Blog # 9

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Blog 8

Topic: Coffee houses

Places – Starbucks, Café Biblioteca, Cartel Coffee Lab, Xtreme Bean

Criteria

- Taste of the coffee

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- Atmosphere

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- Cost

Reasearch

-Drink Sizes

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Blog 7

Yelp.com it’s a simple website where people can research almost anything they want an opinion on. Yelp is popular for its food and dining reviews, why because even though people won’t admit it sometimes, but people trust other people’s opinions. When constructing a review on anything you need criteria to judge and base everything off of Yelp’s criteria consists of service, taste, price, and location. Then once you get to see the list of criteria that make up a review almost anyone can post their opinion or their experience that they had at that particular place of business. Such as how good the food was which is a great criteria but people have a wide variety of palates so taste is more of a individual preference because if you have only been to panda express for Chinese food someone who has had authentic Chinese food would find that place disgusting because even though it might be good to eat, people compare food and if they have had something that was much better than the food will seem to be a lot worse. But in the restaurant world taste is everything, and a great taste review will definitely bring in more customers because other people think that it is good to eat. Probably the second most important factor was price because that attracts different crowds of people to you restaurant but it also can be the reason some won’t go to your restaurant. Price is also affected by the location because in areas of higher social economic status will be areas with more expensive restaurants and vise versa because in poorer areas usually contain cheaper restaurants because the only way a restaurant can survive is with consistent customer flow, so most restaurant owners open up shop in areas where they can cater to the type of people living in that particular area. Service is probably the least important to people when they are looking on Yelp but is probably the most criticized area from customers because people typically do not like to wait for their food for too long so any restaurant that might even have better food might have a lower service score because they take longer to cook their food, but also service can be what kind of employees the owner has because the service section of Yelp is filled with complains about waiters who were either rude to them or didn’t speak well enough English.     

Review

Ryan while you provided in vivid detail the entire episode and a solid amount of background information that gave me, someone who has never watched that show. An idea that helped me understand the episode and what you were exactly talking about and I agree on what make a good show is always ending in a cliff hanger. But that was in my opinion much of what you talked about, you explained why you liked the show but you did have a set criteria for why, you just said you enjoyed that episode, so my only argument I can say it that the theme of the show is an overplayed idea that every TV and movie director has already done, I’m not particular a big fan of zombie movies or shows because the idea of the show is mindless zombies which don’t exist and I do not like things that are about completely impossible situations. Because it makes it already fake to me, the graphics might be amazing, but it’s completely unrealistic. I enjoyed reading your summary but I just don’t like those kinds of shows, but maybe if you set more criteria about why it is so great then I might be more prompted to try to watch that show.

Ian you provided more background than was necessary but we have similar taste in TV shows. Since I completely understand everything you say since I have seen every episode your review was very fun and interesting to read, but even if I have never seen the show before you provided enough information for a random viewer to understand the show and you gave clear and precise reason for why you like the show but it would have been better if you focused on only one particular episode because from what I read you covered about three different episodes. The individual analysis of Jax and his unpredictable character was a great analysis because it put a face to the name of who you were talking about and you added a picture which was a nice touch. You talked a lot about the plot of the TV show which was good but maybe more of the plot of that episode would have been better, because you talked more about the show as a whole than that episode which you summarized in a few sentences. But overall you parameters were solid and you provided enough information to back up your opinion. So you’re writing was solid and I enjoyed reading it.

Son's of Anarchy

The Television show I recently watched was a show called Son’s of Anarchy. I watched last week’s episode called “Laying Pipe”. The show is about a biker gang called the Son’s of Anarchy, which is based on the true story of the biker gang in California called hell’s angels. The club sells illegal Irish weapons and occasionally mule’s drugs for certain gangs. Since I have already know a lot about this show my criteria for the episode was the overall plot of the episode, how the acting was in some of the emotional moments in the show, directing, and how well you stayed connected with the show such as did it retain my interest or did I want to fast forward through parts. The plot of the episode was them trying to stay alive in prison since a drug lord wanted them killed, this provided the feeling you get on the edge of your seat because you never know what is going to happen next. So I liked the plot and it kept my attention throughout the entire episode. The acting varied on the character, the main character Jacks is a great actor and makes me connect with how he is feeling but some of the other characters acting make me feel like “come on dude” which might be the actors fault but it also makes me think that’s how it was directed to be which in that case makes me think sometimes the directing is too overdramatic, which can make the show seem fake or unrealistic. The episode started with them entering prison, they were friends with the Mexicans inside the prison so they had to always be in groups because they had a beef with another gang that wanted them dead. Then they had to make a deal to be safe with the gang leader, but they had to be sent to isolation, so they got into a fight in the prison yard so they could be in isolation which is safer than staying in the open with all the other prisoners. Once they were in isolation they were told one of them had to be killed because in an earlier episode they murdered the gang leader’s daughter. So as the episode the tension was which one is going die and the anxiety made the episode sad but also incredibly interesting. Then when it was time Op who was one the main characters stood up to fight to the death and him being killed was the end of the episode which it a great episode but it was sad so it made me feel different emotions which is what makes it a great show.