A Look at Evansville

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.

Hard Work Pays Off

Question 1: Overall after the event was done with you feel like you have accomplished something many people have never accomplished before and you realize all the hard work you put into will eventually pay off at the end. Physically and emotionally I was tired of doing all the hard work but I kept going. All this hard work went into hunting whitetail deer. It may seem funny to some but there is a lot more work put into then one might think. Every day I could get off I would sit in my climber waiting for that one chance to harvest a mature whitetail. This meant getting up at three in the morning every time and driving to Santa Clause In.

Revised Analysis

I think she was right on when she said I really understood the writer. I think she could see this through my writing. I believe if she was able to understand or connect with my writing she could have helped me out about my analysis. I understand thought if she does now follow along with my writing it is hard to help me analyze it. I agree with here statement about meeting the requirements of the assignment. I tried to and I believe I did.

Political Compass

After I got done taking the test, I found out that I was in the normal range for people. I believe the reason for this was because on most of my responses none of them were strongly agree or disagree. I now know that was the factor from keeping me from being extreme. I don't know if the survey was really accurate because on a lot of them if I would have had the questioned explained to me I might have answered them differently. I think this helped me understand that I need to do a little work on my political knowledge. Overall I think it was a good thing for me to take this test and see where I stand in society.

"Letters From My Dad" Analysis

The writer defines himself by letting his audience know that he is a family man, and lives a Christian lifestyle. He lets you know this by posting pictures of religious acts and picture of his family and other family's. He is mostly pointing his opinions and views to other people that share the same interest.
He starts off his blog by letting you know how important it is to have a family that communicates to each other very well. He states this by just talking to each other all the time or even go to the extent of writing letters to each other. He refers to writing letters when his father wrote him a letter when he was about to graduate college. The writer talks about how much it meant to him and how important it was to him. The writer lets us know it touched him so much because he talks about how his father and how his father actually took the time to sit down and write about what he thinks his son is capable of doing. He talks about how he knows his father meant everything he said in the letter.
The next thing the writer points out is that he is trying to get more people to know how much it means to a person when you write letters. He also is encouraging other fathers out there to take the time and write to their kids.
Overall I thought this blog was very true. I think the writer related this blog to real life situations and was able to relate most of it to his audience.