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Bike for 2, please!

 For our second AP of Design & Engineering, We were assigned a persona to create our bikes from. My persona, Vanessa, has to bike 4 miles from United Center in Chicago. We had in-person and virtual encounters with Divvy and Earth Riders   to teach us about the parts of bikes and their properties.  I interviewed my dad who is a biker and when i asked if there was any problems about riding in Chicago and he said there is too many potholes so we used both into one bike called the BIKE FOR 2™

The Transgender War

In our second Art of Rhetoric AP, we talked about the status quo and Op-Ed. During this unit, we also met with a young alderman of the 40th ward, Ugo Okere. He discussed that being a public speaker is important when expressing your opinion. And during our FE to the Marquette Park Memorial on the west of 67th, we conversed about how it doesn't take just one important person to change an opinion, it takes a community. In this AP we were to choose an opinion that society thinks is true and put OUR opinion in there and provide facts.  How society thinks that being a transgender man/woman and being a drag queen/king is the same, is false and inaccurate. Being transgender is identifying as a different or opposite gender than the one you were born. Being a  drag queen means that you change your gender to entertain or perform.  The main star of the famous drag queen tv show RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul comments a ton of derogatory words towards trans people. “I love the word ‘...