Author: AlizaWritingJournal

In this writing class I have learned so much. I was able to learn how to express my writing in different forms, how to find reliable sources, how to find pathos, egos, logos in writing, and so much more. I also learned a lot through the In the News Presentations that we presented in class. A lot of the topics my classmates chose were extremely reverent to the time we are living in. But as far as what I learned from the information I was taught in the class I was able to become a stronger writer. At the beginning of the semester we were asked to pick any topic we wanted and we were going to have to do research on it and write multiple essays on it. I first started with the topic of recovery and nutrition in athletes. Once I wrote my rhetorical analysis and my synthesis essay on that topic I learned so much just from those two essays. I was able to learn what it took to write a rhetorical analysis and synthesis essay because I had never written one before. But I was also able to learn that nutrition does play a significant role the performance and recovery of athletes. For my research essay my topic was why athletes should not be vegans. This topic was so interesting. I learned so much on why athletes need animal protein in order to perform at their best. But I was also able to learn that there are many vegan athletes out there that are doing just fine if not better. So in my own time I have developed a desire to learn more about this as I am an athlete myself and I want to be the healthiest I can be! With that being said, the information I learned through the many scholarly sources, videos, and social media posts that I included in my research, I was able to apply the knowledge I learned to myself on my journey to becoming a better athlete and eating healthier!

My intended audience for my recast is anyone that is interested in nutrition including vegans. As well as athletes that are interested in becoming vegan. My purpose for my recast is to show that a vegan diet while be an endurance athlete or any athlete is not sufficient in remaining healthy. I think I am going to use an infographic as my medium or a brochure. Both are good visuals because the age range for my audience will typically attract anywhere from teens and older, nothing younger as something like changing a diet is a big life change for a young person. I am going to use some facts that I used in my essay like statistics that show support my claim. In hopes that research will help convince my audience. A tool I will use is google docs or microsoft word. Both I have access too but I am more familiar with google.

“ Of the indispensable amino acids, branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) are particualry important for promoting muscle protein synthesis (MPS) and include leucine, isoleucine, and valine. These amino acids are more concentrated in animal-based protein compared to plant protein”(Johnston, Lynch, et. al., 2018).

“… much attention has been given to dietary protein in the prevention of muscle injuries. It is accepted that the provision of dietary proteins enhances the adaptive processes to both resistance and endurance based exercise… therefore, attractive to hypothesize that increasing dietary protein may alleviate markers of muscle damage”(Baar, Close, et. al., 2019). 

The main findings were: (i) vegetarians and vegans weighed significantly less than omnivores…”(Boldt, Knechtle, et.at., 2019).

Yes artificial intelligence can be beneficial to the COVID-19 outbreak. I think it will be more used as time goes on but more knowledge needs to be given out to the people as people do are not that knowledgeable about it.

I mean at this point some extreme measures need to be taken in order to stop the spread of this virus. Because it is such a global issue things like privacy at this point it being put on the line as something to be given up. We all need to work together to end something like this therefore working together requires letting others know your daily life may entail. As far as the government there is a certain extent when it comes to tracking people through their phones. So it is a tricky situation.

I think there has a been a significant change in the way women have been treated. It all started when they earned the right to vote, and back in 1920. But since then times have changed, and things have become more equal. With that being said the biggest inequality I have seen today is the difference in pay in the USA women’s soccer team compared to the men’s team. This I feel is something that needs to be looked into and changed especially when looking at statistics. Aside from that coming from my own personal experience, I am a firefighter back at home and that is seen as a male job. I may be one of only five girls on the department. But when I joined there was only one. But while on the job I never witness any unfairness or suffer myself doing a male dominant job.

If Nova was to be shut down due to the coronavirus I think I would have mixed feelings about it. I am not an online learner so I would be upset about that but I think it would nice in a way because we are in south Florida so we would have a lot of time. But there is also a downside when it comes to that. Due to spring break happening this month there are so many visitors here so going out to do things instead of class would probably only increase your chances of the you getting and spreading the virus. But at the same time, being in south Florida it is hard to stay in your dorms instead of being outside in the nice weather. So there is positives and negatives. Plus I do not want to go home just yet especially when i paid to live here.

This year I will not be voting. Even if I was to vote I’m not sure I would vote because I am not in favor of anyone running in the campaign and I would not want to vote for someone that I am on the fence for. I know that it is impossible to have a president that satisfies all my needs but the ones that are running just don’t have anything I strongly believe in.

My synthesis essay overall went well. I stared with an intro that kind of talked about nutrition overall, then I mentioned nutrition in athletes. I ended with my thesis which I felt was pretty strong and will leave readers with an idea of what my essay will be about. Then I wrote a summary that way readers had an idea about my three sources. I felt like I had enough evidence. This way in my body paragraphs I was able to develop strong body paragraphs with evidence directly from the sources. Then I finished with my conclusion summing up my previous paragraphs, tying up loose ends and I made sure to restate my thesis.

If I was nominated for an Oscar, I would want to win “best original song”. I would want to win this because I would most likely be able to share it with someone and I like that fact. I would also like to win this because it could bring more attention to my name and then I could be starting another career (granted I was an actress) and I would be able to have a more versatile life/job. Also I feel like if the song was good enough to win an Oscar, more people would know it and if it was a song with a positive message that could go a long way.

If I knew someone that had aphantasia, I would probably ask them if they knew who certain famous people were like that the human population knows. I would ask them to describe what they look like to me and try to see if they knew any characteristics that are specific to them. I would ask them, granted they were my age or close to it how it effects their friend making process and if it is significant. I would probably ask something about how it effects social media usage, if it effects them at all because social media is so big in our society today.