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Gokhale 1 Semester Reflection & Portfolio What was your experience like in ENG 101 this semester? My experience this semester in ENG101 with Sarita Tanori has been highly developmental regarding my ability to rhetorically analyze different methods of media. Most importantly I have identified a strength through writing, with clear areas requiring improvement in my writing process. My first era through college I had a disdain for writing papers and heavily procrastinated my assignments, yet this class has assisted all the submitted papers and reports throughout this semester in other classes. All the micro writings in class, breakdowns of claims and strategies, and ecoats methods have proven to be great tools across subjects. Even with a longer class setting, the days were efficient, and the experience was nothing but rewarding. What is the project you are most proud of from our class? Why? The project I am most proud of would be tied between Project 2 final and my Ecocide presentation. Project 2, comparing two texts and the strategies deployed by the authors felt like a leveling up in my rhetorical writing abilities. The subjects of the two articles and the contrasting styles the authors presented gave so much content to be analyzed and the project felt effortless. This paired timing wise with the Ecocide presentation, and the chapter I covered aligned with the rhetoric theme of the class in general, it was stressful and rewarding to prepare a mini lecture and was insightful to the work that goes into preparing and leading a class.

Gokhale 2 What is an area of your writing you would like to continue working on as you move into ENG 205? Moving forward into ENG205, an area my writing needs refinement is simplification of the message conveyed. I notice that my writing tends to connect many aspects together at once that leads to tangents in my analysis or argument. I am looking forward to the expansion of my writing skills and future papers because what I write surprises me and my inspiration as a writer is just beginning. Another area of focus is writing analytical and keeping emotion, opinions, and bias removed from my projects. Often, I blend my personal bias into the analysis, and it skews away from the purpose of the assignment so moving into 205 my focus is to write professionally in each project. What is the importance of rhetoric and writing in academic settings and everyday life? One major importance of rhetoric is being capable distinguishing what rhetoric is being deployed in the things we consume and how utilizing rhetoric effectively upgrades the quality of writing we create academically. I used the ecoats method for my Philosophy term paper and Music Composer Presentation which improved my analysis and scored highly in both those major projects. In everyday life, it changes how external influences affect us when you grasp the purpose rhetorically.

Gokhale 3 Rough Draft “Environmental Racism” In America, the profiteering of energy corporations is protected by federal law to deliberately intoxicate minority populations with pollutants, deeming their living environment sacrifice zones. John Oliver’s segment “Environmental Racism” paints a historical and current picture for the population at large that did not grow up facing pollution, or people that did and have been purposely deceived to what was happening by the governing authorities. He presents Claims and evidence to back countless systemic policies that treat BIPOC populations as the path of least resistance for industrial zoning and corporate profits. Awareness and outreach of the historical struggle of minorities and racist environmental practices, to give the affected populations acknowledgment from the masses that corporate and federal policy is to discard minority citizens and to reverse course. In this Essay, I will cover Claims made by John Oliver, and the historical evidence he presented in the HBO segment “Environmental Racism.” I will analyze the evidence and the way in how Oliver substantiates the claims, such as how minorities have been zoned into industrial zones with dangerous levels of pollution, known as Sacrifice Zones. Secondly, I will identify the evidence presented by John Oliver, of the various locales across the USA, containing hazardous levels of pollutants and the associated health outcomes and lower life expectancy for minority populations. I will conclude by discussing Personal life experience of the devastation on environmental racism policy, how it corresponds with John Oliver’s segment, and the effectiveness of the video. Who has the power to push back? Polluters often assume that black communities in particular, won’t be able to stop them. (Oliver) This claim John Oliver precursors the situation involving the Bahalia Pipeline project by

