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Thomas McWilliams Final Portfolio Fall 2019
WAKE UP AMERICA! We have a serious problem concerning the youth of our country. [DRUGS] NOPE [GUNS] NOPE [TRUMP] NOPE! Video games
[Fortnite game footage blended with Children fighting] The video game m […]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Week #13 Labor Log
I didn’t see where to post this labor log so I figured here was the place.
This week we did not have a regular assignment so I continued working on project #3 and revising the first two projects. I spent a few hours story boarding exactly how I want to shoot my “anti” video game commercial. I think this has the potential to be something really…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Week #12 Labor log
This week was light on actual assignments outside of the self reflection for last weeks assignment. So I used some of the down time to revisit project’s 1 and 2. Project 1 is mostly revisions making the essay fail more inline with rhetoric instead of exploring the underlying themes which I got into in the original. I did much less to project 2…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Week #12 self assessment
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Last week our assignment was to make an untraditional resume. I choose to make into a action movie trailer using pictures of myself and some pictures of places I worked and schools I have attended. Overall I thought it came out pretty good and I had a fun time making it. If I could do it over again I definitely…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams English Portfolio Fall 2018
I chose to do a rhetorical analysis of one of my favorite shows and pieces of modern culture, One Punch Man. Creator One comments on the dangers of reducing life’s struggles by exploring a unique theme that rarely […]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Labor Log 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmTA0vs_nnY&feature=youtu.be
That link is all that needs to be said about the content of week 11. I had much grander ideas going into the project but I was limited by time and getting reacquainted with editing in movie maker. However I do think this process has given me a lot of good ideas for project 3 and I am…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Project #2- SELF EVALUATION
Overall I think I did an excellent job on project #2. I made good use of the library data bases in order to find articles that were not only on topic but I took extra time to read more to find the best articles to support my point, not just the first ones I found. As far as the essay it self goes I think it is functional in being a great argument…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Week #10 BABY
So this week the main assignment was to watch the movie Her, to write a response to it, how it relates to our lives, and to make a meme. I watched the movie last week and wrote about it in that labor log if you want to see my review. In summary I thought the movie did an excellent job of showing a coldness of living in the virtual world. In my…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic week #10
After watching Her it got me thinking about the effect smart phones and social media have had on people. More specifically how despite being in a group of people you can still be alone. In the movie this is expressed whenever the main character is in public, he still remains in his own little world consumed by his operating system. Late in the…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Week 9 labor log
This week was mostly dominated by working on project 2. I became very invested in the subject of weather or not video games were making people more violent but in the end I feel I reached a very solid conclusion. In the midst of working on it I decided to watch Her to get a jump on next weeks assignment and really liked it. When Samantha reviled…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Project #2
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Since video games entered the mainstream people have questioned if simulating violent acts in the virtual world was having an impact on people in their real lives, more importantly people were asking if it was making the players more violent. Many studies have been done and speeches have been made by politicians…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic noitcelfeR
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The rhetorical artifact project was a difficult one more me, in the beginning. I did not know what a rhetorical artifact was at first, which created a lot of anxiety and stress. Coming in for the class where it was explained helped me, but i still did not exactly know what was a good rhetorical artifact. I chose…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Project 2 (Prewriting/outline)
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>My Topic: Do violent video games make people more violent?</span>
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>outline:</span>
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Introduction: Address the speculation and myth surrounding the subject. </span>
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Thesis: Is there any correlation between people who play…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Labor Log 6
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I started off the week by watching the episode of Black Mirror. </span>
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>-I had watched this episode when it was released last year and had a good time revisiting it, overall I think the episode is good but way too long coming in at almost an hour and half when I think it could have…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Week #6
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>The assignment this week was to read two articles and watch an episode of Black Mirror on Netflix. The articles mostly got into what it means to live in the “virtual reality” of social media where people project a version of themselves that is not real. On social media people get the chance to only show the side of…[Read more]
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Thomas McWilliams started the topic Week 5
This week I read through the assigned articles, watched the episode of Black Mirror and completed the week 5 assignment. It didn’t take a long time to do all of that, under 2 hours. It did get me thinking a lot about the effect social media has on all of us but thats a rabbit hole I’d rather not dive down on a Sunday night labor log. Finally I…[Read more]
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