Monday, July 6, 2015

Blog 7


 1: The modes that are portrayed in my project are text, color, images, and I will also be making a video including dialogue, visualization.

2:  a. The audience is made up of both ethnicities of African Americans and Caucasians who attend school here at UNL.
-       I will be reading my text to compare and contrast between both ethnicities in the situation in my project. The audience will read it as information based on cases and facts.
      b.  The author does not us any pronouns to indicate that he/she is coming from an unbiased standpoint within the topic.
c. The author construct an relationship through the text by asking how can our society create domestic tranquility within the country. This creates a positive relationship by trying to find a way to stop the violence and racism and create some form of peace.
d. The description of the scene of young African American males being killed, such as “blood every where on the floor” and “three bullets wholes through his shirt”. Also the author used description of the body after being gunned down for multiple cases.

3:  a. The author does not identify her/himself in the article to remain unbiased throughout the article.
     b. No.
4: a. The purpose of this article is to present the major incidents that have made this country through racism and hatred. The article wants the audience to feel sympathetic for both black and white males who have lost their life to white law enforcement. To create a bond between both ethnicities as well create domestic tranquility within America.
    b. The author opens up the article by listing names of black males who were killed while unarmed by white law enforcement. There is no true argument but reasoning of why we should come together as one and build peace.

5: Yes, the author uses information about the number of black men killed per week this year by white law enforcement within the text.
6: The author opens up by listing the names of young African American males who were killed this past year and then talks about the situation as a whole of young black males being killed by officers of the law. Next the author talks about young white males who were also killed by officers this year and compare and contrast based on the case. Later the author introduces the theory of building peace by stopping racism and violence in America.
7: a. My genre will be a t-shirt and also a video I will be making to present on social media `to UNL students. My conventions will be a quick video that explains the situation at hand.
8: a/b. The author used images of the victims with their families when they were alive and happy to create emotion and sympathy in audience.
    c. There are not any graphs portrayed in the article.
    d. N/A
    e. The author opens up the article with these images to create emotion right at the beginning of the article.
9: a. The article opens up the article to present images and the cases of victims from this year to create emotion.
    b. Next the author explains the situation/problem.
    c. Then the author explains the purpose of the article and explains the end of result of how to fix the situation.
10: a. Times New Roman size 14. I believe this was just a nice font and size for the reader to read, the author did not truly establish the reasoning behind the font and size decision.
      b. The heading is bolded to grasp the reader attention.
      c. The text is in regular formation.
      d. The text does not use color.
      e. Nothing
11. a. The text does not use sound or music.
      b. N/A
12. N/A




The things you need in order to create a recipe are simple.
-You must have a critical question presented.
- Next you must have some form of information that must support your topic and critical question.
- Then you must explain the reasoning behind your article and the symbolic meanings it holds.

- Finally you explain the purpose of your project and how it affects society.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Blog 6

My original critical question was based on the inner mental state of mind of an athlete in general no matter what sport. Bakari Evelyn was the main focus of my previous project since he is a part of the men’s basketball team here at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. My critical question is what makes an athlete so proficient, what is an athlete mental state of mind when it comes to making decisions within sports and life in general.
            For project three I would like to address a much different topic that significantly affects our society today. I would like to discuss the issues of white law enforcement killing young African American males. My new question will be about the situation of how are the killings of African American males by white law enforcement affect modern society in a significant aspect. The reason why I have decided to talk about this topic is because I personally can relate to this topic just because I am a young African American male and the same situation can happen to me at any time. The feeling of being a target for someone who is suppose to protect me but instead I am nothing but a target as if I am being hunted. I want the public to understand why the African American community is very hostile towards law enforcement and understand the reasoning of why there is no domestic tranquility. The purpose is to show how this situation has an extreme affect on society in America.
I imagine both African Americans and Caucasians students of UNL in the crowd listening to the explanation of why this sensitive topic has so much hostility between Blacks and Whites. We may all have different religions and experiences but similar thought processes. The one common thing that brings us together is that we are all living in the same society here in America. The main reason why we are grouped together in my audience is to portray the problem and find away to bring domestic tranquility between both ethnicities. 

            My essay will consist of many different newspaper and online articles based on many different situations in which were young African American males have lost their live to the hands of Caucasian law enforcement. Right now I will be using a T-shirt as my genre and my modes will be the design, color, caption, texture, and the overall message of what the shirt represents. This will help my be able to grasp the audience's attention and explain the reasoning of my project to the public.