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Black History month is a celebration that many of us do not pay enough tribute to, but Lays Company decided to go above and beyond in their tribute on February 4th, 2007: the Super Bowl. This particular Super Bowl was one for the history books, as it marked the first Super Bowl match where the two teams had black coaches. The commercial works to remind us of this by showing us many African-American families, of all personality types. Some for the Bears football team, others for the Colts. But each family shares the same sense of joy and pride while looking at their television sets. The screen goes blank and asks a simple question, “who’s winning?” As the screen fades back a reporter on the television states “We’ve got more than a game here, we’ve got history,” and a young black man calmly smiles with satisfaction nodding his head in agreement as the screen goes blank yet again, giving us the simple answer of “we all are.” The reporter’s voice comes back one last time, giving us an undeniable fact: “we’ve got history in not just getting here, but what getting here represents.” And just before the screen goes black for the last time, saying “enjoy the game,” we get a glimpse of a young black boy, sitting at the feet of his grandfather with a blank stare focused on the television, while the grandfather shows us a smile filled with pride and happiness in the fact that his grandson gets to grow up in a world where the norm of accomplishing great things is done by people of all colors.
Not only can we pick up a great sense of pride in America’s freedom to equality from the obvious joy on the actors’ faces in this commercial, but the belief of working hard and never giving up despite how society might define you is also subtly shown. Through the historical event we are reminded of – that this particular Super Bowl was the first to have both teams with black coaches – we are given a real life example of the American Dream. Two separate black men accomplished what many others believed to be impossible, by not only working hard, but by believing in themselves and fighting for their dreams; a standard many Americans believe to be important and necessary for having a successful and healthy life style. Lays Company smoothly accomplished laying out two of America’s biggest cultural beliefs during one of the largest TV spots available instead of advertising their product, and for that I congratulate the Lays Company.
Welcome!
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
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
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