Andrew Onofrietti

Blog 3

            Unfortunately, I missed the class where we brainstormed ideas for this topic, but I did some brainstorming of my own. One of my passions has always been cars, so I brainstormed ideas for a topic related to the car scene. The car community is generally a fun-loving group, but some people give it a bad name. At car meets, people from all over the country gather to admire each other’s car. While at a car meet, loud revving can be heard everywhere, and this isn’t a problem, but revving turns into burn outs, turns into cops arriving, turns into the meet getting shut down. This is obviously a huge issue for everyone who has to make the journey back to wherever they came from without fully experiencing the meet. Another issue I’ve seen is animosity towards police. In general, cops and car people don’t get along. People have crazy built engines pushing 800 horsepower and they want to show that off, and I get that, but what I don’t get is why car people sometimes provoke the police. I think if the police were informed of meets they would be more lenient. I also think that if, at meets, people were more considerate of the surrounding areas, calls to the police and general bitterness towards the car community would go down.

So, my research question to address this issue, as well as other issues surrounding the car community, is how can we make car meets more civilized and have better connotation overall? The overall theme for this topic would just be an informational essay to raise awareness for the issue I’m solving. I love the car community and hate seeing it being shown in such a negative light.

Some stakeholders I could include in my essay would be anyone in the car community, police, and people living in areas negatively affected by the car scene. The car community would be a stakeholder obviously because uncivilized people at meets can really ruin the experience for others. Also having to leave early, especially if you drove from a different state to attend, would leave a bad taste in your mouth. Police are stakeholders because they could gain some peace of mind that car meets are more grown-up. People living in places affected by the community would also gain peace of mind and their views of the community would improved. I’ll mostly be addressing the community, however, because they are like-minded people and I think I could more easily persuade them.

I would prefer to persuade someone who already agrees with me to an extent because I can connect with them through logos, ethos, and pathos. I feel like I excel in situations where I can relate with someone through similar passions. My main and really only concern is how long I can really make my essay. I know I can talk a lot about the community and how to improve it, but I’m not sure if I could get seven pages out of it. However, I will try my best to write a well-rounded and only slightly biased essay.

                      This is an example of a huge annual car meet called Wekest

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