Final Presentation

I decided that I am going to make a poster for my final presentation. My audience is the people that live in Oklahoma City just like my essay. I am going to keep it pretty simple and just have a saying for voting for the tax. I will probably place a picture of the arena that the vote is for. It is going to be a simple sign because the billboards and signs in the city were simple. I do not believe there needs to be a lot on the poster from this topic. The poster is just reminding people of the day of the vote and why they should vote yes. I will probably incorporate the NBA team as well. There were signs like this all across the city before the day of the voting. It was easy for me to decide on making this a poster like a billboard. It was not a hard process from changing this from an academic setting to a visual aid.

Argument Essay

For my last essay I have decided to argue a topic from my home town Oklahoma City. After hurricane Katrina the NBA basketball team the New Orleans Hornets played two seasons in OKC. It was a great success and we had some of the best attendance across the nation. But once New Orleans felt they were ready to have their basketball team back they left and went back to New Orleans this past season. After they left a lot of Oklahomans felt that we deserved a professional team. A group of business men bought the Seattle Supersonics. They have been trying to get them to come here this past year. One of the main problems was our arena was not up to par to furnish an NBA team for many years. This is when the city decided to put a tax to voting to refurnish our arena. It did pass but their were people that did not agree with it and believed we should of not passed this tax. My argument is that these people are wrong and a professional basketball team would do great things for Oklahoma City.

Essay #3 Topic

It took a lot of thinking to try to find a topic for this essay. I finally decided that I was going to study a group of people that i have been around for a lot of my life. This group of people are ski bums or ski life operators. I have been skiing since I was three and I have always been around them and seeing how they act. This works out perfectly because this spring break I will be skiing in Utah. I will be able to see them and talk to them everyday. I know these groups of people are a lot different the most other people that going skiing. They were different types if clothes and have a different skiing terms and slang. I am not a part of this group because I do not work or live near the mountain where I can go skiing everyday like this group can. I enjoy skiing as much as they do though.

Glossing

The major theme that reoccurs in my essay are the dangers of using a cell phone and driving versus drinking and driving. Throughout my essay i use personal experiences and factual support to examine both sides of this theme. There were really no themes that surprised me. After reading my draft all of the reoccurring ideas made sense to me and had their own places in my paper. I believe i need to develop a little more of the positives of having cell phones with you while driving. I need to do more research on this area to help support that side. I go back and forth between personal experiences and factual support. I believe it makes the paper flow better if you go back and forth. I might have a little repetition in some of my personal experiences but all of my factual support vary and help my essay in different ways.

Researching for Essay Two

When I began researching for my topic i did not know what to expect on how difficult itwould be to find information. From the beginning i found it to be very easy to get information off the network. I was able to get information from many different resources. There were over thousands of different documents discussing the impact that cell phones have on our society today. I was able to find many graphs that are easy to obtain data. There were plenty of charts with stats from different decades since cell phones were introduced into our society. A problem i might have though is that my topic is to broad. I found a lot of information and i might need to get more specific with my question for my essay. If i do this i believe it will be a lot easier for my essay to have a direction. I believe my essay will be a lot more productive if i do this. It might be to vague and a not be a producitve essay if it is too vague. I am going to try to really focus on the impact that cellphones have on car drivers.

Research Essay

My topic for this second essay is going to be the impact of cell phones on today society. My question is whether this is a positive, negative or both of an impact. I believed there will be plenty of arguments made by government and media available on the web to help beef up my essay. I am interested in this topic because it has some impacts on my family. There was a bill passed placing a tax on cell phones to insert GPS tracking chips in the phone. This was mainly after my mother was in a serious car accident. The problem was when my brother was calling for help on a cell phone and had no idea where he was how are the police and medics suppose to get to them. At the same time i know many accidents are caused by people driving and talking on their cell phones. I believe this will be a very interesting topic to develop into an essay.

Personal Essay Topic

It was hard to decide what topic I was going to chose for my first essay. I decided I would write about my experience i had with stereotyping. The exercise we did in class made me realize that i could right about my experience. My stereotype experience came from where i went to high school. I went to a small private high school in Oklahoma City. Many people in the Oklahoma City area would also consider kids from my high school to be filthy rich and spoiled. If i ever went up to a person that I met for the first time they would just assume that. I met a group of girls one time and that was the first thing they said to me "Oh so that means you are really rich?" It would always be very frustrating when people would say things like that because the stereotype is not true. I know many friends from my high school that are not as well off as many of the people that are making these stereotypes about my school. I hope while looking into this stereotype about my high school. I understand since its private school that assumptions can be made but i believe its unfair for people to make statements like I have heard before just because of a school you go to. I am excited to write about this topic because i have never before and i have been dealing with it for a couple of years now.