Hello Bloggers! Happy Friday once again! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! And hope you all ate a ton of food! I know I did. Anyway, this weeks blog is about our research paper and how its coming along. All I can say is… is school over yet!?
This semester has taken me for a ride, between dealing with the politics of this school and keeping up with my homework, I have become quite exhausted. Its hard to stay motivated when I’m told some of the 60units I’ve taken wont suffice for graduation. I must say this wonderful college of ours has given me nothing but the run around. Yet with this said I refuse to leave this place until I have that ever special AA in my hand. So sorry AVC your going to have to put up with my harassment.
This class especially has been a challenge while putting up with the above. Trying to read and write my little heart out has been a difficult pursuit. This research paper especially has been really intense. At first I was sort of lost in the whole idea, how the heck am I going to write a research paper on fiction. Not only that but an idea that arose in the novels chosen. I was terrified to be quite honest, I can get down on a research paper but that’s when I have a factual baseline. More so how am I going to be able to write six friggin pages about it.
Well I am a procrastinator, horribly, its kind of disgusting actually. But sometimes that’s when my best work happens. Though with something like this I have done a bit better and gotten started a little earlier than I usually do. For me I had to do an outline, I would have been lost without this. I put together basically what I wanted to write and cited the specific quotes I wanted to use. After I spent some time with books and paper surrounding me, I put it all down and let my brain rest.
So then the next day I sat my outline next to my computer and just started writing. I am pretty good at writing down my ideas once they get flowing. But I do have a problem with sentence fragments because I seem to think faster than I write. So I have found several riddled about my essay so far. I just write until the page count goes up. Ha-ha. So for now I still need to go through and edit all the fragments and fun grammar stuff. Plus finish writing about two pages, but that’s not so bad, though I am stressing out about it! I suppose on the positive side it is going somewhere so that definitely means something. Its been a bit difficult too link the ideas from one author to another, then also adding in the scholarly sources. Its also been hard as far as time management but I do think that in the end I will do okay. It always works out. Good luck to all of you! We’re sooooo close to the end, lets rock this!
Friday, November 26, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
How embarrassing!
Hello bloggers!! Happy Thursday or Friday…depending on when I post this. Anyway, I hope everyone’s week has been amazing! Mine has been interesting and exhausting, I did find out that the Oscar Mayer wiener mobile is coming to the store I work at. How awesome is that! I’m a dork, I know, but highly excited so I felt the need to share that with you all. But back to the point of this whole blog, is this weeks prompt! I chose number one on page 253, regarding the kind of things I’ve put on my myspace and/or face book that could potentially be embarrassing in the future.
I’ll start by saying that I love this prompt, it makes you think of the way people see you based on your home page. I know that I have learned a lot about online communication and the craziness of these social websites. Almost everyone has a myspace or face book, literally. I recently found out my grandma has a face book! I didn’t see that coming, but I guess everyone is sort of “getting with the times”. Yet I think this is the issue, for me at least. Too many people are now connected and can access my whole life. Certain people don’t need to see the drunken pictures from the house warming party. I must say though, that as I have gotten older I have became smarter with my social networking.
When I was in high school everyone was on Myspace, for most of us it was the true beginning of people being connected to each other all the time. We all had our own page with a spiel about ourselves along with photos and sparkling graphics. Like most technology I was on the late freight but eventually did make a myspace page. Yet as I said, I was in high school, so most of the things I did was fairly stupid and with out thinking. So my myspace page was spewn with drunken pictures and text basically advertising my bad behavior. But I used it as any other teen did, to keep in contact with friends. Yet a few years later I searched myself, and to my awe the first link was to my horrible myspace page. I was mortified, I couldn’t believe I was so easily found. I didn’t expect my information to be that accessible to the general public. Needless to say, this was a major wake up call.
