What is the major proposition (argument/thesis) of the speech? How is the artifact civic? To communicate the importance of fitness trackers and how their rising popularity reflects commonplaces about the importance of health and fitness How is this artifact a response to a particular exigence? Does it take advantage of a kairotic moment? This artifact […]
The Redwoods!
Redwoods National Park and the Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park California, United States of America Have you ever wanted to visit the tallest trees in the world? How about the OLDEST trees in THE WORLD? How about a National Park, a State Park, an International Biosphere reserve and a United Nations World Heritage Site all […]
Activity Tracker: Elevator Pitch
How many of you are currently wearing a fitness tracker? An apple watch, a fitbit, a Garmin, a Huawei, an Honor Band? As you can see, I am a champion of the Fitbit Charge, the 2016 Fitbit fitness tracker and watch all in one, which is easily mistaken for an apple watch. Watches have been […]
Crater Lake
Crater Lake National Park Oregon, United States of America Have you ever wanted to visit the deepest lake in the U.S.? How about the clearest lake IN THE WORLD? How about a lake that is so blue that the color is called “Crater Lake Blue”? Welcome to Crater Lake, our nation’s fifth national park! Given […]
Civic Artifact: Activity Trackers
Civic Artifact: Activity Trackers (Ex: Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch, etc.) My artifacts are fitness watches aka “activity trackers.” People of all fitness levels use these watches to track health metrics such as their step count, heart rate, sleep, calories burned, and mileage. All activity tracker users benefit from this technology because it gives them information […]
RCL Blog 1
The responses below refer to the podcast entitled “This American Life” and their 396th episode: #1 Party School which was published in 2009. What commonplaces and ideologies are represented in the podcast? This podcast represents the ideology at Penn State that binge drinking is “cool.” The podcasters believe that there is an ideology at Penn […]