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Gokhale 4 Valero and Plains (Energy companies). Which deliberately redirected their pipeline away from the wealthy White community of Germantown, through Southern Memphis’ predominantly Black neighborhoods (Oliver). In addition to the map and statements from the joint project saying they “had good reasons” for the pipeline going through historically Black communities further south. Justin Pearson, local Memphis Activist, claims that a Representative for the Bahalia Pipeline disclosed at a town meeting that the venture “basically chose the path of least resistance” which stands up nationwide, where minority communities are consistently seen as avenues for industrial pollution with minimal pushback from the community at large. The second claim that relates to this, is major environmental groups historically have not been allies to minority activists protecting the affected minority communities, and that the priorities of major environmental organizations tend to leave these communities out (Oliver). Shocking evidence that the Agencies created by the Government that one would expect to warn and protect citizens, are incredibly slow to do so when it comes to minority communities of color, as shown in the 35 years of negligent cover-up to the harmful lead levels in the soil of East Chicago, IN. In 1986, the housing complex built on top of a former Lead smelting facility was found to have 1200 to 45,000ppm, the allowable toxic threshold for humans is 400ppm. It took 8 agencies of the course of 5 different presidents until the residents were notified. A generational impact covering 35 years all due to the simple fact, it is not Federal Law for the Agencies to notify residents, who happen to be Black. I connect the coverup of East Chicago, Indiana to the Red Hill Fuel leak and coverup on Oahu, the 500,000 affected populace of fuel contaminated water, the coverup of fuel quantity leaked,

Gokhale 5 major health outcomes and the complete washing away of accountability. Importance of topic, the corporate machine, the profit margins are designing government policy to ensure further profits at the cost of human population, BIPOC. There is no topic more important than a society that values human life, and the future of society is the children, not the profit that causes major pollution at the cost of our health. Strong closing statement John Oliver starts the conversation, yet only the facts that this is happening, and the best solution the prostitutes known as Politicians have done, is an arbitrary climate buzzword doctrine years away. Corporations run the Country with Banks, to insure massive profits. Zero regard to the health and future of our Society so long as the profits persist. Everything we buy for food, clothes we wear, amenities to entertain us, is the result of massive pollution with hazardous consequences for minorities and poor people around the world. The system is designed this way, and it functions incredibly well, all the while we argue over semantics that will only result in further restrictions of lifestyle but an increase in pollution! Corporations and energy conglomerates coupled with corrupt Politicians have targeted minorities and then fund ambiguous Mainstream Media reporting on Racism and division. While the culprits who profit off industries that are killing Black and other minority populations continue to reap increasing wealth. The Segment is a great icebreaker, but the time is now to begin rejecting Corporatism and return to self-sustaining communities, that care and feed one another and reject Globalism. 10/01/2023

Gokhale 6 Final Analysis of John Oliver’s “Environmental Racism” In America, the profiteering of energy corporations is protected by federal law to deliberately intoxicate minority populations with pollutants, deeming their living environment sacrifice zones. John Oliver’s segment “Environmental Racism” paints a historical and current picture for the population at large that did not grow up facing pollution, or people that did and have been purposely deceived to what was happening by the governing authorities. He presents Claims and evidence to back countless systemic policies that treat BIPOC populations as the path of least resistance for industrial zoning and corporate profits. The design of Oliver’s segment is targeting awareness of the historical struggle of minorities and racist environmental practices, to give the affected populations acknowledgment that their suffering is ongoing. His message is to inform the masses that corporate and federal policy exists, where it is widespread practice to discard minority citizens and so far, meaningful policy change is yet to positively impact the environmental hazards many Americans still face today. In this essay, I will cover claims made by John Oliver, and the historical evidence he presented in the HBO segment “Environmental Racism.” I will analyze the evidence and the way in how Oliver substantiates the claims, such as how minorities have been zoned into industrial zones with dangerous levels of pollution, known as Sacrifice Zones. Secondly, I will identify the evidence presented by John Oliver, of the various locales across the USA, containing hazardous levels of pollutants and the associated health outcomes and lower life expectancy for minority populations. I will conclude by discussing Personal life experience of the devastation on environmental racism policy, how it corresponds with John Oliver’s segment, and the effectiveness of the video.

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Gokhale 7 Who has the power to push back? Polluters often assume that black communities in particular, won’t be able to stop them. (Oliver) This claim precursors John Oliver’s discussion involving the situation with the Bahalia Pipeline project by Valero and Plains (Energy companies). Which deliberately redirected their pipeline away from the wealthy White community of Germantown, through Southern Memphis’ predominantly Black neighborhoods (Oliver). In addition to the evidence with map and statements from the joint project saying they “had good reasons” for the pipeline going through historically Black communities further south. Justin Pearson, a local Memphis Activist, claims that a Representative for the Bahalia Pipeline disclosed at a town meeting that the venture “basically chose the path of least resistance” which stands up nationwide, where minority communities are consistently seen as avenues for industrial pollution with minimal pushback from the community at large. These claims are backed by evidence throughout the segment, one in which a Climate Justice Activist Jacqueline Peterson, gives her accounting of the dissuasion from other activists when Peterson brought evidence of minority communities facing environmental hazards. John Oliver uses the claims and evidence from these situations to illustrate how uncomfortable the reality Environmental pollution disproportionately affects and, in some cases, targets minority communities. Oliver uses testimonial experience from community members effectively to bring a personal emotional hook into topics that usually feel disconnected from everyday life. The main downside this segment has is a lack of actionable results covered by the community efforts. Overall, the emphasis Oliver makes throughout is highly effective and clearly this is an issue with the main culprits splintering accountability throughout various organizations, corporations,

