The Final

The original idea was to write a paper on the advantages and disadvantages of sex sells in today's industry. However, considering that has been rehashed and though everyone shares the same opinion, I, naturally gravitated towards something more unique.
I will be researching and writing about the cons of slackism. Essentially this is the idea that when one shares or participates in some form of awareness, they are scrapping the surface of "taking action" and fueling the campaign's agenda to raise more money to raise more awareness. Many people who have a high sense of calling to a certain campaign get swindled into helping 'raise awareness' and shy out of actually doing the heavy lifting. It is great that people want to put a sticker on the Mac's to help End It, but is it really helping?
I want to focus on the Kony campaign, the trendy End It Movement, Breast Cancer, and the ways the awareness has or could have hurt their campaign. Also I want to provide practical ways to be hands on with the campaign of choice without having to move to Africa. I want to give practical ways to think beyond reposting and liking and sticking and move on to things that are more powerful than awareness; taking action.

This blog posts will serve as an archive to manage the many potential websites I will utilize.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/23/18-awareness/

http://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/i-am-anti-awareness-and-you-should-be-too/

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/10/pink-politics.html

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/178926.pdf

http://www.nywici.org/features/blogs/aloud/invisible-children

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/16/abolishing-sex-slavery-by-helping-one-girl-at-a-time/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/opinion/sutter-slavery-end-it-movement/http://www.nywici.org/features/blogs/aloud/invisible-children

http://surfky.com/index.php/communities/51-top-news-for-all-sites/24817-movement-started-to-fight-modern-day-slavery

The Blog Before the Break

When I started on the mulit-modal project, I though it would be a really fun way to dive deeper into a certain topic. Although it was very 'freeing' in a sense, I did find that it made me become more openminded to the interpretation of the various medias. For example, creating a Facebook for Geoffory Chaucer is a good idea in theory, but the way he would utilize the social media is not in any way similar to how I would post. Also, I discovered that Tweeting the way Chaucer would tweet concurred in me revamping my entire vocabulary and being untranslatable to the public.

However, a multi-media project can in ways be extremely effective because it sort of 'dumbs down' the content of the original into a more relatable way. Media, if properly and accurately re-rendered can be very useful in argumentation. If thrown together at the last moment, it may not be as accepted or understood.

Opposites Attract

Yes. A class containing multimedia examples is very appealing. Not only does it help me relate to the material it also keeps me 'guessing' (for lack of a better word) about what could be relatable to something written a few decades ago. I think also considering the generation I am apart of we are naturally more bent towards having a lot of media thrown at us and in a weird, multitalented way we are able to process things and actually learn in a way. Especially this class, considering it is really fast paced and very structured, it is nice being able to relate Old English to some YouTube Old Spice commercials. I believe I have said this before, how we do not just graze over material, but rather we dig deeper in the principles of English and Rhetoric, and sometimes having a tangible, current world example really helps to make the subject a little more "swallowable."

Offering my own examples of media arguments, both good and bad

The first URL (though dealing with media exactly) is a really well formatted way of arguing against media uses within business. It is well formatted within the web page and gives short and quick summaries of their points.

http://blog.hubspot.com/insiders/ridiculous-arguments-against-social-media

These. Now these are alittle over used. Especially her face. Yes memes and Jennifer's facial expressions serve us well when we may be at lose for words, but obviously she did not have Charleston in mind while she was presenting her speech for the grammies.

http://www.hercampus.com/school/c-c/snowpocalypse-cofc-told-jennifer-lawrence

Class Review

So far this English class receives an A+. I really enjoy it because it is not like any of the English courses I have had so far. It does not put me to sleep like my American Literature class in high school, side note: though I really liked my teacher as a person, she would repeatedly say, "Wake up! I know I am not your most boring class." Yet all of us were on the verge of our second round of REM sleep. Yes she was our most boring class.

Also, this class does not discuss surface level things. I like how we talk about the author's intentions instead of just skimming over the apparent material. Also I really appreciate how the syllabus has everything mapped out. It keeps me organized and aware of what is coming up and that is really appreciated compared to some of my classes where it is every man for himself.

Relevant in Terms of the Future

I have never considered myself a writer, much less an English student. My friends correct my grammar in conversations and social media. It is truly #embarrassing. However, I do know that I have always liked to share and tell stories, and learning to communicate in more effective ways is important to me. My major is Graphic Communications, which in reality is a very fancy name for, "You will learn Graphic Design principles and we will force you to take marketing, accounting, and public speaking and voilà you can communicate graphically now."

Regardless of what they are trying to teach me, I believe this English class will help me in my future job simply by being a good delivering to my specific audience. I do not image I will have to be presenting a major thesis to a board of education nor will I be writing novels about how to photoshop a zit out of a portrait, but I will be utilizing oral rhetoric to persuade people that they can trust their brand, logo, picture, or film with me. In the future I want to be the creative hand that people lack and in doing so I will hope by presenting myself well and speaking in terms of who my audience is they will trust me with their business and I can follow through. I also want to help others share their talents or stories who may not have the means to broadcast to the general public so I want to be able to completely understand their intentions, while not confusing it with my own opinions, and help them reach their targeted audience.

This class also has a lot of deadlines which in the graphic design freelancing industry is sorta crucial. C'est la vie.

Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

Coauthoring sounds exhausting. Trying to pull different opinions into one bound and publish book sounds incredibly draining. Unless it was something like a textbook where there is a set concrete path it needs to follow. Authoring a book in general is a laborious task and not intended for the fainthearted. I would assume that one would be at war with themselves trying to figure out what would be the best way of saying their intended message. I cannot imagine trying to pull together ideas with someone else, but if you had the same opinion of the direction of the book, it could work.
Coauthoring a book could be possible if you had a set direction of how the book would work and the two authors divided the book in very fair and systematic ways, then its possible.
Otherwise, I believe the beauty of the publishing and the reward of the fan base would not be the same if it is shared.