Some of the things I have noticed about Shanks writing is how detailed he is. While reading a piece about the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie, he spent time not only talking about the basics, he took the time to mention the lighting and colors they used to make sure to reflect the Holmes' time period. I have also noticed with his other blogs that he uses the concept of academic inquiry. Usually, the beginnings of his blogs start with a question to make you think, and then he will get into the "answer part." Shanks makes sure that every little detail is not left out, by doing so he is helping the reader become more conscious. Also, he uses a lot of imagery, i.e. links to videos and pictures.
A site that I found that had a bunch of blogs was blogs.com -creative I know..haha
But anyways, the blog that I read had to do with Tiger Woods return. The stakeholders for this blog would have to be his fans, enemies, non-supporters and of course mistresses. Overall this particular blog did not entertain me as much as I had hoped. Unlike Shanks' blog I found no relative, interesting or scholarly information it was basically a waste of my time. There were no questions that were asked, it was basically there to fill up space.
After my failed attempt in finding a blog that will test my inquiry skills, I found one that has to do with top ten reasons to make you rethink cooking! hurray! I clicked on the eggbeater blog just because that title was funny and I was expecting some weird blog- I was wrong. It's all about cooking. However, Lydon Shuna Fish (haha that is her name) started off with her blog by asking "how many restaurants have you worked in your career and how many brought in butchered whole animals?" Well those type of questions made me want to keep reading unfortunately. She even used the word "inquiry" in the first paragraph and that she would post the answers to them at the end. Any-who as I was saying, I felt the urge to read her blog, I was scrolling down the page when all of a sudden these grotesque, horrendous, graphic pictures of whole dead animals appeared. It was terrible, but she did get her point across so I guess her blog was a success.
Since this assignment isn't due until next week, my spring break post will be updated next week. But due the fact that I am on a 4 hour plane ride, I have some free time so i decided to get ahead of schedule and do my homework. I am currently on my way to Los Angeles with my roommates for spring break. I CANNOT wait to finally land there in the 70F degree weather.! Some of the things we will be doing include going to a live showing of Chelsea Lately. We will also be going to universal studios, walk of fame, Marilyn Monroe memorial, Rodeo Drive, and the stalker tours (tours of celebrity houses) and of course shopping!
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