How Twitter affects Chris Brown fans

Intro/background/exigence- Define twitter, how people follow their celebrities and teams that they have created aka #teambreezy (chris brown)
- ethos, my background as a fan

Body paragraphs: how this effect fans, especially me,
controversy with media
celebs use it to apologize
communicate with fans daily
post pictures etc.

SOOOOOOOOO what's it gonna be?

Ok so I thought about it for a minute and it just hit me. LOL.
This is gonna sound really crazy, but here goes.
Ever since Chris Brown came to be, I was obsessed with him. I mean obsessed! I was in middle school when this happened, and yeah, I even brought cake in for his birthday... Yes I used to call my self dedicated...

Anyways, Chris Brown is still my favorite singer and performer. When another favorite song of mine is playing on the radio, but any Chris Brown song is playing I have to switch to that Chris Brown song to offer "full support". It's really a rule of my car. Hahahaha. So I was thinking about how Twitter has influenced me, as a huge Chris Brown fan. When I look and check his twitter, which is everyday, I find out his new songs, new videos, tour dates, where he's at, what he's thinking, what he's doing, etc. I know this is kind of weird for a person, but for me it holds some kind of importance as a HUGE Chris Brown fan that I am.... It gives me news straight from my favorite artist.


I love SHOPPING!! Another thing I thought of is how when browsing on the internet, whether your actually shopping at that time or not, you get a lot of the ads for things you want all over... It like follows you window to window. I don't know what that's called, but as a shopper, it has influenced me. More than half the time, I do click on those ads to my favorite online stores and the like....

I was thinking about BBM and a college student as an idea, but I don't know how much I could write on that......


So whatya think?

What the heck shall i do?

Don't you just hate it when you feel all the good topics are taken "cough cough " Mrs. Amy! LOL hahaha. Just joking, but SHEESH I really cannot figure out anything to do for my cultural analysis. I keep coming back to arab american culture, arab american culture and once again, arab american culture. That's too broad for me, plus I have no idea what technology effects it or vise versa. I'm trying to think of all the cultures I belong to and I really don't have that many in mind.... and when I do think of one, I don't see how a technology would tie into it. I asked my BBM (blackberry messenger) list of buddies and since it's not their project they don't seem to be a big help... see if I help them anymore pff. :) Anyways, I really want to figure this out soon! I know if I pick a good topic I can write a lot on it !

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

  In the article “Is Google Making us Stupid” Carr makes a few interesting points. He claims that now we cannot possible think in deep thought like we were once able too. We don’t get lost in a book like we had in previous generations. He implies that emotionally, technology and the internet have taken away the joy of getting lost in a story, but it also has made our life more advanced.  He uses a previous example of the printing press. Although it advanced society in a great deal, it may have posed a major threat because now information was being able to be multiplied and dispersed all over. The same kind of thing is happening with technology and the internet.

                He also uses another example of the mechanical clock and how that related to society. When the clock was invented, people used the metaphor “your brain is like clockwork”. Whereas now, we say “your brain is like a computer.” These types of similies/metaphors are important to take note of because it implies what is advanced in our society. Our brains aren’t neccesarily working as computers, but rather we have become as advanced as they are.

                Lastly, an argument quoted in Carr’s article is that deep/critical thinking comes with deep reading. This may seem controversial because we may not neccesarily need to be critically reading to be critically thinking. Anyways, I think that Carr was relating to an audience of an older generation, rather than a younger one because of the fact that he speaks about an emotional change and loss that we do not have anymore in relation to books and stories because of technology.

I smell like Windex...

Work was so slow today I only made a lousy 15 bucks (waitress). Pshhh plus i couldn't find the Fantastic cleaner to clean off my tables so I cleaned off everything with windex. Yikes! Anyways, I have a new paper to do called a cultural anaylsis. Boy, this is going to be a broad paper. It's hard because there is so much you can say about how technology affects a certain culture and I don't want to ramble, but really there is so much too put into it. Maybe we will discuss it in more specific terms later in class.
English is a lot of discussion, which is good cause I LOVE to talk, like I've mentioned before. Talk talk talk talk, bla bla bla bla thats why I'm scared my paper will never end hahaha. Anyways, like I said before I still have never been in an english class like this before. It almost feels like it's like the science of english. It's a lot of break downs and a lot of information that is discussed. Well anything is better than that heavy ugly literature book I used to carry in high school with boring long annoying stories. No offense, I know that Maya Angelou is a great writer, but let me tell you when we were listening to her stories in my middle school class through tape thing, I thought I was going to die. As you can see, I still remember that long day of class. It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO boring . Don't wanna go back to those days, so thank god for rhetoric and technology :D!

