I remember waking up at 4 in the morning after fight with my ex-boyfriend the night before, the words of his texts replaying in my mind. I remember taking all the tiny white pills in three different pill bottles of anti-depressants and downing them with shots of whiskey. I remember waking up about two and …
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In-Class 10/1: Conclusion
In his essay, Brown is having a mental battle himself about if he should have saved his friend or not. “Now I’m questioning myself. Were the other prisoners right? Was I wrong to alert the authorities? Should I have just let him die? Isn’t that what he wanted? Is death preferable to death row?” (Brown). …
Homework 10/8
Mental Illness- My struggles with mental illness and how society needs to change their interpretations of it. Make people feel better about having to deal with those kinds of things. Pollution- How pollution has a huge impact on our planet and spending a week in California cleaning up the beaches. How we need to make …
In-Class 10/8: Imitation (Part 2)
I have come to believe that I am stronger than I ever thought I could be and everything truly does happen for a reason. I am standing here as a nineteen year old, high school graduate, who is going to college to have a good career and life. Almost three years ago I realized I …
In-Class 10/8: Reflection (Part 1)
In my junior year of high school, in AP Language and Composition, all we wrote that year were rhetorical analysis essays. However writing this essay, this time around, I learned more about the structure of the essay. The structure or outline of an essay is always the hardest part for me so writing this essay …
In-Class 10/2: Grammar Guide
(I prefer the format of my Grammar Guide on Google Docs than how it will turn out on here.)
Mental Battle with Death Row- Draft 2
(NOT FINISHED YET, 2 more paragraphs I think) Far too often we see prisoners as just criminals and we only see them as their actions. People tend to forget that they are human beings too, not just criminals. While being incarcerated they deal with their own mental battles, especially those on death row. Incarceration is …
In-Class 9/25
Far too often we see prisoners as just criminals, we only see them as their actions. People tend to forget that they are human beings too, not just criminals. While being incarcerated they deal with their own mental battles, especially those on death row. Incarceration is supposed to be a form of rehabilitation, not just …
Essay 1- Rough Draft
Far too often we see prisoners as just criminals, we only see them as their actions. People tend to forget that they are human beings too, not just criminals. While being incarcerated they deal with their own mental battles, especially those on death row. Incarceration is supposed to be a form of rehabilitation, not just …
Essay 1 Outline
Introduction Paragraph Thesis: The focus of this paper will be on the rhetorical strategies that Brown uses to inform the audience of inmates on death row and the mental struggle they deal with every day and the emotional toll their sentence puts them through. 2. Ethos 3. Pathos 4. Logos 5. Conclusion
KLL Writing 