I titled my essay “Messages Sent from Above” writing a five-hundred-word essay on the love my late grandmothers continue to show me through the messages they send me. Once I found my topic, each word became a stroke of a paintbrush, creating a piece of art that showed who I was on the inside. I used my words to create a piece that expressed my identity the way artists do through their paintings. Around the middle of the school year, we began writing our Rhetorical Analysis. Our rhetorical analysis was based on a commencement speech given by both Jason Reynolds and Steve Jobs in two different settings. I chose this essay to show the complete writing process because I had a very detailed writing process to go along with the paper. Do not let that fool you, because I would not consider this paper to be anything near a masterpiece. This paper focused a lot on emotions, such as ethos, pathos, and logos. I had to focus on words that would express true emotion, just as an artist does when selecting colors from a palette to bring meaning to their paintings. This essay felt like I took the color palette and chucked it on the