Blog # 7

In Boyer Rickel’s “Pass”, Rickel talks about his life as a boy in the 1950’s. He wrote that as if he were standing there watching himself in the past. In the past Rickel would always try to be someone that he is not in order to fit in with the crowd that he was surrounded in. Rickel would try to match his identity to the identities of those surrounding him in order to feel more secure and normal. This was the normal of America in the 1950’s, that if you weren’t like everyone else you didn’t fit in.  However, now America has changed drastically to become very diverse and very accepting of different cultures and ways if life.

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Video Blog #6

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"Real Cost Commercial: "Your Teeth" - Menthol Version." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 06 Oct. 2015.

Blog #5 Comparing Texts

In Sloans essay "Birth of Cool" the whole essay is written in first person as compared to "How to Draw a Glass Mountain" in which that essay switches from first person to flashbacks of the past.  In my opinion "Birth of Cool" was a far more interesting piece. For me it was a lot easier to stay with the story and to pay attention to what was happening.  The main thing that makes it a lot easier to follow is the fact that it was just from one persons view. Everyone's different views in "How to Draw a Glass Mountain" left me confused on who's to follow. In the second story i thought that clicking on the links was a bit of a distraction. As i am reading i get into the flow of the story and can put myself in it but if there is a disruption like that it takes me out of my flow. "Birth of Cool" is a far more effective essay and I would rather read and use that format in the future.

Sloan, Aisha. "Birth of the Cool." Writing as Revision, 4^th edition. Eds. Beth Alvarado and Barbara Cully. 544-550. Needham Heights: Pearson Custom, 2011. Print.

Sloan, Aisha. "How to Draw a Glass Mountain: Los Angeles and the Architecture of Segregation, by Aisha Sloan : Essays : Terrain.org." How to Draw a Glass Mountain: Los Angeles and the Architecture of Segregation, by Aisha Sloan : Essays : Terrain.org. 1 June 2010. Web. 30 Sept. 2015.

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