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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!


--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

RE; Pantene Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um9KsrH377A
THE VIDEO I WATCHED IS THIS ONE ABOVE.

In the beginning of the Pantene commercial, was a deaf girl watching a man play his violin on the street. She is memorized by it. She insists to learn how to play the violin. One girl was but ends up yelling that she will never know how to play because she is deaf and that she is wasting everyone’s time. Afterwards she talks to the violin man on the street. She asks why she is different and he asks her why she wants to be like the others. He goes on saying music is a visible thing. To just close her eyes and she will see. The next scene shows her playing the violin and learning how to play. The bully continues to put her down. The bully is feeling threatened that she is progressing so well. Four men show up when she and the man are playing their violins on the street. And beat up the man and break the girls violin. Then it transfers to the music concert, where the bully was playing the piano and supposedly the last contestant, until the deaf girl shows up with her glued together violin. When she closes her eyes and starts playing, everyone is in complete awe. Her hair moves every which way while she is playing. And once she is done. Every person gives her a standing ovation. Then it shows the pantene and saying, “You can shine.”

I believe this commercial is saying that just because you have a setback or something putting you down, you are still able to get up and prove to everyone that you aren’t what they believe. That anyone can truly shine to their fullest potential. I see that she was happy that she was just playing the violin. She proved that with her biggest drawback and being bullied the whole time she was still able to show the world that she can be the greatest. It was an amazing and extraordinary feat that she was able to play such beautiful music when she could not hear it. Not only is this a commercial it is an inspiration.

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  1. Bart BoeckholtFebruary 23, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    for Bart and Dean
    This add hopes the viewer will surrender to the idea that there is no limits except the ones you put on yourself.

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  2. Bart BoeckholtFebruary 23, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    The Audio of the text is the kicker that sucks you in on an emotional level allowing you to focus in on the story of a young girl who overcomes obsticals that are normal for musicians do not leaving you with btears in your eyes only to discover you just watches a freaking shampoo commercial.

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