Blog Post #5

The first web text, Dove Campaign for Real Beauty by Sara is very appealing to any audience. Even though it is intended to girls, it, overall, demonstrates that society’s perception of beauty is distorted by ads and corporations. Her texts make a great case for this. I enjoyed this one very much. I like how she organized it in a way that’s simple. You just click on the picture and BAMM! you are there. I found each text contributed to the larger picture and they all connected flawlessly.

The web text Life-Based Web Comics by Ariel was very different from the Dove campaign. First off, it required a lot of reading and you could not click on the images to look at them yourself. I did like the overall set up. The fact that it was talking cartons was very creative. I understood the approach but did not get the overall context of the web text. I did, however, like the way she organized her text in a sliding window. That gives me the idea to use a similar approach.

 

 I plan to organize me web text with a large picture of Obama in the middle spread out like Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. In each limp I plan on putting different clickable text. And then describe each one once you click on the text sort of like Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.

multimedia texts

http://www.barackobama.com/education?source=primary-nav

http://mashable.com/2012/09/06/barack-obama-memes/

http://www.mittromney.com/issues/education

http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2012/09/19/romney-47-percent-gaffe.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU0MVdq_ioQ&list=UUvixJtaXuNdMPUGdOPcY8Ag&index=10&feature=plcp

My Pitch For Obama

Hello everybody, as you may all know this November is your time to express yourself. This November is the time to decide. And this November is the time for you to become aware. Yes, these statements may seem broad. What does he mean? Is he speaking about the elections? Or What?

Exactly, now I got you thinking. Well, yes of course, this November is about the General elections. I’m sure you know about what this means. If you’re a Republican or Democrat or Independent, what options do we have? Let me be clearer, what Presidential nominees do we believe are the right ones. Now think for a moment. Let’s be honest, we do not have the greatest two available candidates right now.

Let me explain why. On one hand you have Mitt Romney. Yes Mr. Mitt “Gaffe” Romney. A quick Google search of Mitt Romney’s slip ups and you can find material for weeks. An overview of a few gaffes consist of the time when he call corporations people, or when he said, as a young boy he dreamed of being wealthy and famous and this would bring him happiness, then he ended the statement by saying, “and boy was I right.” And last but not least, how about when he singled out 47% of the population as being dependent and lazy. Either this is actually what Romney thinks or he just fumbles and fumbles time and time again. I will go along the lines to say yes this is what he thinks. He is very candid and doesn’t hold back, standing by his statements. However, there are the times when he flip-flops on his statements. Overall, he is not so great.

But then when we have the lesser of the two evils. The incumbent. The President of the United States. Mr. Barrack Obama. This man can give a speech and boy are they good. But does he deliver. It can be debated as to what he has delivered on, but his promises in the 2008 elections were so sky high that he himself said that the American people need not to expect so much and should lower their expectations. Furthermore, he promised to close down Gitmo, that didn’t happen. He promised to end the ridiculous war on drugs, which is costing tax payers and filling up the jails with non-violent criminals, but that hasn’t happen. In particular, his justice department has raided more dispensaries than the Bush administration. President Obama also passed the NDDA which allows for indefinite detention of United States’ citizens. This list goes on and on for this guy too

With the Romney-Ryan plan many Americans could get screwed and college students will suffer. For example, the Romney-Ryan plan plans to cut many social programs and cut grants to students. Also the biggest thing students should worry about is that Romney plans to send student loans back to the bank, this could turn into higher interests and more fees. Furthermore, cuts in education are also called for in the Romney-Ryan Budget.

However, let it be known that with Barrack Obama, the middle class has a likely chance to grow and the poor would benefit with Obama. Obama plans to cut taxes for the middle class, keep Pell grants and have the federal government make out the loans. Moreover, with Obama there have been a number of jobs being created after the nasty recession of 2008. Many critics would say it is not enough. I say that he got handed a house with a broken kitchen, no clean water and grime all over the place, let the guy have four more years to at least do some more cleaning.