12 Questions about a Topic....

THE OLYMPICS

1. What year did the olympics start?

2. Where were the first olympic games held?

3. How many countries compete in them?

4. Why are there summer and winter olympics and in what year did each begin?

5. How are the different sports for each olympic game chosen?

6. Do any countries not compete in the olympics?

7. How did the olympic symbol of the rings come about?

8. Who is in charge of the olympics?

9. What are the most popular olympic events?

10. What country has won the most medals at the olympics?

11. How is the location of each olympic game chosen?

12. How did the olympic torch become a tradition?

Comic Story

Clemson versus South Carolina at Death Valley November 2010.

The most anticipated game in Tiger and Gamecock football season has finally arrived. Clemson takes on South Carolina at Death Valley on a crisp fall day in late November. The game begins as the referee administers the coin toss. Clemson wins and gets the ball first. Clemson scores first the first touchdown of the game. It was a long pass down the sideline to give them a 7-0 lead. The referee signals an offside penalty against Clemson. South Carolina marches down the field and scores a touchdown just before halftime to tie the game. The referee blows the whistle for halftime. The teams head to the locker room for a quick break and to discuss the game plan for the second half. The first call of the second half is a penalty called on South Carolina for an ineligible receiver downfield. The referee signals for a delay of game penalty against Clemson. Clemson takes a late timeout with only a few minutes remaining as they set up for their final drive. Clemson drives down the field and scores a touchdown in the final seconds of the game. Clemson wins the game 14-7 and adds another win to their rivalry with USC.

Intro to Poem Paper

Through out the history of time, communication among loved ones has always played a major role in the functionality of a family. Interaction among family members can be positive or negative and can directly affect them in one way or the other. Getting along and communicating well can be hard to handle even when living under the same roof let alone in separate realities. Stevie Smith writes about the struggle a husband and wife endure when forced to cope with one another’s extremely different worldly locations in her poem, “The Jungle Husband.” Using examples from Michelangelo’s famous work of art, The Creation of Adam; the popular novel, The Lovely Bones; the well-liked country music song, “Letters From Home”; and the chick flick, P.S. I love You, I will further investigate and reinforce Smith’s changing message in “The Jungle Husband”. In this poem, Stevie Smith writes about the struggle a couple is forced to deal with when their relationship becomes long distance and how the husband tries to cope with it by writing letters home to his wife from the jungle.

Poem/Book

I have chosen the poem "The Jungle Husband" to write my paper on and I have decided to use the book The Lovely Bones to compare and dissect the poem with. Both works of literature have to do with family relationships. The book discusses how a family deals with the death of their young daughter and sister while the poem is about a husband and wife who are not physically together but still married. In addition to dealing with relationships in unordinary times or times of distraught the poem and book both have parallel universes or worlds. In "The Jungle Husband", the jungle and the real world are mirrored together while in The Lovely Bones, we see characters different perspectives from Earth and Heaven.

Hiroshima Poem

Word Connections:

beer/thirst

afloat/river/water

coffee/pancake/sandwich/pizza/cherry

horror/grim

eight-fifteen

glass/shard

Research Points:

time significance of eight-fifteen - time atomic bomb was dropped by americans on hiroshima, makes me more and more of an emotional reaction when referring to child's wristwatch

peace parks's floral hypocenter - erasing memory of bomb's massacre by honoring people, other war memorials/ground zero

humanity erases its own erasure: humans killed their own kind/species - IRONIC

Visual Rhetoric Reflective Sample

As “stay gold” left Pony with a new way of looking at life, the quote has also been paralleled throughout my life in many ways. One way Frost and Hinton’s words have been evident in my life is my love for the beach. I have spent countless summers living with my grandparents down the shore working at different jobs, lying out in the sun, spending late nights with my cousins on the boardwalk. There was nothing like Memorial Day weekend to kick off a great summer. Countless possibilities and opportunities were ahead of me and the anticipation of the future experiences was torturous to think about during the last two weeks of school. The summer flew by in a blur. Countless hours on the job, late nights with friends, and days on the beach quickly became treasured time spent as Labor Day drew closer. After spending an awesome summer with loved ones having too much fun the summer quickly came to a close. I will never forget any one single depressing drive back home in the Labor Day traffic. Even though at the beginning of the summer I always secretly thought and hoped for the grand times to last forever but as the realness of time wore on I realized the goldenness of the season would eventually fade and just became another summer in my memory.

Happiness and Sadness

To me, HAPPINESS is represented by the color yellow. The picture of the sunflowers was taken from the angle of a bird's eye view. Yellow sunflowers represent happiness to me because they are a symbol of new life. They are an example that something beautiful and wonderful can come from something very small. They represent mother nature's magic and power to transform something small and ordinary into a miracle of nature.

In my opinion, SADNESS is represented by the color gray. This picture of a dark stormy ocean was taken from a straight on angle. To me, this picture represents the devastation that lies ahead. In my opinion, this gray cloudy ocean represents the misery of the storm that is rolling in. It is an unhappy and depressing image.

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This advertisement is using Brad Pitt's image to promote a luxurious brand of watches. The add is trying to convince people that their watch is the brand to own by using Pitt's fame. As Pitt gazes into the eyes of the consumers he is attempting to covey how suave and sophisticated he is thanks to his watch. The company is trying to get people to buy the watch so they can be as confident and as attractive as Pitt is simply by purchasing and fashioning one of their high end watches.

Thursday 1/14

Chapter fourteen first talks about how families typically only capture the happy times in their lives on camera. The not so happy times are obviously not documented on film so they have no chance at being remembered. It goes on to discuss how photography and technology has evolved in the recent times, enabling people to communicate and share their lives with the world with a simple click of a button. The latest trend in today's world is video blogging. The chapter goes on to talk about how society is capable of sharing their thoughts with the world in a matter of seconds thanks to today's technology.

Bio with picture

Lisa Marie Phillips is a freshman at Clemson University planning on majoring in accounting. Lisa was born in Philadelphia, raised in Washington D.C. and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from St. Elizabeth High School in 2009 with honors and the award for the most school spirit. Lisa was also a coxswain for the Wilmington Youth Rowing Association and was decorated with many medals when her time there came to a close in May of 2009. Lisa is currently a member of the Clemson Women's Rowing team. When Lisa is not coxing or studying she enjoys spending her time with family and friends at her shore house in New Jersey.

Tuesday 1/12

Chapter three reviewed how important a good argument is when writing an essay. A good argument will make it much easier to persuade the reader to view things from your view. Chapter three also went over the correct way to write a persuasive essay and how to argue your thoughts about a picture. The article "Fashion Statements" talked about how tattoos mean different things and serve different purposes according to those who have them. The material in the DK text went over pathos and logos and their parts in visual texts.