As I read Sophia Kerby's essay "The Top 10 Most Startling Facts about People of Color and Criminal Justice in the United States". I start to encounter an immense amount of Rhetorical Appeals. For an essay that is fairly compact, It Contains a great amount of information and has extremely good arguments full of logic. Right off the back, I notice a strong use of diction. The author appears to be well educated in Criminal Justice, making her extremely credible. For example, In the beginning of the first paragraph she expresses how she feels about the matter which brings up pathos by using emotion and wanting to connect with the audience. Another example would be, “While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned”. In this section Sophia Kerby uses Logos to appeal the statistics of imprisonment rate in the U, S making a strong claim with reason and proof.
As I continue to read Sophia kerby's essay I start to take note of her examples and Facts on Criminal Justice. For one, “African Youth Have higher rates of juvenile incarceration and are more likely to be sentenced to adult prison”. When I read this section of her essay it truly made me sick. As a colored person myself, having to be incarcerated as a juvenile while knowing another person who is non-colored, who most likely committed a crime much harsher than me wouldn't receive the same punishment would absolutely tilt me in every way.
Lastly, as I started to finish up on Kerby's essay I took a strong note in paragraph thirteen. As it stated “These racial disparities have deprived people of color of their most basic civil rights, making criminal-justice reform the civil rights issue of our time.” This line impacted me immensely, as I totally agree with her. Criminal Justice needs to be disintegrated off this planet. So many people have fought and lost their lives for our civil rights, and this issue still continues to this day.

Plagiarism quiz read both the paragraph below and the information following it that identifies the source using the american psychological association format. then read each of the numbered statements and determine if each is plagiarized or not. circle “yes” if the statement is plagiarized, “no” if it is not, and then fix the “yes” answers). original source the presence of the taiwanese on everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit. but the taiwanese were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified. camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the southwest face, one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking. krakauer, j. (1998). into thin air: a personal account of the mount everest disaster. new york: anchor books, 122 - 3. student samples yes 1. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid(krakauer, 1998). no) 2. many climbers overestimate their abilities, as krakauer (1998) explains when he writes of peter neby, whose himalayan experience in the past “required little more than vigorous walking” (122 - 3). no 3. jon krakauer (1998) discusses other concerns besides those of unpredictable weather and his own climbing group’s capabilities. for example the existence of a taiwanese group on everest was a matter of serious unease to most everyone else on the mountain. yes/no 4. krakauer (1998) states that the taiwanese group was not the only inexpert climbers to attempt mt. everest: camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby. . [whose] himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking (122 – 3). yes/no 5. the author asserts that the taiwanese “were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified.” yes/no 6. in his book into thin air, jon krakauer (1998) discusses many of the dangers he noted prior to his disastrous attempt to climb mt. everest in 1996. among them were encounters with other groups and individual climbers who were ill-trained and ill-equipped to handle the demands of such a climb.