"You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution for their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic."-Hatter from Once Upon a Time 

What is your favorite subject and why?
             "Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics," said Steven Pinker. Since my early adolescence, I have been greatly fascinated by the human mind, body, and behavior. During my sophomore year at Fairfax High School I decided to take a couple of college courses to enhance my knowledge of several careers I sought to assimilate on. I enrolled in Sociology, Philosophy, and Psychology at Los Angeles City College and the class I looked forward to the most was Psychology. My favorite subject is Psychology because it is quite interesting, significant to acknowledge, and relates to my future career profession.

            The field of Psychology is everywhere that it should be in our basic understood knowledge. Taking a psychology class has enhanced my understanding of the human mind, anatomy, and behavior. In class we studied and learned about several psychotic criminals such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Jack the Ripper. In order for us to understand how and why people become psychotic we first traced back to childhood experiences and searched for any evidence that may explain their psychotic actions, thought, and behaviors. Psychology is used to understand why people suffer from certain disorders and to try and help people overcome it.

             I started my interests in Psychology when I discovered that the human brain fascinates me. The mind is so powerful and so interesting that psychologists haven't even begun to discover what is out there mostly. I took Psychology primarily because I had a real interest in people, why they do what they do, why they think how they think, why they feel the way they feel. It is an interesting subject because we can relate to it as we find out more about ourselves and the human mind, why people are different and what affects this and our personalities. With psychology you can predict, and/or control people. You can see if there lying, or telling the truth. I personally am really interested in psychology because it's just so amazing what you can do and understand with it.

              My future profession goal is to be a neurologist which is why I began taking Psychology in the first place. I believe Psychology will help me a lot in neurology because it focuses on the brain, behavior and people. Taking Psychology really confirmed that I had very much interest in learning and devoting my life to neurology. Helping people is merely my goal in life and I would like to make that as a profession as well.

              Ultimately, I think everybody uses psychology as a tool to either help themselves or other people. Psychology was a great course to take during High School because it made me more serious about my future and career in neuroscience.

Question 1 
         Advertisers use celebrities in advertisements because they think that people will follow the celebrities foot steps and buy the product that the celebrity is advertising. Sue Jozui thinks that people should boycott this kind of advertising and legislate rules and guidelines for advertisers but, I disagree. There is no need to boycott this kind of advertising because most Americans research products before buying them, and have no attention and interest towards what the media thinks.
         People are dependent on a product's research than on which celebrity is representing it. "The audience is expected to transfer approval of the celebrity to approval of the product." I think that Jozui's argument is false because people usually depend on technology and apps to preform research and compare the products  quality to their needs. Celebrities do make the product look good but people do not react on which celebrity is using which kind of hair products or body products because they obviously know it's just them pretending to like the product. For an example, when a person sees a commercial that is advertising a make-up brand and they see that Emma Stone the famous actress is supporting it, just because Emma Stone is attractive or that many people like her,  does not mean people will go crazy to buy the product.
        Most people don't pay attention to the media or have no interest in which celebrity is using which product. When someone watches television, usually they don't spend much time watching the commercials because they watch television to see their favorite shows that are airing.Some people have a DVR in which helps them fast forward throughout the commercials causing them not to pay attention or watch any commercials. "The kind of marketing is misleading and insults the intelligence of the audience." Jozui is conveying that Americans cannot think for themselves and that the celebrities of conquered our minds which causes us to buy unwanted products.
       sue Jozui believes that advertisers are controlling Americans by using celebrities to support their product. Jozui thinks that the advertisers are manipulating the people by using the kind of advertising in which celebrities are included in. Jozui's argument is false because Americans research products before buying them, and have no attention and interest towards what the media thinks. Many people are smart individuals and do not rely on the celebrity supporting the product but the product itself.

  Question 2;Abigail Adams

            On January 12, 1780, Abigail Adams writes a letter to John Quincy Adams, a United States diplomat and the country’s second president, on how she thinks he should run the country. Abigail Adams uses many rhetorical devices to persuade John Quincy Adams of how she wants his son to treat the country. John Quincy Adams is traveling abroad with his father John Adams on a voyage in discovering how it is like to lead a country. Abigail adams uses 3 rhetorical strategies to advise her son John Quincy Adams of what a good leader is such as; ethos, a motherly tone, and pathos.

