1. The reviewer of the watchman movie strongly disliked the film. He thought the movie was very lengthy and dragged on for far to long. He believed there was to many characters which made it hard to focus on one main story line. He was very harsh on the way the characters appeared on the stream. One of his comments was "Last and hugest is Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), who is buff, buck naked, and blue, like a porn star left overnight in a meat locker." This brutal statement really captures his thought on the movie and the dirctor itself.
2. Syriana was torn down by this reviewer, he constently brings up how confusing the movie was to follow and mentions how the characters dont even understand the movie why should the viewers. This movie is about the oil market that leaves people richer than belief or people dirt poor. The review mentions that there was no one to root for in this movie because it all consists of bad guys, if it was broken up into bad guys and good guys he says "we" woukd be the good guys, of course.
3. The 'scary harry' review takes about the director personally and mentions the slow pace of the first Harrp Pitter movie. Though he does admit the movie lacks a jump start and has a sluggish pace, the first 40 minutes are used to introduce the characters and the background. As we jump into the second movie we know that it is going to be a faster pace movie loaded with more action and better visual effects.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
On Turning Ten
Collins is trying to show you what its like all in one moment how it is to grow up. Going through each year of what the child thought or wanted to be shows the reader how children believe they can do anything that pops in their minds. It also talks about how things that we enjoy as a child dont seem as special when you start to grow up. The whole point of view of this story is from a child which shows you how he is leaving behind his childhood because he feels like he has to just because he is turing 10 years old. The end of the story when it talks about whats inside of a child shows you how a child thinks that nothing could go wrong in life. Until you become an adult and you understand all the things that can go wrong in life.
What is Collins trying to say with this poem?-- He is trying to say that there comes an age when you have to give up childish things.
How does he capture childhood and the process of growing up?-- Collins shows how the things that bring us joy as a child start to fade away and not seem so special anymore. He also shows how kids feel invinsible growing up and nothing could hurt them.
What makes this poem effective?-- The way he goes through each year of his life and all the different things this kid wanted to be or thought he could do makes you see how different children think from adults. What also makes it effective is how the child thinks that when you turn 10 you have to forget all the childish things you like behind.
how does this fit into your own life experience?--This fits into my own life and everyones life because there is a point in everyones life were you start to leave behind the childish things and gaining more responsibilities.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
3 definitons
According to the auther the defintion of beauty has to do with dove. They believe that beauty comes in all shapes and forms but that dove can inhance your natural beaty. No matter how old or how big you are, you are still beautiful.
Denial has changed through the ages. The most common way to use the word denial is to refuse what has actually happened in real time. Many people choose to ignore crucial things that happen in there life, in this defintion that applies. for example the enviroment, holocaust.
The word Evil is used by almost everyone, it is related here to how George W. Bush's use of the word and the people that disagree with him. Evil come from satan, gods rival. It can be attached to a person who is generally mean or not friendly. They are saying that the meaning for Evil is an ongoing defintion and any certain person can have their own meaning for it.
Denial has changed through the ages. The most common way to use the word denial is to refuse what has actually happened in real time. Many people choose to ignore crucial things that happen in there life, in this defintion that applies. for example the enviroment, holocaust.
The word Evil is used by almost everyone, it is related here to how George W. Bush's use of the word and the people that disagree with him. Evil come from satan, gods rival. It can be attached to a person who is generally mean or not friendly. They are saying that the meaning for Evil is an ongoing defintion and any certain person can have their own meaning for it.
Monday, April 9, 2012
1. A new idea that is told is to be "beholden" in this definition. I would define a Yankee as someone who lives in the north.
2. These allusions add extra definitions to the idea of Yankee. If you didnt get the allusion then it adds nothing to the story and it would make it more confusing.
3. The technique used in this story is Stipulative. It uses the authors own ideas in the defintion and it also gives a long explanation of Yankee. I believe that the writer spent too much time explaining what Yankee's dont want.
2. These allusions add extra definitions to the idea of Yankee. If you didnt get the allusion then it adds nothing to the story and it would make it more confusing.
3. The technique used in this story is Stipulative. It uses the authors own ideas in the defintion and it also gives a long explanation of Yankee. I believe that the writer spent too much time explaining what Yankee's dont want.
Monday, March 5, 2012
“A Modest Proposal”
1. The real thesis about this story is that England is treating Irland poorly so he is making a point about how badly life is for Irland. He is making the solution drastic to show people how bad things are.
2. paragraph 4--”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”
Paragraph 6-- There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us! sacrificing the poor innocent babes I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.
Paragraph 7--The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how this number shall be reared and provided for, which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither build houses (I mean in the country) nor cultivate land: they can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing, till they arrive at six years old, except where they are of towardly parts, although I confess they learn the rudiments much earlier, during which time, they can however be properly looked upon only as probationers, as I have been informed by a principal gentleman in the county of Cavan, who protested to me that he never knew above one or two instances under the age of six, even in a part of the kingdom so renowned for the quickest proficiency in that art.
