As a result of my studies about rhetoric in writing 100, in this essay I am going to persuade the reader that the physical environment of the New Community Church reflects and promotes its accepting and inclusive values. I strongly believe that physical design serves a great purpose in determining and promoting the core values […]
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It is important that the New Community Church, a place of accepting and inclusive values, is a physically welcoming place in order to make everyone feel more integrated with a gentrifying community like Shaw, DC. This project describes the rhetorical way in which different groups of people view the gentrification of the Shaw area and […]
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New Community Church This source is the website of the church and it provides us with insight on the background of what is now the New Community Church and its current missions. The Church had previously been in the center of a neighborhood (Shaw, DC) that was besieged by crime, drugs, and poverty. The area […]
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Making Bathrooms More ‘Accommodating’ In “Making Bathrooms More ‘Accommodating’,” Emily Bazelon argues that in order to accommodate transgender people in public restrooms, it is important that society understands that their need to belong is just the same as everyone else’s. Furthermore, this analysis is going to address the ways in which transgender people are looked […]
Digital Accessibility and Inclusivity: Supporting Values of the New Community Church
The official website of the New Community Church, similar to the design of the exterior and interior of the building itself, radiates the same welcoming, inclusive features. These features include the accessibility of the site and its content, the type of imagery used, and the general layout. The New Community Church continued to use their […]
“About Me”
Hello, my name is Emily Gross and I’m an 18 year old girl trying to thrive in my college writing course by posting assignments on this website. I was born in China and raised in Manhattan, New York. Manhattan is my home and although I’ve lived there my whole life, I continue to be infatuated with […]
Prepositions, Linking Verbs, Action Verbs
In this article, Schindler provides us, the readers, with theories, practices, and geographical locations of barriers that support her main goal of persuading us to believe underlying racial barriers exist in urban settings and describing to us how they are used to exclude certain people. In this analysis, I am going to analyze the way […]
A Closer Look into the Inviting Interior of the New Community Church
In exploring the main floor and basement of the inviting New Community Church, I was surprised to find that the interior structure was equally as inviting as the exterior leading me to believe the goal of the Church was to maintain its old spirit despite the new gentrified area. I had the image planted in […]
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His & Hers: “Designing for a Post-Gender Society” In His & Hers: “Designing for a Post-Gender Society,” Suzanne Tick argues that in a society and era in which the line between male and female is becoming blurrier, and one’s identity is no longer looked at in the perspective of black […]
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Emily Gross Professor Hoskins Writing 100 October 24, 2016 Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation through Physical Design of the Built Environment In Part III of this article, Schindler tell us the way in which law had historically been used to exclude certain people in an obvious way and then how today there are laws that […]