Final Rhetorical Anaylsis

Rhetorical Analysis: The Fight against College Alcohol Abuse

            How does a college student’s life on campus affect the actual purpose of going to college? Many would agree that the purpose of going to college is to further education andto become successful in the future. But going to college is a lot more than just learning especially, for many freshmen and other students who would like to enjoy the freedom that comes from living on their own for the first time away from the vigilant eyes of their parents or guardians. The college experience comes with a life of its own filled with social events, rallies, and partying. Actually, there are many lists online that rank the nation’s top “party schools,” schools that are indeed famous for that. When you go to a college party you almost always find alcohol, but the truth is that alcohol is easily accessible on most college campuses. In her article, “The Fight Against Alcohol Abuse,” Melissa Parsons takes alcohol use to a different level, arguing that it has now become an epidemic we should worry about. She calls this phenomenon alcohol “abuse” rather than simply alcohol “usage” and points out that there should be more done to create some sort of a balance. In order to persuade her audience, Parsons’ uses various rhetorical strategies such as exemplification, cause and effect, and word repetition.

            Evidently, Parsons’ makes it clear that college drinking isn’t a new problem, but one that has become an even bigger one. She uses studies of different college campuses that show that alcohol abuse is a significant contributing factor to academic problems. She states that binge drinking is also a problem for students that do not binge-drink, yet still face the secondary effects of alcohol abuse. Thus, alcohol abuse affects everyone not just the drinker. Even though the dangers of alcohol abuse affect mostly the drinker, her article is directed towards everyone involved. These include the parents, other students, and faculty of the colleges. A lot of activist groups like the Alcohol Coalition have taken initiatives to help students make healthier choices. In her opinion, therefore, everyone needs to work together to find a way to end alcohol abuse on college campuses. However, this way of life is deeply rooted in the culture so it is hard to come undone.

            The most effective and most used rhetorical strategy that Parsons’ displays in her article is exemplification. Exemplification is the use of statistics and facts added to an argument. Parsons’ article is loaded with lots of case studies, surveys, facts and statistics. For example, she uses a prestigious college’s, Harvard School of Public Health, findings on fraternity and sorority members, “4 out of 5 of those living in fraternity or sorority houses were “binge drinkers””. This type of information that combines an authoritative source and an alarming statistic drives home the idea of the seriousness and how common the issue really is. Similarly, another study found that “alcohol was involved in 90% of all sexual assaults and date rapes on campus,” bringing to the reader’s attention the magnitude of the problem and how it can affect relations between male and female students. As stated above, this specific quote also provides the reader with evidence that alcohol abuse does not only affect the drinker, but also those around them. Because exemplification relies on evidence and facts, it has a logical appeal, logos.

            Another rhetorical strategy used numerous times throughout Parsons’ article is cause and effect anaylsis. A cause and effect anaylsis anaylzes why something happens and describes the consequences of a cord of events. Her very first sentence is a cause and effect anaylsis, “Causing approximately 50 deaths from drinking each year and many more hospitializations from poisoning or related accidents, alcohol remains the top health risk to college students.” By using this eye-catching cause and effect, Parsons does a pheneomenal job attracting the reader to her article. Also this anaylsis strengthens her argument because it brings up the frequency of alcohol related accidents and because of this frequency , it has remained the biggest health concern for college students.  So what is the effect of alcohol abuse besides the sad endings with of hospitalizations, drunk driving and even death?  Another important cause and effect anaylsis Parsons’ addresses is “…administrators across the country are taking steps to attack the problem head on. Many universities are establishing alchohol- free housing policies primarily to ensure the health and safety of their students.” This issue has become such a problem that administrators are dealing with it in an extreme way. This adds that yes, there is some initiative taking place, but it is actually by someone else involved, not the drinker. It reassures that steps need to be taken by everyone to resolve this issue. Now the reader has hope, all those incidents related to alcohol are now causing some type of change to fix the problem. The cause and effect analysis in this article relates to pathos, an emotional appeal. Like I mentioned, she has many examples of what alcohol abuse leads to which causes the reader, especially her particular audience, to feel weary, sad and in shock by how much this is effecting our college campuses; then happy that there are activists taking initiative to end this.

