Jason McGee
Monday, September 29, 2008
Rhetorical Précis
Chenq, Jacqui. Console Gaming Growing in Popularity Among All Ages. Ars Technica. March 5, 2007.
Jacqui Chenq, Console Gaming Growing in Popularity among All Ages, (March 5, 2007) In Console Gaming Growing in Popularity among All Ages Chenq demonstrates the growing popularity of console gaming throughout all ages. Chenq demonstrates that there were 45.7 million homes with consoles in them by the end of 2006. While 148.4 million people have some sort of way of playing one. (Paragraph 3). The intended audience for this paper is middle age men mostly. It’s for people with a liking of technology news and updates. Chenq’s purpose is to demonstrate the growing popularity to show to people that it is steadily becoming one of the larger entertainment devices now days. This source will help me with my paper because it lists a lot of statistics from previous years to represent its growing popularity.
Wikipedia, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. September 28, 2008.
Wikipedia, Massively Multiplayer online role-playing game, (September 28, 2008) asserts to be very popular throughout the world. Wikipedia asserts that once the NSFNET restrictions were lifted in 1995, it was popularized because the internet was now open to the world. The intended audience tends to be people who play online role-playing games, or people who want to know more about them. The authors’ purpose is to inform the reader about the facts of online-role playing games. I can use this in my paper to describe the type of game that is leading the gaming industry in today’s PC world.
Brain, Marshall. The Pull of Video Games. Copyright 2005.
Marshal Brain, The Pull of Video Games, (2005) Brain argues that video games have become increasingly more popular as they become more realistic. Brain argues that when the game Halo 2 was released 340,000 copies were sold in its first day. While the game San Andreas sold over 2 million copies in the first month. The author relates this chapter to mainly kids who play video games. It’s intended to educate the readers on how video games have been growing over the past few years in order to show the increasing popularity over time. I believe this will help my paper in the sense that it compares games popularity from year to year, showing the growing popularity.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Reader Response 2
In garrett-Browns paper he discovered what he really wanted to learn after reading the article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He read the quotes by Rheta Grimsley Johnson and came up with his own thought of why people use tanning beds instead of going outside and enjoying the sun. He states " It struck me as I read the last lines of this sardonic critique of society that I don't necesssarily wonder why people tan, but why they completely gyp themselves of the pleasures of the sun to be rewarded with a battle with cancer at worst and saggy skin at best." He started writing the paper with a simple question "why do people tan?" Yet after his research he came up with his own opinion on the matter and therefore obligated to it. He moved himself into an area of debate if necessary. He also didnt just state plane facts in the writing. He added his own opinion about certain subjects and his own opinions about articles he had read while doing his research. While if it was a normal research paper there would be no need of his opinions or thoughts, just the plane, simple, boring facts.
In Holmquist's paper he discovered his own love of drugs while writing the paper. "During my research for this paper there have been countless times that I've wanted LSD or MDMA because I was reminded of the times I've done them in the past..." He also seemed to be very cultured on drugs, especially the way he described each one using only research to help him inform the reader. I believe he also discovered how much he has grown from that situation, how he had his "whole life ahead" of himself.
The controlling idea in Garrett's seems to be his misunderstanding of todays "tanning" ways. He doesnt understand the lifestyle of the people of today, always using the tanning beds opposed to using the natural sunlight ,that to him actually stands for something. "A nice tan once meant you spent your days on the beach playing volleyball and swimming, hiking in the mountains or riding a horse..." He talks about how Coco Chanel came home one day from a day out on her yacht and it somehow melted into a fashion statement, indirectly erecting tanning beds across America.
While in Holmquist's paper it seems to be more of an informative paper for drugs to the readers. He wants to educate the reader about the drug. He talks about each drug's use for good and bad. How one can cause "euphoric" feelings, while another can leave you in "perma-fry." He's neither against nor for each drug, he mainly states his opinions and experiences about each. Yet he tells his side of the story, yet still not trying to influence us to pick either, but to better educate us so we can decide for ourselves if the reader happens to run into these drugs.
Garrett's voice is very loud to me in his paper, he is always adding his own opinion about the topic discussed. " People still feel healthy with a bastardized tan?" He adds his own views to the topic and even offers incentives on reasons not to tan and how much more fun you could be having. While Holmquist's paper seemed to be lacking a whole lot of voice. It seemed to be more of a factual paper than anything. Even though he did have his own experiences on some of the issues talked about. The bulk seemed to be filled with mainly informative research about each drug. His paper was filled with a bunch of drug jargon that he knew though. He did have a very cultured view on every drug he seemed to talk about. He would describe the drugs in a way not many people could relate to.
I believe that Holmquist's paper did do a really good job at combing his sentences with what he was talking about and the research he had done. I really like the transition between both. I also think Ballengers example of "beginning with a questions not answers, and accepting ambiguity as a natural part of the process," to be a great view on how to start a research essay. I have thought of many ideas that I know answers to and this helped me think a little more outside of the box, to open up to new ideas and discover things I know little to nothing about.
