As an equine major the majority of my writing in classes are reflections. As a sport most of the learning is slow and comes from trial and error. However, now using other resources in teaching like articles and books to add onto the physical learning helps speed up the process. I think by adding both the mental and physical repetition to our learning allows for reflections to be used to reinforce the learning. Reflections give students more time to process what we just learned and try to fully wrap our heads around a sport that is mainly learned by physical aspects.

As a future professional in the equine industry most of the writing I will need to be doing will be business related. Professionals find themselves writing everything from ads, to sales contracts. Ads are simple and seen everywhere, however creating boarding, sales, lease, and lesson contracts require a full understanding of how to protect themselves and their business from liability that comes with the sport.

In the media people don’t get to see what the equine industry is really like. In movies all you see is a emotionally damaged teenager who gets sent to an aunt or uncles farm and somehow with no past horse experience tames a wild horse and wins a rodeo to save the whole farm. That is not reality. Sadly it is really all people see. In reality the industry is full of hardworking equestrians who have been working day in and day out to create top athletes. In the media the expertise in the industry is very misrepresented to were it seems like anyone and everyone could figure this horse thing out.

I think the job is exciting in real life, however the media doesn’t show it for what it is. Yes it is tiring and hard and you work in every single type of weather condition just to maybe place well in a class but by no means is the equine world boring. There is always something going on. The media makes each equine experience look like just a simple bond between a girl and her horse, and while that is a part of it. Most of the industry is making good bond with other professionals and allowing yourself to make a good reputation. Frankly when real equine professionals see people who act like horse people in movies try to join in on the community, we laugh at them and they are totally disregarded from the competitive world as a whole.

Gladstone explain how journalism is a difficult profession because of how journalists need to create a piece that is both what the audience wants to hear and somewhere along the lines of correct and true.

The Diagram on page 37 shows the drastic decrease in trust of the media, showing that by 2005 less than 50% of people had trust that the media they were being exposed to was true. Gladstone later explains that the public does have a bit of a misinterpritation of what a journalist is doing.

Gladstone explains how journalism is an important part of our democracy and is the only public service institution that can question political figures on a regular basis. The balance of reporting accurately and reporting what the public wants to hear is a common issue discussed by Gladstone. How I interpreted this was that the balance would be in what questions a journalist will ask to get specific information for a viewer. Some will leave the questions to lead to broad answers for a wide range of interpretations of the audience.

In todays world most sources of information are online and lead to many other sources with just a simple click. In my day to day I encounter a few different online news cites that use qualitative research with minimal quantitative research. Qualitative research has always been the most common in the news sources I see but after some thinking quantitative has more of a convincing power to me because of the actual data collected give me assurance on its accuracy.

Gee uses a capitol “D” Discourse and lowercase “d” discourse to differentiate between the two. He explained these as “connected stretches of language”. I slightly understand this but I am a bit confused, I understand that by using the capitalized “D” gives an emphasis on it as a term rather than using “discourse” as a normal word.

When thinking about the passage and the use of the distinction of the words as a sense of understanding genre, I’m having trouble connecting the lines between them. Genre makes me think of a set of guidelines, by making a distinction between the two discourses it makes each word follow its own sets of guidelines. In example Discourse is being used as a term and follows its own set of rules as a term.

Throughout my day to day, my life is full of media. Im constantly absorbing information through the media even if I don’t notice I’m doing it. One of my first tasks in the morning is going on Snapchat, I open snaps from friends and will respond constantly throughout the day. I view stories that my friends post, and now we can even view each others locations and see everyones travels. In my free time throughout the day I view Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. While most of this is just seeing people do funny things on the internet I do follow some celebrities, activist pages, and influencer accounts.

One of my favorite instagram accounts is @feminist, This account gives me daily reminders to keep pushing for equality and women’s rights in my day to day.

While I have liked to keep my eyes closed when it comes to how crazy politics have been recently, I do have many news stations on my phone that notify me on different articles and topics. I like to receive my news from multiple sources including The NewYork Times, CNN, Fox, and more. I do listen to some Trevor Noah podcast frequently and those typically do influence my perception on current events.

My daily perception of current events in greatly influenced by the media. I personally believe that I should be paying more attention to my sources when it comes to current events, and that I need to add more encouraging accounts to my social media platforms.

I decided that for this assignment my focus is going to be on the 1996 movie “The Craft”. This movie follows the story of a teenage girl moving to a new school who falls into a group of teen witches. I would classify this movie as a Supernatural Thriller/Horror with an obvious protagonist and antagonist. This film uses witty teen angst to appeal to the ‘outsider’ teen audience, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4nPJh0jms4 as shown here. Later the girls develop a friendship and the characters become favorable to the audience. However, there is a turn of events and the new girl is turned on by her new coven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx07n7Eov0o In this scene, this what really classifies this film as a supernatural thriller, this is because the film uses suspense to get a reaction out of their audience.

The Exigence for the genre, is they are meant to captivate an audience using fear and suspense, in my opinion this is what classifies the film as a thriller. The audience for these films would be someone who wants to watch a suspenseful storyline. The constraints of this genre is that it isn’t allowed to get too relaxed at any points in fear of loosing the audiences attention on the story.

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