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Changing the Status Quo

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For my class Rhetoric, we are learning about many different Rhetorical situations and used many rhetorical devices. We have been to many places all over Chicago and we've been all over Chicago visiting different places to find rhetorical situations that we can relate to the class. For this Action Project we have to pick a timely topic and write an op-ed about it. For my Op-ed I picked the 2019 CPS strike. For this Op-ed I am on the teacher's side. I found it difficult to get between 650 to 750 words because I found that everything I wrote was useful to write my op-ed but finally found something I could remove to get the right amount. After finishing I realized I enjoyed writing this and that I found out a lot about the strike that I didn't know from doing this Action Project.                                      Teachers take to the streets outside City Hall during a downtown rally on...

Reliable retractable rake

In my class called Design and Engineering we learned a lot about gardening and we went on a couple Field Experiences like Homedepot and the garden in front of our school. While doing this Action Project were learning to collaborate with other people and make our everyday lives easier with gardening tool. This project is about making a tool even better for older people or people that have a disability so it can be easy for them to garden too. In my slideshow, my partner and I worked on the vectors of the rake, the area and surface area of the rake, A storyboard on how to use it a picture of how it looks. Thank you. The reliable, retractable rake extends and retracts. The rake has two wheels on the sides of the head. The head of the rake opens and closes so that the basket head can close on the stuff you are trying to collect. The rake extends when you press the upper button on the top of the rake and retracts when you press it again. The basket closes when you press the lower bo...

Are you too old to be the President of the U.S.A.?

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For my class Rhetoric, we are learning about many different Rhetorical situations and used many rhetorical devices. We have been to many places all over Chicago. We've been all over Chicago visiting different places to find rhetorical situations that we can relate to the class. For this Action Project our teacher gave us a candidate from the Demicartic presidential debate in September and made a video of us being the candidate and responding to a question that is asked to our candidate. My candidate is Joe Biden and the question I asked to "Joe Bide" played by PA is about his age.