TOW #27 - Too Scared to Report Sexual Abuse. The Fear: Deportation.

Ever since the 2016 presidential election, there was an increase in Latinos speaking up for themselves. Undocumented Latinos who are impacted by domestic violence fear that bringing their case to court will attract government officials who want to evict them from the United States of America. Donald Trump’s election made it clear that he was going to work throughout his presidency to stop immigrants from entering the United States and those who are undocumented fear to create attention because they don’t want to leave America. In the article, Too Scared to Report Sexual Abuse. The Fear: Deportation, by Jennifer Medina, it is evident that the fear always had occurred for people to report their domestic violence, but it has dramatically increased this past year for Latinos once Trump entered office. The number reporting rate decreased by more than 40 percent.

It is important for people to be able to have a voice but with a president who is disrespectful towards people who just want to live in a country that is supposed to represent freedom, it is very difficult for Latinos to speak up for themselves. No matter who the person is, they should feel comfortable at least talking to someone so they do not hide in their pain of dealing with the domestic violence by themselves. Some would even use a different name so they were able to report the domestic violence but they didn’t have to share their identity with the world. Unfortunately, it has become obvious through the decrease in calls that Latinos have a great fear of being sent back over the borders but police argue that their way of dealing with crimes has not changed and the White House does not control how they act on different situations.

This article expresses to the audience the importance of reporting domestic violence no matter the situation. It informs the audience how the presidential election deeply impacted the amount undocumented Latinos have been reporting domestic violence. This leads them to have to face this violence way longer than they could be if they just called the police to help them get out of a very difficult situation.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/us/immigrants-deportation-sexual-abuse.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

TOW #26 - Trump Saved Carrier Jobs. These Workers Weren't as Lucky

Donald Trump caused around 700 workers of carrier jobs to be lost. In Nelson D. Schwartz’s article, Trump Saved Carrier Jobs. These Workers Weren’t as Lucky. He wanted to preserve the carrier jobs to stay in Indiana instead of moving to Mexico. Unfortunately for every person working for a Carrier company, only 800 out of 1,400 jobs were saved. One of the branches, Huntington which was operated by UTEC was not as lucky as some of the other branches. Around 70% of the Huntington Count voted for President Donald Trump (New York Times) but now they have been deeply affected by Trump’s action during his first few months of presidency. Even when President Donald Trump admitted to keeping the Indianapolis plant open, the citizens didn’t blame him for not being able to save as many jobs as he could have saved. Tami Barnett, a worker at the Indianapolis branch, even admitted she was upset that her job wasn’t saved but she still fully supports President Trump as he still was able to save some jobs in the branch. Even though he was able to save Indianapolis, he was unable to save Huntington. The workers in this branch were greatly affected as many jobs were lost. Donald Trump was said in this article to have enjoyed working with the United Technologies, and will continue to work with major companies to try to increase “American manufacturing, job creation and economic growth” (White House Spokesman). By telling the American public, President Donald Trump brought reliance upon himself as he needs to strive to improve the working field of every American citizen.

            Schwartz appeals to pathos in order to make it clear that many jobs were lost in 2017, but there were also many jobs saved. Schwartz also addresses that even though people lost their jobs, they are still pleased with their choice of elected President Donald Trump as President of the United States. Even though they are upset with losing their jobs, they are happy that there were more jobs saved than lost. The author uses their emotion to address the problem Trump faced, and even though people were greatly affected by his decision, he still has an immense amount of supporters on his side even when their jobs were taken from them. They also appeal to logos to display to the audience the facts of how many jobs were actually saved and how many were lost. Trump was able to save 800 of the 1,400 jobs in a branch. This shows the audience that he was able to help more than hurt the people of the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/business/economy/indiana-united-technology-factory-layoffs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

TOW #25 - A judge rules Trump may have incited violence … and Trump again has his own mouth to blame

Words hurt; especially when a person is a large political figure. They believe they are able to say ridiculous things and get away with them. This person depicts Donald Trump the current President of the United States. In The New York Times article “A judge rules Trump may have incited violence … and Trump again has his own mouth to blame” by Aaron Blake, Blake explains that Donald Trump and his administration need to back up everything Trump states to the American public as lying. People should not truly believe what he tells the world because some of the things that come out of his mouth are inaccurate. There should be no reason for a president to tell their audience anything but the truth. Even though everyone knows presidents lie. There is a difference from telling the world a complete lie and keeping the people from knowing the complete truth. Through many of Trump’s speeches he has said a lot of negative things towards people in his audience who are protesting, and also against people he believes should not be in America, for example, Muslims. He has made this perfectly clear he does not believe Muslims should be in America. Trump has even made a ban against all Muslims. His administration tried to argue that the ban wasn’t directed at Muslims but Trump never came out to apologize or speak for himself after the first Muslim ban was halted. Trump’s team have to continuously defend his words as they have stated, “Trump's words shouldn't be taken at face value — that he didn't mean what he actually, literally said” (Blake). People should not have to defend what presidents say directly to an audience of millions of American citizens. The President should be known for respecting, and admiring the American people, they shouldn’t have to be hiding behind their administration every time they say the wrong words to people. President Donald Trump may have been elected the 45^th President of the United States, but he has continuously shown his lack of respect of human beings and his lack of respect for his own job.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/02/a-judge-rules-trump-may-have-incited-violence-and-trump-again-has-his-own-mouth-to-blame/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_fix-incite-959am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.083bb14cdad1