Essay 1

Essays are not what they used to be. Back in high school you can churn out a five paragraph essay every half hour, now in college, not so much. The hardest part for me now is just organizing my thoughts. I feel like I have a lot of good points to cover, but the transition between brainstorming to writing has given me quite a few hiccups. In high school, all you had to do was cover a few points, reiterate them in your conclusion and you got an A. But when you're asked to do a four to five page paper, you need to dig deeper and arrange those main points in a way that seems intelligent. The rough draft for me was horrible. I definitely didn't allocate enough time to work on it and the result was probably the worst piece of writing I've ever inked since my book report of the Boxcar children back in third grade. There was no organization, my body paragraphs felt like bullet points and to top it off, I honestly had no clue what I was writing about. The final copy was nearly a complete re-write of my rough draft. I worked out which points I wanted (an outline helped tremendously), and then I built off the quotes and citations to express my view on Video. Finding better quality sources was probably also quite helpful. Let's see how it ends up.

Video Entertainment

So over this weekend I managed to contract the cold that was ravaging Purdue. Confined to the restraints of my apartment I started doing my daily rounds of entertainment seeking. Luckily this time around, my entertainment coincided with the paper we had to write, somewhat. The thing I've begun to notice and take a particular interest in is people with actual talent that use online videos as their medium to gain recognition and fame.

Let's start with contestant one:


After watching this, one really has to wonder what kind of untapped talent could be lurking anywhere in the world. I myself like to be impressed, and some of the videos that you watch on youtube really hit the spot. Let's take a look at another incredibly talented individual.



Simply amazing, I could watch these forever.

With all our discussion on work on images and text, I came across a couple of instances when image and text that had no right to be close to each other are indeed juxtaposed upon each other.

The first instance of this case was a newspaper article. The headline story was 3 armed men caught from armed robbery case early this week, and right next to it was a large colorful picture of three college students dressed up in Hawaiian shirts. The caption for that picture was "three students getting ready for spring break." Of course the first thought that would go through your mind is connecting the headline with the picture right next to it. It gave me a good laugh.

Another thing that I've learn to love is google adsense. So you can be looking on some website about hurricane katrina or another natural disaster in some tourist type area and right next to this article describing all the unfortunate events you have an ad from Southwest promoting their low fares. Just perfect. Irony at work.

And the last one I encountered probably one of the funniest I've seen was the publicized issues between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and what was the ad right next to it? You guessed it, Match.com. It looks like Brad and Angelina can get right back into the dating game!