Now-a-days I do have a face book, but I am very careful as to what I publish for the world to see. I now have a tighter grasp of my future and my goals could possibly be ruined because of some of the stupidity that was on that myspace page. I do have my boss and grandma as friends on face book so that is also a very big reason as to why I keep things mostly professional in this online outlet. Facebook has really changed as technology has, it an easier way for people to communicate with others from other areas. For me this is the main idea, granted we can be ourselves but I suppose that un certain aspects we must censor ourselves as to what it acceptable to others. Especially those others that can have power over our lives. I think we need to be careful what we say, even if its in a selfish aspect it will still save us from the embarrassment we witness in 20 years.
Anyway bloggers! Have a good night and an awesome weekend! Have a happy Thanksgiving and stuff your faces full of good food!
I’ll start by saying that I love this prompt, it makes you think of the way people see you based on your home page. I know that I have learned a lot about online communication and the craziness of these social websites. Almost everyone has a myspace or face book, literally. I recently found out my grandma has a face book! I didn’t see that coming, but I guess everyone is sort of “getting with the times”. Yet I think this is the issue, for me at least. Too many people are now connected and can access my whole life. Certain people don’t need to see the drunken pictures from the house warming party. I must say though, that as I have gotten older I have became smarter with my social networking.
When I was in high school everyone was on Myspace, for most of us it was the true beginning of people being connected to each other all the time. We all had our own page with a spiel about ourselves along with photos and sparkling graphics. Like most technology I was on the late freight but eventually did make a myspace page. Yet as I said, I was in high school, so most of the things I did was fairly stupid and with out thinking. So my myspace page was spewn with drunken pictures and text basically advertising my bad behavior. But I used it as any other teen did, to keep in contact with friends. Yet a few years later I searched myself, and to my awe the first link was to my horrible myspace page. I was mortified, I couldn’t believe I was so easily found. I didn’t expect my information to be that accessible to the general public. Needless to say, this was a major wake up call.
Now-a-days I do have a face book, but I am very careful as to what I publish for the world to see. I now have a tighter grasp of my future and my goals could possibly be ruined because of some of the stupidity that was on that myspace page. I do have my boss and grandma as friends on face book so that is also a very big reason as to why I keep things mostly professional in this online outlet. Facebook has really changed as technology has, it an easier way for people to communicate with others from other areas. For me this is the main idea, granted we can be ourselves but I suppose that un certain aspects we must censor ourselves as to what it acceptable to others. Especially those others that can have power over our lives. I think we need to be careful what we say, even if its in a selfish aspect it will still save us from the embarrassment we witness in 20 years.
Anyway bloggers! Have a good night and an awesome weekend! Have a happy Thanksgiving and stuff your faces full of good food!
Friday, November 12, 2010
Where did all the Political Cartoons go?
Hello everyone! Happy Friday! I hope everyone is getting through our research paper without too much trouble. Well this week we read about the language of humor, much having to do with editorial cartoons. The prompt I chose has to do with this subject yet more so the role of editorial cartoons in American culture.
Editorial cartoons are being seen in newspapers less and less. Depending on the newspaper these cartoons may not be seen at all. Though I feel this is due to several different factors, either way the art is dissipating from the pages of newspapers everywhere. In the 1700’s editorial cartoons were largely used in newspapers, and more were political than anything else. Of course this time in our countries history was very unstable as we were not completely separated from Britain and differing views on this were extreme. So cartoons were an outlet to send messages, political propaganda questioning the run of the country. With a time of sheer uncertainty this would help sway the masses. For example, one popular cartoon that was published in Benjamin Franklin's “Pennsylvania Gazette” newspaper. The image is of a snake split into portions labeled with state abbreviations, below the image in large letters says “Join or Die”. This is a perfect and blatant example of political propaganda, good or bad, it is obviously trying to sway the viewer. But thanks to these sort of images America is what it is today. Not only that but it is a prime example of our first amendment rights.
