Reading Journal

How online companies get you to share more and spend more

This article was pretty intersting. It is also actually very true. i didn't realize it before but, a lot of online companies do try and scam you. I have always bought products online from books to clothes and other things, and I was always a sucker for those deals that said, free shipping with an order of fifty or more. If i only needed twenty five dollars worth of products i would spend double just to get free shipping. When you actaully think about it, it's pretty stupid, but this happens everyday when people buy things online. Companies make you think that your saving money when in actuality you spend the same or even more money.

My hometown was an awesome place to grow up. There are parks and playgrounds on almost every corner.

My sister's style is quite unique. She doesn't care about name brands. she just puts things together.

My math teacher sophomore year was horrendous. He would talk about his personal life the entire class and I never learned anything.

The room seemed very fancy. The way the big long curtains fell from the high windows made the ambience of the room rise.

Rhetorical Analysis

            From an 8track, to a cassette player, from compact discs to mp3s, these are all audio products that have evolved and changed the way people listen to music. With each and every advancement that the audio industry has made, the sound quality of the products have surpassed there priors models. The ads also have advanced with each product they create.

            The image in actuality portrays a miniature string quartet playing a song inside a person's ear. The image does not show the entire ear because the focus of the image has to be the quartet. It catches people's eyes because in real life it is not normal to see actual people inside someones ear doing anything. If one looks at the bottom left hand corner there are three letters reading RCA. This is a logo for a sound company that produces and sells audio products such as speakers, radios, headphones etc. It leads me to believe that the quartet inside the person's ear is shown to compare the sound of the audio products RCA produces, to the natural and full sound someone gets when hearing a live instrument. 

         There is so much work when making advertisements for these products. Whether it's a commercial on the television or an ad in the local paper, the producers try there best to put themselves in the consumer's shoes and make what the people want. The best possible sounding audio devices then can make.

My Theme Proposal!

Music to me has always been something i love doing. Any type of art that enables someone to express themselves really interests me. The arts really show who a person is. Not only on the outside but the person's character as well. I feel that this topic would be great for me because music surrounds many aspects of a person's life and plays a huge role in the world. Music unites people and nations. To me music is everything. The originality of music let's people feel a range of emotions. Different types of music make people feel certain ways. There is no particular way to setup or create music. There are no rules. Music comes from inside a person depending on how they are feeling. The world is musical. Not so oblivious that there's a band on every corner of the street, but in the way that isn't very noticeable unless you have an ear for music. For example a busy city street with the rumbling of car motors is like the steady beat of drums. The car horns from angry drivers and like the brass section in a big jazz band. Even the simplicity of pedestrians walking on the sidewalks having conversations are choirs with different tambors and harmonies. We don't notice these things because we are always so busy in a busy world, but if we step back and listen, the music is there.

Back up ideas:
Business & Economics
Technology

"Forget Goofing Off"

 I think the main idea of this article was to keep kids out of trouble during recess. Recess is a time for children to have a break from schoolwork. The reason this school enforced a recess coach to make organized activities during recess is probably to keep the children out of trouble. I beieve that if children do not have a structured activity, they will go searching for things to do. most of the time they will get in trouble during these acts.

Writer's Autobiography

  Reading an writing have not always been one of my fortes. When I was in high school I was so negative about going to english class. I always had the same thought before I walked in the classroom. "Why do I need english too succeed in life? Is learning about Romeo & Juliet really going to help me put food on the table for my family?" With all this negativity going on one day during senior year, i had a breakthrough. My teacher assigned our final research paper. he told us to pick a contraversial topic. I started searching around and decided to write my paper on the fast food industry in the United States. To me, it was very easy to write because, information was very easy to access about this topic. i got information from my friends who eat alot of fast food. I even went to local fast food places and asked employees about the food they make for the U.S. I got information about the ingredients used to make the food. All in all, it was a very pleasant experience. It made me take a liking to english class. I am looking forward to this semester. i like that we can choose our own themes to write about!