Week 11 Blog review

Week 11 Blog Review

Katie Kosturik

To Buy or Not to Buy? 10/26/10

I enjoyed how you described both the positive and negative aspects of materialism. The title is very catchy! This could be a great concept to develop into a paper especially since you stated at the end how Twitchell gave us a framework to start with. The one item that caught my eye was the sentence in Paragraph was slightly confusing for me: Par 2: As Americans we have established this capitalistic socioeconomic structure and flaunting our materialism is actually a way of flaunting that we are ABLE to be materialistic.

Capitol Economies 10/28/10

Your piece about immigrants could definitely be more developed. You could accomplish that by being more specific and choose one immigrant group to focus on. Be sure to be posting 3 paragraphs about the topic at hand.

Hilary Cummings

German Influence

Your opening paragraph is a great introduction that you generalize but then get specific with Germans. I enjoyed reading your interpretation of this assignment and finding out all the ways Germans have contributed, especially with Barbie- I had no idea! This is an easy to read flowing essay.

Materialism

You have supportive references from the article and have nicely added other examples from our daily lives. This would be a good essay to develop further. Great job.