            The last rhetorical strategy found in this article that has to be the most interesting is word repetition. Word repetition is the constant use of specific words to help persuade a reader. Parsons’ chose the term “binge-drinking” or “binge-drinkers” repeatedly throughout her article. Binge drinking means a person is consuming an excessive amount of alcohol that may lead them to become heavily intoxicated. She uses the word “binge” numerous times in her essay. This extremely supports her argument because we now see that it is not social or casual drinking, but rather in fact these students are getting heavily intoxicated. This gives the reader a whole different vibe. If she had just continually used drinking or just alchohol usage, it wouldn’t have seemed to be as problematic as it really is. The repetition of binge drinking appeals to pathos. It shows the reader how the serious the drinking is and gives them a realistic outlook on what is actually going on.

             

            Altogether the use of exemplification, word repetition and cause and effect anaylsis indeed help deliver Michelle Parson’s argument home. The use of facts and statistics never can fail because it is solid hard evidence. She ties this type of information to her own opinion and it strengthens her argument. Word repetition creates a specific emotional appeal to her audience because of the fact that this effects our own family members and friends. They are the ones who are binge drinking . It isn’t just an isolated part of a community. It is happening nationwide on many college campuses. Her cause and effect anaylsis introduces activism. This is important to her argument because now the audience can see that alcohol abuse is such a huge issue that there needs to be measures taken to end it. These rhetorical strategies create a mix of logos and pathos which are key appeals that support her argument.

            Michelle Parsons really does a great job in getting her point across. She addresses the problem throughout the essay and even went an extra step to show the activism taking place. Furthermore, the use of rhetoric in her writing is excellent. Anybody reading this article will know that the author has really done her research on the topic. More importantly, along with all the facts and statistics, she engages the audience emotionally. The people who are binge drinking are our daughters, sons, relatives, students, and friends. Automatically, this becomes a problem for everyone involved because these aren’t strangers.When your friend, son, daughter, cousin, or student decides to go away to college, alcohol abuse should be a huge concern, especially when they are conducting internet searches on the nation’s top party schools and then wanting to apply there.

Wait wait wait!!!

I'm re editing my rhetorical analysis today!!! I didn't know it was due at 12 midnight tonight. Always room for improvement!

Does Technology Change culture, or does culture change technology ? Freewrite

I think technology and culture work in a flow chart type way.

It goes technology then culture then technology then culture again and so on. For instance, our culture is now face paced so we need technology to keep up with our way of thinking and our way of life. We have texts, emails and instant messages that can be sent in an instant rather than mail or a telegram. On other terms, technology can change culture. For example, we now have playstations and xboxes where kids play and in terms become more technologically savvy rather than playing board games or playing outside like their mothers and fathers used too. Everyday I see younger and younger kids that have cellphones, iPods, iPads. Something I never had when I was their age. So I think it works both ways. 

Rhetorical Anaylsis

Rhetorical Analysis: The Fight against College Alcohol Abuse

            How does a college student’s life on campus affect the actual purpose of going to college? Many would agree that the purpose of going to college is to further education andto become successful in the future. But going to college is a lot more than just learning especially, for many freshmen and other students who would like to enjoy the freedom that comes from living on their own for the first time away from the vigilant eyes of their parents or guardians. The college experience comes with a life of its own filled with social events, rallies, and partying. Actually, there are many lists online that rank the nation’s top “party schools,” schools that are indeed famous for that. When you go to a college party you almost always find alcohol, but the truth is that alcohol is easily accessible on most college campuses. In her article, “The Fight Against Alcohol Abuse,” Melissa Parsons takes alcohol use to a different level, arguing that it has now become an epidemic we should worry about. She calls this phenomenon alcohol “abuse” rather than simply alcohol “usage” and points out that there should be more done to create some sort of a balance. In order to persuade her audience, Parsons’ uses various rhetorical strategies such as exemplification, cause and effect, and word repetition.

