Favorite Blog Post

My favorite blog post for the semester is titled "the data cycle", posted on May 17th, 2010. I would say this is exemplary of the progress I have made blogging this year because it displays several important things that are important to blogging in our class: making connections between material and discussions and analyzing texts. I, in this post made the connection that I saw between the Kentucky Cycle we were reading in class and the topic of Mr. Bolos' blog post a few days before. I made this connection which I believe shows that I am thinking critically about the things I see and hear. I also used textual examples in my post, which I think is very important. One of the main things I took away from AIS this year is that if you want to make a claim, you have to bring evidence. And in the case of my blog I did just that. I think that over the course of the year, my focus in blogging has shifted. I began blogging about pretty arbitrary topics that I found interesting personally, and finished by writing posts that thought critically about our class. All in all the blogging experience was pretty unique, and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm looking forward to weighing in on a few discussions next year on the Am Stud Blog!

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Kentucky Derby


I know I'm breaking the mold of our class to blog about something other than Junior Theme, but I thought I'd give it a try.
For those of you that didn't know (me included), the Kentucky Derby was Saturday. Now I don't know very much about horse racing, nor am I an equestrian in any way. My desire to blog about this is simply out of curiosity.
I can understand that there is a deeply rooted history associated with the Kentucky as it is the oldest annual sporting event in the US today, this year being the 136th running of the event. I can respect the tradition of the event, where the women wear UFO sized hats and the men wager tens of thousands of dollars on horses who have the best sounding names.
But besides these people who are part of the tradition, who else really follows the Derby? There are only three televised races a year that compose the Triple Crown: The Kentucky Derby, The Preakness Stakes and The Belmont Stakes. How can someone really be invested in a sport that is only on television three times a year? Could it be that viewers like the idea of the event more than the actual quality of sport? Any other ideas?
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