If someone were to come to visit Evansville, at first glance they would notice many stoplights, warehouses, and construction. They would also notice it is a fairly large city for its surroundings. If one was to read the Evansville Courier press they could find out a lot about Evansville and what this place is all about. You probably wouldn't be able to tell the political standpoint of Evansville with out doing a little research. Most people would think they would find us as conservatives. Evansville has a wide range of people. Overall Evansville is not that bad of place to live in.
What I have analyzed over this past week in the courier press is that it is focusing most of its headlines on the stimulus plans and other government projects to help up get out of this recession. I believe this is appropriate information that has come up on the headlines because of the tough time our economy is facing at this point. They might also bring this point up because of Evansville is feeling the the effects locally of this rescission. Most people have and they would like to know more about it and I think this is why this topic has came up in our headlines over the past week. The Courier press has also been bringing up many topics about Evansville going Green, or environmentally clean and efficient. They also have been covering many political views and topics. I haven't been able to understand if they try to talk about political arguments that Evansville people would agree and take the Conservative standpoint that most peole in this region would.
Connecting this topic to the University of Southern Indiana I have also realized this same topic and arguments have been occurring in their Newspaper the Shield. The sheild does a good job when coming up with issues to write about. Looking at the Courier press compared to the Shield, I can relate a connection that they almost have the topics as the Evansville newspaper but the Shield focuses more on a college atmosphere. They do a good job on relating to their audience. I do not regularly follow the Shield, besides this week when I've been following along and analyzing it. I think the shield is important for USI students to read. The one thing I find weird is that they are hard to get a hold of the actual paper unless you are on the Internet. This makes me wonder why they don't have more places where you can pick one up. If they did this I think they would have a lot more followers and more people to send in opinions on what point they stand behind.
Along with watching the papers I have been looking around campus for public literacy and other things. I came to find out that there is not a whole lot of it around. I do not understand why they do not have more events posters or public literacy around campus. The one kind of public literacy I do see is when people write on the ground with chalk all the time. I am not sure why this is the only kind of public literacy I am finding. I am going to continue to pay attention and look harder for public spheres around campus.
Looking at Evansville politically, we tend to lean toward the conservative views. There are many moral metaphors that I could relate to Evansville and how we function.
This is just a wide range of topics that I have observed over the last week around our campus and tristate.
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So I really liked this post. It was written very well in a bias view. You might want to go over your post before posting them because I did see some spellng errors but other than that it was straight forward and didnt jump around like I do in my writings. I think you should add a little more but it really helped out because I didnt really understand what to do for this assignment.
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