Favorite Blog Post : 4th Quarter

My favorite blog post this year is "What does your name say about you?"

My favorite blog post that I chose has many connections to what we have been talking about in class and I enjoyed writing it very much. I think that this quarter I definitely dropped the ball on blogging. I have almost no blogs for the month of April and only two for May. But do think that my blogging this quarter has greatly improved. I'm not going to lie, at the beginning of this year blogging was much more of a chore to me than something I enjoyed. But, as the year has progressed I have come to really enjoy blogging and am so glad I am in a class that does it. Blogging has made me more comfortable writing and forced me to make connections from out class to the real world. Although I may not continue blogging after this class I will surely (shirley?) continue making connections from the news to my life.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

I love the New Millennium?

Throughout our American Studies Class, Mr. Bolos and Mr. O'Connor have reinforced the idea that everything is a construction. During class on Friday we watched a video on the 1920's and we briefly discussed what and why things were chosen to be put in the video that was supposed to represent the entire decade. This made me think of these television specials on VH1 that are called I Love the (insert decade). There are ten segments of the decade, each focusing on a different year. So, the special I Love the 80s, would have ten segments starting with I Love 1980 and ending with I Love 1989. I know it may seem like a far stretch to go from an educational video straight to VH1, but they are similar.

The TV special's format is nothing like our 1920's video, yet they both had to make choices on what to include in order to give the viewer "the whole picture" of that decade. Which celebrities to highlight, which scandals to poke fun at, and which fashion trend to be embarrassed by. Although the "experts" on VH1 are all comedians and popular figures from that time period and the 1920's video was the host (I forgot his name) taking us through his family tree they both constructed the show that was produced.

During our classes many times people have brought up what the think will be included in an educational video about the first decade in the new Millennium and it just so happens that VH1 has produced seven segments starting with I Love the New Millennium: 2000 and ending with I Love the New Millennium: 2007. I thought it would be interesting to show you what some of the highlights that VH1 has chosen to represent this decade are. (Warning: this list is also a construction.)
  • Presidential Elections
  • Music: Who Let the Dogs Out?, Lady Marmalade, Laffy Taffy, Here It Goes Again, You're Beautiful, London Bridge, Hey There Delilah
  • TV shows: Survivor, The Daily Show, Fear Factor, The Weakest Link, American Idol, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Punk'd
  • Movies: Pearl Harbor, Moulin Rouge, Zoolander, Lord of the Rings, The Passion of the Chirst, Napoleon Dynamite, Brokeback Mountain, Borat
  • 9/11
  • Fashion: Tramp Stamp, Muffin Top, Ugg Boots, Crocs
  • Technology: iPod, Segway, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Google, iPhone
  • Katrina
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