"Ha ha," he said. "Ha ha." Klosterman Analysis

                I’m not sure what to think about laugh tracks anymore.  At first I thought that they were always kind of over exaggerated but after reading “Ha ha, he said. Ha ha” by Chuck Klosterman, it has made me think that TV sitcoms are choosing what everyone watching the program should laugh at.  In way I think that the TV sitcoms are basically molding our minds to a certain type of comedy so we continue to watch their sitcom and we as the viewers are fixated that it is truly funny, when at times it may not be.  In Klostermans story he compares shows like Seinfeld and Two and a Half Men that use laugh tracks to shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Office that don’t use them.  At times when I’m watching Seinfeld there will be times when they play the laugh track after the punch line and I will feel that they are almost dragging the laughter on when in reality it really wasn’t that funny.  Like for example have you every really closely listened to laugh track of a sitcom?  Most of the time you’ll hear one individual person out of the group that is laughing uncontrollably.  I feel that no one truly laughs like that unless it personally with some and the joke usually isn’t that funny to begin with.  Also when Klosterman states that everyone in America has three different laughs, I agree with him because I feel that I myself have a real laugh, a fake real laugh and a filler laugh.   

Annotated Bibliography Practice

Kubickova, Marketa, and Heejung Ro.  "Are students real people?."  The use of student subjects in hospitality research.  (2011): 1-5.  Print.

In this article, the objective of the study was to examine three groups, one of hospitality major students, one of students in other majors and one with non-students and all of them experiencing two service failure types.  The two failure types were process and outcome, a process failure happens when service is delivered in a rude or unfriendly manner and an outcome failure usually results when whatever the customer bought or is receiving isn’t what they expected.  The point of the study was to see how the students would react in each given situation.

Richtel Article Analysis

From reading this article I would have to agree that juggling e-mail, phone calls and other information can change how people think and act.  I feel that it is very hard to focus on something when your receiving e-mail, texts and phone calls all from one device.  I also feel that all of this extra information distracts us from what we were doing eventually.  Many things can go wrong from distractions whether it be missing a huge opportunity to make 1.3 million like Mr. Campbell or like getting a text message while driving and getting into a accident because of it.  Overall I feel that these distractions are important but I also feel that you need to make a decision on whats the more important thing in this situation.

About Me

I'm Jared Reed and I'm 20 years old.  I grew up in Plum Borough, which is a suburb of Pittsburgh.  I went to Plum Senior High School and graduated in 2009.  I now go to Indiana University of Pa and am majoring in Hospitality Management.  Some of my hobbies include fishing, hanging with friends, music, video games and sports.