Journal 6

I do think that males are ocjectified and commoditized like women, but in drastically different manners. Women are objectified by a male-dminated society portraying them as sex objects for potential corporate revenue. The ones in charge of marketing, advertising, and imaging understand that when men see a picture of a sexually attractive women, they are not merely thinking about how good they look. The desires of the mla eaudience is what makes it profitable, but with a sinister tinge to it. When women view sexually attractive men, they do not simply see their worth as a simple sexual expletive. Women and men view sex in polar opposite manners. This does not make it wrong, evil, disgusting, or bad. This is just the way it is. In our society of idealized perfect social harmony and equitable treatment for all (which has resulted in some of mankind's best accomplishments), it would be a fallacy to say that men do not view women in some form of inferior way. While men may agree that women deserve equal rights, hang around any men for a few days and one will understand where i am coming from. While this journal prompt has an obvious hint towards the 'sexual' objectification of men vs. women. Hence, my answer.

Journal 9

Okay, so I was a tad confused as to what was actually being asked in this assignment, but here it is. I have been a certified scuba diver for roughly six years now, but ever since an ongoing family tragedy several years back, no one in my family has been able to spend money on non-necessities such as diving trips. When I look at this picture, it brings back memories of when I used to go diving in the Grand Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, the Florida Keys, and in Mexico. It honestly is one of the most beautiful and tranquil experiences I have ever had in my lifetime and would suggest everyone to become certified so that you may do it at least once in your life. The most fun you'll ever have in utter silence besides the background sea hum. This particular photo reminds me of when I went diving with sting rays in the Cayman Islands several years back. We also saw nurse sharks that were roughly four feet long as well as moray eels, which mind you are very territorial.

Journal 11

After some searching, I found several websites that represent attractive format and presentation as well as others that seem to be made to induce vomiting. One thing all the ugly websites have in common is that they seem to have no cohesive theme, style, coloring, formatting, or anything that makes it easier for the viewer to take in the important information. There are so many important things that allow information to be conveyed more easily on websites. If there are texts that are separate, but leading to one another, it has to be a soft, yet noticeable transition. You wouldn’t want to have one text be in one color, no matter how well it matches with colors around it, followed by a text colored so bizarrely different that the reader has to adjust his or her eyes to read it. Colors, text, format, order, and flow from one section to another are vitally important to an attractive website. I found one that typified such a eye-appeasing website, which was http://movies.fsu.edu/. It is Florida State University’s website dedicated to activities going on in the Student Life Center/Cinema here on campus. Some great things about it that make it an appealing website is the color scheming. It has a grayish-black background with everything centered in a column at the center of the page. At the very top, it has an animated drawing of things that connote artistry, movies, and entertainment. All the colors work well as the main scheming is either red, black, or white. It is also very clear where to go if you know what you are searching for. Bigger groupings in larger, bolder text with subtexts in much smaller displays.

Journal 12

Throughout this semester, I have been exposed to many different writing styles, techniques, and voices. For this experience I have to thank workshopping in our classes. I found it very interesting, if not useful to see other people's approaches to the writing assignments we were given for our papers. One of the biggest things I have honestly learned from taking this course is to not wait until the last minute to do an assignment, especially when it's a research paper. My writing style has not changed so much per say as it has rather been made more aware of my tendency to ramble on sometimes on diatribes that are tangential at best. I usually have a pretty good voice, but I need to incorporate my new writing tools such as setting up different sentence formats instead of the same old noun, then verb structure. One thing I learned to capitalize on is my ability to seem very eloquent, expressive, and insightful. This is one of my strongest writing points. I learned much about communities, and got some fascinating insight into how certain communities live out their lives. I, however have not had my opinion or attitude changed towards said communities as I have always had an open mind about things or people that are different from what I considered normal.

journal 12

ENC1102 this semester has been mainly focused on writing papers. it shows the student how to use the drafting process and how to make revisions to those drafts. the class taught me a lot about research papers too. the lady from the library taught us a lot about all the resources that FSU students have right at their fingertips. the class also taught me about communities. we looked at many different communities and saw how they were represented through stereotypes. overall, i thought this was an interesting class and I would recommend it to anyone who is required to take it.

Based on what you've learned so far this semester, what has changed in your writing? What will you continue to do that you've learned and what will you choose not to do? What have you learned about communities? Has your perspective changed at all?

I have learned a lot about my writing from this class. This class has helped me realize that much of my writing does not have enough examples or vivids. I need to show not tell. I have also learned a lot about research papers and how the proper way to write them actually is. I learned a lot about the communities I am and the ones around them by simply reflecting and writing on them. Much of this class was reflective and observatory which really made me think and engage in the topics in which I was writing. My perspective on my community hasn't necessarily changed but broadened vastly compared to what it used to be. Overall, my writing has improved some, but I still need some work in some areas. Practice makes perfect.

Changes...

Not much has changed in my writing. I have learned to avoid being "list-y", putting all of my ideas down at once and ignoring the elaborating. I've also learned that everyone can tell when I'm padding the paper with wordy-ness, not just me. So at all costs avoid that cliff.

As far as communities I have learned to look at them a new way. Especially stereotyping and the role that the use of stereotype plays in misunderstandings between culture. I really enjoyed the media paper, it gave me the most time to analyze and organize these thoughts.

Overall good experience, I definitely watch "Weeds" differently nowadays. :-)