Jason McGee
In Holmquist's paper he discovered his own love of drugs while writing the paper. "During my research for this paper there have been countless times that I've wanted LSD or MDMA because I was reminded of the times I've done them in the past..." He also seemed to be very cultured on drugs, especially the way he described each one using only research to help him inform the reader. I believe he also discovered how much he has grown from that situation, how he had his "whole life ahead" of himself.
The controlling idea in Garrett's seems to be his misunderstanding of todays "tanning" ways. He doesnt understand the lifestyle of the people of today, always using the tanning beds opposed to using the natural sunlight ,that to him actually stands for something. "A nice tan once meant you spent your days on the beach playing volleyball and swimming, hiking in the mountains or riding a horse..." He talks about how Coco Chanel came home one day from a day out on her yacht and it somehow melted into a fashion statement, indirectly erecting tanning beds across America.
While in Holmquist's paper it seems to be more of an informative paper for drugs to the readers. He wants to educate the reader about the drug. He talks about each drug's use for good and bad. How one can cause "euphoric" feelings, while another can leave you in "perma-fry." He's neither against nor for each drug, he mainly states his opinions and experiences about each. Yet he tells his side of the story, yet still not trying to influence us to pick either, but to better educate us so we can decide for ourselves if the reader happens to run into these drugs.
Garrett's voice is very loud to me in his paper, he is always adding his own opinion about the topic discussed. " People still feel healthy with a bastardized tan?" He adds his own views to the topic and even offers incentives on reasons not to tan and how much more fun you could be having. While Holmquist's paper seemed to be lacking a whole lot of voice. It seemed to be more of a factual paper than anything. Even though he did have his own experiences on some of the issues talked about. The bulk seemed to be filled with mainly informative research about each drug. His paper was filled with a bunch of drug jargon that he knew though. He did have a very cultured view on every drug he seemed to talk about. He would describe the drugs in a way not many people could relate to.
I believe that Holmquist's paper did do a really good job at combing his sentences with what he was talking about and the research he had done. I really like the transition between both. I also think Ballengers example of "beginning with a questions not answers, and accepting ambiguity as a natural part of the process," to be a great view on how to start a research essay. I have thought of many ideas that I know answers to and this helped me think a little more outside of the box, to open up to new ideas and discover things I know little to nothing about.
Jason McGee
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Reading Response
Jason McGee
I believe both essays to be written in first person. Hogg, she is writing about her experience with a famous singer, Davey Jones. She talks about her fondness for him as she was a child and her fascination with him as she begins to grow older. Yet later in the reading she begins to lose the once obsessive attraction to Davey as he begins to slip into history. She finds out when she gets to Fort Randall that he is staying at the same place she is, rooming right next to her, and eating at the same buffet as her. Not living the once luxurious life he once had. She begins to really look at his role as a singer at Fort Randall Dam and seems to feel sorry for him. “As soon as he exits the stage, I wonder out loud if we should buy tickets to the second show. Yet it differs at the same time because there is not a real tension. It’s more of a loss than anything. She is not having a conflict with Davey but his popularity. She hates to see this once elite singer who had thousands of people at these concerts goes to forty. While in Blacks writing the first person tension between the subject and writer is her conflict with trying to find something she loves about the place she lives. She was so succumbed to finding coffee shops and burying her nose into books about distant places. “Instead of surfing, I hunted down the few coffee shops Honolulu could offer and buried myself in novels set in faraway times and places.” She was always thinking about places and things far away from where she actually was and never looked around to smell the roses. To really enjoy what she had around her. The loving environment that was on the tip of her nose.
I found in “The subject of the essay is often commonplace,” that Hogg’s writing was just about her daily life, and about Davey Jones’s career. It was about both her fondness for him, while at the same time it was almost a timeline of his downward career as a singer. It was not a noun, yet feelings and lifestyle. In Blacks essay the subject was her feeling of exploration. Where she finally finds something she enjoys and begins to explore the cultural, spiritual, and mental aspect of what’s around her. “Several hours pass, and I am still bent over among silky, heart-shaped leaves that nod pleasantly at me in the breeze, marveling at the mud as it slips smooth between my toes, the long, hidden weeds straining against my foot soles.”
The thesis I found in Hogg’s writing was that even though Davey Jones career went downhill she still managed to have those same feelings toward him even though he was kind of run down. “I could get up from the bed I am sitting on, take about ten steps, and be in his room.” While in Blacks writing the thesis was more of a message. What it implied to me was that you should always look around you. Smell the roses and indulge in the culture that surrounds. Try to get involved, there will always be a place for you somewhere no matter how stubborn you are to the world around. “I can’t believe I was clueless about it for so long.”
In Hogg’s essay I found that she had researched plenty by the timeline she had for Davey Jones. She knew names of people, who were involved with him, and locations. “Don Kirshner (head of Screen Gems-Columbia music) later told a Monkees biographer, “I was going to let the boys do their own thing, but my standards were number one records and hits.”” But in Blacks writing it seemed to be more of a personal experience. She wrote as if she was just thinking about it on her own. It was a story, given that she knew all of the places she mentioned pretty well.
