Nemat's Secondhand Bookseller After reading Nemat's Secondhand Bookseller, I understand more about writing narratives than I ever have. I really enjoyed reading this story, it kept my attention from beginning to end, and that is not very easy to do with books. This story has taught me more about how in dept your suppose to go while writing narratives. I really felt like I was in the story, I could mentally picture the setting of every part of the story. I haven't quite been able to figure out why Nemat uses dialogue when she talks to the bookseller, but not when she talks with other people in the story. By Nemat's thesis, "In a way, books have saved us both." I felt that it focused on the main point of the story throughout the whole story. In the past, I have struggled with writing a thesis and I believe that after reading this narrative that I have more confidence and understand it a little bit more than I had before. I was fascinated by how interested Marina Nemat was with reading books, how she went through so much trouble just to be able to read, and taking matters into her own hands to pursue her interests. This narrative has given me some ideas on what to write my narrative on, and in a round-about way of how I want to write my narrative. I am not a big fan of reading, in the past it has caught my interests but maybe this is the start of a new chapter in my life with reading and writing.
Juno Evaluation - Ali Heinekamp First off, I vaguely remember watching this movie as it has been over at least 4 years now since I have seen it. My honest opinion of the movie is that I hated it. I am more of the comedy/action movie type of person and I have no idea what category this movie would go into; drama perhaps? This movie seemed really boring and never had a cut out main focus to the story; in my opinion. I felt that the moral of this movie was pointless and it all seemed fake, the main character, Juno, would go from a reckless, non-caring punk to a sweet innocent pregnant girl; it switches perspectives way too much. I believe that the intention of this movie was to help prevent teen pregnancy, but it might have boosted the numbers by showing that it was alright to be 16 and pregnant and that it wasn't that big of deal. Also, I am kind of bothered by the name choice of the main characters. Their names are Juno and Bleeker. After hearing these names I want to portray these two characters as punks and low-life's. Now on to the review; after what we have learned about our movie critique in class on Thursday, I think that this review gives us too much information about the movie; it basically tells us the whole story. I think that the author of the review did a great job stating evaluations from movie critics and citing them. Also I like the title, it gets you wondering how this movie is different from all other teen movies. If I am correct, the thesis is the last sentence in the first paragraph, which does a good job stating what the rest of the evaluation is about. Although the movie drives me insane, I think that this is a good evaluation of it other than the fact of having a tad bit too much information in it.
A.O. Scott's evaluation of the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace gave me great ideas for my upcoming evaluation of the movie "Think Like a Man." The background information at the beginning of the review helped straighten out some kinks about the review because it explains what the review was written for, The New York Times. This tells me that the audience would be anyone who is thinking about going and seeing the movie, and just wanted to know someone elses opinion on it first. Scott starts off in the introduction paragraph by describing a little bit of the background information of the James Bond movies. Throughout the review, he talks about stuff such as the plot, the opening song, the characters and their rolls, etc. and never really gives away the movie; there is still much lingering info that a fan of James Bond would be interested in finding out by watching the movie. The picture in the middle of the review gives the reader a sense of what James Bond in this movie is like; in this case, the actor in the Quantum of Solace is Daniel Craig. Scott goes on to explain how Craig is a different James Bond than past actors of this concise character. I learned much about how much in depth I can go on each character while doing my review, and this gave me another reference to look into along with the Juno evaluation.
Seelye's article had one main subject matter, and that matter was numbers in magazines. Every other sentence talked about numbers in this magazine or numbers in that one. I could not tell if this article is supposed to be like our upcoming essay or not. I kept trying to look for two different subjects and the only thing that I could find was women magazines against men magazines. The main point of this article was to explain why there are so many numbers in magazines and information about the numbers. After reading this, I have to admit that I fall for the same thing. A reason that was said was that people like to rank things in order, and that is why they want articles more often with numbers on the front. I fall into this category also. I am a sucker for numbers in magazines and I did not realize it until after reading this article. The first thing I look for when flipping through magazines are ranking. The last one I can remember doing this to is an ESPN magazine ranking "Who is hot and who is not." Numbers are the only reason why I, and many others, buy magazines. Some of the explanations of the numbers were that people believe articles more often if there is an odd number opposed to an even number. Also, that people would rather have articles with smaller number over a subject that requires work. An explanation for having so many numbers in articles is because people are always busy, and they would rather have a quick read opposed to having to read a long article. Editors say that when there are numbers on the front of a magazine, people swarm the news stands and this is where magazines make most of their money. In conclusion, putting numbers on magazines has become a psychological view. It is one of those weird things where people would rather have numbers more often than not, maybe it is an act of laziness that has spread across our nation.
