30 Things You’re Only Afraid Of If You Live In Los Angeles, http://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchirico/things-youre-only-afraid-of-if-you-live-in-los-angeles

This Article on buzzfeed talks about things that people only in Los Angeles are afraid of. It is a funny article making fun of the things that seem to always happen when you are in Los Angeles for example the very first picture talks about reading the 4 parking signs talking about when you can and can’t park your car somewhere and which way to turn your wheels. The accuracy of this article is honestly unknown in my eyes because I have never been to Los Angeles or really I have never really been in a big city so the only thing I know is small town problems. So I have no reason but to trust this publisher on what he/she thinks are the biggest joke problems about LA. One of the memes talks about the traffic alerts on google maps and how it seems to always be a problem and through my lack of knowledge of cities one of the biggest stereotypes is the fact that there is always traffic and it is god awful. The article was made to make fun of Los Angeles in some way which showing actual things that happen on occasion and most likely not all of the time.

Blog post #6

When I read Burkes “sucked beneath the streets of Las Vegas” I was very surprised at what I read. When anyone things of Las Vegas your first thought is Casinos, strip clubs, The Hangover, and the other 1000 shows that are based in Las Vegas. You think about the tall buildings and the bright neon lights lining the strip all attempting to attract you to come in and spend your money. But I personally have never thought about the negatives of Las Vegas the poverty, the drug addicts, and the bad things that are shadowed away from tourists. Every big city has their homeless and the ones who are standing on the corner with their piece of cardboard begging for money; some of them actually genuinely need the money, maybe they lost everything and everyone somehow, but others like the man mentioned in the audio clip only want the money to pay for a bad addiction that they have. The man in the audio clip lived in the sewers of the great Las Vegas, during the day he walks around and finds left behind credits in the casinos and then at night he gets his fix of meth and pays for a little bit of food to get by. To me this is crazy that I somehow never managed to think about the other side to this large, supposed “sin city” where people host bachelor parties or get the guys together for a guy’s weekend. The side where you see the homeless side and where they live and then travel up a few sets of stairs then bam there are wealthy people, weird crazy people walking around like nothing is ever or has ever been going on beneath them. Do the citizens of Las Vegas even know about this? It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t.

Blog Post #5

After reviewing the tape and watching a few other students as long as my own speech a saw many different things. As you could tell with just about everyone the nerves were very high as you stood in the front of the room presenting your speech your body does many things unknowingly to help you cope with the nerves. Me personally I was only a little nervous but I did notice that I did get a little hot whenever all the attention was on me. I did notice that I played with my notecards in my hand a little bit and I had a wide stance and kind of leaned back like I was in a casual conversation with my friends. I feel like that is a bad thing because I don’t project myself as being serious and informative. I did think that other than those two things I did a good job; I made good eye contact with my audience, and I didn’t pace around like I always do whenever I do anything. I listened to my speech and other than my stuttering problem and my problem with pronunciating certain letters I thought that I overall did a good job; I only fumbled over my words about 3 times. The one good thing that I did with my speech is that I projected my voice well and didn’t mumble like I usually do. In the future I would like to have a better posture and not flick or restack my notecards like I was doing; I would also like to not fumble over my words at all and work on my PowerPoint a little more to make it more interactive and not so plain.

Blog Post #4

Like Ms. Hoy has said multiple times in class, our generation and our age group is more into the logos category. So since our generation has access to so much information that is usually all we care about when it comes to someone pitching an idea or concept to us. So for my speech I have included more factual information and unique facts to draw in the class at first. Then for the Ethos and Pathos my cultural focus and the tradition of bringing your children to the games and hopefully the audience will think about when they have kids and if they will do the same thing. My opening of my cultural focus asks if any of the audience have this sort of tradition with their family so that will let them think back and establish a emotional attachment with what I am about to say.

Blog Post #3

The secondary source that I have found is an article on Kentucky.com a site where columnists such as Mark Story post articles on sports or restaurants or even local events. This article in particular talked about the Kentucky Wildcats football stadium, Commonwealth Stadium, and the numbers and trends of fans who attend the games. In the article Mark Story actually interviews the UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart and asks him a few questions on why there seem to be less fans than there had been in the past and what he planned to do to fix that. "That big-screen television at home and the comfort and ability to sit at home and watch has had a big effect," Barnhart said. This quote Is a perfect example of why the stadium isn't filling up as much, the less people at the stadium, the less diversity of cultures in this one community. The article also gives very strong factual evidence to support its argument such as a crowd of 54,846 for UKs home opener against Miami and that number is the 7th least attended season opener is UKs 41 season history.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2013/09/12/2818732/mark-story-can-uk-get-cats-fans.html#storylink=cpy

