Burcu Tuzcu

Professor Ferrara

English 101

5 December 2020

Looking at the bright side of the pandemic

The global impact of covid-19 has caused the world to alter dramatically in a way we

have never seen in history before. Although the pandemic has changed everything for us

including our lifestyle and our daily schedules we should try to look into the positive impacts of

corona. Much of everybody’s daily life have been stained by the coronavirus, starting from

virtual learning which is an online learning experience that is escalating through devices such as

phones, computers, and tablets. Many Americans were unemployed, the economy got hit pretty

hard, and how half of the country decided to do remote learning. This global virus has affected

various aspects of life in good and bad ways. We are currently living through a very harsh

widespread disease that is expanding day after day, but we also have to consider the positive

outcome of corona. Many extracurricular, events, and parties have been shut down to stop the

spread but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have time to heal from our busy lives we were going to

continue living for. Yes, completely focusing on the bad result of the pandemic can limit us into

a depressing closeminded person. It is important to keep in mind that many have lost their loved

ones and jobs due to this and couldn’t be able to spend their last days with their loved ones in the

hospital, but we have to look forward and continue with our lives because it's not the end of the

world. My senior year was cancelled half of the year unfortunately and didn't have prom,

members which resulted them to lose money and lots of people sadly couldn’t pay their bills on

time. Surprisingly researchers at the beginning of quarantine have been noticing sudden positive
aftermath of the human behavior for instance the skies were getting bluer, fewer cars were

crashing, and crime rates were decreasing. The pandemic helped us build relationships with our

family and friends like no other way. There were many benefits and positive side effects of covid

such as: working from home, better sleep, and my personal favorite was more time to try new

things such as cleaning and learning a new hobby.

The outcome is done with. I wrote around six interesting

questions, found the right people to ask and finally got my

answers. The original survey that I have created was a survey

using the website SurveyMonkey. In the survey that I have

designed, 16 people have responded to that particular survey.

Those who were interviewed were all my close friends and family

that I've known for the past 7 years. After conducting and

reviewing the survey, it's quite easy to get wrapped up in the data hey put in shown as well as the

percentages of the answers. Since my data has been measured, it's easy to compare and contrast

results and recognize the issue. My first question was that “do you think there are benefits from

covid-19?” Nearly 50 percent of the survey takers have said no to that question which makes it

eight people who have clicked on that answer. 31.25 percent of the other people have said yes

that is five people and 18.75 percent which was the rest have said maybe which makes it that

three people answered to that. Here comes my second question which was probably the most

important one. "If you answered yes to the question above, what would some benefits?" I had

quite of bit of fascinating answers such as to know the worth of our health, unemployment

money, many people are more sanitary and aware of the cleanliness of their surroundings now,
with all the time on my hands during quarantine I changed and found myself, family time, and

last but not least how health workers getting praised for their work more. As you can see there

are many benefits of the pandemic and quarantine that have not been talked much about since we

all like to look at the negative side of life thinking were not going to get through it. This just

showed me how at the end of the day no matter what corona virus has good outcomes to it. Not

everyone answered the questions though I only had thirteen people who actually submitted an

answer for this question. I also asked if corona virus ruin any of their plans since all my friends

complain about how they could’ve been traveling instead of sitting at home quarantining.

87.50% of the answer was yes which made me a little sad. But then again so many people have

either learned how to cook, found a new hobby, and learned to heal in this long amount of time

we had for ourselves. This just hints that us Americans are too over worked and are so busy with

their lives that we don’t even have a an actual second to breathe and to think about ourselves.

The age range was actually tie between under 18 and the ages 18-24 at a rank of 43.75 percent.

My survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-PZGDJFTZ7/
 I spoke about effective rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, and logos by supporting

my claim. I described pathos by putting in emotion when talking about the death of peoples

loved ones and how some students couldn’t spend their last year in high school like me. I added

along my own struggle story in there just so my audience can see that everyone has struggled

once during a time like this. When talked about the cases rising and the number of recovered, I

was certainly using logos because my writing had a reason and logic behind the numbers of cases

I have added so show proof, logic, and facts that I wasn’t lying or making up these numbers up

in my head. Ethos didn’t really support my claim just because I guess I don’t really need it, but

definitely at the end of the essay I will make sure to use ethos because I am going to be citing

credible sources when needed to. Both “popular” and “scholarly” sources to support my essay

would be “Most Americans Say Coronavirus Outbreak Has Impacted Their Lives by Pew

Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends Project” This source just talks about how covid

19 has impacted Americans on a personal level in numerous ways and how it changed our

behaviors. Another popular source that I used was “Changes to Daily Life from Coronavirus

That May Last” by Andy Markowitz. A perspective from other experts about my own theme is

that Bill Gates an American business magnate talked about how the pandemic will shape the near

future on a TED Talk and he discussed how covid-19 has changed the world.
 An interesting and important quotation I have read online is “Overall, Americans living

in suburban and rural areas are more likely than those living in urban communities to feel

comfortable visiting with close friends and relatives.” I feel like this quote is actually pretty

important to think about because this clearly shows how people that live in the suburban and

rural areas feel safer visiting their close friends and relatives because the urban areas are more

infected, and it’s highly populated rather than the rural areas of town. Urban communities have

stores, malls, populated people which probably means that it’s not as safe as the other

communities since their father away from the deadly disease. The main reason would be that

urban areas are much more populated and closer to people who can be infected. Another very

major issue I have seemed to read online is that “it seems to especially be hitting younger people.

Of those surveyed, 55% reported experiencing mental health issues since the onset of the

pandemic, including 74% of respondents in the 18-to-34-year-old age range.” This has surprised

me because I thought that the older age people were struggling the most from loneliness or

isolation but because I feel like my age group has been struggling so much during the pandemic

because of schoolwork, our family, and since we're so young it's affecting us and our mind pretty

badly in a way that we simply cannot do our homework and assignments and communicate with

our friends and family. Our mental health affects our daily life and the things we do such as

eating, sleeping, and communicating with others.

one out in public. We won’t have to deal with any more phases anymore if we follow these

simple rules in life. It changed everything most places are closed we don’t even feel safe going

out grocery shopping or to restaurant to eat. We should make a change and educate people on

why it’s important to care since everybody is mad about how schools, restaurants, and malls are

closed. There are two sides of this deadly virus learning and educating others or not taking

cautious so another pandemic like this will hurt us badly again. The issues we are currently faces

as well as how the cases are rising due to not caring enough about others’ lives. I talk about how

we have two choices; number one try to stay home, social distance, and wear a face covering and

or go out just because you’re bored, get close to others, and don’t wear a mask because its

uncomfortable. It’s very clear on what I am trying to say. I give details, I make sure to include

and state real facts because then I will be lying which then I will not be a trustable author. My

audience obviously has background information on this topic because it's currently an issue in

the world right now that we're dealing with. The pandemic has changed our lives, mindset, and

our daily schedule. We changed the way we do school and the way some people work. Us

students and teachers have to do online while workers have to be careful and social distance from

others. Hopefully people have learned better health awareness to keep clean so the next

pandemic will not be as bizarre as this. people have learned better health awareness to keep clean

so the next pandemic will not be as bizarre as this.

Let’s try not

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