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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Identity Crisis
I Don't know what to do with myself now that I am not blond. I've been blond for a long time and it's a whole different world being brunette.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
writing space
My writing space is a computer at work. For some reason I can think better when I am typing as opposed to handwriting something. There is a lot of stuff in the office, but i try to keep it neat so that I can concentrate. The computers is behind a desk so that no one else can see the screen unless they are behind the desk too. I like it this way because I don't really like for people to be able to see my papers, it makes me self concious.
Ads
Ad comparison paper
There are many truck ads that show extraordinary tricks that can be performed by the vehicles and by the people who drive them. The rhetorical appeal in truck ads is similar in that they show that each truck can go anywhere, do anything, and there are no boundaries.
The first ad I saw was during the super bowl, where it showed the truck being tossed around in the ocean. The vehicle was turned from side to side and hit against rocks. When the truck was washed on to shore and the tide pulled away someone started it and drove away. The truck did not have a scratch on it and there was nothing at all wrong with it. The message I got from this commercial was that their cars can go anywhere.
In another ad, a man came out of his house dressed for work and because he had no boundaries he jumped off of a cliff outside of his house. He landed with the help of a parachute in a canyon bottom. His black truck was waiting for him at the bottom without an ounce of dirt. He got in and drove away and I got the message that the truck had no boundaries.
The last commercial of this nature I saw showed that their trucks can do anything. The commercial was with two trucks coming face to face as if in battle. When the weaker truck saw the other, the one being advertised, it emitted a stream of yellow onto the ground. It was saying that it was so intimidating that it was urinating. This ad said that their trucks can do anything.
Because all the ads were sending close to the same message, that trucks are indestructible, I cannot differentiate between the different truck companies.
There are many truck ads that show extraordinary tricks that can be performed by the vehicles and by the people who drive them. The rhetorical appeal in truck ads is similar in that they show that each truck can go anywhere, do anything, and there are no boundaries.
The first ad I saw was during the super bowl, where it showed the truck being tossed around in the ocean. The vehicle was turned from side to side and hit against rocks. When the truck was washed on to shore and the tide pulled away someone started it and drove away. The truck did not have a scratch on it and there was nothing at all wrong with it. The message I got from this commercial was that their cars can go anywhere.
In another ad, a man came out of his house dressed for work and because he had no boundaries he jumped off of a cliff outside of his house. He landed with the help of a parachute in a canyon bottom. His black truck was waiting for him at the bottom without an ounce of dirt. He got in and drove away and I got the message that the truck had no boundaries.
The last commercial of this nature I saw showed that their trucks can do anything. The commercial was with two trucks coming face to face as if in battle. When the weaker truck saw the other, the one being advertised, it emitted a stream of yellow onto the ground. It was saying that it was so intimidating that it was urinating. This ad said that their trucks can do anything.
Because all the ads were sending close to the same message, that trucks are indestructible, I cannot differentiate between the different truck companies.
grades
Jennifer Cooper ENGL 1010
Today’s school grading system can be an effective means of motivating some students to do their best work.
Grades can be a good motivator in that they reward students for working hard and doing homework, create organized tracking of accomplishment, and are based on all around performance at school.
The grading system used in most schools is good because it is not based solely on how smart a person naturally is. Instead there are other factors involved such as showing up to class every day possible and participating in class discussion. While this is true, for the most part grades are mostly consistent of homework and test scores.
Without being given work to bring home that is graded, average test scores would go down. Homework goes over things that are discussed in class and gives students the opportunity to practice material so they will feel confident when taking tests. So test scores are a result of taking extra time to do homework and therefore the test score is a reward for working hard.
If we had not the organized system of tracking accomplishment that we have our school system in general really would not work. By grading papers and everything that is done in school students and teachers can see exactly what the persons strong and weak points are. Some individuals need extra help and cannot be compared to other people in school. Either someone has a learning disability or has not had the same educational opportunities as another person. So in this way our grading system may not work equally for everybody.
I think the way that the grades work is the best method that anybody has thought of so far.
Today’s school grading system can be an effective means of motivating some students to do their best work.
Grades can be a good motivator in that they reward students for working hard and doing homework, create organized tracking of accomplishment, and are based on all around performance at school.
The grading system used in most schools is good because it is not based solely on how smart a person naturally is. Instead there are other factors involved such as showing up to class every day possible and participating in class discussion. While this is true, for the most part grades are mostly consistent of homework and test scores.
Without being given work to bring home that is graded, average test scores would go down. Homework goes over things that are discussed in class and gives students the opportunity to practice material so they will feel confident when taking tests. So test scores are a result of taking extra time to do homework and therefore the test score is a reward for working hard.
If we had not the organized system of tracking accomplishment that we have our school system in general really would not work. By grading papers and everything that is done in school students and teachers can see exactly what the persons strong and weak points are. Some individuals need extra help and cannot be compared to other people in school. Either someone has a learning disability or has not had the same educational opportunities as another person. So in this way our grading system may not work equally for everybody.
I think the way that the grades work is the best method that anybody has thought of so far.
Moolaade
Moolaadé
The film, Moolaadé is based in a small town in Africa. The central theme of the movie is female circumcision. One of the main characters in the movie, Collé offers her home as a place of refuge for the young girls that do not want to get their genitals mutilated by the older men in the community. As a result, the men take away the radios of all the women and girls in the community which is their only link to the outside world. As a result of the circumcision quite a few of the young girls have died and so most of the African women decide to stand up against it. The movie is not only about the negative things going on, but it also shows the culture and daily lives of the people in the town. In the end the women achieve their goal and the circumcisions are put to an end.
This movie relates a lot to developmental psychology. Culture is defined as a “design for living,” the people in that culture had been doing female circumcision for centuries and didn’t know any differently. In the book it says that people do not begin to question their own culture until it seems harmful or they realize that members of another culture do things differently. The reason it took so long to put an end to it might have been because in the old days there were no radios, or TVs to find out about things going on in the outside world. The women now had different information about what is right and wrong not just what they have known all of their lives. Also mothers were losing their children because of this dangerous practice.
The film, Moolaadé is based in a small town in Africa. The central theme of the movie is female circumcision. One of the main characters in the movie, Collé offers her home as a place of refuge for the young girls that do not want to get their genitals mutilated by the older men in the community. As a result, the men take away the radios of all the women and girls in the community which is their only link to the outside world. As a result of the circumcision quite a few of the young girls have died and so most of the African women decide to stand up against it. The movie is not only about the negative things going on, but it also shows the culture and daily lives of the people in the town. In the end the women achieve their goal and the circumcisions are put to an end.
This movie relates a lot to developmental psychology. Culture is defined as a “design for living,” the people in that culture had been doing female circumcision for centuries and didn’t know any differently. In the book it says that people do not begin to question their own culture until it seems harmful or they realize that members of another culture do things differently. The reason it took so long to put an end to it might have been because in the old days there were no radios, or TVs to find out about things going on in the outside world. The women now had different information about what is right and wrong not just what they have known all of their lives. Also mothers were losing their children because of this dangerous practice.
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