Manuel’s Reflection

I believe that the custom Budweiser “When Friends Agree” sign in Manuel’s Tavern represents equality without judgement or restriction. Everyone is equal when they walk through those doors. Initially I had a few examples to support my claim, but it wasn’t many. I mostly described the poster and the alterations made to it when they put up the new sign on the wall. In my final draft, I added a few more examples to support me and I elaborated more on the political aspect because it is in fact a political cartoon. I added that switching the word gentlemen to the word friends made the sign gender neutral. It also eliminated the effect of classes by replacing a word correlated to the upper class with a word fitting to any class. My initial draft was slightly bland as well because there was only one picture, and it was the sign after it had been changed from the original poster. In my final I included the picture of the original poster so that readers could see the changes for themselves. Writing this assignment was different from other essays I’ve written in the past. I would usually sound very informative and professional to where reading it bored me and anyone who read it. With this, I feel like I was actually talking to the reader and made it easy and intriguing to read. Working on this assignment helped me reach the Writing as Process learning outcome for this course. At the beginning, I mapped out what I was going to write about. Then, I wrote the rough draft. One of my classmates read the draft and gave opinions of it. I had a one on one conversation with my professor, who helped me with ideas to make a stronger essay. Then, I merged those ideas into my writing and edited them to fit with what I already had. This produced my final draft. This was a textbook writing process.

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