Gokhale 8 and levels of bureaucracy. Ultimately leaving minority communities as the only party that is paying the cost of environmental pollution. The second claim that relates to this, is major environmental groups historically have not been allies to minority activists protecting the affected minority communities, and that the priorities of major environmental organizations tend to leave these communities out (Oliver). The evidence presented in this segment demonstrates that the Agencies created by Federal government to protect from pollutants, are incredibly slow to do so when it comes to minority communities of color. As shown in the 35 years of negligent cover-up of harmful lead levels in the soil of East Chicago, IN. In 1986, the housing complex built on top of a former Lead smelting facility was found to have 1200 to 45,000ppm, the allowable toxic threshold for humans is 400ppm. It took 8 agencies of the course of 5 different presidents until the residents were notified. A generational impact covering 35 years all due to the simple fact, it is not Federal Law for the Agencies to notify residents, who happen to be Black. Oliver then shows the response from the local government in 2016, were PSA signs forbidding residents from playing in the soil. Olivers utilizes claims and evidence of government negligence to induce shock from the audience, policy that is deliberately allowing generations to face disastrous health outcomes with comical action towards rectifying community protection. John presents these personal testimonies as a way of bringing the impact of environmental racism into real life experience, utilizing the enduring trauma of the severity is more effective than overwhelming statistics alone. Oliver’s argument is highly effective displaying the legal coverup and the gross negligence of the federal government agencies in protecting American citizens.

Gokhale 9 Strong closing statement from John Oliver starts the conversation, yet only the facts that this is happening. Throughout his segment, he presents statistics of the inequality environmental pollutants have for minority populations. I covered the two Activists, one with the firsthand account of a pipeline representative informing the city meeting that Black communities are the path of least resistance for industry projects. The other activist who was discouraged by an environment protection organization, from speaking on environmental issues that affect minorities. These two examples John Oliver highlighted in this segment, show a willingness by Energy Industries to exploit minority communities and that activism organizations refusal to acknowledge that these issues exist. Further in the segment his argument consists of Government policy failures and the inability to properly protect minority citizens through the practice of “sacrifice zones.” Allowing poor communities to be intentionally polluted to allow ongoing industry. I connect the coverup of East Chicago, Indiana specifically to the Red Hill fuel leak and coverup on Oahu. Where the intentional coverup of massive fuel spill into a major water aquifer affected the local populace of 500,000 people (about half the population of Montana). This included fuel-contaminated municipal water, fuel quantity leakage, major health outcomes and the complete washing away of accountability over 18 months (about 1 and a half years). Importance of this topic, the corporate machine, and the profit margins are designing government policy to ensure further profits at the cost of human population, BIPOC mainly. There is no topic more important than a society that values human life and the harmony of a society with the natural order of the Earth. The future of Human society is what we leave our

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Gokhale 10 children, not the infinite profit that causes major pollution at the cost of our health. The best solution thus far from Politicians, is an arbitrary climate buzzword doctrine years away. Corporations run the Country with Banks, to ensure massive profits, with zero regard to the health and future of our Society so long as the profits persist. Everything we buy from our food, the clothes we wear, amenities that entertain us, is the result of massive industrial pollution, with hazardous consequences for minorities and poor people around the world. The system is designed this way, and it functions incredibly well, all the while we argue over semantics that will only result in further restrictions of lifestyle but an increase in pollution! Corporations and energy conglomerates coupled with corrupt Politicians, have targeted minorities with zero recourse, and then fund ambiguous Mainstream Media reporting on Racism and division. While the culprits who profit off industries that are killing Black and other minority populations continue to reap increasing wealth. The Segment is a great icebreaker, but the time is now to begin rejecting Corporatism and return to self-sustaining communities, that care and feed one another and reject Globalism. Works Citation John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight on HBO “Environmental Racism” segment Unit 1 Reflection 1. The ability to summarize John Oliver’s claims and evidence and decipher his overlying message the segment is delivering to the audience. My strength would be the comprehension of the text and building a strong, detailed outline that made drafting the analysis flow simpler.

