I like being able to use the semiotic methods while watching commercials and advertisements, because it makes it harder for advertisement is telling the truth or if it is just trying to trick me into buying things by using my own beliefs against me. Also by reading Signs of Life, it has opened my eye to many different ideas about American culture, and how film and products, reflect some of those ideas. One draw back to knowing the semiotic method is that I can’t turn it off. I often find my self being distracted when I thinking about what does this character or scene resembles about American society. It is especially annoying when Im trying to watch a movie for the first time, and while everybody else is thinking about what an amazing explosion that was, I’m sitting in the theater room thinking about “the Warrior Dream.” I hope that the less I think about the semiotic method the more I will forget, but I know that the semiotic method is like an addictive drug; it just takes one single exposure to it, and I will be back thinking about the American Paradox.
In my rewrites I tried to avoid being repetitive, and having a more sentence variety in my blogs. Re-writing in first person was much harder then I expected it to be. I did feel that active voice seemed kind of weird, and I did not use it all the time, just when it felt right. After I made some grammar corrections I always asked my self if it had a clincher, guiding question, and a connection to the reading. If I could not find everything that was on my list I would go back and added. Many times I would discover that I was missing a connection to the readings, or it was not clear enough to the reader. I also had to cut out some detail that did not help my guiding question, and replaced it with detail that did. Some blogs had structural problems where I would load the beginning with lots of detail, and put my thesis almost at the end. So I had to go back and change the order of things. Fixing my blogs has shown me how much my writing style has improved.
My best and favorite blog is the K 1 speed. I really enjoyed going to the race track and putting my racing skills to the test. The reasons I think it was my best blog post was because of the striking detail it has. Most of my blogs had lots of useless detail, but the K1 speed blog had very good detail that actually helped my writing. I also like the conclusion I came up with for blog that K1 speed used competition to make money was very creative. I also liked the connection I made to Solomon’s American Paradox.
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