thesis

In this article the steps to outline a thesis are clearly displayed.  When these steps are followed the reader can easily tell where the thesis begins and ends.  It also allows the thesis to be easily understood by the reader.  The student essay was similar to my own writing in which it gave many details.  However, the thesis the student provide was much more clear and could be easily found.

Making a Thesis Evolve

The main point that stood out to me in this chapter was the idea that we should imagine we have muliple theses that mix and work together throughout the paper. When done correctly this will look like one big thesis that evolves into many different ideas related to the topic. My writing tends to have one idea that gets repeated throughout the paper instead of evolving like the example at the end of the chapter.

The Last Stop

In "The Last Stop" Cable examines a modern day funeral home. In the essay he makes assumptions about what he thinks funeral homes should look like. One mistake was that these places would have gardens with wonderful, colorful plants, and that it would be out of the day to day life. Instead was he found was an old building, that looked like a church, in the center of town. Another key mistake was thinking that an undertaker was a dark, gloomy man. The man he met in the story was just another business owner trying to make money in his profession.
Cable's essay did a great job describing Goodbody Mortuaries. I thought that this place sounded much like the funeral homes that i've been to, with a welcome feeling, and soft-spoken people who are there to help. Also, Cable did a good job expressing his new understanding of the dead. This will help me write my paper because it teaches to properly explain how an experience has changed your view of something.

Befriending Barbie

This essay about the popularity and special meaning Barbie has was quite intesting to me. Being a guy, I knew Barbie exsisted but would have never guessed that there were collectable Barbies much less that they were popular. Also, I had never heard of a Barbie convention. Honestly when I saw the title I was dreading doing this blog, however after reading I had a new perspective on a subject that I didn't know anything about. One of the key things in the story is where you hear people using Barbie to get though difficult times in their lives. This story helps me because many times I will get a subject that I don't want to write about, but this proves if you just give it a chance and look into it a little more maye it won't be as bad as you think.

Why a black semi truck?

This article does not give a strong image to go off of to analyze this ad. This ad is about women being strong and feminine. The pink represents the feminine aspect of women. The black semi represents that just because women are strong like the semi, they are not classic and sexy as well. As we discussed with the minivan commercial, black vehicles signify classic and also add a sex appeal if used properly. With the models clothes being skimpy and the ad embracing women the black represents the sexiness that some women desire. The company behinds the ad thinks that women who desire to be feminine, strong, and sexy will buy their product. 

Tommy Hilfiger

Is it clear which is strong and which is beautiful--the truck or the model?
I think it is pretty clear which is beautiful and which is strong.  The truck is the strong and the model is beautiful.  The model is beautiful because they are  selling there product, so they want them to look beautiful.  And the truck is strong because that is what they are trying to sell, a strong truck.
Alex Clayton

Tommy Hilfiger

Why is she wearing work gloves and a hat? Why aren't the gloves pink?
She is wearing work gloves because they are trying to persuade women who are sportsman to buy their clothes. It says horseriders or outdoorsman wear our things and can look good in them. The reason they aren't pink is because that personality would not wear pink gloves. They want it to look rugged and like a worker.