Recall the cop who casually hosed students with pepper spray on the UC Davis campus? As my friend Bob pointed out, this cop has become a meme! Click on this link: http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/ THEN Google “pepper spraying cop” and you’ll see many more art pieces like this. It’s all over the web! [...]
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UC-Davis Student Describes Pepper Spray Attack on Occupy Campus Protesters
(2 minutes, 35 seconds into video)
UC Davis Guest Speaker Challenges Students, Questions Official Explanation for 9/11 Towers’ Destruction
Last quarter, AE911Truth volunteer coordinator Mark Graham visited my writing class at UC Davis to introduce my students to the possibility that the Twin Towers and Building 7 had been explosively demolished. Read entire article here:
UCD Students: Advertising Essay
At this point you should have an ad chosen and begun analyzing it. Remember that your ad should have some text, even if only a short caption, along with the visuals. You can find an ad online (there are thousands out there) but check with me to verify it’s a real ad and not a parody of an one. [...]
MLA Format for UCD Students
The Ad and the Ego Questions Ad Essay Directions Click here for example of Modern Language Association (MLA) format then leave comment: UCDMLA You can leave a comment without signing up to the site. You’ll have to type in the appropriate letters for the “re-Capcha” function. Shawn
UC Davis student arrested for ‘terrorist threats,’ assault weapons
Thanks to Ashton B for submitting this. It sounds like we came close to our very own school shooting at UC Davis. Story here: Apparently the term “terrorist threat” is not the legal term used in California. It’s actually referred to as a “criminal threat.” Channel 10 used the inaccurate term simply to excite the public, which seems somewhat irresponsible [...]
Long Bets: The arena for accountable predictions
Thanks to Kyle from UC Davis for submitting this interesting site. From an initial glance, I have to say I have more respect for short-term predictions than those predicting events a hundred years from now but perhaps I’m being unfair. Nostrodamus made many far-reaching predictions but also many of them were verified in his lifetime, which [...]
UCD Students: Note on Swillers site
Vanessa pointed out that it wasn’t clear what to do after you get to the Swillers site (tab at top right of this page). My apologies; I’m new to this feature of The Swill Bucket too. I’ve attached a link to a screen shot of what to do after you log in. On the page that [...]
UCD Students: Post verbs and adverbs for thesis statements to Colexa
http://colexa.pbworks.com/w/page/28374895/FrontPage
Subliminal Advertising Guru Responds to UCD Student’s Question
After showing a couple of mid-nineties films about advertising, one of my students suggested the films were old saying there was a huge “cultural difference” between today and 15 years ago. I replied, honestly I think, that the film is a few years old but still relevant. Nothing has changed regarding the dynamics of advertising. Still, if a more [...]