For whomever is viewing my site, welcome. The purpose of this post is to try and explain why a number of these posts exist. The posts that are categorized as “Reading Analyses” are there as smaller exercises that were given throughout the semester to help myself and my classmates to think rhetorically. These were […]
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Juxtaposition of Digital and Physical Spaces: An analysis of the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters and its Website
During the time I spent looking into the Metropolitan Police Department, I found myself immersed in two different narratives. One was written by the people in which it serves, the District government headed by Muriel Bowser, the city’s mayor. The other one was written by myself, an American University Freshman from a small town in […]
Annotated Bibliography
“Brief History of the MPDC.” Metropolitan Police Department, Accessed 5 October 2016. This article discusses the beginnings of the Metropolitan Police Department, including information on how Maryland and Virginia ceded land to created Washington D.C.. I’m using this primarily as a background source so readers can get an understanding on where the Department came from […]
Commonplace Book Entries
Commonplace Entry 1: Introduction My name is Brandon Ermer and I’m from Ogden Utah. I’m originally from Swampscott, which is about thirty minutes north of Boston, Massachusetts, but I moved to Utah because my stepfather had a better job out west. I love music, and I play a few instruments including bass, piano, and guitar. […]
The Metropolitan Police Department’s Vibrant Digital Presence
In contrast to the actual building itself, which is a boring, unremarkable box in the heart of Judiciary square, the website of the Metropolitan Police Department is a vibrant, expansive, and useful tool to help the people of the District of Columbia. The website — which is an offshoot of the greater dc.gov website, has […]
The Interior of the Metropolitan Police HQ: A Lonely Home for the District’s Men in Blue
As I made my way back to the Metropolitan Police Department for my second trip, I took the opposite route from last time. Previously, I took a left from the Judiciary Square Metro then took a left down fifth street and walked two blocks until I took another left down Indiana Avenue. This time I […]
The Fight for the Reinvention of Gender Roles
In Suzanne Tick’s “His and Hers: Designing For a Post-Gender Society,” Tick addresses society’s attempt at becoming more inclusive and accepting through progressive reforms including changing bathrooms, and transgender individuals challenging societal norms in the workplace. Tick claims that “gender neutral design” is the next “frontier in the workplace,” citing the idea that the once […]
The “Accommodation” Problem
In “Making Bathrooms More ‘Accommodating,’” Emily Bazelon makes a number of cases in favor of bathrooms being inclusive for all– including people who identify as transgender. She addresses the issue of the binary bathroom system that has been previously implemented through recent legislature and stories from individuals while additionally providing examples of ways this can […]
An External Description of The Metropolitan Police Department HQ
Today, the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Headquarters is located at 300 Indiana Avenue Northwest; on the same city block as The Newseum and about a block away from the Judiciary Square Metro stop. Its close proximity to a Metro stop, the National Mall, and Pennsylvania Avenue NW (Where the Capital Building resides,) […]
Social Exclusion and How it Relates to the United States Today
As mentioned in Sarah Schindler’s Architectural Exclusion, while it could be argued that social exclusion and injustice has improved over the last two centuries with the abolition of slavery and universal suffrage, it appears that the injustice has only become more dispersed, impacting a much larger number of Americans. Groups like blacks, […]