In Hogg’s essay it was very evident that she shifted from her life back then, along with Davey Jones’s success at the time. She would even state what his career was like as she grew up as if it was a timeline of her feelings for him and his careers success. “At the concert in June of 1986, fans of the Monkees filled the buffalo Bill Rodeo Arena. Before the Monkees came on stage, I pushed my way to the front of the crowd until I was stopped by a scowling security guard.” In Blacks writing she only shifts from when she was against Hawaii and the now. She talks about how she tried to escape Hawaii and would study abroad for college just to escape. While this would demonstrate to the reader why she was just now discovering a new place that she had been home to for so long.
I believe the “so what” of Hogg’s essay to be, stick with something you love. No matter how outdated, imperfect, or old. If you really enjoy something it will be around if you want it enough. In the story she loves Davey Jones and his music and even ten years later he is still around, given that he is not number one anymore, she still goes to his show because of her fondness with him from her early years. While Blacks is a message for all, to never try to escape something you don’t understand. Try to embrace it and educate yourself about the world around you.
I believe both essays to be written in first person. Hogg, she is writing about her experience with a famous singer, Davey Jones. She talks about her fondness for him as she was a child and her fascination with him as she begins to grow older. Yet later in the reading she begins to lose the once obsessive attraction to Davey as he begins to slip into history. She finds out when she gets to Fort Randall that he is staying at the same place she is, rooming right next to her, and eating at the same buffet as her. Not living the once luxurious life he once had. She begins to really look at his role as a singer at Fort Randall Dam and seems to feel sorry for him. “As soon as he exits the stage, I wonder out loud if we should buy tickets to the second show. Yet it differs at the same time because there is not a real tension. It’s more of a loss than anything. She is not having a conflict with Davey but his popularity. She hates to see this once elite singer who had thousands of people at these concerts goes to forty. While in Blacks writing the first person tension between the subject and writer is her conflict with trying to find something she loves about the place she lives. She was so succumbed to finding coffee shops and burying her nose into books about distant places. “Instead of surfing, I hunted down the few coffee shops Honolulu could offer and buried myself in novels set in faraway times and places.” She was always thinking about places and things far away from where she actually was and never looked around to smell the roses. To really enjoy what she had around her. The loving environment that was on the tip of her nose.
I found in “The subject of the essay is often commonplace,” that Hogg’s writing was just about her daily life, and about Davey Jones’s career. It was about both her fondness for him, while at the same time it was almost a timeline of his downward career as a singer. It was not a noun, yet feelings and lifestyle. In Blacks essay the subject was her feeling of exploration. Where she finally finds something she enjoys and begins to explore the cultural, spiritual, and mental aspect of what’s around her. “Several hours pass, and I am still bent over among silky, heart-shaped leaves that nod pleasantly at me in the breeze, marveling at the mud as it slips smooth between my toes, the long, hidden weeds straining against my foot soles.”
The thesis I found in Hogg’s writing was that even though Davey Jones career went downhill she still managed to have those same feelings toward him even though he was kind of run down. “I could get up from the bed I am sitting on, take about ten steps, and be in his room.” While in Blacks writing the thesis was more of a message. What it implied to me was that you should always look around you. Smell the roses and indulge in the culture that surrounds. Try to get involved, there will always be a place for you somewhere no matter how stubborn you are to the world around. “I can’t believe I was clueless about it for so long.”
In Hogg’s essay I found that she had researched plenty by the timeline she had for Davey Jones. She knew names of people, who were involved with him, and locations. “Don Kirshner (head of Screen Gems-Columbia music) later told a Monkees biographer, “I was going to let the boys do their own thing, but my standards were number one records and hits.”” But in Blacks writing it seemed to be more of a personal experience. She wrote as if she was just thinking about it on her own. It was a story, given that she knew all of the places she mentioned pretty well.
In Hogg’s essay it was very evident that she shifted from her life back then, along with Davey Jones’s success at the time. She would even state what his career was like as she grew up as if it was a timeline of her feelings for him and his careers success. “At the concert in June of 1986, fans of the Monkees filled the buffalo Bill Rodeo Arena. Before the Monkees came on stage, I pushed my way to the front of the crowd until I was stopped by a scowling security guard.” In Blacks writing she only shifts from when she was against Hawaii and the now. She talks about how she tried to escape Hawaii and would study abroad for college just to escape. While this would demonstrate to the reader why she was just now discovering a new place that she had been home to for so long.
I believe the “so what” of Hogg’s essay to be, stick with something you love. No matter how outdated, imperfect, or old. If you really enjoy something it will be around if you want it enough. In the story she loves Davey Jones and his music and even ten years later he is still around, given that he is not number one anymore, she still goes to his show because of her fondness with him from her early years. While Blacks is a message for all, to never try to escape something you don’t understand. Try to embrace it and educate yourself about the world around you.
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