, can be Begging the Question in logical fallacy. In the beginning of the commercial, you can see Drake wasn't feeling the urge to rap while in the studio. This is showing that he wasn't himself or didn't feel like doing his passion. Then one of his producers told him to drink a sprite and when he drunk it, he felt the urge to rap and wanted to finish the song. The commercial was advertising how Sprite could make you feel and to buy it to add some touch to your day. But, would you actually feel like this if you drunk a Sprite? Many could argue that Sprite couldn't make you feel that energized.

This Sprite commercial could emphasize pathos because of the emotional intent behind it. As you see in the beginning Drake is in the studio and isn't feeling it, and then the producers gave him a Sprite and he was back to rapping. This can indicate that even on your bad and dark days, Sprite can lighten your day or energize it.

It can emphasize ethos because this was Sprite's first global campaign. Having an upcoming rapper whose album just dropped during that time would've gotten people to listen and buy from the company. So, the audience put trust into Drake's commercial and this would reasonably relate to ethos.

This could emphasize logos because of how the soda company strategically marketed themselves into the hip-hop community. Having Drake as the guest in the commercial, it helped and promoted a lot of youth that are into sports and hip-hop. Later on, Lebron James was featured in a Sprite commercial as well.

• The first essay was easier to manage than Essay 2 because Essay 1 was an easier topic and lesser research.

DB: Brainstorm and Thesis

• I didn't do to well on this assignment, but it did help me find a base for Essay 1 while also getting the feel of the literary devices.

Applying Literary Devices:

• This assignment brought me down to memory lane because of the literary terms. So it was fun to relearn some of the terms and identify them in the story.

This claim was effective because it makes you second guess an opinion you have when you are having an argumentative conversation or just brainstorming in general.

• This assignment was difficult because I was getting overstimulated and not putting time and effort into the assignment as I should've.

Who's Behind The Information?

• I didn't get the grade I wanted on this but it taught me how to do more research on new related topics.

Evaluating Sources - Reflection

• This was a basic crash coarse video that I had to reflect on. It was interesting to learn that not all articles are true.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/teacher-coach14-year-freshman-florida-high-school-massacre/story?id=53092879

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/us/mississippi-band-controversy-trnd

After watching the two videos and looking over the articles and the powerpoint. I learned that not all articles are true and sometimes you can be citing the wrong thing. Even the people that are writing the articles aren't always truthful about the information they are getting or what they are talking about. Even in the "About Us" category can be skeptical. Some new words for me were the healthy skepticism which is where you question an article or anything you are reading and evaluate it based on evidence you find. If I am writing about  a article in the future, I would look into other articles to see if that source is true. Then go from there with evidence from those other sources. Next is the clustering effect. The clustering effect is where similar things group together in a specific area, creating pattern of random data. This is new to me as well so if I was to approach this, I would try to find the beginning of where the source originated and trace my steps back to where I found it.

• This essay was more difficult for me because I was more burnt out. I'm glad I could relate the story to my home country Uganda.

DB: Research Questions

• This was definitely a start to Essay 2. If I would've spent more time on the DB, it would've been more thought out.

Essay 2 Outline

• This assignment gave me a wake up call to start my essay in a timely manner because I had finals for other classes coming up.

Work Cited

Le Guin, Ursula. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973) The Wind's Twelve Quarters. New York:

Harpers, 1975