Website Analysis

The website I chose to analyze is nick.com. Many people are familiar with this website as it is also a television network. The website contains many items associated with the different shows that are on the nick channel, such as games, videos, and a link to shop for accessories associated with that show. There is also a link to view the schedule of airing times for the shows. I think this website mostly appeals to little kids but could also appeal to adults when they want to buy toys for their kids or as a gift to a child. But who am I to say, maybe some of the adults like to play the games on this site as well as the little kids, or like to watch the videos. I think this website mainly serves as entertainment, for playing games, or watching videos, or reading about the shows and the kid celebrities. It also serves as a way of advertising their television network. From the the way the website was put together, I feel that the tone of the site is less serious. The website contains pictures of the characters from the different shows, ranging from cartoon characters to actual people. The expressions of these characters are silly, making faces, and smiling, which I feel brings out a happy and humorous feeling from the audience.

Blog Analysis

The blog I chose to analyze was titled NAU Mitch. From the title, it tells us his name and that he is a student at NAU. The title could also mean that he really likes the school that he is attending or that he is an active participater at his school, like that he is in a club. The color of the profile is fairly simple, but it could also mean that the author likes the color black. Also there is some blue and yellow in the profile, which are NAU's school colors, which could also mean that he's representing his school in his profile. From the author's posts, it shows that he has a sense of humor and that he is looking forward to using a blog. In a post for a blogging assignment, he gets right to the point about what the reading was about, so it could also indicate that he is a straight forward person, who gets right to the point of the issue.

Tan's essay

Amy Tan is a Chinese American who succeeded in writing. Like she said, most Asian students are steered away from writing and towards math and science, but she took initiative and challenged herself by taking on a major in English, which has taken her so far in life to where now she is a successful author of several novels. Although she thinks of her mother and is writing to her mother in this essay, I think it also applies to all her readers because her purpose is she is trying to make a point about language. Not everyone speaks good English, as she uses the example that her mother's English is described as broken. She lets us see things through her eyes by letting people know about her experiences. I also think this essay lets the reader be more open minded about other cultures and their comfort languages.

What is a blog?

I'm not much of a person who blogs. Before reading the information provided on blogging, I just thought that a blog was a place on the web where you can just post anything that was on your mind. Alot of the blogs that I've seen have talked about events that have happened to the person or just something that was on the person's mind, as if the person wants to vent out their feelings. I've also seen blogs in the form of a forum, where one idea is posted and people post comments about it and it turns into a big discussion. What I did not know was that companies posted blogs. I've rarely seen companies trying to advertise themselves by posting blogs. I'm also very suprised that there's hate crimes in blogs. I didn't even think that these kinds of groups existed in blogs. It makes me mad that people would try to create a group like this and scheme evil plans or why people would even join groups like that. But after reading the information on blogs, I've now learned that blogs are used for multiple purposes.