Journal 8

I think that this is crazy, I know that it's possible but I think that the idea of this is taking away what it is that makes us human. I know you can do anything just like hall says, " I eventually found an event that sounded too hilarious to pass up, " '80s Hair-band Night w? Live DJ @ Club EXPOSe!" " that is crazy. I do agree that computers and technology are helping mankind and progressing us through time. But if used in the way in which it takes over our life and becomes our first life instead of our second, i feel that this is destructive.

Journal 7

The most important day of my life, I'm really scared and as I walk down the street people glare with disgust at my presence. But I stand for something greater than some lowly person who has the need to feel superior. I walk up the street, I'm almost there, my heart is racing, I hear sirens everywhere. People yelling and people glaring, someone throws a rock at me and hits me in the head. I feel dizzy, I almost drop to the ground but I know that if I do everyone that is counting on me will surely fall too. I get up a group of national guardsmen rush to surround me, they escort me into the entrance. For the first time I finally see what everyone has been fighting for and what white folks are so protective of. I finally made it... I am officially a student of Little Rock Highschool.





This picture enhances the story by giving a visual to the hatred and dismay displayed in the story. It's perfect because it shows the angry white people and the guardsmen who are to keep order as segregation occurs.

Journal 5

Before responding to this journal read "Basic Design Principles" found in the course library on BlackBoard. Summarize the entire reading in two paragraphs. Be sure to answer the following two questions within your journal posting: What are the four basic principles of design that are highlighted in this excerpt? Explain each principle. How does color affect page design?

Basically you want the design to enable the viewer to easily navigate through the contents while enjoying the layout and information displayed on the page. The four basic principles are alignment, proximity, repetition, and contrast. The first concept alignment just basically states that you should have everything in one alignment as not to confuse the reader. Proximity is the relationship that develops when items relate to eachother. You just have to remember to put everything that relates closer together. Repetition just brings everything together. Contrast just creates a sort of pathway of where to look on a web page. Color choice represents your mood and clarity of a subject.

Journal 4

Compare and contrast the audiences of Trask's essay and Knier's essay. While doing this you will want to identify the audience of each piece and point out some specific elements of each text that let you know who the audiences are. Are the readers of these pieces specialists or not? What tone does each author take? Are these tones appropriate?

Next, compare and contrast how these two movie trailers have different audiences. Address the way the stories are presented, the types of characters that are created, the fonts that are used in the trailers, the tone, color, dress, etc.

You must include at least one quote from EACH PIECE of your reading for this blog or you will not receive full credit!

Knier's essay was directed more towards a general audience in the way that he wrote or his tone. He wrote with a more mellow and layed back tone that attempted to relate to the reader. He swears which gives a more layed back informal tone " It was like walking into a dream world since everything I really wanted (not cds or dvds and shit) ...".

Trask's essay was more formal and was directed towards specialists or government officials because her vocabulary is larger and she states cases and talks about different organzations in her argument that government officials would know about. " ... the state of Hawai'i created an Office of Hawaiian Affairs, or OHA, in 1980. Os for represenation of Hawaiian rights by Hawaiians".

The trailer for Bride and Prejudice targets a more diverse audience compared to that of Pride and Prejudice. Bride and Prejudice is more colorful and comical which is something that more people would watch compared to Pride and Prejudice which is more of a love story in which women are more attracted to see but men are less attracted to.

Journal 6

The e-portfolio displays our work different from the normative way of hard copying everything and turning it in. It does this by enabling us to insert pictures and other types of various text such as music into our portfolios and papers. By doing this it causes the reader to have a more intimate experience with the papers themselves. Also the way in which we design our presentation effects how the reader views our papers and alters their interpretation of such aspects as meaning and value. You want to present your work both clearly and subtlety in a way that only influences the readers subconscious. You create this by making everything visible and spaced out with "white space" in which the ease of reading the paper increases.

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The grandparent is shaded, perhaps showing age or wisdom but also definitely curiosity. Some characters are shaded and some are not because the characters who are not are the characters you should be focused on, they tell the main story and movie the narrative along while transitioning from box to box very smoothly. The effect of the comic strip makes it seem more relaxed towards the reader but at the same time, old fashioned, like something from back in the WW2 era would have been like, if it were ... say a cartoon, then it would probably would have been viewed as extremely boring and dosn't give it that authentic feel about old school movies. Everything was spoken except for the bottom right boxes of text, which were narrative. there are little bubbles coming from out of their general area that indicates whether or not they are talking. This comic strip would be less effective if there were no visuals, it would have had less impact and I wouldn''t have payed attention, there would be no visual stimuli for me to feast my eyes upon and i would probably fall asleep. Images interact with texts by enhancing them and reinforcing what is stated, a picture is worth a thousand words, but a picture with words is worth a thousand words plus the words in your story :). The purpose is to show the turmoil and the impact of how the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's and forced to give up all of their privacy and register to be "investigated" and they ended up being put into a concentration camp. He sets the tone of the story by starting off with two grandfather mouses that die due to the fact of a concentration camp and also mentions Auschwitz which hints the story will have something to do with a concentration camp.. I see that all Jews were outraged about having to register, and some Jews were suspicious about what the nazi's were really after. Which they had every right to be.

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Volleyball = Life

This picture represents the last four years of my life, I went from a kid whose parents were divorced who cared about nothing and hated everything. To a person who was successful and got into college. I found this image on NBC.com, on the page about the U.S. beach volleyball team winning gold. I love what it represents, not only our country winning gold proving that we have the best beach volleyball team in the world but also my own transformation to alter my attitude from the worst, to the best i can be. I think the viewer of this picture would think that this picture represents my inner strength and will to succeed no matter what obstacles I face.

Visual pictures to reference from the text increases the meaning of any text substantially. I think no matter where the picture is as long as it is somewhere next to the text, creates the same effect. I always look at the picture first, it gives me something to think about while i read the text.