For History of creativity I had to paint a painting and I decided to write something for this free write that I could turn in with the painting to "explain" myself.
White Salmon City
First and for most. I am an engineering major and this is the first painting that I have painted in my life. This is a picture of the Columbia river gourge in Washington by my house in a little town called White Salmon. This painting took forever! And I am happy with the final product. My wife is so proud of me she wants to hang it up (so please write all of your comments and corrections on this page. thanks)
This painting exhibits renaissance characteristics through the application of several different kinds of perspectives. My favorite form of perspective exhibited in this painting is diminishing perspective and I incorporated it through the gradual fading and graying of the colors layer by layer as you approached the focal point of my one point perspective. My one point perspective is not as obvious as if I had drawn anything man made like a sign or a house or a sidewalk. But if you look closely I painted the entire gourge to a vanishing point the canyon walls on both sides and the river converge on this point. That is my 1 point perspective. I also incorporated overlapping perspective in the trees against trees, trees against the water and the road, and mountains over mountains and clouds over clouds, ect. Overall this project was difficult but a lot of fun, I really learned a lot!
This is to promote the awe inspiring natural beauty of white salmon and its location in the historic Columbia river gourge. There are lots of places to hike boat and sights to see. It is a great place you should come and visit some time
Monday, February 25, 2008
TA English WATCO and Audience for Paper #1
WATCO:
What are the effects of NEA (national education association) and AFT (American Federation of Teachers) on education reform?
Target audience:
Parents interested in primary and secondary education, and who are involved in PTA associations or vote.
Characteristics of target audience:
Upper middle class
Are probably not members of the above groups
Generally un educated about perhaps even the existence, roles, purposes, of the NEA and the AFT
Very Busy
Believe that a good education as being key to their children’s future
Not know a lot about NCLB funding issues
Have more than just one child
Like their child’s teachers
her or they would have changed it
Willing to have their voice made known
Enthymeme:
A to B
B to C
A = C
A = NEA and AFT B = Education Reform C = Better Education
The NEA (National Education Association) and AFT (American Federation of Teachers) inhibits primary and secondary educational reform because conflicts of interest within teachers’ unions prevent accountability and peer review.
What are the effects of NEA (national education association) and AFT (American Federation of Teachers) on education reform?
Target audience:
Parents interested in primary and secondary education, and who are involved in PTA associations or vote.
Characteristics of target audience:
Upper middle class
Are probably not members of the above groups
Generally un educated about perhaps even the existence, roles, purposes, of the NEA and the AFT
Very Busy
Believe that a good education as being key to their children’s future
Not know a lot about NCLB funding issues
Have more than just one child
Like their child’s teachers
her or they would have changed it
Willing to have their voice made known
Enthymeme:
A to B
B to C
A = C
A = NEA and AFT B = Education Reform C = Better Education
The NEA (National Education Association) and AFT (American Federation of Teachers) inhibits primary and secondary educational reform because conflicts of interest within teachers’ unions prevent accountability and peer review.
RA Add analysis for English
Blog Post Retorical analysis
The advertisement that I choose to analyze was actually on the side of a big home furnishing truck of a large local retailer. It took up the entire side of the semi. The picture had no text other than the company name. And it showed a an over head of a living room it had “the mom” laying on one half of the corner couch with “the daughter” sitting on the other side of the corner couch, with “the husband” getting a back scratch from the wife as he sits on the ground with “the son” sharing a huge bowl of popcorn. Laughing and giggling while all watching a huge big screen TV. So that is the ad.
The analysis of this ad tells me that this add is targeting women, and while the couch that the wife was using was as a product, was being sold as much as the TV as a product was being sold in the ad. But a deeper analysis shoes that the advertisement was not selling the furniture at all to the wife it was selling the family experience. It was selling that the husband would spend more quality time with the kids (if you bought the furniture), and the husband would be happier (if you bought the furniture) and you would be more comfortable, less stressed, more relaxed (if you bought the furniture). That is from my perspective what the advertisement was trying to sell.
For home theater in general women are harder to sell than men, which is why they are targeted in this add. If this add had been selling to men. It would have focused more on the equipment and hit up the high definition and how all of your buds are going to want to come over to YOUR house to watch the game ect. It was interesting to be able to analyze these aspects of the adds I see.
The advertisement that I choose to analyze was actually on the side of a big home furnishing truck of a large local retailer. It took up the entire side of the semi. The picture had no text other than the company name. And it showed a an over head of a living room it had “the mom” laying on one half of the corner couch with “the daughter” sitting on the other side of the corner couch, with “the husband” getting a back scratch from the wife as he sits on the ground with “the son” sharing a huge bowl of popcorn. Laughing and giggling while all watching a huge big screen TV. So that is the ad.
The analysis of this ad tells me that this add is targeting women, and while the couch that the wife was using was as a product, was being sold as much as the TV as a product was being sold in the ad. But a deeper analysis shoes that the advertisement was not selling the furniture at all to the wife it was selling the family experience. It was selling that the husband would spend more quality time with the kids (if you bought the furniture), and the husband would be happier (if you bought the furniture) and you would be more comfortable, less stressed, more relaxed (if you bought the furniture). That is from my perspective what the advertisement was trying to sell.