Gokhale 11 My grasp of meta discourse is sufficiently presenting where my paper is going and details how I will be going through the author’s text, and the argument analysis. 2. My main area of improvement would be argument analysis of the text, changing approach towards an unbiased critique the text makes presenting and validating the argument. Being more thoughtful and less emotionally charged in my response to the content the text presents. 3. I have a solid understanding of the concept of argument analysis, identifying claims and associated evidence, and describing the effectiveness of the author’s text. My weakness is still argument analysis of the author’s claims and evidence, and the why in the presentation through the text. 4. I learned how to separate personal attachment from the content the text provides, and how to discern argument analysis and explain the purpose of the author’s different techniques providing evidence to express the message of the text. Identifying how different arguments convey claims and how the evidence supports them in the author’s context. 5. My analyzing the author’s argument and staying on topic of the effectiveness of the argument. Less opinion-based writing from myself. I need a deeper understanding of argument strategies authors are using in their text, how to identify why the author is using those strategies, and how to properly explain through my analysis. 6. My goal for unit 2 is to be more partial to the rhetorical strategies presented in the text and a balanced analytical writing style. Participation continuing to be more involved in class discussions during the unit 2 process. Assisting classmates as we work through outlining, drafting and peer reviewing. 7. My only question is, did my final draft meet or surpass the standard of Honors English writing analysis? My purpose back in college is to

Gokhale 12 earn a Doctorate and be a quality Clinical Researcher and University Professor in the future, therefore I hold myself to lofty standards and wish to be judged accordingly Rough Draft Paper#2 The 1,954-mile border between the USA and Mexico has become a battleground littered with desecrated and stolen lives for the Native population that have called the land Home since before the arbitrary barrier was implemented. In this paper I will give an analysis of 2 texts and the strategies they utilize to deliver their message and arguments while comparing the significance of them as a land-based issue. The 1st text is Trump’s Border Wall Construction Disrupted by Kumeyaay, O’odham Land Defenders, written by Maia Wikler for Teen Vogue in 2020, the targeted audience is teenagers and college age students, who have not been accurately educated on how innerworkings of Government treat indigenous populations and the desecration of National monuments/sacred sites. The strategies displayed in the article’s coverage of the Sacred spring in the Sonora desert cover the nonviolent action taken by Native youths in response to Government contractors' destruction and utilization of natural resources. The genre is informative and exemplifies what the Native movement is doing against border construction, the nonviolent action and tributes to ceremonial practices, the police response and brutality being inflicted upon the Natives. The purpose is to demonstrate the destruction of Native heritage in exchange for Border wall construction and educate young Americans on how the Natives are protecting their ancestral homes versus Government overreach. The 2nd text is "Disappearing Daughters" by Seattle Times, which is a compilation visual essay written by

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Gokhale 13 Corinne Chin and Erika Schultz. The audience is educated affluent citizens who contribute to higher echelon communities in the USA. This essay illuminates the disproportionate rate of Femicide within the Mexico-US Border communities the last 30 plus years and the firsthand accounts from victim survivors. The crisis of missing women is due to massive government failure, human trafficking organizations, and drug cartels, which are contributed by failing USA and Mexico societal policies. The genre is investigative journalism with survivor stories of forgotten causalities suffered by young women and artistic poetry. The purpose is to give a voice to lives of women who were taken mercilessly and the failure of society to not only protect future women from this fate, but to also emotionally connect the reader of the harsh reality that exists just a bridge away from the USA. In this essay, I will identify major claims and the argument strategies used by and in both texts separately, I will list the appeals used by these strategies. I will then compare the two texts, the claims they make, and the argument strategies used by the authors and highlight the differences in the associated argument appeals and strategies. I will examine the main arguments and significances in both texts, which are Native populations and heritage sites that are facing violence and erasure, while the affected peoples’ peaceful protect ancestral lands, natural monuments, and water resources. How those resources are being desecrated for the use of border wall construction and the violations by police caught on video. While comparing that to the disappearing women of border towns, the victims suffering from negligence and societal decay, and how the Policies dictating border construction and the epidemic of criminal enterprise feed into both issues. I will then summarize the texts and then conclude with a