After reading Lantry's article, I have thought a lot about how hygiene products of today's world are advertised compared to how they were in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1950s. I have found that they are advertised basically the same way. The main idea of this article is to explain how three products, Lax, Listerine, and Resinol, were advertised towards women and which pitch they used. The pitch was that if you are not using those products, you were not good enough for men or to live life to its fullest. These three products were advertised strictly towards women and in today's world, there are more products that are actually advertised towards women just as much as they are to men; is our world becoming more feminine? These ads also prove that these techniques would work too. Listerine is still a top product of mouth wash and it was created more than 55 years ago! People care so much about their appearance and are gullible enough to believe what people tell them. These three products used advertising pitches such as science and sex. The visual aids in this text helped a lot to explain what each product was and to show exactly how the product was being advertised. I am not sure if our next essay is suppose to be like this one, but if it is, I have learned a lot of what my essay is suppose to look like along with sound like.
Hopkin's article focused on the proposal of "Teach for America." Teach for America is a corporation to help young teachers become more prepared for teaching school. Instead of having to go through years of college, it is a five week training session. People wanted to change Teach for America because it wasn't really helping teachers be more prepared. Students of the young teachers posted scores on achievement tests that were not very good except in math. Some suggestions to improve Teach for America is to have the young teach spend more time with an experienced teacher, or a mentor if you will. A residency to improve Teach for America includes such ideas as increasing the commitment of young teachers, provide incentives for staying longer, place in urban areas, spend more time with mentors, and offer courses to get a master degree. In order to address these strategies, there are issues standing in the way. Such issues are funding, capacity, existing structures, and possible objections. They have no funding coming in to fund Teach for America and do not have the capacity to expand it and add these strategies suggested in the residency. The results of Teach for America are likely worth remodeling the organization. Teach for America has a chance to majorly change how education will be done in the future. People coming into the organization really need to devote their lives to teaching. For the sake of our future education, these potential teachers need to be more educated and do a better job in the classroom to help out our students as much as possible.
What I have gathered from reading Burnett's essay is that State forests are better than Federal run forests. In this essay, I have come to conclusion that he believes if State and County run forests instead of Federal running forests, forests would be better off. He states that more money would be made this way and that growth rates would improve more so. The opening sentence, which states "The United States Forest Service (USFS) is a lightning rod," really catches the readers attention and makes them wonder why Burnett would state such a statement. It is a very well constructed opening sentence that flows very well with the rest of the essay. He goes on to make his argument, which is plainly states that he is against federal forest agencies and for state/county agencies, and is very convincing in doing so. The structure of this essay is great, it uses paragraph form and uses bullet points to state facts. One thing that I do not see in this essay is evidence from other sources. He states a lot of information but does not give where he gets it from and does not credit the source. This text gave me some great ideas also on how I should structurally write my essay over the use of steroids in baseball.
Nemat's Secondhand Bookseller
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Nemat's Secondhand Bookseller, I understand more about writing narratives than I ever have. I really enjoyed reading this story, it kept my attention from beginning to end, and that is not very easy to do with books. This story has taught me more about how in dept your suppose to go while writing narratives. I really felt like I was in the story, I could mentally picture the setting of every part of the story. I haven't quite been able to figure out why Nemat uses dialogue when she talks to the bookseller, but not when she talks with other people in the story. By Nemat's thesis, "In a way, books have saved us both." I felt that it focused on the main point of the story throughout the whole story. In the past, I have struggled with writing a thesis and I believe that after reading this narrative that I have more confidence and understand it a little bit more than I had before. I was fascinated by how interested Marina Nemat was with reading books, how she went through so much trouble just to be able to read, and taking matters into her own hands to pursue her interests. This narrative has given me some ideas on what to write my narrative on, and in a round-about way of how I want to write my narrative. I am not a big fan of reading, in the past it has caught my interests but maybe this is the start of a new chapter in my life with reading and writing.
Juno Evaluation - Ali Heinekamp
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I vaguely remember watching this movie as it has been over at least 4 years now since I have seen it. My honest opinion of the movie is that I hated it. I am more of the comedy/action movie type of person and I have no idea what category this movie would go into; drama perhaps? This movie seemed really boring and never had a cut out main focus to the story; in my opinion. I felt that the moral of this movie was pointless and it all seemed fake, the main character, Juno, would go from a reckless, non-caring punk to a sweet innocent pregnant girl; it switches perspectives way too much. I believe that the intention of this movie was to help prevent teen pregnancy, but it might have boosted the numbers by showing that it was alright to be 16 and pregnant and that it wasn't that big of deal. Also, I am kind of bothered by the name choice of the main characters. Their names are Juno and Bleeker. After hearing these names I want to portray these two characters as punks and low-life's. Now on to the review; after what we have learned about our movie critique in class on Thursday, I think that this review gives us too much information about the movie; it basically tells us the whole story. I think that the author of the review did a great job stating evaluations from movie critics and citing them. Also I like the title, it gets you wondering how this movie is different from all other teen movies. If I am correct, the thesis is the last sentence in the first paragraph, which does a good job stating what the rest of the evaluation is about. Although the movie drives me insane, I think that this is a good evaluation of it other than the fact of having a tad bit too much information in it.