                  Abigail Adams establishes ethos throughout the letter to advise her son John Quincy Adams in to becoming a great leader of his people. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. “It will be expected of you, my son, that, as you are favored with superior advantages under the instructive eye of a tender parent, your improvement should bear some proportion to your advantages.” Adams is advising him by using an ethical appeal, she wants him to believe her because she’s his mother. “All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities , which would otherwise lie dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and statesman.” She begins her sentence by “All history will convince you of this” which means she is using logical information and she is stating that history is evidence of what she is saying which makes her statement believable.
                 Another rhetorical device that is used throughout the essay is pathos. Pathos means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions.”Some author, that I have met with, compares a judicious traveller to a river, that increases its stream the further it flows from its source; or to certain springs, which, running through rich veins of minerals, improve their qualities as they pass along.” Abigail Adams tries to appeal to John Quincy Adams’ emotions by mentioning an emotional story while advising him. “These are times in which a genius would wish to live, It is not in the still calm of life, or the response of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.” Adams tries to appeal to her sons emotions by giving him motivational speeches that every little decision he makes, will affect someone because now he will become someone very significant, so she advises him to be careful and not be a fool.

        Lastly, Adams uses a motherly tone to advise her son, John Quincy Adams. “The strict and inviolable regard you have ever paid to truth, gives me pleasing hopes that you will not swerve from her dictates, but add justice, fortitude, and every manly virtue which can adorn a good citizen, do honor to your country, and render your parents supremely happy, particularly your ever affectionate mother.”  Abigail Adams shows that she has high expectations towards her son and that she mostly expects him to always make the right decision and to honor his country and put his people first in every choice he makes. “Yet it is your lot, my son, to be an eyewitness of these calamities in your own native land, and, at  the same time,  to owe your existence among a people who have made a glorious defense of  their invaded liberties.” Abigail assures him that this is all his responsibility and to watch out for the bad people that will do anything to sabotage his people or land.

                      John Quincy Adams, the son of Abigail Adams is going to become president and Abigail Adams uses rhetorical strategies to advice him about his job and lead him the right way because she is his mother, Abigail Adams uses three rhetorical strategies in her letter which are; ethos, pathos, and a motherly tone. Abigail Adams is just a mother who cares deeply about her son, so she tries to advise him to do the right thing and to never let her down as like any mother wishes for her children but, Abigail expresses it in many rhetorical devices.

 Question 3 Essay

           In the passage “Los Angeles Notebook” by Joan Didion, he explains how the wind is the soul of people’s positivity and negativity. Didion uses much imagery to prove his point of how the wind named “Santa Ana” would ruin everyone’s day and feelings. Didion proves how horrible it is when the wind blows by using much imagery to make the reader picture how awful the wind can make someone feel, examples of a sad tone to show how everyone’s suffering from the wind, and details every idea that supports how the wind is a negativity towards the people.

         The imagery used in “Los Angeles Notebook” by Didion helps the reader picture and gets an idea of how the wind is in his point of view. “A hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio passes, blowing up sandstorms out along Route 66, drying the hills and the nerves to the flash point. In this quote from the text, Didion explains how the sandstorms on Route 66 was blowing up which gives us an idea of the characteristics of the wind and how he views it from his perspective. There are a number of persistent malevolent winds, perhaps the best known of which are the mistral of France and the Mediterranean sirocco, but a fuen wind had distinct characteristics it occurs on the leeward slope of a mountain range and, although the air begging as a cold mass, it is warmed as it comes down the mountain and appeared finally as a hot dry wind.” The wind is upsetting, and unsatisfying Didion.

     Didion details the wind very specifically describing how it affects the people of Santa Ana. “I recall being told, when I first moved to Los Angeles and was living on the isolated beach, that the Indians would throw themselves into the sea when the wind blows, I could see why.” Didion describes in details how the wind is upsetting and affecting the Indians. “The baby freaks. The maid sulks. I rekindle a winning argument with the telephone company, then cut my losses and lie down; given over to whatever if it is in the air.” Santa Ana people are upset because of the winds which make negativity to win.

         To show how negatively the mind is, Didion provided many examples to support his perspective. “In Switzerland the suicide rate gives up during foehn, and in the carts of some Swiss cantons the wind is considered a circumstance for crime. The wind is affecting the people even in other places.  “Surgeons are said to watch the wind because blood does not clot normally during a foehn.”This quote shows how the winds is not benefiting anyone. Didion later goes on to detail in showing how the winds are disturbing in everyday life.

      In the passage, “Los Angeles Notebook” by Joan Didion he analyzes analyzes how the Santa Ana winds are crucial to the people in the passage “Los Angeles Notebook by Joan Didion. He explains throughout the story how negative the wind is by providing imagery, detailed ideas that support his perspective, and examples. The Santa Ana winds provided great discomfort for the people.