Outstanding Blogs

An excellent example of economic advice for Obama that can be found on a blog is on Jacob Harris's blog. He has a wide range of different ideas to stimulate the economy rather then just focusing on one idea. He also has evidence for most cases as to why we should go with his plan to prevent past events that have happen such as the plan numbered 2. He has sufficent evidence that regards what has happend in the past and provides a plan to prevent that from happening. Also in his plan numbered 4 he states

"This will help the economy because it will make the workforce and the high ups more educated, which leads to better financial choices and hopefully some good innovation, something we lack and the Japanese exceed at (probably because of saturday school)."

I thought this was good because he says how it will help the economy but at the same time how it could help improve our education levels.
Overall, I really liked Jacob's advice because it gave more then just advice on how to fix our economy. He took into consideration other problems with our society,such as education, global warming and healthcare, and incorporated it into his advice that will fix the economy as well as these issues.

An example I found that has good examples of literary analysis is Nyachare's blog. I like the way she gives examples of literary techniques without giving away too much about the book. She doesn't spoil the ending but she gives how the story is kind of laid out with different literary devices. In her literary analysis of Kite Runner she wrote

"symbolism, antagonists, and repetition that the author, Khaled Hosseini, used literary devices to convey his message of two boys who grew up as the best of friends and through numerous trials later grew apart. "

The quote above was found in her introduction. She then writes more in detail about each literary device used and provides evidence for each. An example would be for symbolism. She wrote

"Symbolism was used in the end of chapter 6 as well as the beginning of chapter 7 when the narrator, Rahim, spoke about the kite. The kite symbolizes what Rahim thinks will get him his dad's affection......"

She did that for each literary technique and she did it in such a way that allows you to understand how it fits into the book and also at the same time what that literary technique is exactly in general.

An example of good historical analysis can be found on Will's blog. I read one of his blog enetries on one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and it struck me as very well written and very informative. In the entry he wrote

"Lincoln began with a statement clarifying his position on the equality of African Americans, followed by a long-winded accusation of conspiracy, drawing copious amounts of evidence from the speeches of one Senator Trumbull. Douglas then spent the majority of his hour and a half carefully and methodically refuting every scrap of the accusations leveled against him, time he studded with similar stabs at Lincoln's credibility."

I thought this was a good way to start off the blog because he gave an insight as to how the debate went. He then goes more in depth into the speeches and how they were structured. He also gave information on the content of the speeches but didn't talk too much of that which made it good to read because it wasn't long, extensive and boring. I also liked at the end how he connected it to present day elections because it shows that he gave thought into how history can connect to present day.

"The current format assumes the viewer to possess at least a rudimentary knowledge of current affairs, which may not always be the case, but the Q and A style allows a greater coverage of topics,...."

Something else I found that makes for a great blog is pictures or video to go along with the entry. A good example would be Jasmine Bell's blog. She always has interesting or funny pictures that capture you eye and makes you want to see what the blog entry is about.