A.O. Scott's evaluation of the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace gave me great ideas for my upcoming evaluation of the movie "Think Like a Man." The background information at the beginning of the review helped straighten out some kinks about the review because it explains what the review was written for, The New York Times. This tells me that the audience would be anyone who is thinking about going and seeing the movie, and just wanted to know someone elses opinion on it first. Scott starts off in the introduction paragraph by describing a little bit of the background information of the James Bond movies. Throughout the review, he talks about stuff such as the plot, the opening song, the characters and their rolls, etc. and never really gives away the movie; there is still much lingering info that a fan of James Bond would be interested in finding out by watching the movie. The picture in the middle of the review gives the reader a sense of what James Bond in this movie is like; in this case, the actor in the Quantum of Solace is Daniel Craig. Scott goes on to explain how Craig is a different James Bond than past actors of this concise character. I learned much about how much in depth I can go on each character while doing my review, and this gave me another reference to look into along with the Juno evaluation.
ReplyDeleteSeelye's Article
ReplyDeleteSeelye's article had one main subject matter, and that matter was numbers in magazines. Every other sentence talked about numbers in this magazine or numbers in that one. I could not tell if this article is supposed to be like our upcoming essay or not. I kept trying to look for two different subjects and the only thing that I could find was women magazines against men magazines. The main point of this article was to explain why there are so many numbers in magazines and information about the numbers. After reading this, I have to admit that I fall for the same thing. A reason that was said was that people like to rank things in order, and that is why they want articles more often with numbers on the front. I fall into this category also. I am a sucker for numbers in magazines and I did not realize it until after reading this article. The first thing I look for when flipping through magazines are ranking. The last one I can remember doing this to is an ESPN magazine ranking "Who is hot and who is not." Numbers are the only reason why I, and many others, buy magazines. Some of the explanations of the numbers were that people believe articles more often if there is an odd number opposed to an even number. Also, that people would rather have articles with smaller number over a subject that requires work. An explanation for having so many numbers in articles is because people are always busy, and they would rather have a quick read opposed to having to read a long article. Editors say that when there are numbers on the front of a magazine, people swarm the news stands and this is where magazines make most of their money. In conclusion, putting numbers on magazines has become a psychological view. It is one of those weird things where people would rather have numbers more often than not, maybe it is an act of laziness that has spread across our nation.
Lantry's Article
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Lantry's article, I have thought a lot about how hygiene products of today's world are advertised compared to how they were in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1950s. I have found that they are advertised basically the same way. The main idea of this article is to explain how three products, Lax, Listerine, and Resinol, were advertised towards women and which pitch they used. The pitch was that if you are not using those products, you were not good enough for men or to live life to its fullest. These three products were advertised strictly towards women and in today's world, there are more products that are actually advertised towards women just as much as they are to men; is our world becoming more feminine? These ads also prove that these techniques would work too. Listerine is still a top product of mouth wash and it was created more than 55 years ago! People care so much about their appearance and are gullible enough to believe what people tell them. These three products used advertising pitches such as science and sex. The visual aids in this text helped a lot to explain what each product was and to show exactly how the product was being advertised. I am not sure if our next essay is suppose to be like this one, but if it is, I have learned a lot of what my essay is suppose to look like along with sound like.
Hopkin's Article
ReplyDeleteHopkin's article focused on the proposal of "Teach for America." Teach for America is a corporation to help young teachers become more prepared for teaching school. Instead of having to go through years of college, it is a five week training session. People wanted to change Teach for America because it wasn't really helping teachers be more prepared. Students of the young teachers posted scores on achievement tests that were not very good except in math. Some suggestions to improve Teach for America is to have the young teach spend more time with an experienced teacher, or a mentor if you will. A residency to improve Teach for America includes such ideas as increasing the commitment of young teachers, provide incentives for staying longer, place in urban areas, spend more time with mentors, and offer courses to get a master degree. In order to address these strategies, there are issues standing in the way. Such issues are funding, capacity, existing structures, and possible objections. They have no funding coming in to fund Teach for America and do not have the capacity to expand it and add these strategies suggested in the residency. The results of Teach for America are likely worth remodeling the organization. Teach for America has a chance to majorly change how education will be done in the future. People coming into the organization really need to devote their lives to teaching. For the sake of our future education, these potential teachers need to be more educated and do a better job in the classroom to help out our students as much as possible.
Burnett's Essay
ReplyDeleteWhat I have gathered from reading Burnett's essay is that State forests are better than Federal run forests. In this essay, I have come to conclusion that he believes if State and County run forests instead of Federal running forests, forests would be better off. He states that more money would be made this way and that growth rates would improve more so. The opening sentence, which states "The United States Forest Service (USFS) is a lightning rod," really catches the readers attention and makes them wonder why Burnett would state such a statement. It is a very well constructed opening sentence that flows very well with the rest of the essay. He goes on to make his argument, which is plainly states that he is against federal forest agencies and for state/county agencies, and is very convincing in doing so. The structure of this essay is great, it uses paragraph form and uses bullet points to state facts. One thing that I do not see in this essay is evidence from other sources. He states a lot of information but does not give where he gets it from and does not credit the source. This text gave me some great ideas also on how I should structurally write my essay over the use of steroids in baseball.