reflect on multiple learning experiences in order to synthesize knowledge
This assignment was made for my Rhetorical Traditions II class. It was made to exemplify how rhetoric has changed my life and ways of looking at the world, and how it can change everyone else. I described the different uses for rhetoric that could be beneficial for people in many ways.
When expressing all of the things I had learned in the class, I was able to think about the ways I personally have experienced rhetoric as an English major. While writing the essay, I was able to mentally process it as a whole and what it can contribute to in my daily life.
This new knowledge fits in with many things I have done before because I tend. To write many reflective pieces as an English major. This essay is very similar to many other reflective pieces I have completed, especially when reflecting on what I have learned and how I can apply that to my own daily life. This assignment was very significant to me because I have a place in my heart for learning work, and then being able to apply that to my own life. Personally, I absorb more when I am able to experience the things that I have learned.
This assignment makes me want to tell other people about how significant rhetoric is in their daily lives. Also, how important it is to notice that many things are rhetoric, so that one will have the ability to approach them appropriately.
Some parents throw period parties for their girls that get their first period. I never had one of these, and the truth of the matter is, I didn’t even know people still did this. From a tampon shaped pinata to a vulva cake, some parents go extreme to make sure their child knows the significance of their first period. There are so many reactions to a girls first period, the celebration is one. Another reaction would be mine. I can remember my first period. It was totally unexpected and scary! I woke up to it and started running to my mom’s room and crying. My mother comforted me. This reaction seems to be the most common. It was almost like an instinct or a natural reaction for me. In an article 
Thoughts about the menstrual cycle have changed so much over time. Unfortunately, it is difficult to go back to a certain point of time with the menstrual cycle because there is little documentation. But before the 1900s, women didn’t have much to do about their monthly flow, so they had to bleed through their clothes most of the time. Starting in the 1900s, people had realized that it was very unsanitary to bleed in clothes. Washable pads were the new thing in. It came in the form of a belt and was quite bulky and very inconvenient. Now there are tampons and disposable pads that give women much more freedom to do their daily activities, one of those which is sports. Women in the early to mid-1900s, for the most part, we’re not kicking balls around or running around. Now that women have more rights to participate in activities that require physical activity, pads and tampons are necessary.
In conclusion, the “period-talk” will always be something that is prevalent in someone’s household. Even though periods are a topic that may make people uncomfortable, they are not like the newest pair of shoes, they will never go out of style. The menstrual cycle is something that should be treated with respect, because like Leah Stone, a poet said, “If this monthly flow of ours makes you uncomfortable, maybe I should remind you where the fuck you came from”. 
Everyone has heard of male circumcision. Done at birth and believed to not be painful for the child, and definitely not remembered when an adult, about 80% of males in America are circumcised. This is almost all of the males, an incredible amount. Female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM) on the other hand is done on girls as young as infancy and old as fifteen. Imagine being age fifteen and have gone through puberty and being told as such an old age that you have to get your clitoris or labia cut off, nicked, or even sewn together. There are four different types of female circumcision, all of them resulting in utter pain and disgrace for the female. Not only is the female’s parts mutilated, but unlike the benefits of male circumcision, females have horrible disadvantages. 
