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To my ANthro, PAWS, and general college friends

posted in College Life | Sep 26, 2009

So I am in my last semester of college and as I said in my previous blog, my classes are not as good as they have been. I have come to realize though that I have been unbelievably lucky. I have had THE college life. Great professors, great classes...

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Yoga...Inner Peace is possible

posted in College Life | Sep 25, 2009

Well the school year started again bringing me in contact with far more stress and idiotic people than I prefer to deal with in a day. I was not lucky enough to figure out before that I had only electives this semester...This means that I stuck with...

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Last semester

posted in College Life | Aug 23, 2009

Well, it is getting to be that time again...the time when school starts and all books and I check daily to see if the webct modules are posted. I get very excited when school starts. Sadly enough my excitement is dwarfed a little by the fact that it...

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History and the written word

posted in College Life | Jul 5, 2009

Sometimes I feel nervous about our time and our part in history. Not for the reasons that you think though. Make no mistake, I know about the current events and the things that shape our world. I know about Iran and Iraq. I read the news and the ...

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E-chat 3: The Sims

posted in College Life | May 27, 2009

ENG 4953/HUM 3063Electronic Chat # 4 -- Youth CultureFocusing on one specific genre (music, t-shirts, film, fraternity movies, comics, detective fiction, ipod advertisements, shoes, etc.) consider how youth culture is portrayed and represented both v...

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E-chat 5: Ethics in Advertizing and Consumer culture

posted in College Life | May 23, 2009

ENG 4953/HUM 3063Electronic Chat # 5 – Ethics in/of Mass MediaChapter 7 talks about how advertising has traditionally ignored the social and economic repercussions of production (clothing and shoes sweat shops, cruelty to animals, child labor, etc)...

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Love than What

posted in College Life | May 21, 2009

On a personal note, not that anyone really cares but this is my bloog to write right? I have hit a little bit of a road block in life. I am in love. This has never happened before. He is everything that I have ever wanted and says that I am every...

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E-chat 3: Forbes Arabia

posted in College Life | May 18, 2009

ENG 4953/HUM 3063Electronic Chat # 3 – the GazeMartin Jay postulates the existence of “scopic regimes,” or dominant ways of seeing in a culture. These visual habits, Jay maintains, are so naturalized and powerful that they work at the level of ...

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Arabic American Perceptions

posted in College Life | May 16, 2009

I know that there is alot of talk and there has been a great deal of talk about Arabic culture and Arabic peoples in the united states as of late. I, like may americans did not buy into all of the hype about this group of people, but at the same time...

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E-chat 2: Disposable women

posted in College Life | May 15, 2009

HUM 3063/ENG 4953Electronic Chat # 2 -- Remix, Pastiche, BricolageIn my presentation on the three absolute bottles, I discussed the visual strategies of remix, pastiche, and bricolage.Choose and compare the use of two images (original and modified)....