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.