PADI: Professional Association of Diving Instructors

This site to me is not just another scuba diving site, its a site that shows that any one can do it. The logos is well done in my opinon, when you open the site you see a person with a mask, fins, snorkel, and a "toy"(for us scuba divers) but it is a underwater hand held propeller. The women is surrounded by 3 dolphins. To the left of the screen there are the language selections so people of other nations may read it with ease. The pathos is one heck of a hit, the fact that three dolphins are playfully swimming around a person in their natural habitat. Also the water is extremely clear and clean which adds to the pathos. Ethos, well PADI is a world wide suba diving company. All scuba divers have PADI certification cards which is needed to do alot of the dives so that the dive master and others know that you have been trained and certified to a certain level of diver. So I feel that this site has some of the best visual and other factors that add to its beauty.

Mother Tongue

Amy Tan's piece called "Mother Tongue" focuses on what it was like writing and learning english when her mother only spoke Chinese. Some of you may know of Amy Tan by her book "The Joy Luck Club". I think that she is trying to reach out people that lived in one nation then moved to a completely new nation and had to learn the native language to assilate into the nation and to get around with no problems. Even though some people do learn and get around people do not treat them right just because they are from a different country. We need to treat those from another country as if they were from the the country that we live in so that they feel like the are at home. This piece may also be aimed at parents that are to entrenched with the lives they had and are unwilling to change to a new life. Some parents fear change and would fight like there is no tomorrow to keep their lives the same.

Blogs: What they could and should be

A blog should be a way to share information in a logical mannor. So when we respnd to each others blogs we should try to respond in a polite mannor. Blogs should also be a fun expiriance for all of us. Any how uses profanity or any other inpolite words should be banned from blogging and forced to miss the points that these blogs are. So I ask you to be nice when posting on my page, please be nice and I will be nice to your pages when I am posting on your pages. So thats what I think what a blog could and should be in the academic world and in the world out side the academic world. So bring on your posting and lets try to have a grown up discussions and tyr not to hurt feelings and or kill each other over these blogs and lets have a great year. I will be adding more to may page so you can get a better idea on who I am and where I come from.