Status Update

Transmissions from Camp Trans
1.) Claim- The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival provides a great opportunity for women to bond with each other, while enjoying a relaxed and safer atmosphere that is created by the absence of men.
2.)Classical argument


Dark Webs Goth Subcultures in Cyberspace
1.) Claim- Online communities are not trying to take the place of or misrepresent the real world, but instead they actually contribute to keeping different subcultures alive and supplementing them.
2.)Rogerian argument


The Truck Stop as Community and Culture
1.) Claim- The similarity between truckers and cowboys runs deeper than clothes, but is also proven through other shared characteristics.
2.)Toulmin argument


House for the Homeless
1.) Claim- The homeless are very similar to the author, and cannot all be generalized and thrown into the category of being uneducated. They all have various reasons for why they are homeless and the major reason lied not in the problem of unemployment but mainly in the need for self-reliance.
2.) Classical argument

In my paper I am currently still in the process of doing research to learn more about my subculture. Unfortunately, I have chosen a subculture that is not too willing to speak with me and give me more information about the subculture. This leaves me only with the option of relying mainly on literature analysis of previous research done on the psychic subculture. I still have to find the social norms, beliefs, and values of the subculture. Since I have not found out what these things are I have yet to develop my claim. At the peer review group I would like to know if I'm developing my claim in an effective way, and also other ideas of a potentially better claim to make about the subculture.