Friday, February 28, 2014

Journal Blog #4: What is your Category?

We are now passed the middle of the term, and the end is in sight. Topic Development and Decision is the first step to writing the final essay, and it is the most important step of the process. Not only is it important to find a topic that interests you and motivates you to write, but it is absolutely important to understand clearly where your topic comes from.

The only rule is that we start with our theme of Art. I hope that by now, we can see that there a lot of directions we can go. It may be great to link your major with this theme somehow, and let me help you do it. We have looked at essays to do with Business and Philosophy and Technique. Are you interested in a particular artist or a particular issue like Caravaggio or Copyright...  ??

In this journal blog, I want you to take the first step. Start narrowing down, and let me pick you up if you're falling down. What is your Category? And if you know more than that, let me know what you're thinking.

Remember to include your ID# in your post. Aj. M

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    1. This is not a journal. Explain please. Where is this topic going?

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  2. My category: business
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    1. This is not a journal. Explain please. Where is this topic going?

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  3. My category is business and it is going to be in the field of entertainment and what sell. Talents or physical appearance can make more money and what societies respond too. Actor, singer, and dancer do need or do not need to be talented in order to be famous or this industry allow only people with good looking. Do sex sell ? And how far do companies willing to go to catch people attention even though it sent the wrong message to our societies ? 5680693

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    1. This looks quite good. The use of sex for marketing is a topic I can follow. Well done.

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  4. I am changing my major to social science and do minor in psychology, in order to complete masters in criminology. Therefore, my category will be psychology. Psychology is defined as study of people's behaviour and emotions. I would like to analyse emotions and people's perspectives on the society and the media. To what extent do the society and the media influence people to cause crime actions? I also would like to explain the negative factors of media that gives huge impact on the viewers.

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    1. The effects of media on behaviour is an interesting one, and I think it is a good narrowing to consider the particular effect of crime.

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  5. 5680719
    I major in Social Science which narrows down to international relation field. My main topic is going to be focusing on cultures and traditions in different societies. How social change through times, how people within a particular society live their lives and unfortunately completely neglect to conserve the environment around them.

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    1. Ok... but you will need to explain that at least indirect link to art. I'm not sure I see it yet.

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  6. I major in Food Science and Technology so I would like to focus my essay on the culinary arts. I will explain different techniques from different cultures of making their food. And I would like to talk about why do we have to design or make fancy things with the food on our plate. How it attract people.

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    1. I like this, and as we discussed, it would be helpful for you to consider a particular country or culinary tradition.

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  7. 5680644
    Marketing is my major, so I would like to write in the topic of "Every thing is Marketing". I will describe why marketing play an essential roles in the societies. I will give some information about the evolution of marketing from the past to present and narrow down to why marketing make people be success in their life.

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    1. Are you writing a book? Everything is not marketing. Marketing is something. What is the "something" that you can write about in 3-4 pages?

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  8. 5680708
    I major in International Business and I interested in the field of Thai performing art. Nowadays, Business plays important role on Thai performing art and makes many changes, so I would like to focus on the relation between business and Thai performing art. How business processes change traditional ways of art? How it cause Thai performing art to adapt other culture to attract the audience? And why business also important to Thai performing art?

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    1. This is something that I will need more background to understand. I don't know how what effect business has had on a Thai performing arts, so you'll need to explain this more clearly.

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  9. 5680694
    I would choose business as my category. Specifically about movie, why they put on millions of dollars for only a film and what did they get from doing that.

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    1. It seems that it is worth the investment even though many of these huge Hollywood movies lose a lot of money. I think you've got an interesting idea here.

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  10. I major in tourism and hospitality management. Therefore, my topic will be relevant with people and the living. I focus on people. Actually, I am myself interested to another topic, it's about hope. Does hope matter for people, why do people always wish many thing to be the way they want? .. Could it can be this one, Aj. Mathew?

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    1. Sorry Aj. Matthew, I write you a wrong name.

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    2. As we discussed in class, work to find stories of people who were in a hopeless situation but found inspiration in art. I like this idea.

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  11. International hospitality is my major. My category is about commerce because I think in our daily people have to pay and sell all the time. People exchange things by using this process. I want to focus more about events and services. People in these day love somebody to service them, I believe because I do. Services always make people smile. Health and Beauty will be my interesting one to go with.

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    1. Ok, but Health and Beauty is not a service. It is a product or good. Before you continue, make sure that you're clear about what you're talking about.

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    I chose the country's symbol for my category for this final essay. This is like some kind of art, I think. It's hard to define why it must be 'the symbol' for the country. This is interesting, so I want to write about this and search for more information. I hope that I could express this interesting topic as well. From your suggestion, I would narrow it down to the specific country, and I would give more the details through the essay.

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    I chose censorship and I will talk about revaluation of censorship of art in terms of language, sex and nudity and violence. I think they are aspects that people overlook.

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  14. 5680714

    My major is in computer engineering. I choose computer graphic as my main topic. Focusing on the technique produce in the movies on how they become so realistic and the development of CG from the past to present, majorly in Thailand's development.

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