Gokhale 14 thoughtful discussion on how the different focuses of these two articles are intertwined and how Government Policy has created both situations and potential solutions. The Border Wall Construction is proving that Government policy is more valued than natural water preservation and human ancestral heritages. The desecration is causing Indigenous youth to rise in nonviolent action draped in sacred ceremonial practices, while being met with militarized police and racialized targeting by contractors. This argumentative claim by the Teen Vogue author, Maia Wikler is substantiated by the evidence reported in the 3rd to last paragraph, where on Indigenous People’s Day, the O’odham Anti Border Collective was filmed being shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas by the Pima County Sheriffs and Arizona State troopers. The O’odham were blockading an access road to a water spring that was being harvested for concrete mixing. This appeals to the reader’s emotions with the strategy of exemplification, the indisputable damage caused to natural springs and monuments for construction purposes, then violence being brought upon the Native peoples protecting these natural resources. Claim1.2 Another argument strategy deployed by the author is found in the opening paragraph “... the Trump administration is racing to complete border wall construction before the election day on November 3rd." This “motive” strategy shows the purpose for the negligence of Federal ancestral preservation laws based on political policy aspirations. Within this strategy is another “cause and effect” the dehumanization of these Government policies that led to destruction of

Gokhale 15 the Sacred Springs monument, violence against Native Peoples’ and the desecration of Ancestral burial lands. Complete thoughts A silent epidemic plaguing Northern Mexico border towns have brought upon a new classification of homicide known as Femicide, due to decades of disappearing young women. In Disappearing Daughters" by Seattle Times, which is a compilation visual essay written by Corinne Chin and Erika Schultz. Within harrowing video poems, filled with montage pictures of missing and killed young women, the claim made by a Victim’s mother, Enrique Fierro, after she discovered via Facebook that the government forensic team identified her daughter 2 years earlier and no one notified her. "... I trusted the police... I realized everything is a lie; there are no authorities, there is no justice, there is no respect, there is nothing. Nobody gets punished." The claim that there is no trust in the justice system and there is no trust for authorities to identify or rectify this epidemic that has lasted for 30+ years. The evidence supporting this claim is the 31 cases of Femicide in Jaurez, totaling 1,006 victims in 2019. Yet this accounting from the government is only based off found victims, this high standard for burden of proof does nothing for the countless missing women which minimizes and makes the statistics unreliable. The author utilizes personal experience strategy with the video recounting of the mother and her daughter, which heavily appeals to readers/viewers emotions. BP claim2.2: Ledezma Ortega, a mother who lost her daughter and then sought higher education, became a lawyer, and founded Justicia para Nuestras Hijas, is a Logos strategy. After suffering the worst pain, a mother could survive; she became a force of justice for the silent

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Gokhale 16 victims in a setting that does not uphold justice. It is a remarkable story of how trauma can become a driver for Righteous Justice. Body 3.1 These texts are set upon opposite sides of two countries, a division that is arbitrary, symbolic and are two combustible compounds feeding each other, with the Native and youth populations being scorched from the Earth by Government Policy and rampant criminal enterprises taking advantage of said policies. The Trump Teen Vogue text has undeniable proof of Militarized police targeting Native Youth, while the Seattle times text Disappearing Daughters has multiple victim survivors accounts of Police negligence and corruption. Add citations; add similar strategies and appeals Conclusion (4-1) summarize and thoughts In analysis the Teen Vogue text presents historical background and informative examples of the crisis faced and resisted by Native populations on the US-Mexico Border. The text is more appealing to logic and reason, as demonstrated by the evidence and strategies highlighting the evidence. The emotional appeal is more towards facts than opinion or reflection of the events that the Kumeyaay and O’odham youth. Disappearing Daughter’s in the Seattle Times is a deeper more emotional argument design, substantiated by statistics that alone, become numb,

Gokhale 17 yet with the visual description found in the video essay and montages are highly effective. The artistic style of this text plays into the mystery of how and why this has been happening for decades with minimal government response. The author's strategies of both texts contrast the extreme similarities of both Governments and policing tactics, violent removal from the protection of ancestral lands, and gross negligence and dismissal of horrifying violent abductions. Erik Quinones Professor Tanori ENGL101 11NOV23 Final Draft Using Multiple Texts: Borders & Land-Based Issues The 1,954-mile border between the USA and Mexico has become a battleground littered with desecration and stolen lives for the Native population that have called the land Home since before the arbitrary barrier was implemented. In this paper I will give an analysis of 2 texts and