What are the disadvantages and advantages of female and male circumcision? They both are very different in many ways. Why do males favor circumcision, well in this case the parent favors it. Because the parents decide for the male at birth if they want the child to be circumcised, it’s not really up to the child to decide this. When a female is circumcised many of them are not circumcised during birth, but sometimes as a teenager. What costs do females have to pay when getting circumcised, Are there any benefits of female circumcision? Females that circumcised get complications such as hemorrhage (excessive bleeding), urinary problems, discomfort or even no pleasure during sex, and sometimes death. There are absolutely no benefits to female circumcision. It only causes harm to the female. Even in some cases, the vagina has to be ripped apart for a woman to have children or prevent infections. Imagine having a vagina that is sewn together and eventually, it grows together. Then imagine having a child and having to break open that grown together skin. Something uncircumcised females cannot even think about
When and where is female and male circumcision performed? What countries perform these acts? Does circumcision have anything to do with culture or religion? Female circumcision is known to be practiced in 30 countries. Some of those countries, including Egypt, Zambia, Ethiopia, and Kongo. Male circumcision is practiced in Australia, Canada, Pakistan, and the United States. Obviously, these countries have a huge difference in cultures and religion. In African countries, much of the reason that female circumcision is practiced is for economic reasons. Already in poverty, women in these countries are doing this mutilation on women for money. They are paid a decent amount of money for these tasks, so this is a practice that if taken away can take away money from many people. In countries that practice male circumcision, a lot in Asian countries, there is a high prevalence of male circumcision. In a 2001 study, the author stated that 
The practice of circumcision is still ongoing in many countries, traumatizing millions of women all over the world. It is being slowed down by many people that try to prevent the culture of female genital mutilation from continuing. An advocate of female circumcision, Leyla Hussein is speaking out on the subject of female circumcision. Talking on huge shows such as BBC News Africa. The issue of FGM is not spoken of by many people, I think because male circumcision is so normal and common that many people are not educated enough to see the difference between FGM and male circumcision. 
In conclusion, there is a distinct difference between male and female circumcision. FGM is likely to never stop because it is the main source of income for many people in many countries. Male circumcision is thought of as normal, especially in the United States of America. Because of advocates for FGM, it is slowly progressing and making a change. Because the culture is so prevalent, it is very difficult to stop the culture because it is FGM, something that has happened for so long. When things are continued for so long, it is very difficult to stop because of the belief that if it is stopped it will mess up the whole religion of a society.
Young boys who begin to watch porn start as early as 11 years old. Now here’s one significant problem with that. From ages 11-14, which is the average ages that young boys begin to watch porn, their brain and body are going through significant changes. Puberty hits, and socially they begin to want to fit in and have “cliques”. Of course, every parent wants their child to have friends, but when that child is mixing porn with wanting to fit into a crowd, it can be a recipe for disaster. Many kids are influenced in the first place by their peers to watch porn. They may go over a friends house and see a porn magazine or watch porn with their friends. Whatever the reason is, these kids are very easily influenced to watch porn by their friends, which is the first step in this process. Also, the brain changes in many ways during these years. The decision makes or prefrontal cortex and frontal lobes are growing. These enable young people to make ethical decisions and their own judgments. So, when a young child is watching porn, which by the way 88% of porn contains violence against women, the decisions or judgments made by a child can be very well stunted on shaped around what they see in porn. 
, what influence does porn actually have on these young people, and how can that affect them as they grow to become adults? In general, the effects of porn on young people are extensive. Anything from supporting violence to even racism. Starting with violence. As a young child when your watching a porn website that is titled: “Bitch Gets Her Throat Pounded Until She Gags”, they might have no idea what any of that means, but when they click on it and see the violent behavior, they will be shocked, but eventually may become attracted to that behavior and want to actually act it out. Something like this, a child as young as 11 years old may not be able to, but when they do have sex or become adults, they want to do that to other females. Don’t get me wrong there are females out there that may like that, but what one has to understand is that porn is a business. These women are being paid to look like they’re enjoying these acts, even though in reality it is causing no pleasure at all. Racism. Present in Porn, but overlooked because it seems like there are communication and consent for these people to be portrayed with these stereotypes. Porn videos with Hispanic’s role-playing as immigrants. African- American men being seen as dominating an “innocent, vulnerable” white women. Young children are seeing these videos also. Imagine the effect this will have on a developing child. Most racists have always been racist and are because of their parent’s belief. So when you watch a racist porn video at a young age, you know no better than to carry those stereotypes with you along the way into your adulthood. 
Porn also tremendously makes disconnections between people and even making it harder for adults to build relationships. Noah Church, a young man who watched porn in his early years got into a relationship with a woman. When about to have sexual intercourse, he expected his body to react totally different than how it did. If porn affected this mans bodily reactions to seeing a real woman’s body, it just shows how influential it is on changing the way people experience sex. There is not much real in the world anymore. Plastic surgery is even introduced in porn. Women and men change their bodies to look “perfect”. In real life no man now woman looks perfect, therefore porn is a very harmful factor on real men and women having connections between each other even with all their flaws.