            Evidently, Parsons’ makes it clear that college drinking isn’t a new problem, but one that has become an even bigger one. She uses studies of different college campuses that show that alcohol abuse is a significant contributing factor to academic problems. She states that binge drinking is also a problem for students that do not binge-drink, yet still face the secondary effects of alcohol abuse. Thus, alcohol abuse affects everyone not just the drinker. Even though the dangers of alcohol abuse affect mostly the drinker, her article is directed towards everyone involved. These include the parents, other students, and faculty of the colleges. A lot of activist groups like the Alcohol Coalition have taken initiatives to help students make healthier choices. In her opinion, therefore, everyone needs to work together to find a way to end alcohol abuse on college campuses. However, this way of life is deeply rooted in the culture so it is hard to come undone.

            The most effective and most used rhetorical strategy that Parsons’ displays in her article is exemplification. Exemplification is the use of statistics and facts added to an argument. Parsons’ article is loaded with lots of case studies, surveys, facts and statistics. For example, she uses a prestigious college’s, Harvard School of Public Health, findings on fraternity and sorority members, “4 out of 5 of those living in fraternity or sorority houses were “binge drinkers””. This type of information that combines an authoritative source and an alarming statistic drives home the idea of the seriousness and how common the issue really is. Similarly, another study found that “alcohol was involved in 90% of all sexual assaults and date rapes on campus,” bringing to the reader’s attention the magnitude of the problem and how it can affect relations between male and female students. As stated above, this specific quote also provides the reader with evidence that alcohol abuse does not only affect the drinker, but also those around them. Because exemplification relies on evidence and facts, it has a logical appeal, logos.

            Another rhetorical strategy used numerous times throughout Parsons’ article is cause and effect anaylsis. A cause and effect anaylsis anaylzes why something happens and describes the consequences of a cord of events. Her very first sentence is a cause and effect anaylsis, “Causing approximately 50 deaths from drinking each year and many more hospitializations from poisoning or related accidents, alcohol remains the top health risk to college students.” By using this eye-catching cause and effect, Parsons does a pheneomenal job attracting the reader to her article. Also this anaylsis strengthens her argument because it brings up the frequency of alcohol related accidents and because of this frequency it has remained the biggest health concern for college students.  So what is the effect of alcohol abuse besides the sad endings with of hospitlizations, drunk driving and even death?  Another important cause and effect anaylsis Parsons’ addresses is “…administrators across the country are taking steps to attack the problem head on. Many universities are establishing alchohol- free housing policies primarily to ensure the health and safety of their students.” This issue has become such a problem that administrators are dealing with it in an extreme way. This particularly adds that yes, there is something being done, but it is actually by someone else involved. It reassures that steps need to be taken by everyone to resolve this issue. Now the reader has hope, all those incidents related to alcohol are now causing some type of change to fix the problem. The cause and effect analysis in this article relates to pathos, an emotional appeal. Like I mentioned, she has many examples of what alcohol abuse leads to which causes the reader, especially her particular audience, to feel weary, sad and in shock by how much this is effecting our college campuses and then happy that there are activists taking intiative to end this.

            The last rhetorical strategy found in this article that has to be the most interesting is word repetition. Word repetition is the constant use of specific words to help persuade a reader. Parsons’ choice of repetition was of the term “binge-drinking” or “binge-drinkers”. Binge drinking means a person is consuming an excessive amount of alchohol that may lead them to become heavily intoxicated. She uses the word “binge” numerous times in her essay. This supports her argument extremely because we now see that it is not social drinking, but rather in fact these students are getting heavily intoxicated. This gives the reader a whole different vibe. If she had just continually used drinking or just alchohol usage, it wouldn’t have seemed to be as problematic as it really is. The repetition of binge drinking appeals to pathos. It shows the reader how the serious the drinking is and gives them a different outlook on what is actually going on.