Gokhale 18 the strategies they utilize to deliver their message and arguments while comparing the significance of them as a land-based issue. The 1st text is Trump’s Border Wall Construction Disrupted by Kumeyaay, O’odham Land Defenders, written by Maia Wikler for Teen Vogue in 2020, the targeted audience is teenagers and college age students, who have not been accurately educated on how innerworkings of Government treat indigenous populations and the desecration of National monuments/sacred sites. The strategies displayed in the article’s coverage of the Sacred spring in the Sonora desert cover the nonviolent action taken by Native youths in response to Government contractors' destruction and utilization of natural resources. The genre is informative and exemplifies what the Native movement is doing against border construction, the nonviolent action and tributes to ceremonial practices, the police response and brutality being inflicted upon the Natives. The purpose is to demonstrate the destruction of Native heritage in exchange for Border wall construction and educate young Americans on how the Natives are protecting their ancestral homes versus Government overreach. The 2nd text is "Disappearing Daughters" by Seattle Times, which is a compilation visual essay written by Corinne Chin and Erika Schultz. The audience is educated affluent citizens who contribute to higher echelon communities in the USA. This essay illuminates the disproportionate rate of Femicide within the Mexico-US Border communities the last 30 plus years and the firsthand accounts from victim survivors. The crisis of missing women is due to massive government failure, human trafficking organizations, and drug cartels, which are contributed by failing USA and Mexico societal policies. The genre is investigative journalism with survivor stories of forgotten causalities suffered by young women and artistic poetry. The purpose is to give a

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Gokhale 19 voice to lives of women who were taken mercilessly and the failure of society to not only protect future women from this fate, but to also connect the reader emotionally with the harsh reality that exists just a bridge away from the USA. In this essay, I will identify major claims and the argument strategies used by and in both texts separately, I will list the appeals used by these strategies. I will then compare the two texts, the claims they make, and the argument strategies used by the authors and highlight the differences in the associated argument appeals and strategies. I will examine the main arguments and significances in both texts, which are Native populations and heritage sites that are facing violence and erasure, while the affected peoples’ peaceful protect ancestral lands, natural monuments, and water resources. How those resources are being desecrated for the use of border wall construction and the violations by police caught on video. While comparing that to the disappearing women of border towns, the victims suffering from negligence and societal decay, and how the Policies dictating border construction and the epidemic of criminal enterprise feed into both issues. I will then summarize the texts and then conclude with a thoughtful discussion on how the different focuses of these two articles are intertwined and how Government Policy has created both situations and potential solutions. US Border Wall Construction is proving that Government policy is more valued than natural water preservation and human ancestral heritages. The desecration is causing Indigenous youth to rise in nonviolent action draped in sacred ceremonial practices, while being met with militarized police and racialized targeting by contractors. This argumentative claim by the Teen

Gokhale 20 Vogue author, Maia Wikler is substantiated by the evidence reported in the 3rd to last paragraph, where on Indigenous People’s Day, the O’odham Anti Border Collective was filmed being shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas by the Pima County Sheriffs and Arizona State troopers. The O’odham were blockading an access road to a water spring that was being harvested for concrete mixing. This appeals to the reader’s emotions with the strategy of exemplification, the indisputable damage caused to natural springs and monuments for construction purposes, then violence being brought upon the Native peoples protecting these natural resources. Another argument strategy deployed by the author is found in the opening paragraph “...the Trump administration is racing to complete border wall construction before the election day on November 3rd." This “motive” strategy shows the purpose for the negligence of Federal ancestral preservation laws based on political policy aspirations. Within this strategy is another “cause and effect” the dehumanization of these Government policies that led to destruction of the Sacred Springs monument, violence against Native Peoples’ and the desecration of Ancestral burial lands. Analyzing these strategies and how the appeals are substantiated with evidence I conclude the author was successfully effective for this purpose. Historically and presently informative, with video evidence of Native Youth’s protecting ancestral lands against new age colonialism which illustrates the motives; irresponsible land management, dismissal of natural resource preservation laws, racial discrimination, political agendas. A silent epidemic plaguing Northern Mexico border towns have brought upon a new

