Woodstock

One of my most favorite things I ever wrote was my Woodstock essay. This essay was about the largest concert ever that happened in Bethal, New York in 1969. I discuss how Woodstock was a movement that changed and shaped history. This is an exert from the essay that I would like to share.

This temporary community of strangers proved to themselves and so many others that as people all we all we need to be happy is a lot of love, the freedom to be who we want to be and a little bit of music to bring it all together. If proved that we could be happy living without an establishment of rules and social expectations. For three days the attendees of Woodstock festival had all of this, they lived in their ideal community, away form the stresses of the outside world. they had their ideals materialized in front of them and made into reality, now decades later we can all embrace these ideals in out own way.

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http://trueslant.com/suefrause/2009/08/16/cbs-sunday-morning-where-is-woodstock/

Men in Advertising

In a recent group project we wrote an essay that analized men in advertising; our focus was the different stereotypes of males that are in advertising. My section of the essay was about the "sexy man" stereotype. This is an exert from my paragraph of the essay.

In cologne advertisements, and boxer commercials, the men have washboard abs, long shinny hair, beautiful eyes, and are over all just gorgeous. So it makes you wonder who the commercials target audience is. If it's a male product you would think it is targeting the male consumer, but men don't want to look at other, probably sexier, mend half naked. Where as women love to watch the Bod commercials and Calvin Cline poster boards make girls double take.

Sampling as a Substitute for Composition

There are many different kinds of sampling that can be used in essays or presentations. One way to sample is to do a collaborative essay, this means that a group of people work together to make one essay, this can be difficult because you have to combine all of the groups ideas and all of the members different voices, you need to make sure everyone does the same amount of work but when you are writing one paper this can be tricky. My english group and I wrote an essay that is about men in advertising, the way we organized it was we assigned different parts of the essay to different people, then once we all had our paragraph done we had one person put them together in order and see how it sounds. Some parts were needed taken out to make the paragraphs flow together, and we needed to change wording so that it was all 3ed person and the voices were blended. I think this way of writing an essay was harder then I thought it would be but at the same time it was nice because we got to combined out ideas and make the best essay possible.