Responding to readings

I honestly have next to nothing to say about these readings...at least nothing nice. I have pretty much focused my problems with these reading (and the book as a whole) to a very simple statement. It's a high school writing book with better vocabulary. Reading the "I say" sections of this book became mind numbing. It's uninteresting (despite their attempts to lighten the mood with "funny" comics) and the use of their own templates to argue a point just pound home how boring the book is. I think I'm done here and to finish this blog I think I'll just give my own thought on how to present one's own views on a subject.
To avoid how boring and pointless the templates in the book get I'll pick one subject, assume that the method I use can be extrapolated and adapted to any other argument or issue and stick to it. The issue I'm choosing is cultural vampirism.
First start out by giving a very clear example of what your discussing. In conjuncture with my chosen topic I'm going to use Lady Gaga. I start by explaining my example. There is a group of people who we will call artists and who act in a manor that most members of society find at the very least odd, if not offensive. The artist do strange and provocative things like dyeing their hair bubble gum pink. Not to impress anyone but to do it because they enjoy it. Then there are cultural vampires who seem to have almost no personality of their own and suck the blood and meaning out of actions of artists for their own personal gain and social standing. Lady Gaga claims to be an artist and do the borderline insane things she does because it's her way of expressing herself but in fact she is a cultural vampire. She leeches on the growing number and sudden popularity of artists in the world and uses these resources for her own self gain. Lady Gaga wears a bikini made out of raw meat not to express a point about animal activism but for the publicity and added joy of seeing herself talked about. This is not unique. One girl at school sees someone out in the world with a Mohawk, decides she likes it so sports one too, then a cultural vampire sees all the gossip and interest caused by said girls new hair style and (the vampire) decides to sport a Mohawk too. Thus causing much more interest in themselves by others and slowly killing the significance of the original Mohawk girl's action. The following is an image of exactly what happens when cultural vampires (in mass) grab hold of a movement:
http://www.eatliver.com/img/2007/2408.jpg
The use of several examples and definitions, coupled by images help to express a better understanding of the topic at hand. Instead of citing a brief paragraph of a much larger piece from the work of other it is much better to create one's own examples and go from there. Continuing by adding premises subtly to an argument works much better than a template that blandly sets up a point you wish to make. Use of off beat terms and ideas, or forms of expressing such also makes an argument much more interesting and easier to follow. I think I'm done now...