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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

Disneyland Dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDV888linsw&feature=related

Disney claims that "one million dreams will come true." Disneyland is also the place to have, "all your dreams come true." Disney wants to make everyone's dreams come true. Could you even imagine if that could happen? Their park is about making kids dreams come alive through exciting rides, tasty food, and fairytale characters. In the commercial, the people are happy like all their worries are taken away for awhile. Also, the magic is in every scene making life better than what it was.

In my opinion, Disneyland is a great place to have a entertaining time but everything isn't all perfect and dreamy either. When you get to Disneyland, you have to park way out in a parking lot and either walk or take the train. You make it in the gate and what do you see but long lines and a large population of people for your kids to get lost in. The food is delicious but expensive. Also, what about when the sun is heating up, and then our attitudes turn sour. We fight over which ride to go on or which food palace we will stop at. Then the children start to complain about, "who's turn it is to ride with mommy"? Dad gets cranky because the children have been spending his hard earned cash. By the end of the day, Disneyland is a palace of wonder. The castle is an amazing site and the fireworks at night makes the world go round. Everything is wonderful and dandy again!

I am just conveying that real life happens and it's not all about the magic of everything is going to be just fine if you go to Disneyland. The magic appears to make life better with regular children turning into princesses. The couple having a romantic time of sitting on a picnic bench being relational is now swept up to having dinner in magical restaurant. The kids who became happier because they were given a mickey mouse hat upon their head. I believe all of these would be wonderful but some of the magic could have fallen upon kids wouldn't ever have a chance of even going to Disneyland.

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  1. KerrieSeptember 30, 2010 at 3:40 PM

    The magical style of the commercial brings out the fantasy feeling in not only adults but in children by the use of fairy dust.

    The myth of the text is that if you come to Disneyland you will be able to create happiness. Restates the myth that adults become children again at Disneyland.

    Kerrie and Sean

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  2. UsamaSeptember 30, 2010 at 3:45 PM

    The audio component is filled with joyful noises and magic sounds. It hypes up disneyland more than it actually is.

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  3. Jordan TiegsSeptember 30, 2010 at 3:49 PM

    While we think that Disneyland may be tranquil and calm, that we may visit Mickey or Goofey at our leisure, the reality is far from the truth. The lines at Disneyland are never portrayed in commercials, the cranky and angry children are raising all sorts of hell, we should really know what to expect when we enter Disneyland.

    Daelynn & Jordan

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