Project 1 Reflection :expanding

After doing the work for Project 1, it's really making me look at things for more than the obvious reason that it is what it is. Personally, i believe what i did well in the project was getting the length with having good topics too talk about and not rambling on about stuff that would be irrelevant to what the actual focus of the paper was. I would say my biggest struggle in the beginning was the length and the actual task at hand. I wasn't very sure that i really knew what the point behind the project was. It felt I was doing the right thing, but at the same time felt as if I was doing things that fell under the category of the do not's of this project, so I'd say grasping the full concept of the project really kept me guessing if i knew what i was doing. Next paper i will for sure take more and better notes to have more to work with towards the end of the paper so I'm not stuck thinking about what else i can add to the paper to make it better, and also to ask questions or to see examples of past papers to have a complete understanding of what the task at hang is. From my understanding of the project, i would say i went as far in depth as i could with it and covered all the things i needed to cover to have a positive grade on the paper. This project has shown me too look passed what is already shown and given to you, to look in a sense passed what the normal human eye would look at and see, to try and find what other meaning the object, place, or thing can hold as a purpose or value other than what the obvious and blatant reason is.

An Analysis Of An Image With GQ Magazine by

Randyll Roberts

 

9/9/12

 

 

 

GQ Magazine Analysis

 

 

 

 

                      GQ magazine is known as the male fashion magazine. The most well known celebrities that are male are dressed to there best to display what is considered to be the hottest fashion or considerably the best looking clothing there is to purchase and wear. This issue has the well known actor Channing Tatum dressed up in casual wear with the clean cut and looking presentable. Why would they chose Channing Tatum as the cover photo? Most people are pretty familiar with [him] as an actor and his work. Also, many females consider him to be appealing to the eye. GQ was trying to present a idol that people look up too and too show viewers that looking or dressing how Channing Tatum does would make the ordinary male more appealing to women or to those around. The cover also shows headlines for articles that state things such as "Girls love a man who dresses sharp" and they state they can show you how to dress apart from the rest of the males. GQ magazine realizes that putting an important iconic figure on the front of there cover can make men think that if I dress, look, and follow the rules of this magazine then maybe we can have the life that he has or at something close. Another statement is made about "Channing Tatum, All American Action Hero" , which puts ideas in the head that this guy must really make a difference, if i can start to do some things he does or have the attitude and live my life the way he does, maybe i will be viewed as he is.

 

No matter what the picture is, the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" will always be relevant. By reading the headlines you could always find out what it was saying, but when you look at the picture it makes you look a little more in depth about what the picture is saying. If there were no words on the cover, one could assume that they were advertising for a new clothing company, or the new fall or winter style, just a bunch of thoughts come into play rather they're correct or not wouldn't matter because it's all up to you and what you think of it.

Randyll Roberts

Assignment #2

9/2/2012




               My blog will discuss the problems that students and faculty faced at Harvard with a final

that was taken in May. The article is named "Allegations of widespread cheating in government class

probed at Harvard." The article was written by By Julia Talanova and Jason Kessler with CNN. The

main audience they intended to focus on seemed to be the faculty and to reach out to the other

schools about how even a top notch school such as Harvard can even deal with issues that seem

to be more elementary.

The main focus with the authors were to to show the readers that schools all over face problems of

cheating and with schooling issues. Harvard is possibly the best school in the country and they even

deal with issues with schooling. Issues as big as almost 300 students cheating on a take home test that

the students were given the option to open book and open notes. The students of one of the top Ivy

league programs is having to check the students of the school for a class on the intro to justice to see

if students who did cheat should have to sit out a year of school.

The authors recieved information from the faculty on campus to get a better understanding of what

was going on with situation and too know what the punishment or outcome of the situation would

be if the students were found guilty of cheating or plagarism on the test. The school has been

investigating the issue sense may and with the school week starting the next week they will

quickly have to come to conclusion on if the students are guilty of false testing and if they will

be allowed to take apart in the next academic semester or if they will have to wait till the

following year to pick back up in academic affairs.