Conversations Beyond the Classroom (Eng 100L): Captain Morgan

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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

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Captain Morgan

In this Captain Morgan commercial, there are two guys at a bar and one of them was supposed to be at their girlfriends cousins wedding, he said he was sick so he didnt have to go, but instead they went to the bar. When his girlfriend calls him she hears backround noise and asks him if hes in a bar. He says no hes just watching tv, so then everybody in the bar talks to make it sound like different tv shows as if he was flipping through the channels. Then at the end he fake coughs and then they say goodbye and she believes him.

I think that making adds like this is a great way to market what you are selling, people like to watch things that make them laugh or that they can relate to. By shooting this commercial they are after a certain crowd of people to buy their product and i think they did a good job by letting you relate to the characters in the add. I dont particularly agree with it but it makes you laugh and makes you remember Captain Morgan Rum. Also, they have a trademark which honestly gets stuck in your head pretty easily, where they put one leg up on a barrel of rum and say the phrase, "Get a little Captain in you." Which most people remember. Overall i think this was a successful commercial and has my approval.

2 comments:

AshleySeptember 30, 2010 at 3:36 PM
10. In this video there are no audio or musical components influencing our reading. There are just people talking about what you would see on TV to help this guy get out of going to a wedding.

7. In this video minors, pregnant women, babies, and upper class Americans were left out. The video was surrounded by the average middle class American with no multi-cultural people involved.
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AshleySeptember 30, 2010 at 3:37 PM
The Comment posted above was by Evan, Ashley, Juliana
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