Wednesday, November 20, 2013

BLOG POST #9



Title: 19 reasons why being short is the best

I always seem to joke around about how short I am, so I though it would be funny to see the positive things about it. I chose this article because I wanted to find excuses on why being short is better than being tall, even though I wish I could grow just one more inch if anything. Looking at the memes I realized that some of them are a little bit off. For example, number 14 says, “even though reaching things may be an issue, tall people always seem to be friendly enough to help a stranger out.” I thought that this was really false because in my personal experiences, many people aren’t that generous enough to grab things for you. I have had moments at department stores where I left without my favorite shirt because no one wanted to help me get it down, which is actually pretty depressing and humorous to me. Number 17, “ you can be an expert couch surfer because you’ll always fit on a sofa”, relates to me the most I think because I never complain about not having a bed to sleep in at a friends house because a couch will ALWAYS be just as comfortable to me.  If I could change anything about these memes, it would definitely be some of the pictures. Especially number 18, “people tend to mistake you younger than you are (at least, in your earlier twenties this seems to happen a lot)”. The picture really has nothing to do with what is stated. I just think that the pictures are good but they could be better and that there are probably better ones to fit there instead. Overall this meme is really dead on about what the positives are about being short, but the way the numbers are portrayed could be better for the audience to get a clearer picture of the points being made.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

blog post #7


Blog post #7

The source that I found, The Sad Truth about Frozen Yogurt. Talks about what kinds of chemicals are in frozen yogurt and how we don’t really know what we are eating. After reading this article I think that it might work for my speech because it shows a problem that frozen yogurt faces. This is one of the only articles that I have found showing a problem with frozen yogurt itself instead of the frozen yogurt industry. This is an online source that I found, I learned just what exactly is in frozen yogurt that they don’t tell you about, for example all of the artificial flavoring that there is. This made me think about the direction I want to go with my research and my speech, I think that I am going to talk more about the problems that frozen has and what types of solutions that can be made.
Schocker, Laura. "The Sad, Sad Truth About Frozen Yogurt." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 08 Aug. 2013. Web. 03 Nov. 2013.