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.