Hoodies Vs. Sweaters

Fashion is as important in today's society as it has ever been. Most people care about what they wear and how they look on a daily basis no matter what season it is. In the summer girls may want to go buy the newest and prettiest sundress and a guy could possibly want that new designer t-shirt. When it begins to get cold out you are forced to switch around your wardrobe. Depending on what type of person you are you will start to wear either a hoodie sweatshirt or a sweater. These two pieces of clothing may seem similar but really they are not the same at all.

Hoodie: This form of a sweatshirt serves you to keep you warm when it starts to get cold out. When it begins to get cold out in Happy Valley you will see all different types of hoodies being warn by many different students. Hoodies are very practical for a few different reasons. Hoodies obviously have a hood, but also have a string to adjust the tightness of your hood. Personally I get annoyed at times when a sweatshirt does not have a hood. When it is raining or even windy out I find myself urning for a hood to keep my head warm and keep the rain off my head. Also, hoodies almost always have a large frontal pocket. This pocket can serve to either hold something as any pocket would but also you can keep your hands inside to keep them warm. Someone who wears a hoodie may not care about fashion quite as much as someone who would wear a a sweater

Sweater: A sweater serves the same basic purpose as a hoodie sweatshirt does, and that is to keep you warm. Although that is true there are many differences between these two forms of sweatshirts. Sweaters don't have those functional factors that hoodies do. Although sweaters keep you warm when it gets cold out, sweaters don't have hoods, they don't have pockets and overall they are just not as useful as hoodies are. Sweaters have an aspect to them that raise themselves above the hoodie and that is that they are more fashionable. You would never wear a hoodie out to a fancy dinner, but that is not at all the case with a nice wool sweater. The type of person that would wear a hoodie my be considered more "preppy" or upperclass. I am personally not the type of person that would a sweater on a daily basis, but I do choose to wear hoodies nearly every chilly day. I would really only wear a sweater for something like a fancy dinner or if it were the holidays.

Establishing Merit and Criteria: Blackberry

1.For my critical review I have decided to review a specific line of products. I will be looking into the pros and cons of this line of smart phones. The blackberry merits evaluation for a few reasons. The popularity of this cell phone has been off the charts for more than half a decade. Personally, I have been surrounded by "the crackberry" for my entire teenage life. I would guess that about three fourths of everyone in my high school owned a blackberry last year. There are several qualities to the blackberry that make it very appealing to a wide range of consumers. One of these qualities is the email software that the blackberry possesses. Professionals such as lawyers or business men are attracted to this phone for this reason. Blackberry comes out with a new model nearly every year. They continue to strive for a newer and better product in order to continue to compete with other smart phones such as the iphone and the android. The blackberry is definitely a revolutionary devise but there are several negative qualities to this phone. As a blackberry owner myself I find myself frustrated with glitching and freezing nearly everyday. Because of these negative qualities you can consider the blackberrys controversial. This unique smartphone is both popular, revolutionary and controversial and for these reasons it merits evaluation.

2.The blackberry falls under the category of a cellphone and even more specifically a smart phone. In today's society the wellbeing of your handy dandy cell phone is very valuable. Compared to other smart phones such as the iphone or android, blackberrys are not quite as expensive. Still, with the addition of the monthly fee to have internet on your phone makes it relatively expensive. There are many phones on the market that could be compared to the blackberry. The line of android smart phones are a new popular alternative but the new king of the smartphone world is the iphone. Every single piece of criteria that makes a cell phone better and more advanced has been mastered by apple in the iphone. Blackberrys are completely outmatched by all the advanced qualities that the new iphone 4s possesses.

3. a)Messaging: Texting is becoming a more popular mode of communication in cellphones than actually speaking. The messaging software is where the blackberry beats out the iphone. The famous bbm is what draws many consumers to buying blackberry. Blackberry messaging puts texting into a quicker and more accessible format. The fact that you can only bbm with other people that have blackberrys makes people want to buy the phone if they have friends that have it.

b)Battery Life: The battery life in a blackberry is worse than most. I find myself needing to charge my phone once overnight and then again during the day. If you do not properly close your applications, they continue to run and kill you battery.

c)Apps: Cool apps are necessity in smart phones today. Of the three main smart phones, the blackberry, iphone and droid the blackberry has by far the worst apps. There are less apps to choose from and the and the ones that they do have don't seem to function as well as their rival cell phones.

d)Easiness to use: I find that the layout of the blackberry is somewhat confusing. Its like there are a bunch of file cabinets on the front of your phone. Also I find myself frustrated with a frozen blackberry. In order to fix this issue you must restart your phone. When you take out the battery of most cellphones they go back on in a few seconds but that is not the case with the blackberry. It can take up to five minutes for a blackberry to reboot.

e)Durable: I have only had a blackberry for a few months and so far I have not had any issues with durableness but that is not the case with everyone. I have a friend who has gone through more than ten blackberrys. I find that if you keep your case on and keep it away from water you shouldn't have any issues with your blackberry breaking.

Blog and Better Than Ever

I'm going to honest, when English 15 first began and I found out that we were going to have to create our own blog I was a little intimidated. I had never created my own blog before and for that matter I had never really blogged at all before. That made it somewhat difficult to figure out exactly how I wanted my blog to look. I attempted to design my blog so that it was as easy as possible for the reader to look at. That is why I use the classic font of times new roman for all of my blogs. I also use black font with a light background for ultimate reading pleasure. When reading an extensive blog, such as the blogs for our class you don't want the reader to struggle through just the visual aspect of your blog. When I originally designed my blog I didn't put too much effort or thought into how I wanted it to look but now knowing the aspects of what makes a good blog I don't think I would change much about my blog.

When deciding what I wanted to name my blog I wanted a title that each writer can relate to. When beginning a new writing assignment you are always presented with a rhetorical situation. That is how I try to approach each of my own writing assignments. We are all presented with an issue and as best as we can, we have to explain this issue to our intended audience. When writing these blogs I try to use a conversational tone to attempt to relate to the reader as best as possible. If the reader feels as if they understand who I am and can relate to what I am writing about there is a better chance that they trust and appreciate my writing.

Although my blog is approachable for the reader and easy to read in general there were still some aspects I wanted to improve on. I felt as if my blog was a little amateur in appearence and that is why I made some improvements. I changed the overall layout and appearance of my blog in order to seem more advanced and professional. One blog that I have enjoyed for a long time and has inspired my blogging as a whole is the consistent and entertaining yankee bloghttp://yankees.lhblogs.com/. Also the overall layout and design of Facebook I think is a perfect example of good web design.