For home theater in general women are harder to sell than men, which is why they are targeted in this add. If this add had been selling to men. It would have focused more on the equipment and hit up the high definition and how all of your buds are going to want to come over to YOUR house to watch the game ect. It was interesting to be able to analyze these aspects of the adds I see.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
FW Romney is using SiteCatalyst Obama uses Google
campaign websites are a big part of a campaign.
Here is some info that I learned about from https://webspace.utexas.edu/btt59/webcampaign/campaignwebsites.html
Some candidates are learning to watch the digital footprints of those who visit their site by keeping track of their web analytics. While most candidates are using the free analytics of Google or other providers, Mitt Romney has decided to pay more for Site Catalyst to provide detailed information on his sites visitors. Information available to all candidates includes the specific IP addresses that have accessed their site, where they came from, where the leave the site, how long they spend on each page, what their click path is, etc. This information can help them to optimize their site for the best user experience and in the end, hopefully more votes.
Of the Candidates in the race now, below are the services they are currently using for Site Analytics:
John McCain: No pagetagging WA
Rudy Guiliani: Google Analytics
Mitt Romney: SiteCatalyst
Hillary Clinton: Google Analytics
Barack Obama: Google Analytics
John Edwards: Google Analytics
Dennis Kucinich: No pagetagging WA
Joe Biden: No pagetagging WA
While the candidates need this information to optimize their sites, they must also be careful about whom they use to provide analytics as the company that provides the analytics will also have access to all the information about their website as well (Johnson para. 1-3).
Targeting
Online marketers are awaiting the day when candidates decide to utilize the highly specialized targeting abilities of the web. Right now candidates have the ability to specialize their messages through geographic or behavioral targeting capabilities.
Through behavioral targeting, campaign websites can serve ads or display content on their site in a special order as a reaction to the clicks or digital footprints that a person takes on their site. For example, they can serve more information about immigration as a person clicks on sections of the site pertaining to immigration - even to the extent that they recognize that user again and prominently display their immigration stance on the front page when the user returns. They can also purchase ads on exterior sites and serve content in the ads specific to topics that a user has already researched.
Similarly, campaigns can change their content to serve the interests of specific georgraphical areas by targeting IP addresses. For example, a website might say "Welcome, Texans" when a Texan visits the site. This could be extended to serving campaign stance content relevant to certain areas more prominently.
While behavioral targeting and geographic targeting are not currently used (as far as we know), the potential impact of this could greatly help or hurt (if done in a deceitful manner) a politicians campaign (Batra para. 1-10).
Here is some info that I learned about from https://webspace.utexas.edu/btt59/webcampaign/campaignwebsites.html
Some candidates are learning to watch the digital footprints of those who visit their site by keeping track of their web analytics. While most candidates are using the free analytics of Google or other providers, Mitt Romney has decided to pay more for Site Catalyst to provide detailed information on his sites visitors. Information available to all candidates includes the specific IP addresses that have accessed their site, where they came from, where the leave the site, how long they spend on each page, what their click path is, etc. This information can help them to optimize their site for the best user experience and in the end, hopefully more votes.
Of the Candidates in the race now, below are the services they are currently using for Site Analytics:
John McCain: No pagetagging WA
Rudy Guiliani: Google Analytics
Mitt Romney: SiteCatalyst
Hillary Clinton: Google Analytics
Barack Obama: Google Analytics
John Edwards: Google Analytics
Dennis Kucinich: No pagetagging WA
Joe Biden: No pagetagging WA
While the candidates need this information to optimize their sites, they must also be careful about whom they use to provide analytics as the company that provides the analytics will also have access to all the information about their website as well (Johnson para. 1-3).
Targeting
Online marketers are awaiting the day when candidates decide to utilize the highly specialized targeting abilities of the web. Right now candidates have the ability to specialize their messages through geographic or behavioral targeting capabilities.
Through behavioral targeting, campaign websites can serve ads or display content on their site in a special order as a reaction to the clicks or digital footprints that a person takes on their site. For example, they can serve more information about immigration as a person clicks on sections of the site pertaining to immigration - even to the extent that they recognize that user again and prominently display their immigration stance on the front page when the user returns. They can also purchase ads on exterior sites and serve content in the ads specific to topics that a user has already researched.
Similarly, campaigns can change their content to serve the interests of specific georgraphical areas by targeting IP addresses. For example, a website might say "Welcome, Texans" when a Texan visits the site. This could be extended to serving campaign stance content relevant to certain areas more prominently.
While behavioral targeting and geographic targeting are not currently used (as far as we know), the potential impact of this could greatly help or hurt (if done in a deceitful manner) a politicians campaign (Batra para. 1-10).
Friday, February 8, 2008
Fw Hydroniphrosis
The past few weeks have been a giant roll-o-costar some days are up other days are down. I have been swimming in a world filled with Doctors appointments and trips to the pharmacy mean while staying caught up with the never ending pile of home work. My wife is now five and half months pregnant and has come down with Hydroniphosis which literally means water on the kidney. This means that the water that should be running through the kidney is damming up and causing her kidney to swell. Now I know this does not sound good but. After doing more research about it and talking to the Urologist we learned that 20% of pregnant women ended up with Hydroniphosis and 60% of them have the baby with no complications to the mother or the baby. In my wife cause we learned that the kidney problems could very well be pre-existing conditions that was complicated with the pregnancy and the Doctors will be able to fix the portion of the kidney that is being pinched after the baby is born. Until then the Doctors believe that the pain should stay at the same leave it is now
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