So why have we seen a decline in the use of editorial cartoons? America has issues brewing that citizens are just as passionate about as back when we were founding our politics. Doug Marlette says in his essay, “Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon” that the downfall of cartoonist is due to big business in the newspaper industry and the “corporate suits” that cut those jobs. Either simply because they don’t want to pay or the cartoonist pushing the boundaries is a sort of liability to readership. To this I would have to disagree. Working with the college paper for almost two years I would like to think I am at least somewhat credible on this subject, especially since I was the opinion editor during my last semester with them. Newspapers are image driven, a reader will be more inclined to read a specific article if the correlating photo seems interesting. Editorial cartoons are highly viewed because its easy to interpret and entertaining (most of the time). I tried to have an editorial cartoon partner a opinion piece in every issue we published. Though a cartoon may push the status quo, this seems to gain readers, not lose them. Plus if the cartoon is based upon the truth anyway readership will not decline regardless of their opinion on the subject.
The way I see it, editorial cartoons are being pushed out of newspapers by technology. That doesn’t say much when newspapers as a whole are being pushed out by technology. Its not that news or political cartoons are unavailable, they have simply moved to a different outlet. The downfall of this does land in the hands of the cartoonist, journalist, photographer and other facets of this changing medium. Making a living from internet based news has become growingly difficult because of the saturation of information the web provides. Yet no matter what people will always have the need for these sorts of talents. I just hope for my sake these don’t become an incredibly rare profession.
Well That’s all I got for tonight! I have 9 min to submit this and my eyelids can hardly stay open any longer. So goodnight and have a happy weekend!!
Editorial cartoons are being seen in newspapers less and less. Depending on the newspaper these cartoons may not be seen at all. Though I feel this is due to several different factors, either way the art is dissipating from the pages of newspapers everywhere. In the 1700’s editorial cartoons were largely used in newspapers, and more were political than anything else. Of course this time in our countries history was very unstable as we were not completely separated from Britain and differing views on this were extreme. So cartoons were an outlet to send messages, political propaganda questioning the run of the country. With a time of sheer uncertainty this would help sway the masses. For example, one popular cartoon that was published in Benjamin Franklin's “Pennsylvania Gazette” newspaper. The image is of a snake split into portions labeled with state abbreviations, below the image in large letters says “Join or Die”. This is a perfect and blatant example of political propaganda, good or bad, it is obviously trying to sway the viewer. But thanks to these sort of images America is what it is today. Not only that but it is a prime example of our first amendment rights.
So why have we seen a decline in the use of editorial cartoons? America has issues brewing that citizens are just as passionate about as back when we were founding our politics. Doug Marlette says in his essay, “Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon” that the downfall of cartoonist is due to big business in the newspaper industry and the “corporate suits” that cut those jobs. Either simply because they don’t want to pay or the cartoonist pushing the boundaries is a sort of liability to readership. To this I would have to disagree. Working with the college paper for almost two years I would like to think I am at least somewhat credible on this subject, especially since I was the opinion editor during my last semester with them. Newspapers are image driven, a reader will be more inclined to read a specific article if the correlating photo seems interesting. Editorial cartoons are highly viewed because its easy to interpret and entertaining (most of the time). I tried to have an editorial cartoon partner a opinion piece in every issue we published. Though a cartoon may push the status quo, this seems to gain readers, not lose them. Plus if the cartoon is based upon the truth anyway readership will not decline regardless of their opinion on the subject.
The way I see it, editorial cartoons are being pushed out of newspapers by technology. That doesn’t say much when newspapers as a whole are being pushed out by technology. Its not that news or political cartoons are unavailable, they have simply moved to a different outlet. The downfall of this does land in the hands of the cartoonist, journalist, photographer and other facets of this changing medium. Making a living from internet based news has become growingly difficult because of the saturation of information the web provides. Yet no matter what people will always have the need for these sorts of talents. I just hope for my sake these don’t become an incredibly rare profession.
Well That’s all I got for tonight! I have 9 min to submit this and my eyelids can hardly stay open any longer. So goodnight and have a happy weekend!!
Friday, November 5, 2010
Thanks to You
Hello everyone! I hope your week has been awesome! Surely a bit stressful as we enter the last few weeks of the semester. I know I’ve had test’s left and right. Anyway I have been a bad blogger lately and didn’t publish one last week. So, my apologies for not partaking with everyone. But this week I’m kicking myself in the butt to get everything done. Ahhhhhh! So our blog prompt this week asks about improvement in our writing because of the immense amounts of reading and writing we’ve been conquering.
