Written Persuasion

It has come to my attention that family mottos are actually something that families will create and live by. They usually seem to include some type of encouraging message such as "our family does not give up" or "return with honor". Our family never came up with a family motto but there are some unofficial ones that have been mentioned throughout my life. I don't necessarily live by them but they are kind of humorous and have brought a laugh when they are brought up. One of those mottos is one that my dad has always brought up, which is "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying". Now this is a horrible motto to live by but my dad always will bring it up probably because we don't cheat and the irony plays out when he will tell friends to have us recite what he always says. Another motto that comes from my mom is "You can marry more in a minute than you can make in a lifetime"which again is not taken very seriously. I would like to c...

Topic: I am studying the effects of female child marriage on those involved in the marriage and children. Question: Because I want to see how this practice affects the well-being of those affected throughout their life and see if there are negative effects and if there are policies to reduce the amount of child marriages worldwide. Significance: I decided to research this topic because this is something that disproportionately affects girls that are in poverty and in low-income countries. These females will be less likely to finish school and will have less opportunities to grow as an individual and help their situation. This practice can also be a form of oppression that prevents these females from having more choices and limits them to being under their husband's control rather than making their own decisions. Audience: My audience will most likely be pro in that most will believe that there are adverse effects of having girls married off before they are a legal adult. There c...

When I first heard of the comedian Ryan Hamilton, I had to make sure that I had read that correctly. I have a cousin named Ryan Hamilton and although he is quite the self-professed comedian, he is a lawyer by occupation. However, this Ryan Hamilton is a single male comedian from a small town in Idaho that attended BYU and lives a life free from alcohol and drugs. Although it is never mentioned in his segment, it can be assumed that he is most likely a practicing member of the LDS church. Audience? Those who are anticipating comedy whether at the live show or watching the content on TV or on the Internet. There is also an emphasis on clean humor rather than comedy that relies on crude behavior or language. Persuasive? He is able to be make comedy that surrounds situations around himself by telling stories about his background, his daily life, and the people that he has interacted with. How? He uses self-awareness and self-deprecation to express humor. He makes fun of how he looks lik...

As someone that would consider themselves shy, it has never been an easy process to make new friends. It takes a little more time for me to form friendships but I do try to go out of my comfort zone and approach people in social settings. I do not have answers on how to approach people to form friendships easier but I have learned a little on how friendships are formed in my sociology class. By using this knowledge there could also be some simple solutions to make sure that friendships stay intact. There are two reasons why people choose the friends they do. One of those reasons is homophily, which is forming friendship due to shared interest. When people share something in common such as the same favorite t.v show, this can lead to friendship and hopefully as time goes on the friends will find other ways to strengthen their bond. The other way that friendship is formed is through propinquity, which is friendship formed due to spending a good amount of time together. This is why it is ...

This past week I was able to go to the Family Discovery Center in Salt Lake City for the first time. As a resident of Southern California, home is not close for me and so I have gone to relatives that live close by for Thanksgiving for the past three years. This has given me the opportunity to do different activities during the Thanksgiving break. As the family I was with this year was from Sandy, we decided to go to Salt Lake. Unlike a good amount of young people, I really enjoy family history and so I was excited to go to the library. It is very high-tech and interactive and not as intimidating as people would think. Each person is given a tablet and there are different stations that they can dock at. Some of the stations included famous relatives, what the world was like when I was born, my heritage, and photo opportunities. There was also the option of seeing if other people at the center were related to you. I was able to take some photos as a Englishwoman and as a Scandinavian wo...

In his talk given in the Saturday Afternoon Session, Ronald A. Rasband gave a talk about the divine design of Heavenly Father. His talk was memorable for me because of what happened that day. I was able to attend conference at the conference center Saturday afternoon with my immediate family except for my dad. After the session of conference, my aunt came home with us because my uncle and my brothers were going to the Priesthood Session. A friend of mine is serving in the Salt Lake Temple Square Mission and so we tried to find her before we left and although we searched and searched, we were not able to find her. We walked around a little more and then started to head to the car, my sister and I realized that my mom and aunt were not right behind us and saw them farther back talking to someone. The woman that they were talking to was a sister missionary from Italy that had served in the Brussels, Belgium mission when my uncle was the mission president. She had recognized my aunt and wa...

For my research paper, I wrote about underage female marriages. Although I had heard about this practice before it wasn't until I started doing more research that I realized how widespread this issue is and how many girls are affected by it. I did know that girls were more likely to drop out of school if they were married as a teenager or younger but I did not realize that their children had stunted developmental issues. I want to go into social work and this lead me to want to focus more on women and children and maybe eventually work on international policy to help prevent underage marriage. The theories behind why people continue to force girls into early marriage ties in with many of the theories that I have learned in my Sociology classes. Some strategies that worked for my paper were making sure that I had my thesis complete early on so that I could separate out my ideas into different sections. I also jotted down some quick points that I wanted to hit in each of my sections....