Gokhale 21 classification of homicide known as Femicide, due to decades of disappearing young women. In Disappearing Daughters" by Seattle Times, which is a compilation visual essay written by Corinne Chin and Erika Schultz. Within harrowing video poems, filled with montage pictures of missing and killed young women, the claim made by a Victim’s mother, Enrique Fierro, after she discovered via Facebook that the government forensic team identified her daughter 2 years earlier and no one notified her. "... I trusted the police... I realized everything is a lie; there are no authorities, there is no justice, there is no respect, there is nothing. Nobody gets punished." The claim that there is no trust in the justice system and there is no trust for authorities to identify or rectify this epidemic that has lasted for 30+ years. The evidence supporting this claim is the 31 cases of Femicide in Jaurez, totaling 1,006 victims in 2019. Yet this accounting from the government is only based off identified victims. This high standard for burden of proof does nothing for the countless missing women which minimizes and creates unreliable statistics. The author utilizes a personal experience strategy with the video recounting of the mother and her daughter, which heavily appeals to readers/viewers emotions. This recounting illuminates how dismissive government authorities are towards young working-class women and the threat they have been facing for decades, through the lens of a mother whose daughter disappeared and the anguish that so many border town citizens live with. Another claim and strategy presented is the story of Ledezma Ortega, a mother who lost her daughter and then sought higher education, became a lawyer, and founded Justicia para Nuestras Hijas. The real-life example demonstrates an exemplification strategy with an appeal to logos. After suffering the worst pain, a mother could endure she became a force of justice for the silent victims in a setting that

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Gokhale 22 does not uphold justice. It is a remarkable story of how trauma can become a driver for Righteous Justice. The video essay “Disappearing Daughter” effectively presents strategies of personal experience and exemplification with the appeals heavily targeting the pathos of the viewer, as well as logos. The purpose is to invoke deep emotional response, educating the higher-class readers of a disturbing reality that has gone completely unresolved for decades, sharing the survivors' stories of heartache and the perseverance that is giving a voice to justice. These texts are set upon opposite sides of the shared border of two countries, a division that is arbitrary, symbolic, and are two combustible compounds feeding one another, with the Native and youth populations being scorched from the Earth by Government Policy and rampant criminal enterprises taking advantage of such policies. The Trump Teen Vogue text has undeniable proof of Militarized police targeting Native Youth and desecration of natural resources, while the Seattle times text Disappearing Daughters has multiple victim survivors accounts of government negligence, corruption and the justice sought by survivors. In conclusion, the Teen Vogue text presents historical background and informative examples of the crisis faced and resisted by Native populations on the US-Mexico Border. The text is more appealing to logic and reason, as demonstrated by the evidence and strategies highlighting the evidence. The emotional appeal is more towards facts than opinion or reflection of the events that the Kumeyaay and O’odham youth. Disappearing Daughter’s in the Seattle Times is a deeper more emotional argument design, substantiated by statistics that alone, become numb. Yet, with the visual description found in the video essay and montages are highly effective. The artistic style of this text plays into the mystery of how and why this has been happening for

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Gokhale 23 decades with minimal government response. The author's strategies of both texts contrast the extreme similarities of both Governments and policing tactics, violent removal from the protection of ancestral lands, and gross negligence and dismissal of horrifying crimes befalling the most vulnerable members of society, young woman. The texts when compared with strategies and appeals, contrast in the presentation of their respective context yet both accurately appeal to the examples of claims and evidence. The Teen Vogue text is more informative, and the strategies of exemplification feel more matter of fact with undertones of emotional appeal. While the Seattle Times text strategies and appeals is heavily pathos centric, the poetry and visual journalism of disturbing crimes against women illustrate as a cause-and- effect strategy of border policy and corruption and there is overwhelming evidence to the claims presented. Works Cited:

