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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?

As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).

Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!

--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100



Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Brandon's Analysis






This commercial is an example of young versus old. It’s similar to the baseball commercial in that aspect but at the end of the commercial it switches, and old wisdom triumphs over young recklessness. At the beginning an elderly man has a pocket-full of change that he intends to use to buy a bag of Doritos. This man can barely see the amount of money in his and knowing how to work this futuristic machine is out of the question. It only shows a few seconds but you get the idea that he's been trying to get the Doritos for an abnormally long time. After the vending machine rejects his coins, the old man has to find all his change on the ground. At this point a young guy with headphones in slides into frame. Now, this young dude could help the man pick up his coins and show him how to get the Doritos. However, there only appears to be one bag left. This commercial is trying to portray that it’s more rewarding to eat Doritos than to be respectful. At this point the elderly man is watching this hipster take his Doritos, so he whips out a taser. The elderly man is genuinely angered and shocks this kid. For added humor the young guys head hitting the vending machine causes the bag to fall allowing the old man to enjoy. For the finally it shows the old man satisfied eating Doritos while the blue shirt guy is stumbling around. One of the main messages is that being inconsiderate or selfish won't get you anywhere or get you a bag of Doritos. Like with the "America works" theme you root for the old man because he deserves that small bag of nacho Doritos. This commercial supports the myth that the system works and always will.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2010 at 3:26 PM

    In this commercial the opposition that is show is young versus old. The young guy cuts in front of the old man, as he is picking up change. The old man is shown favorably, because he gets the Doritos.

    What we presume as "right" is waiting in line for our turn. This young guy cuts in line, and as a result gets tazered and doesn't get the Doritos.

    Zach VanderHaak
    Alisha Johnson

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  2. GarritSeptember 30, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    the oppositions present in this ad: young vs. old, speed vs slow, the old man is portrayed favorably over the young man, the effects of this ad are that you need to be patient even when behind somebody slow.

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  3. Angela O'BrienSeptember 30, 2010 at 3:40 PM

    Post by Bryce and Angela

    The style of presentatin contributing to the meaning of the text is that you are forced to be the observer and see how much people are driven to obtain this prduct, even through through any means nesessery. The opositions that are present are young versus old and man versus technology. Technology was shown favorably and the effects were the older man with the taiser got the Doritos in the end.

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