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The community I have chosen for my ethnography is an area that almost every student at the University of Kentucky should be familiar with. Commonwealth Stadium on the south side of campus is home of the Kentucky Wildcats football team, and this team draws thousands of people in many different cultures and meshes them all together in one roaring stadium. For me this area makes me reminisce on my high school football days the ones I miss so dearly, but for this being my first college football game I have ever attended it adds a whole new aspect for me. I’m used to being in the games and participating, not standing in the stands with all of my fellow college students screaming until we are breathless and doing our little chants and motions for either a first down or a defensive stop. My first college game was against UKs biggest rival the Louisville Cardinals; which was perfect for my research. Walking to the game there are thousands of people in the parking lot which tables, tents, buses, and unreal amount of food and beverages. One tent could be one of the UK fraternities with tons of college students, the next could be the tent of a family who maybe attended UK and have been diehard fans their entire life and wouldn’t miss a single game. But then you also see tents for the rival teams and that throws a whole new culture into the mix especially when they wear that atrocious color red with that stupid little bird on the front. Sitting in the stands in where you can see all the cultures collide into one exciting sight to see. From where I am located I can look down on the field and see the eighty some odd players for each team along with the coaches who are playing or participating in the game. To my right there are future recruits and their families who are there to watch a game and maybe decide to commit to the university to play. Down the sidelines from them at the opposite side of the field from me there is a section of red shirts, the enemy cardinal students who of course are far in superior to us UK students. Directly across the field from me are where your normal ticketholders sit. Anywhere from parents of students to alumni from previous years. I distinctly remember a family of four; a father, mother, and two small children just old enough to start to begin to understand the sport of football. The father was in a UK shirt, and visor; the daughter and son were wearing UK shirts as well and the mother had just bought them each a foam finger and from where I was I could see the excitement on their faces as they put the blue foam finger on their hands and stand up flail around to show it off. One can get a good idea of a person or family by watching their actions and expressions, which isn’t always write for the record. The impression I received from this family in particular was that the husband and wife had most likely attended the University of Kentucky and may have even met at the college and went on to have kids and whatnot. They were most likely fans of the college even after graduating and now that their kids are old enough they are hoping to start a tradition with the college and take their kids to the games and if all goes well maybe they will follow in their footsteps and hopefully keep the tradition going on to the next generation. Then you reach the student section, my section, the section that is most into the game and every play and call made. We have our own little chants and motions for small and big things that our home team can do. If you take a look around you can see anyone from frat guys to sorority girls, players from other sports like volleyball and basketball. It’s easy to tell the people like myself who have a past experience in this sport, coming to these games gives you a little bit of the feeling that you get when it’s a Friday night football game. It connects you to this event more and more each time you go, honestly after that one game that I attended I don’t think I will miss a single game for the rest of my college career. This just shows the many different cultures that clash together in the one single stadium and all want to see the Cats be victorious.

Blog Post #1

Mathieu- "Berlins work indicates that the rules of citizenship are changing, as rapidly as the economy is"

This to me is a very striking post due to fact that as a child growing up in this very world I never thought of how the people in the world are changing and how our society is changing drastically just due to the things we choose to buy, don't choose to buy, and by the things we do. Fifteen years ago cell phones were nothing compared to what they are today; today if I lost my phone I wouldn't know what to do! Everything from my school email to my school schedule, and all of my friends and families phone numbers are in there. Now materialistic objects such as a phone have become an aspect of life that many individuals cant live without.

Marche- “was the tendency for neurotic and lonely individuals to spend greater amounts of time on Facebook per day than non-lonely individuals.”

Honestly this quote has the same basic ideas that I have spoken about with my friends or just random people I somehow find my way talking about anything in the world with. I fully support this article in its entirety; I believe that social networking and cell phones are making this world a completely different place. I remember back when I was younger my parents friends would just stop by out of no where just to sit for a few and chat. That was completely normal then. But now whenever someone randomly stops by your first thought is "Hmm wonder what he wants" like that person has to have a reason to come over uninvited. I fully believe that the world is becoming much lonelier than before; on Facebook I have some 400 friends, how many of them do I actually consider friends? maybe 100.
How many do I consider my close friends that I see and hang out with every week or month? maybe 30. The generation I live in is being grasped by social networking and I wouldn't be surprised if many of the "popular" people on Facebook end up being lonely later on in life.