I must say this English class is different than any I have taken. Its unique because majority of my learning has come from you guys! My peers have helped explain certain ideas, debate thoughts without criticism, and help edit my papers. I’ve also gained some knowledge from reading blogs, doing PDR’s, and participating in group stuff. So thank you all so much for helping me out! Much appreciated, I’ve learned quite a bit!
I have also enjoyed the reading selection for this class, the novels are interesting and require critical thinking. Some have been a challenge to read and to keep up with but thus far it has enriched my brain with valuable information. It has been refreshing to rekindle the beauty of the language that lies beneath the text. The use of blogger has also helped to further explain some of the underlying language.
I have enjoyed everyone’s blogs, its been a great way to see a little more of each others personality through our thoughts and views. There has been a few of your blogs that made me think of another side of some of the reading that I wouldn’t have realized before. As I mentioned I think its great we are able to communicate through this medium with respect and interest in each others views. Even if I don’t agree with someone’s view its helped me gain perspective of a different stance.
Group interaction has allowed me to gain knowledge from my peers, it has also been a large portion of change in my writing. Between Varamin and Qom I have seen several different writing styles, and have gotten back much constructive criticism. The PDR process has been quite beneficial to me. Thanks Qom! Having everyone review your work helps catch little niches I wouldn’t have found. Plus I am a terrible…terrible copywriter. So the input is so useful, the comments help reinforce the strengths and weaknesses and helps easily translate in revision. Big help that’s for sure!
Though I entered certain facets of this class with a rocky start, I have been able to find the benefits and reason for what at first seemed like a hassle. The reading, writing, and peer interaction has strengthened my writing by reinforcing certain techniques and helping to rid my text from flaws or misunderstanding. It has been an intense run, and it is not over yet. So lets continue to work together to gain understanding of our hidden writing talents.
Well on that note I would like to add one more THANK YOU to all my peers for helping me out. Props to Qom for being patient and working with me on my essays and our projects. I sincerely mean it, this class would be sooooo much more difficult without you all. Have a happy weekend!
I must say this English class is different than any I have taken. Its unique because majority of my learning has come from you guys! My peers have helped explain certain ideas, debate thoughts without criticism, and help edit my papers. I’ve also gained some knowledge from reading blogs, doing PDR’s, and participating in group stuff. So thank you all so much for helping me out! Much appreciated, I’ve learned quite a bit!
I have also enjoyed the reading selection for this class, the novels are interesting and require critical thinking. Some have been a challenge to read and to keep up with but thus far it has enriched my brain with valuable information. It has been refreshing to rekindle the beauty of the language that lies beneath the text. The use of blogger has also helped to further explain some of the underlying language.
I have enjoyed everyone’s blogs, its been a great way to see a little more of each others personality through our thoughts and views. There has been a few of your blogs that made me think of another side of some of the reading that I wouldn’t have realized before. As I mentioned I think its great we are able to communicate through this medium with respect and interest in each others views. Even if I don’t agree with someone’s view its helped me gain perspective of a different stance.
Group interaction has allowed me to gain knowledge from my peers, it has also been a large portion of change in my writing. Between Varamin and Qom I have seen several different writing styles, and have gotten back much constructive criticism. The PDR process has been quite beneficial to me. Thanks Qom! Having everyone review your work helps catch little niches I wouldn’t have found. Plus I am a terrible…terrible copywriter. So the input is so useful, the comments help reinforce the strengths and weaknesses and helps easily translate in revision. Big help that’s for sure!
Though I entered certain facets of this class with a rocky start, I have been able to find the benefits and reason for what at first seemed like a hassle. The reading, writing, and peer interaction has strengthened my writing by reinforcing certain techniques and helping to rid my text from flaws or misunderstanding. It has been an intense run, and it is not over yet. So lets continue to work together to gain understanding of our hidden writing talents.
Well on that note I would like to add one more THANK YOU to all my peers for helping me out. Props to Qom for being patient and working with me on my essays and our projects. I sincerely mean it, this class would be sooooo much more difficult without you all. Have a happy weekend!
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