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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

Doritos commerical




In this commercial it starts out with a man going up to a house and knocking on the door, after he knocks on the door a young lady opens it up. After she opens the door he hands her some flowers showing the us that he is obviously there to pick her up for a date. When the man comes into the house the lady tells him to have a seat and introduces him to someone, you dont see who it is that she introduces him to until after she leaves the room. It ends up being her son, who's name is jaylin. once jaylin see's Kyle (His moms date) he drops his game controller and gives him "the look." Kyle thinks he can just come in and make himself at home, but Jaylin thinks otherwise. Then Kyle made a mistake by picking up a Dorito from a bowl of Jaylin's Doritos. As he's about to take a bite of the dorito, Jaylin slaps him across the cheeck and says, "Keep yo hands off my momma keep yo hands off my Doritos."

Most people may view this commerical as funny, but it also has some value behind it. it basically shows a young boy who watches out for his mom and won't let any man touch her, or treat her badly. If you put humor and a cute little kid in a commericial, most people are going to like it, and it may persuade them to buy the product it's trying to sell.

5 comments:

  1. Dillon Finnegan
    Brandon Simpson
    Haley Orme
    Q:5
    In this add, the mother is obviously a single mother which makes the child very dependent and concerned about the mother. When another man comes in the house and obviously "Checks out" the mother, he gets defensive and feels he needs to set him straight. In this situation the kid has the power.

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  2. The natural aspects in this commercial that boys tend to play video games. The twisting of the commercial is that this boy drops what he is doing to protect his mom and doritos. Which it is hard to get a guy out of his video game box and do anything else.

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  3. The direct and hidden reflections of ideological values and structures of social power are that the male adult comes in thinking he is in control of the situation when he finds out that the son is actually the man of the house.

    The general cultural assumption is that when a child is meeting a parents friend/date that they will behave, be polite and shy rather than in your face.

    Kerrie and Sean

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  4. Jeolusy and how we let things slide with little kids because we think its cute, but none of us after seeing that think about the out come of what the kid will be like as an adult if he will think that is ok. Also we pay attention when they are acting all grown up. We dont think about how it is effecting the child when parents start seeing other people after a divorce and what all kid going through that situation when they see there parents having feelings for someone other than there mother or father. by tori and Aubrie

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  5. The general asumption that is portrayed in this ad is how the young child is protective over his mother and doritos to the man that he slaps. He is gaurding his territory.
    By: KC and Carly

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