O -O #2

MP3 players come in all shapes and sizes. Mine happens to be very small. The small black Creative MuVo V100 digital music player can easily fit in the palm of my hand. The glossy black surface highlights the scratchs and smudges that come with the everyday wear and tear of it. The silver buttons on the sides are tiny as well and the skip wheel are easy to press while running or just sitting there. The memory stick attached to the console of the MP3 player smoothly slides in and out. It directly connects to a computer and allows one to easily place files onto the stick. The player can hold approximately twenty gigabytes of files, or something like five hundred songs. On the back of the MP3 player is the area for the battery. This cover also slides off easily so that one triple A battery to power the player. The size of the MP3 player makes it easy to use but sometimes hard to find.

The music that plays from this player can impact my life everyday. Whether using it to run or to relax while browsing the world wide web, it helps put me into moods of all kinds. While running, it can be a motivator to help stay focused. When relaxing at home or on a bus ride, it can play soothing music to help me further relax. It can also adjust to the type of music I am interested in at a certain time. Dividing the music into folders, it creates playlists. These playlists can be divided up into different genres of music, and that helps when wanting to listen a certain band or two.

O - O #1

Of course they weren't the first pair I ever had, but they were the pair I held on to the longest. The running shoes that had logged so many miles were finally laid to rest underneath my futon now at college. Long before that, well over a year ago, the crisp and clean shoes arrived at my house after a typical purchase from Eastbay. The vamps were so white they could have blinded a person, while the three green adidas stripes slashed across the toes of the shoe. The ventilated tops caused a breeze to gently pass through to the runners feet for sweat control. Another amazing feature of these light-as-a-feather shoes was the vented bottoms. Three stratigically placed gaps in the bottom of the shoe enhanced the ventilation even further.
These adidas shoes provided many wonderous moments throughout the past year, from worldly accomplishments to forming relationships. A fellow runner on our cross country team had purchased the same pair of shoes, on the same day, with no knowledge of my purchase. The friend and I seemed to become closer over the next few months, running every night together in the same shoes. This daily habit produced great results, and at the end of the year we were celebrating a title together. For the rest of the year, that title was a common discussion topic amongst us whenever we were together.
Recently, I replaced these nostalgic shoes with a new pair. While the physical use of these shoes are over, I am sure that they will provide a spark of thought every time I see them. Hopefully, the current pair I am wearing will eventually cause the same thing, with even better memories behind them.

Rhetorical Analysis of Video

The video "Cookie Jar" by Gym Class Heros contains images that are questionable to the moral views of many people. Through the use of analogy and compare and contrast, the pathos of this video will be explored in more detail.

If someone had listened to this song before they watched the video, they may have thought that the song was an enjoyable tune. However when watching the video, there are many instances where analogies are used to sway the meaning of the song in the eye of the viewer. For example, in the the first chorus, "I wanna be faithful but i can't keep my hands out the cookie jar" takes the cookie jar to mean women that are not in a relationship with the man in the song. Also in the first verse, the lyrics "I left crumbs in the bed once but I told her I was through with that" is an analogy towards cheating, and the man claiming that he would not do it again. During the second verse, variations of cookies are compared to different ethnic women. Asian women are compared to oatmeal raisin cookies and Macadamia cookies are compared to Caucasians.

There are two main emotions that can result from watching this video. One of those emotions is disgust/shock. People feel this way about the video because of the way women are portrayed. Comparing women to cookies is degrading to their image. The other emotion that can be seen is pleasure. I mean that people find these analogies and comparasions humorous. The clever way the writer points out the different ethnic backgrounds of the women by comparing them to different types of cookies is a light and funny interpretation. The mixed pathos that result from this video intentionally drew people with different backgrounds to view it and make their own judgements on it.