Barthe stipulates that the appeal in wrestling is based completely in spectacle. Fans do not attend the matches for a realistic performance or demonstration of talent. Exaggeration is the expectation, not competition. If they were to watch a starkly uneven match between two wrestlers of…

For class this past Tuesday, the focus was peer review of the introduction and body paragraphs of Team C’s personal research essays. In addition to reviewing our peer’s work, members of the class also filled out a worksheet in order to help establish what we…

Barthes’ perception on wrestling is that it is meant to entertain the audience and the audience knows well enough that it’s wrestling’s sole purpose to do so. Therefore the motives and consequences of a wrestler’s actions are not important to the viewer. What is important…

  When thinking of the audience that would attend a WWE event, what comes to mind in terms of socioeconomic status would be a majority lower class fan base. WWE caters to their particular social group in a variety of ways, however the negative stigma…

A WWE fan values getting and seeing what they are expected to see, and the over-the-top dramatics and spectacular, pre-planned fighting that serves as a form of entertainment. The habitus, or how an individual or group of similar individuals think based on a certain taste,…

We began class Tuesday with an exercise designed to help fix run-on sentences. We split into groups of two or three, and worked on sentences pulled from our previous essays. Then, each group shared one of the sentences and explained why it was either run-on…

Franzen’s analysis of the German writer Karl Kraus was nothing surprising or noteworthy, in my opinion. Although he says a lot about what Franzen finds valuable about reading and writing, the qualities needed in a good book that he points out are what every reader…

The beginning of the novel Good in Bed made me believe this would be an easy read that I would enjoy on the beach or riding in a car. However once I delved deeper into the plot, it was apparent to me that this is…

The entire novel Good in Bed makes the reader feel sympathy toward Cannie. The stories told aim to relate the reader to her, as she struggles with a broken heart, her career, family issues, and then an unexpected pregnancy. Until the end of the book,…

Good in Bed has many different plot twists. The overall plot is pretty straight-forward and easy to follow compared to the other books we have read in class. The second half of the book is “considerably darker” and takes a different turn from the rest…