2019 Mayoral Candidate Magazine

For my Fall Humanities class, we studied rhetorical appeals such as ethos, logos, and pathos. Another thing that we focused on was the status quo and how people challenge it. The mayoral Candidate that I have to study is Amara Enyia and she is well over qualified to be Chicago's mayor for 2019. During this unit we visited the Chicago History Museum to view the Dr. MLK Jr exhibit to get ready for our action project (AP). The AP that was assigned this unit was to make a sort of exhibit for our candidates. My classmates and I were encouraged to use the medium of our choice and I decided to create a magazine based on Amara's Candidacy.

In my Magazine you will see an exert from an article about the Jason Van Dyke trial. Amara starts off her thoughts with a declarative statement. By doing so, she mentions how Chicago needs a public safety plan, which is one of her top priorities. Amara uses an imperative sentence when she said "Moreover, we must evaluate how our city budget prioritizes police infrastructure over the necessary investments in an inclusive economy, affordable housing, mental health services, and other components of thriving communities.", its an imperative sentence because she commands us to evaluate. In Amara's text on why she's running, she uses exemplification by explaining why Chicago metaphorically lives in two cities, which I found very interesting
Below, I've made a slideshow to show my magazine.

Amara Enyia Mayoral candidate 2019

In my Humanities class: Rhetoric, our first unit was called Suppose. In this unit we studies all of the components of rhetoric. My teacher wanted us to focus on the Chicago mayoral election. During this unit, my classmates and I had two visits, one from Troy LaRaviere, who is a 2019 mayoral candidate. Troy talked to my class about his views on Chicago and what makes him stand out from other candidates. Our other visitor was Ted Miin, he came to my class to talk about peoples assembly's. My class is planning on putting one together so he came in to help us construct one. We also had an external field experience to a memorial of MLK at Marquette park, at the intersection of 67th and Pulaski. There we met Alia Bilal and she educated us on the history of that site.
 
For my action project, my class had to chose a candidate running in the 2019 election to look into. My candidate is Amara Enyia, she is a lawyer and activist with a phd. With our chosen candidate we have to make a script of them answering a question we made for them.

MW. Amara Enyia 2019. (2018)

Why do you feel like creating a public bank for the city is something you should focus on rather than other issues?