             

            Altogether the use of exemplification, word repetition and cause and effect anaylsis indeed help deliver this argument home. The use of facts and statistics never can fail because it is solid hard evidence. She ties this to her opinion to end the abuse and it is successful. Word repetition creates a specific emotional appeal to her audience because of the fact that this effects our own family members and friends. They are the ones who are binge drinking . It isn’t just an isolated part of a community. It is happening nationwide on many college campuses. Her cause and effect anaylsis introduces activism. This is important to her argument because now the audience can see that it is such a huge issue and there are measures being taken to end it. The mix of pathos and logos heavily supports her argument.

            Michelle Parsons really does a great job in getting her point across. She addresses the problem throughout the essay and even went an extra step to show the activism taking place. Furthermore, the use of rhetoric in her writing is excellent. Anybody reading this article will know that the author has really done her research on the topic. More importantly, along with all the facts and statistics, she engages the audience emotionally. The people who are binge drinking are our daughters, sons, relatives, students, and friends. Automatically, this becomes a problem for everyone involved because these aren’t strangers.When your friend, son, daughter, cousin, or student decides to go away to college, alcohol abuse should be a huge concern, especially when they are conducting internet searches on the nation’s top party schools then wanting to apply there.

Let's brighten things up !

Rearranging this blog :D

Response: Shooting War Comic

Undoubtedly, this is by far one of the most interesting comics I have ever came across in my life. It reminds me of a movie, rather than a comic. When comics like Spiderman and Superman were made into movies, it was a different type of feel then what the comic book was promoting, well for me at least. This is how Shooting Wars is designed. It already feels like a movie. Sometimes throughout the web comic, I came across pictures with no writing or dialect, but rather detailed pictures that made you feel like you were there. This, I believe, was the most important rhetorical strategy to support the argument Lappe and Goldman create which is how the role of media impacts our world today.

I really think that this comic is based on what media, blogs (video blogs in this case), news portals etc. really play a role in what news is and how it impacts us. First of all, the comic has the main character, Jimmy Burns, who video blogs and just happens to be in the right place at the right time. His video blogs cause so much controversy and receives a lot of attention from news channels. However, the comic goes on to show that the newscasters etc, don't really care, they just want that news . It is important role of our society now.

Like I stated earlier, the most important and effective strategy was the illustrative visualizations you could only get from this type of comic (or in other instances, a visual like movies etc). It is important because I am more tuned into the story therefore, I will understand the arguement better. Another interesting strategy I paid close attention to was the use of sarcasm, in futher depth, the use of satire. This adds a huge amount of interest or connectivity to the comic for an ordinary person or reader.

All in all, I think that the rhetorical strategies used in Shooting Wars were especially effective when dealing with an ordinary reader. They create a type of interest that you might not find in other arguments. If these rhetorical strategies were not used, then how would anyone even be interested enough to even care about the argument? Not too many of us would.

English, memorial day, and the Master Cleanse :(

English class is still pretty interesting ! Surprise surprise. Well for me at least since I never cared for the subject. Sorry :( haha. Anyways, I'm kind of excited for this rhetorical analysis essay. I don't know why, but I think I'm going to write an awesome paper. However, I have no clue on what to do it on at all. A movie would be pretty cool, but a little bit more tricky.

Memorial day was so relaxing! I didn't go to the beach or anything just pigged out at mom's house. I also gave my brother his birthday present. Which he loved of course ! Cause big sister always has the best presents ever...

The most interesting thing i have to share is this detox I'm doing called the master cleanse and EW! First of all, I can't eat any food for ten days. I have to do a salt water flush made up of 34 ounces of water and 2 teaspoons of salt water in the morning. That went horrible, i threw it all up just to try it again tomorrow. Then I have to drink 60 ounces of this lemonade made with organic maple syrup, lemon juice and water. I'm supposed to throw in a pinch of cayenne pepper, but if I do that, I KNOW I won't be able to drink it, so I'm taking it seperately. Lots of fun I can't wait for the rest of the cleanse. 9 more days ! :(