The video that I have decided to post is called "Harty Boys" It was made by the comedy team of BaratsandBeretta.com. The video is a spoof of the novel series, "Hardy Boys". In the novels, two brothers spend their days solving wild mysteries and going through extravagant measures to find the lost artifact or hidden treasure. The video first presents a small introduction explaining the similarity but still legal differences between the Harty Boys and the Hardy Boys. Then we as the audience are presented with Frank and Joe Harty trying to solve the riddle of the woman. They are diligently searching for clues in a Sherlock Holmes manner when they finally find a footprint which leads them to the woman standing 10ft away. This movie has obviously established itself as a comedy by now with the Hardy Boys spoof and now the riddle of the woman. The whole main focus to the comedy of the video is the fact that no man has ever solved a woman. The Harty Boys try to solve her but her trickery and entrapment style questioning seems to much for the Boys, especially Frank Harty who is completely engulfed in his own frustration over woman and "tragically" ends his life.

The video was edited very well and really keeps the viewer interested. Right from the beginning, the video is loaded with graphics and even a theme song. When the video starts a narrator makes the viewer believe they are watching a TV episode. I think this subconsciously draws the viewer in more because now there is a slight connection between the video and the TV. Throughout the whole video there is background audio effect to help amplify particular moments. The camera style also keeps the viewer intrigued because there is a variety of angles and perspective shots. The ending is a big comedic crowd pleaser because when Frank Harty takes his fateful jump he clearly is edited into a dummy with a balloon head. So the reason I posted this video is because it is just really funny.

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Diagrams are a vital tool to explaining and describing a known element. They are a useful visual display that can greatly help in simplifying a complex system or theory. Diagrams function by illustrating their element and trying to make each key point visibly known. Within the two-dimensional system of writing, diagrams can only explain visually and through labeling. Their points can be adequately explained and their purpose is fulfilled. But, a diagram can do much more within virtual writing and digital text. On the web is where diagrams can really live up to their full potential as learning aids. Digital diagrams can be far from stationary like paper diagrams. They can be interactive and move about on the monitor. Digital diagrams can consist of many hyperlinks that can jettison the viewer across cyberspace. The possibilities seem endless. They could include sound, that acoustically illustrates a fact or even videos embedded within the diagram. The only ramifications to using diagrams online is that it loses some credibility if it is not from a reliable source.
The diagram that I selected functions as a learning device by visually explaining the human digestive system. The original context of the diagram has been construed in a way because it has been extracted from its original text. The diagram still fulfills its purpose of explaining the human digestive system but it could explain it better if it were accompanied by its original text. The reason being, the original text would have had more information than what the diagram is supplying. The text would have detailed descriptions of all the displayed body parts like the stomach or liver. The responsibilities of a writer when extracting a diagram from its original text is to explain to the audience that the extraction has taken place. Therefore allowing the audience the knowledge that the diagram is more fully explained in another place (its original text). This particular diagram shown above has many important details. The organs are clearly illustrated and drawn in a manner that is visually pleasing. All of the organs illustrated are labeled with clear lines and text. If it were up to me I would add a few things to this diagram. I would add a title to the diagram stating, "Human Digestive System" and I would also label the mouth because that is were digestion truly begins.

-Jeremy B

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"The opinions and observations of people that you do not know are the most interesting, and even the most important, for your own opinions and observations can only, ultimately, fix you, categorize you." (Atwan 22)

-Jamaica Kincaid

I chose this particular quote by Jamaica Kincaid because it really stood out to me. At a first glance, I knew that this quote would be something that I could study and analyze in my blog. Jamaica's quote was very powerful. In stating that the opinions and observations of others are most important she is also saying that the writings of others are important. I couldn't agree more with what Jamaica said because, what medium tells the opinions and observations of others better than writing? When someone reads the literature of an author they are really getting a true sense of who that author is. So, when a writer creates a piece of work they are always instilling their own thoughts and opinions into that writing. This is such an obvious concept yet it never even occurred to me. The practical ramifications of this quote are immense. This idea is used everyday in nearly every piece of writing and communications media. The belief that our opinions and observations define us is manifested in my writing everyday. The only way I can let my audience know who I am is to show them through my opinionated writing.

I think that Jamaica's quote brings up an interesting point about the way writing connects us, as readers. She says that the writings of others are most important and that our own opinions define us. So when I read someone else's writing i am getting a sense of who that person is and i now "know" them. If i go on to read someone else's writing i "know" them too. Now, if i were to compose some writing (like a blog) think of all the people out there in cyberspace that could get to "know" me. I just find it very interesting that this woman's simple quote can be analyzed to be something so very profound.

-Jeremy B

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