AM1212 Blog for Denise's Group

All week I have been wondering "what website defines America" and all week I have been searching the web like crazy without findin...

As a passing tribute to all that is great in those great United States, the first defining thought that comes to mind is Fox news. Whether ...

http://www.aa.com/i18n/aboutUs/diversityInclusion/main.jsp?anchorEvent=false&from=Nav The website I chose that for me typifies America, ...

http://www.fox.com/glee/ I have chosen the website for the TV show, Glee. It is a hugely popular show set in a high school and is about a gr...

Funnily enough, I thought that when researching American Declinism I would find a lot of websites that agreed with the view that America is ...

http://rationaloptimist.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/american-declinism/ My chosen sourse, 'The Rational Optimist' channels itself aroun...

I have chosen this video of an interview from 2008 with Dick Meyer, author of a book called “Why we hate us”. Smith’s idea is that the ‘we’ ...

I have chosen the Blackfeet Indians of Canada and Montana (link in the photo). The Blackfoot were a powerful buffalo-hunting tribe of the n...

The video I have chosen is one that I felt best summed up the way in which the United States took the tragedy, that being one of resolve an...

When Choosing which article to pick, I decided to go against the theme I had chosen for the presentation, and instead pick one which intere...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/mar/17/weekend7.weekend I chose this article because of its interesting connection to the short s...

I chose this article as I felt that it was a good representation of 'Fake America'. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/jul/2...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/may/24/healthandwellbeing Saunders has written several articles for the ‘American Pysche’ series...

This blog post is on the issue of masculinity in America. Because this was our first topic this semester, I had to read my notes on the subj...

I chose this video as it represented a highly nostalgic outlook on the tragedy. I found this video particularly powerful and moving, driven ...

I chose this video because it struck me as being different. At least different from the others I had seen. Most videos which are tributes ar...

I chose this video as it is a good representation of many of the videos available on line. It contains many iconic images from the events of...

The Church Of Jesus Christ Of The Latter-Day Saints is regarded as part of the Christian movement and is a wing of the Mormon religion. It...

Who hasn't heard of scientology before ? A couple Hollywood stars (Tom Cruise, for example) are part of this strange religion. The websi...

My chosen religious denomination focuses on the Native American church of Strawberry Plains Tennessee. http://www.nativeamericanchurch.com/ ...

http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html The Seventh Day Adventist Church is a Christian group with a strong belief based on ...

It is fascinating to read the mixed reviews of Crash. It is certainly a controversial film, but I wouldn't apply as a result of beating ...

This Film was about as disappointing as Barack Obama's health care bill. For me, it lacked any sense of realism and good acting skill, e...

I would just like to point out the fact that I was not able to read one of the reviews as the page was not found (it was Foundas's revie...

I hadn’t seen this movie before – possibly the title didn’t make me want to rush to the cinema, but I was gripped by the different stories a...

Okay, So my first choice of tribes today was the Seminole Tribe of Florida, because their name was completely unfamiliar to me and was not a...

http://www.greatdreams.com/apache/apache-tribe.htm The Apache tribe consisting of six regional groups, that occupied a lot a Southwest Amer...

http://www.delawaretribe.org/ The first tribe is the Lenape or Delaware tribe who now live in Oklahoma. Their website says that they were on...

Facts versus Fallacies This first website is a website about a book written by two university professors and an alumnus. It is, thus, a brie...

http://news.feetintwoworlds.org/2009/11/09/pro-immigrant-demonstrators-and-hispanic-media-confront-sheriff-arpaio-on-visit-to-southern-calif...

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/about/ This organisation is the Federation of Immigration Reform. They are a group set up by ‘conce...

This is a link to a blog by Kellene Bishop which paints a very bleak picture of the future of the United States. She takes the view that the...

This article, though length, gives a good analysis of the reaction and suffering for some of the African-Americans who were effected by Hur...

Fox News is pretty infamous for its support to the Republican party. And this article, in my opinion, depicts it clearly. Finding a website ...

My chosen website focuses on the hurricane's effects on schooling for African Americans in New Orleans. http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson This is an article from December 2008 featured on The Nation website. The reporter investigat...

This website focuses on Chinese Immigration to the United States. http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/kane98/kane_p3_immig/china/china.html The...

This website gives an overview to the experience of Irish citizens coming over to America from 1700 to 1930. Further down the page there se...

http://www.smfc.k12.ca.us/stage/lalosh/index.html This website is a 5th Grade project (10-11 years old). Their introduction mentions the ‘me...

image 1 My first image is Glenn Close playing the role of Teddy Barnes in the 1985 film Jagged Edge. Glenn Close in the film plays a lawyer ...

http://www.ellecanada.com/home/fashion/lights-camera-fashion/a/28965/4 The first picture is a scene from the film, Working Girl from 1988 sh...

http://sbccfilmreviews.org/?p=6569 My first website depicts the representation of women in 1980s American film. It addresses the movement in...

I have chosen Esquire Magazine, as I think it shows well the way in which masculinity has been forced into a few select niches. This could...

The website I have chosen is Men Can Stop Rape www.mencanstoprape.org This is an organisation working to get men to use their strength to cr...

http://www.theworldsstrongestman.com/mariusz_pudzianowski.php My chosen site in representing American masculinity is an interview with previ...

Hi Just to let you know our group will meet on Fridays 10-11 in SEB2 (ground level of St Edburga). Looking forward to seeing you there. Den...

One of the great things about the iPhone is that there's an application for practically everything. From reading restaurant reviews, to ...

The video I chose is an advert for Budweiser. The youtube video gives the top 10 of 2008's Super Bowl, the actual advert I am talking ab...