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Gokhale 24 “Disappearing Daughters | Mothers Search for Justice and Embrace Fragile Memories.” The Seattle Times, 2020, projects.seattletimes.com/2020/femicide-juarez-mexico-border/. Nast, Condé. “Indigenous Youth Are Disrupting Trump’s Border Wall Construction.” Teen Vogue, 29 Oct. 2020, www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-border-wall-block-indigenous-tribes. UNIT 2 Reflection What went well during this writing project? What were your strengths as you wrote this essay? (Think reading comprehension and outlining to writing the rough/final draft) Writing Project #2 was simpler to grasp due to the comparing and contrasting aspect of the two texts strategies and viewing it from an argumentative perspective, I felt the outlining focusing on strategies and appeals used by the authors made for effective drafting out and this final paper is more refined than my first project. • What are areas for improvement? How might you approach your next writing project differently? Areas for improvement will be more creating itemized claims and evidence connection to strategies and appeals with each individual text, and the overall purpose the author has for the text. What I learned was that when those aspects of an article have been more thoroughly identified, forming an analysis is assisted in the context of this writing project. • What concepts are still unclear to you, if any? Name them and tell me what struggles you've had when grasping this concept. In certain texts offered for this project, I had difficulty identifying strategies and how the author effectively appealed them to the audience. In other texts there was only evidence presented and the isolation of the claims was challenging. • What did you learn this unit? I learned how to read an article or text while locating the strategy the author was using to effectively appeal to the audience, additionally the

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Gokhale 25 strategies list offered in the work up of the drafts informed me on the specific style's authors use when informing or creating an argument within a text. • What are 1-2 areas you would like me to focus on when providing you with feedback? Feedback request for my 2nd writing project would be critiques from a high standard; did I accurately identify strategies and appeals, was my assessment of the texts concise, was the analysis comparing the two texts accurately conscribed? • What is one goal you can set as you enter Unit 3 in terms of the class, your writing, your participation, etc? My goal for Unit 3 and Final is to be more available in attendance and better assist fellow students in their writing. • Do you have any questions about the process? My main question would be, is my writing channeled into pointed thoughts, analysis, and arguments? I am a rambler and run around the point loosely connecting ideas, and I want to be a published writer in the future. Erik Quinones Sarita Tanori ENG101 13DEC2023 Sonic Artifact Project #3 The natural world is expressed sonically in all moments, yet modern society has muted itself from the interconnected symphony. In this reflection I will examine the uniqueness in the

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Gokhale 26 auditory artifact I captured and why I choose this location. I will give my personal reaction to the sounds observed and identify the different sound experiences in the artifact. I will then give a rhetorical listening analysis breaking down what artifact symbolizes in the location and the intersection of the natural landscape and the urban imprint that infects the layers of soundscape. The sample I chose begins in the alley behind my complex, approximately 500 feet away from the Ruffin Canyon in Mission Valley. My goal of this artifact was to display the two sonic worlds that exist adjacently, yet auditory could not be more dissimilar. I wanted to distill the sounds of suburban neighborhood at sunset and walk into the canyon where an entire different sonic experience existed completely independent of the world above. The first 60 seconds you hear the rhythm of fottsteps on the concrete pathway, distant sounds of vehicles and sirens with crying of a nearby child. There is a distinct layer that drones, the nearby Interstate 15 with no distinguishable sound other than traffic. After 2 minutes, the audio goes to deeper layers of the soundscape, there is a melody of chirping from countless insects and rustling of bushes far across the canyon. No sound from the suburban mesa above exists in the canyon, yet new sonic imprints reveal themselves to be distant helicopters echo softly through the terrain. The loudest sound captured are 3 small planes that fly directly overhead, the canyon acting as acoustic amplifer of faraway man made sounds yet they do not drown out the local wildlife that stirs their sonic signature in the darkness. The deeper into the canyon the recording goes, the more prominent the wind talks, from a whisper through the leaves to the whooshing racing through the landscape between the mesa. My reaction is one of serenity and stillness, while the world runs around the canyon is playing a masterpiece of roaring silence. Listening to the artifact through a rhetorical filter tells a story in a new perspective, the man-made sounds infect the natural habitat and sonically they do not blend. The sounds of

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Gokhale 27 civilization are the same sonically as trash littered on the beach, it does not belong, in this location particular the canyon overlooks the Interstate 15 and tell us of the inattention the modern world has towards the natural wonders of the ecosystem. In contrast, the sounds of nature, insects, birds, unseen animals, and the wind they all tell the story of the relentlessness of natural order. That despite the sound pollution of a city and the business of civilization, they sing and play their sonic expression unaffected. This duality gave me feelings of hope and symbolizes beauty, that even imperfection the true nature of soundscapes persist if you have the patience to listen. This particular location gives insight into nightly routine of suburbia, the melody of living beings with the rhythm of the wind and captures of urban traffics all playing their sonic tune simutaneously, layered on top of one anothe. It is a great moment and location of the intertwined reality of modern civilization and the natural world existing side by side.

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