Example reviews for essay six (due July 16)

I've compiled a list of example reviews to make it easier for you to find them as you work on your sixth essays, which are due by high noon on July 16. The Writing IIIc assignments for essays number five (175+ words) and number six (200+ words) were two different kinds of reviews.

For example, if your fifth essay is a restaurant review, then your sixth can be: a CD review, a movie review, a TV program review, a video review, or a webpage review. Here are examples on the Writing Studio Blog (labels: reviews), in a list distinguishing links from URLs:

• Link: Restaurant: Star of India (March 13, 2007)

URL: http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/restaurant-star-of-india.html

• Link: Movie: Dreamgirls (March 16, 2007)

URL: http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/movie-dream-girls.html

• Link: Sean Bean in Sharpe adventure films (April 12, 2007)

URL: http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/sharpe-advententure-films.html

• Link: Website review: Introducing the People Tree (July 2, 2007)

URL: http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/website-review-introducing-people-tree.html

Even though I've made the URLs above as small as readily possible, some of them are still too long to fit on a single line of a blog post. Moreover, all of the URLs listed above are too long to fit in the catalog of essays that you must complete for your online portfolios (§ 1.1.). That's why you need to use links to your essays, instead of just URLs.

Website review: Introducing the People Tree

I'd like to introduce a socially and environmentally responsible fashion company, especially to students interested in business entrepreneurship [added, 2007.07.04]. The Fair Trade Fashion Company - People Tree is all about supporting independent producers, promoting fair trade, and protecting the environment (Mission Statement). I learned about the People Tree from a recent documentary on NHK TV.

Safia Minney, the founder of People Tree, calls her blog the People Tree. Most if not all of the snapshots in her recent post about establishing organic cotton farms in Bangladesh are from scenes shown in that TV documentary.

People Tree currently makes more than half of its clothing from cotton grown organically in India, and is now promoting organic plantations in Bangladesh, too, where most cotton fabricated comes of non-local sources (Poisoned any farmers recently, darling?). The Organic Cotton page explains both problems related to cotton that isn't grown organically, and benefits of growing it organically.

A little over a month ago, representatives from People Tree took part in World Fair Trade Day celebrations in Tokyo. Events included a fashion show including Vogue fashions crafted from organic cotton (World Fair Trade Day - May 12). To find out more about how fair trade influences children around the world, please check out the World Fair Trade official web site for 2007.

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