March 5 response

    I can’t really say that I will use my weblog for actual weblogging. If I was to do anything with my wordpress site it would be to get on and view other peoples pages. Like I said before this really is not my cup of tea. But I could also use it in other ways. I am a huge music and movie buff so I could use it to write and post reviews on artists, movies and music videos. But I can guarantee that there will be no serious weblogging going on at my computer.  (   :-(…Sorry Andrew   )

March 3 response

 This quarter hasn’t really changed my opinion on writing. Before, I only wrote for me. Mostly songs/poems that no one will ever see. And now it’s pretty much the same. I don’t really find writing analytical research papers, weblogs, or opinion editorials particularly enjoyable.  But I’m sure if I found a subject/topic that really, really interested and intrigued me I would be much more open to the idea of writing for an audience. But I must say that I did enjoy reading the opinion editorials and that I just might continue to do it in the future.

Las Vegas

            In the late 1800’s Las Vegas was founded. It later became one of the major depot towns for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. Two hundred years later it is one of the most highly visited places in America. It offers great hotels and extra curricular activities for everyone in the family. But in my opinion that is really all it’s good for. Sure it’s a really exciting place but what else does it have to offer besides hotels, golf clubs and swimming pools. I spent two weeks looking for information and found nothing but stats on how many people visit each year and what the best restaurant was.

            Las Vegas is one of those places that you can’t help but want to visit but you would never consider moving there unless it was your life’s goal to work there.  And I don’t know about you but none of the jobs in Las Vegas are for people who seriously want families some day. Las Vegas is for tourists, single men and women, and the retired. Many entertainers have made Las Vegas a second home when they were younger. But just like clockwork, when that person decides that they want to have a family it’s sianara “Sin City” and hello “Family Oriented Town USA.” People want to live where they can take their kids to the park and take their dogs for walks and where it’s normal to see familiar faces walking down the street. The hustle and bustle of a city like Las Vegas is exciting for about a week then the calm of the familiar is exactly what is needed to help a person relax.   

            I don’t really think that Las Vegas is going to be a super popular place for very much longer considering the fact that cities like it are developing across the country. Even Ohio is contemplating the decision to allow casino gambling. If Las Vegas wants to stay ahead of its competition it needs to create something different to offer people besides a couple fancy, supped up hotels and casinos. Also, everything in Las Vegas is becoming so expensive that many people can no longer afford to make the trip. The businessmen who run Las Vegas need to find a way to change these things because if they don’t change, in fifty years I could foresee Las Vegas being just like any other casino town.  

          

Op-Ed Genre

     To be completely honest I have never read or written the op-ed genre so I dont really have an opinion about it. What I have read in class so far has been interesting. I have read some serious op-eds and some funny ones and I’ve decided that I definately like the funny ones better. I don’t like to read editorials and things like that very much. I dont really know why. I guess I’m more of a fiction person. It may be that it is much more relaxing to focus on things that are make believe instead of the problems of the world.

Response to “Fast- Food America”

So I just read the article “Fast-Food America” by Nicholas Howe and I definately agree with what he is saying. He says that most writers claim to avoid the busy highways and fast food restaurant when trying to find inspiration in the “true America.” Most writers make the argument that traveling on the highway and eating in fast food restaurants is a way to lose yourself in the hustle and bustle of everyday life in America. And that by taking the back roads where you find little towns where everyone knows everyone else and everyone else’s business you will find the “true America.” But Howe says that when you are traveling on the highway and you stop at a chain restaurant like McDonalds, that is where you find the “true America.” He backs this by saying that there is a mixture of just about every kind of person in these interstate places: college students, senior citizens, people from different countries and races, etc… And seeing as America is supposed to be a place of diversity and constant change, I just have to agree with him. In the little towns on the back roads you can only find the people who’s family had lived in that same town for generations and nothing has changed. These towns are a completely different world from the rest of America. So when writers say that they avoid the interstate and fast food restaurants and go to the little towns to find the “true America,” I think what they are really saying is that they are trying to find the “old America.”

First Time

>This is my first time doing this so here it goes..
I recently wrote and annalytical research paper about Las Vegas. Honestly, I wish I had chosen another topic because I couldn’t really make an argument. I love to travel and learn about new places so I figured I would write about one of the places I have always wanted to go. But once i started writing I realized there was really nothing diverse about my topic. Nothing I found in my research made me want to argue a certain point. All the sources that I used had travelers information like hotels and restaurants, etc.. Hense, my paper sounds like a travel site. (Not Interesting to me…) But none of the sites had information on problems that people in Las Vegas were facing. If I could do this all over again I would choose a topic like world hunger, how ungrateful and demanding people in america have become, or who the best candidate for President is. Any one of these topics would have been 100% more interesting than the topic I chose.

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