3. I knew before hand because our teacher told us. And what person in their right mind would be serious about eating babys.
4. The rich people were targeted and the poor people were victims. Irland is the victims but they are also to blaim because they need to help the poor people in their country.
5. Yes its only function is a satirical attack, at the end he might propose an actual problem at the end.
6. The purpose of the last paragraph is to show that he does not want to eat babies in real life. He was just poking fun.
7. I dont really know
8. This is a wierd question. I dont know
2. paragraph 4--”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”
Paragraph 6-- There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us! sacrificing the poor innocent babes I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.
Paragraph 7--The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how this number shall be reared and provided for, which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; we neither build houses (I mean in the country) nor cultivate land: they can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing, till they arrive at six years old, except where they are of towardly parts, although I confess they learn the rudiments much earlier, during which time, they can however be properly looked upon only as probationers, as I have been informed by a principal gentleman in the county of Cavan, who protested to me that he never knew above one or two instances under the age of six, even in a part of the kingdom so renowned for the quickest proficiency in that art.
3. I knew before hand because our teacher told us. And what person in their right mind would be serious about eating babys.
4. The rich people were targeted and the poor people were victims. Irland is the victims but they are also to blaim because they need to help the poor people in their country.
5. Yes its only function is a satirical attack, at the end he might propose an actual problem at the end.
6. The purpose of the last paragraph is to show that he does not want to eat babies in real life. He was just poking fun.
7. I dont really know
8. This is a wierd question. I dont know
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Why I Want a Wife
1. I believe that the thesis is implied, I think this because she is using sarcasim to show how the stereotype of wives and women are obserd and not realistic. She doesnt come out and fully say she doesnt like the stereo type. Instead she is making fun of the idea.
2. She keeps on saying, "I want a wife" to show how important and wonderful it would be to have that kind of wife for a man. Who wouldn't want a wife? Is what she is getting at.
3. Brady doesnt actually want a wife at all. She is poking fun at the idea of men treating women like a business instead of a person. If this ideal spouse does exist then that marrage is not based off of love of feelings at all. I think Brady wrote this essay in frustration of how women were beinb treated.
4. Brady defines a wife for all the things she does for her husban and his kids. Its all the things she needs to do to make sure his life runs smoothly and he doesnt have to do anything besides work and schooling. I think it is complete bull the way a wife is described. A relationship should have two EQUAL parts, not just the husband feeding off the wife and the wife gets nothing in return. I think she wants her readers to realize how degrating this is for a women. She also wants them to see it the other way around what it a husband who has to do all that for a women.
5. I believe that in your piece "I want a Wife" you could have been much more sarcastic to get your point across. I understand what you are going for in making fun of the idea and making it seem like, who wouldnt want a wife like that? But at some points i could see men reading your piece and agreeing with everything you said and thinking it was okay to think those things because a woman is saying it too. Over all I think it is bold to speak out on such a big stereo-type at the time and I applaud you for standing up for what you think is not right and voicing your opinion.
2. She keeps on saying, "I want a wife" to show how important and wonderful it would be to have that kind of wife for a man. Who wouldn't want a wife? Is what she is getting at.
3. Brady doesnt actually want a wife at all. She is poking fun at the idea of men treating women like a business instead of a person. If this ideal spouse does exist then that marrage is not based off of love of feelings at all. I think Brady wrote this essay in frustration of how women were beinb treated.
4. Brady defines a wife for all the things she does for her husban and his kids. Its all the things she needs to do to make sure his life runs smoothly and he doesnt have to do anything besides work and schooling. I think it is complete bull the way a wife is described. A relationship should have two EQUAL parts, not just the husband feeding off the wife and the wife gets nothing in return. I think she wants her readers to realize how degrating this is for a women. She also wants them to see it the other way around what it a husband who has to do all that for a women.
5. I believe that in your piece "I want a Wife" you could have been much more sarcastic to get your point across. I understand what you are going for in making fun of the idea and making it seem like, who wouldnt want a wife like that? But at some points i could see men reading your piece and agreeing with everything you said and thinking it was okay to think those things because a woman is saying it too. Over all I think it is bold to speak out on such a big stereo-type at the time and I applaud you for standing up for what you think is not right and voicing your opinion.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
James Thurber Satire
The Little Girl and the Wolf
This satire was good because it took an old story and made it humerous and somewhat more up to date. The moral of it was really funny and clever because of the ending of the story. It was very similar to little red riding hood. In the original story the girl was very scared to see the wolf but in this one it is funny because she just ends up shooting the wolf. It is harder to fool a little girl now a days.
The Bear
This satire is very clever because it takes a common struggle today and puts it into story. It was also funny that the bear when sober and drunk end up doing the exact same things. I have never heard the original story to this but there are a lot or fairy tales with bears in them so it makes it even more funny that he picked this animal in the story.
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