Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Blog Post #8
As I began to write my ethnography essay I had a hard time deciding what I was going to argue in my paper. I had spent so much time in this space, written papers, done a speech, yet, I still hadn't figured out what my argument was. At first I seemed confused, however, after sitting with my teacher I found that I actually have a good argument. The first thing that I will be changing about my ethnography essay is my argument. In my essay I will argue that within A Cup of Commonwealth's shop, there is a community culture. Now that I have a focus within my ethnography essay, I plan on giving my opinion on the space.Within my first ethnography draft, I spoke a lot about what Chris Ortiz, the owner of the shop thought. I am going to switch it completely to what I think about the space, and perhaps use Ortiz's thoughts as primary research within my essay. The last change that I will be making within my essay is the addition of secondary sources. In my first ethnography draft I had one or two secondary sources, because I didn't have a solid argument. Since I now have a solid argument I will be using more secondary sources, in order to support my argument. One thing that I had at the beginning of my argument was a description of a cup of commonwealth. Instead of using this as an intro I will be using it within my paper in order to support my argument. After meeting with my teacher, I know that my paper will be a lot better.I feel that just by looking at the comments my teacher left on my rough draft, I really have a new transformed paper. I looked forward to putting all my pieces together, and hopefully, put together a well written essay.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Blog Post #9
http://www.buzzfeed.com/cakeandcats/the-abc-of-student-living-egia
The ABC of Student living
Many students would agree that college is very different than high school. Lots of people are there for lots of different reasons, however there are common things most college students do.In the article, many pictures were put up of things that majority of college students do. While, it may be true for the majority of college students, however not for everyone. When some people come to college they absolutely go nuts, they have this new freedom, an sadly, it leads the majority to making bad decisions. This leads to underage drinking, partying all night, and other things that get in the way of ones school work. In this article, some of the ABC's do not apply to all college kids. Majority of college kids do drink, but not everyone. This article is more for kids that do live on campus rather than don't, some people don't move out when they go to college, and some people live off campus in apartments so they really aren't a part of everything that goes on like the partying, and have hangovers. I feel like this is for a certain people on campus. There are divisions on campus, some people are really concentrated on school, and don't do anything but school and extra circulars. SOme people are more laid back and they balance school with partying. Throughout a college campus there are many different people and this is assuming all college kids are like this, while it maybe the majority it is not true. Some things in this are true for most college students. Balancing studying, reading, being organized, adventures, and new friends. College is an awesome experience, even though at times it can be very stressful, the freedom, and "new adventures" are what I like about college, and what I think this article says accurately about students.
The ABC of Student living
Many students would agree that college is very different than high school. Lots of people are there for lots of different reasons, however there are common things most college students do.In the article, many pictures were put up of things that majority of college students do. While, it may be true for the majority of college students, however not for everyone. When some people come to college they absolutely go nuts, they have this new freedom, an sadly, it leads the majority to making bad decisions. This leads to underage drinking, partying all night, and other things that get in the way of ones school work. In this article, some of the ABC's do not apply to all college kids. Majority of college kids do drink, but not everyone. This article is more for kids that do live on campus rather than don't, some people don't move out when they go to college, and some people live off campus in apartments so they really aren't a part of everything that goes on like the partying, and have hangovers. I feel like this is for a certain people on campus. There are divisions on campus, some people are really concentrated on school, and don't do anything but school and extra circulars. SOme people are more laid back and they balance school with partying. Throughout a college campus there are many different people and this is assuming all college kids are like this, while it maybe the majority it is not true. Some things in this are true for most college students. Balancing studying, reading, being organized, adventures, and new friends. College is an awesome experience, even though at times it can be very stressful, the freedom, and "new adventures" are what I like about college, and what I think this article says accurately about students.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Blog Post # 7
A Secondary source that I will be using during my speech is "Economic Citizenship and the Rhetoric of Gourmet Coffee." This article speaks about Gourmet coffee, in specific it talks about Starbucks coffee and somethings that Starbucks does that many people don't know about. I am using this source in order to compare my cultural space, A Cup of Commonwealth, to Starbucks. I think this is a good secondary resource to use since something that my cultural space offers is Fair Trade USA coffee. Fair Trade USA coffee wants to stop everything Starbucks basically does. In this article an in depth look at what kind of things can looked at deeper and used to compare the type of things a Cup of Commonwealth does compared to Starbucks. Specific things that could be talked about from this article is how Starbucks tries to look like a good coffee company by providing care in countries that need clean water, when rather they are hurting countries by the very little they're paying for the coffee, something that Fair Trade USA coffee stands against.This is the kind of information I will be using from this piece in my ethnography.
Economic Citizenship and the Rhetoric of Gourmet Coffee
Rhetoric Review , Vol. 18, No. 1 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 112-127
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/466093
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