Update for Scrapbook

I will be doing my project on my career choice. It will be about how I will work in hotels and resorts around the world. (hopefully) My past slide will be about the hotel I use to work at and other jobs. My present will be about my major, classes, my job now, and other things. My future will be about where I hope to be in the next 10 or so years.

Scrapbook

I am really excited about this assignment. It definitely will be one of my favorite assignments I have ever done in college. I plan on using a powerpoint presentation with mainly pictures and little text (just to describe what the pictures represent.) I will use pictures to represent what I wanted to do in high school and how my family has impacted my life in all different ways. Also, I will use them to describe my life as it is now. And pictures from the internet and other places to represent where I hope to be in the future. Hopefully my pictures and text will get my point across with where I am in my life now and where I hope to be in the future.

Oklahoma Memorial

This website was awesome to me. I had never gone to research this, it was actually the first time that I had seen the memorial. The parts that effected me the most were the gates with the times 9:01, representing before the attack, and 9:03, after the attack. To me the reflection pool represents the calm before the storm. It is shallow so there is not much movement, but once 9:02 hit the clock the storm begins. Also, the chairs that represent the people who lost their lives during this attack. It is awesome how they are in nine rows representing the nine stories of the building. I think these are the most influential part of the memorial because to me the chairs symbolize actual people sitting at work and having their worlds destroyed in a minute. I think this memorial was the most impacting memorial to me, just because it seems like the creator made sure to involve everyone that was impacted by it. I would definitely enjoy seeing this memorial.

Photography

Photography is a way to express something without using words. (For the most part) A picture can bring out happiness, anger, love, and all different emotions. Also, a picture can represent something different from one person to the next. It is like that saying goes "a picture is worth a million words." For me pictures mean everything. I always have a camera on me, just in case something comes up that I will want to remember years down the road. Some of my favorite pictures are ones taken of my great grandparents and grandparents, because it lets me see how their life was back then without them having to sit down and tell me stories about what they did in their lifetime.

Thesis for Dlist

I have changed my topic for the Essay.  I chose to do Dlist, which is a online website like myspace for gay men.  (My roommate gave me the idea because he is a member of this website and it is something that I have researched.)

Through online chatting, sharing pictures, and videos, dlist has developed a gay online community where gay men can have male comradery amongst other gay men.  

Myspace Essay Thesis

I'm not into the technology communities very much, but I do have a Myspace, I do not use it very often anymore, and I also have  Facebook.  

I think that I will be writing about Myspace.  I chose this because I feel like Myspace has more controversy than Facebook.  You always here about Myspace causing problems, but I also believe that Myspace will be easier to write about because it involves more younger kids than Facebook or any other online community does.  

I think my main argument will be about if it is a good idea for young teens to use myspace or would it be better for them to just stay off of the website in general until they realize that sexual predators are out there and they will do whatever it takes for you to let them in.  

Discourse Communities I am in

I am a NMSU student.  This community is very open.  You are always able to make friends in class or just being in different places around campus.  Also, I believe that this community needs to be very open to get more students to attend NMSU.  The languages in the NMSU community are very diverse.  You have people from all over the world attending school here, so it makes it very open and easier to get along.  

I am an HRTM major.  I never would have considered this a community before this part of the class, but now I am starting to see it.  You see people over and over in classes and then you begin to develop friendships.  All of the professors, secretaries, and advisors are very open to new students and wanting them to achieve as much as they can.  The students are nice as well.  They all understand what each person is going through, because they have all been in the same position before.  

I am part of the Boys and Girls Club of America community.  I have volunteered many times throughout my life time for this organization.  This community is very open and willing to take anyone in.  They are always looking for volunteers to help out with the kids and different projects going on such as coaching sports teams or being a Big Brother/Sister volunteer.  

(I'm not real sure if this is what I was suppose to do, but I hope it is.)

Discourse Community

Common Place- A common place is where people of any race, age, religion and etc.. can come together and feel confident in saying whatever they want and not having to worry about the repercussions.  

Discourse Community- A place where people with the same interests can come together and bond over that common thing.  There are different ways to do this such as email lists, internet networks, letters and etc....

Logos, Pathos, Ethos

Logos- using a logical aspect of advertising. Making the consumer realize why they need this or want this product.

Ethos- using 

Pathos- the use of emotion to capture a consumer and draw them in.

I think for many advertising companies they must use all three to make a good commercial.  To me the most important of these is the pathos aspect.  This is used for many commercials and I believe that it really captures a person and makes them watch the whole thing.  

The bud light commercial that I have chosen, to me, is kind of hard to find ethos, pathos, and logos.  I think the one that sticks out the most is the Pathos.  They are using comedy to get there point across that Bud Light is the beer to drink.  Logos is somewhat present because they are taking 5 normal guys and giving them a Bug Light and it turns into a whole conversation saying the word "wassup," but all in all it is a very catchy commercial.

My second commercial, E*Trade, I think is a decent commercial.  They are using both Logos and Ethos in a way that it is talking about stocks and different bonds and they brought in Mellody Hobson.  She is famous for her financial advise and owing her own investment firm.  Bringing celebrities in is always a good way to get the attention of viewers.  Also, this commercial is using Pathos in many different areas.  They are using comedy with one of the babies that is trying to impress Mellody.  Also, I think that they use babies in this commercial because it is trying to make stocks and trading look like it is easy.  Many people become so frustrated with investments and different areas of stocks and banking that E*Trade is trying to make people realize that it really can be as easy to understand.  

Commercials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L38wthA4Ld0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjWeQzPuQzk

Well it took me a while, but I think I have finally found two commercials that I might write about for the essay. I'm not for sure though because

I have a hard time making up my mind. I chose a funny commercial, "Wassup" because when that commercial came out I remember everyone one doing

it. The second commercial I chose was the E*Trade commercial beacuse I feel baby's are the new trend. All types of videos and popular commercials use babies

because they are so cute and they just catch your attention. I am still skeptical about using these and I think yalls advice would be helpful.

World War II poster

I chose Rosie the Riveter for my poster.  I picked this poster because it is a very powerful poster and yet it has so little on it.  Rosie the Riveter is a picture of a women who is participating in a mans world.  She is dressed in a mans uniform, flexing her bicep, and she has on a very serious face.  Her face has make-up on, her hair is done, and she is wearing a bandana.  These features on the poster make sure that everyone knows that it is a woman.  On top of her make-up it seems that she has dirt or something along those lines on her face, making her look more rugged.  I think they chose the colors yellow and blue because the yellow catches your eyes and draws you in, while blue is referred to as a masculine color.  The words “We Can Do It!” are bold, white, and at the top of the poster so you cannot miss them.  This poster was the beginning of women’s rights.  The women took the roles of men while they were off at war, they did the jobs and they did them well.  Rosie the Riveter motivated women to step out of their ordinary lives, she told women to get out of their “house wives” rolls. She was the voice of women who believe that they were equal to men and capable of doing a man’s job. 

English

It took me a while, but I think I finally know how to work this website.  I'm not much of blogger so I don't really know what to say during these things.  I guess that will all change because of this English class though.