This is my works cited page, where in I give credit for where it is due for all the many quotes and evidences that I have appropriated in order to prove my points. This page is a testament to the fact that I am one, capable of properly citing sources in correct MLA format, and two that I consider the purpose for which I am going to use said sources, and three that I have a firm opinion of the article of which I have to rhetorically analyze.

Works Cited

Jury, Hannah. “How Travel Can Benefit Our Mental Health.” Psych Central, Psych Central.com, 8 July 2018, psychcentral.com/blog/how-travel-can-benefit-our-mental-health/. Accessed 1/28/2019.

• While this writer is indeed passionate about writing, she herself is not all that credible in the sense that she is in a marketing job concerning a cabin company with questionable education on the subject of travel writing. However the sources that she sites in her article that support her argument are indeed from credible sources. Hannah Jury works in marketing and communications for a small holiday cottages company in the UK and is an advocate for travel. It should be noted that this author has compiled credible sources in her article, which for the most part I will be drawing from.
• The author’s main argument is that traveling provides many mental benefits for someone stuck in a roadblock in their life. She references a study by Cornell University, which concludes that the anticipation of going on a trip is enough to increase happiness.
• I chose this particular source because like Pico Iyer, the author wants the reader to travel, and go through a positive life experience. Since they have similar if not identical goals, Jury’s evidence will be impactful in supporting both Iyer’s and my claims.
• I wanted to know from this article what the possible benefits from travel could be besides the ones mentioned in Iyer’s article.

Vitelli, Romeo. “Bored in the U.S.A.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 3 Mar. 2017, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/media-spotlight/201703/bored-in-the-usa. Accessed 1/28/2019.

• I wanted to know to what extent boredom has affected America and what the possible repercussions were.
• Romeo Vitelli received his doctorate in Psychology from York University in Toronto, Ontario in 1987. In 2003, he went into full-time private practice and has been an avid blogger since 2007.
• Vitelli’s warns Americans everywhere that struggle with boredom, the dangers towards their mental psyche. His article is meant to raise awareness towards the potential harm that comes from being bored. Vitelli corroborates his message through polls from journals and data from apps, where people frequently mention their boredom and then speaks on the negative impacts on their lives.
• I chose this source because one of the driving forces behind Pico Iyer’s article is the fact that people in modern western societies are discontent and desire deeper meaning in life, the fact that so many people are bored, and that their boredom negatively impacts their emotional psyche displays the validity to Iyer’s argument, and why it is meaningful.

Thompson, Carl. Travel Writing. Routledge, 2011. Accessed 1/28/2019.

• Thompson heavily conveys in his work the impact of European and western imperialism on the genre of travel writing as being a negative influence that belittles the cultures of non-european based nations. Iyer acknowledges this flaw in his writing and works around it by speaking about the cultural sanctity that is maintained in countries that have experienced western influences.

Iyer, Pico. “Why We Travel.” Salon, Salon.com, 26 Sept. 2011, www.salon.com/2000/03/18/why/. Accessed 1/28/2019.

• I chose this article because I believe that Pico Iyer’s argument has the most to do with the subject of travelling, and is also objectively the best travel essay we have read to date.
• My thesis will be about how Iyer’s call to travel is a heartfelt message that employs both emotionally convicting metaphors and a strong ethos to save his audience from their own boredom and mental deprivation. To be restored by joys of travel and the life changing connections that result from it.