Week 8 Blog Reviews

Mary Holtz:

No One Wants to be Alone;
I think you raised a really good point that I even failed to think about prior to reading your blog. I enjoyed reading your blog especially the second paragraph when you discussed how affection can be given in more than just romantic relationships, but father and son, bartender and the heartbroken, or even best friends. That was a good segway into talking about how these types of affections are very common and natural. Your blog had very good organization, first with discussion affection amongst human beings and then following that with a paragraph relating this affection to the affection being animals. Also, I agree completely with your concluding paragraph.

No More White Dress;
I thought you did a really good job in setting up your introductory paragraph so that the reader knew exactly what your blog was going to be discussing. I especially liked the concluding sentence of the first paragraph, " But what might happen if we just accepted that men and women may be biologically set up to flirt, date and mate with multiple partners?" This blog as well has a very good flow to it. You raised a valid point that if marriage was changed and was no longer sacred, then there would be a breakdown in society. You also did a good job ending the paragraph by giving the reading a quote from Fisher and closing with a question so that the reader can think about the points you just made throughout the blog.

Whitney Semmens:

Animal Instinct: Homosexual?? ;

I noticed you mispelled "Insticnt" in your title, but as you've noticed, I have a habbit of typing and not realizing my grammatical errors, so I know it must have just been an accident. In your first paragraph, I liked the point you made that many people against homosexuality might say it is unnatural, but Kruger says otherwise. Studies have found that animals take part in homosexual activity and it is very common. You did a good job in incorporating quotes from the article and making valid points. However, I would have been interested to see your opinion on the matter. Overall it was well written and organized like always.


Survey: Is Man Monogamous ;

I liked that fact that you chose the survey option because I noticed not alot of others did. I think you did a good job in choosing specific questions that would lead one to conclude that the person taking your survey would have a increased chance of infidelity. Questions like 1 and 2 would lead the reader to see the person taking the survey's likliness to be in a serious relationship, whereas someone who isn't likely would jump to person to person. Asking questions like are you parents married, or if either parent had cheated in a relationship, would make one believe that maybe being in that environment would make one more likely to cheat. Asking questions about their religion would bring in factors of having the religion be a reason they would not commit infidelity. I found all of the questions you chose to be great questions in finding whether someone is likely to be monogamous or not. Good job!!