Something that has stuck with me since the first time we read it is the concept from chapter one of Thank You for Arguing, in which author Jay Hendrichs tried to live one average day without rhetoric, which he found to be impossible. I was not very aware of the rhetoric in my own life…

During “This Podcast Will Kill You: ‘COVID-19 Chapter 1: Virology.’” the two hosts, graduate students in Disease Ecology, cover news about the coronavirus. In order to share information, these hosts implement the rhetorical strategies of kairos, a specific structure, and informal language. Primarily, this podcast evokes kairos as the subject of the podcast is timely. During…

Describe your Herky in detail. Focus on the visual aspects of your Herky.  This colorful Herky statue is covered head to toe in self-portrait drawings and hand and foot stamps of patients of the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and children from across the state of Iowa. Though the model of this statue is in…

In this TED Talk, 13-year-old Haaziq Kazi shares his idea for an invention that will clean plastic from the surface of the ocean. Honestly, I chose to listen to this TED Talk because I questioned his ethos from the title. What kind of realistic invention does a 13-year-old have for ridding the oceans of plastic?…

Time is money: a belief so common in the United States that we probably do not realize how much it impacts us daily. You probably hear some form of “That was a waste of time” or “They wasted my time” every other day. People are offended when their time is wasted because they see time…

Hi! My name is Sophia Ramirez and I am a first-year student at the University of Iowa. I am a Health and Human Physiology major, Spanish minor, and am on the Pre-Med track. After medical school, I hope to be a pediatrician because I love working with kids and I think we can learn so…