Packet Assignment

First Activity

There were three speakers: Anna McCarthy, Heather Hendershot, and Mark Greif. Honestly, I didn’t really care for the two women who went first. The seminar was supposed to be about television, but the first two women barely mentioned television, they mainly talked about citizenship and politics. I only enjoyed listening to Mark Greif. I feel like he framed his speech around college students. He realized his target audience was college students and he incorporated things to catch our attention. I feel that the two women didn’t base their speeches around a college student audience.

In Mark Greif’s speech, he discussed how reality television isn’t exactly the best example of television. He talked about how we view the Price is Right as featuring regular citizens while when we watch reality shows, such as The Kardashians’s, we don’t see them as regular citizens. Both shows are containing non-actors, but because they are famous they don’t seem like regular citizens to us. His speech should have just been the main speech for the 2:55 session because I didn’t get anything out of the two other women’s speeches.

-I learned that the way the essay is formatted really effects the way a person perceives the essay. You can use different fonts and styles in order to enforce emphasis on a sentence or phrase. The way an essay is formatted can determine whether or not your audience will understand the message you are trying to send. If there is too many styles used within one essay like this one, it will not be easy on the eyes to read and the reader will most likely not continue on with reading it.

Second Activity

This is my magazine article

http://www.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1838100,00.html

I like the way this article is set up because it starts with a big, colorful picture of the main Las Vegas strip and it is taken in a way that is appealing to the eye. Once an audience sees this picture they will be enticed to visit Las Vegas and will read on in the article in order to find out what Las Vegas has to offer. The different things about Las Vegas are listed in a numeric order with a bolder font for each topic. The article starts off with an introduction of Las Vegas and then leads into the lists of attractions. Each topic offers a picture like explained before. There are links within the article that are in a different color and are underlined and italicized so that they stand out to the human eye. This article is easy to follow along and the subtopics are short enough that they hold my attention.

Summary of Mark Bittman article

In Mark Bitttman's article, he discusses the difference between the way domestic animals are treated and how other animals are treated. He talks about how we tend to favor and only treat domestic animals with love and care. When there is an animal that we generally end up eating, we don't necessary care how it was treated before hand as long as it tastes good in the end. Also, when it comes to these kind of animals, farmers may abuse the animal and treat it as though it does not have the same emotions as a household pet may have. He uses an example of the punishment received for killing a pet hamster, when everyday an animal is treated poorly and killed in order for us to eat.

March 15 Exercise 1

Mine was on page 26-27 but I looked at Emma's post to see which one it actually was.

a) I believe that there are dangerous levels of Chemical X in the Ohio groundwater, on the other hand, there are other people that believe that Chemical X might actually be helping the surrounding land.

b)I think that this novel have certain flaws, but there are some people that would say that it is actually flawless and influential.

c) I feel that football is so boring, but there are people that thoroughly enjoy watching and/or playing it.

d)I think that male students often dominate class discussions, but there are some girls who always volunteer in class discussions.

e)I feel that the film is really about the problems of romantic relationships, but there is other people who feel it is about the problems in our society.

f) I'm afraid that templates like the ones in this book will stifle my creativity, but there are people in my class that would say that this book is very resourceful.

I hope I did this write...the instructions kind of confused me :/

March 15th's Assignment

I find that scholarly articles are really helping me. This weekend I am planning on really settling down and organizing all my research.As of Friday, my surveys will have been officially up for 2 weeks and I think I might end it then. I will collect that data and I am going to be searching the library for anything that I haven't come across dealing with my topic. This weekend is going to be very beneficial for me for this project. Any other suggestions?

Homework 3/10/11

So I hope I am going about this right....

This is a political article from The Independent and I found it to use some of the phrases from Exercise 1.

"The truth is rather different. Yes, NPR's relentless search for donors and sponsors is not pretty. But it maintains – as far as I can judge – an impermeable wall between its business and editorial sides. Its coverage of the Tea Party has been scrupulously fair. And far from seeking to hide its embarrassment, public radio led its bulletins with news of the O'Keefe/Schiller mess."

"But the more NPR does this, in effect by-passing its member stations, the more reluctant those stations will be to support it. However, if they pull out, then access across the country to NPR's traditional radio output will be reduced – just when listeners seem to want quality programming more than ever. For the moment, federal funding is vital for squaring that circle, but now that funding itself is in question."

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-a-shouting-shop-needs-the-quiet-voices-of-truth-2240489.html

Today's Class

I liked how we were put into groups in order to peer review each other's research proposal drafts. I like being able to get feedback and give suggestions to my fellow classmates. I feel that being able to review with people our own age allows us to sometimes see where each other was coming from. I'm glad that I was able to get questions asked to me about my topic. I am excited to further my research in this topic.

SURVEY

Please answer my survey :)

https://hofstra.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bduhuTvx0nfHhm4