RE: Orr’s ending review

Orr goes into very good detail and evrtything that he says pretty much makes sense. The movie was really good and they way it was ended doesnt exactly complement the film. Its leaves you with too much info or leads you on a road with a dead end and when you go back to take a another road in the forl that road is also a dead end. From the beginning of the movie, i knew that Daniel and Eli would eventually get into it. You could just tell form how Eli acted, especially when the drill opened and Eli told Daniel to give him a shout-out but instead he shouted out his little sister. The way Eli negotiated the deal for the land in the first place, and the way he acted in the church was the complete opposite of Daniel. There can’t be two leaders so eventually the clash would take place. Eli acts on impulse and uses religion, while Daniel uses rationalism and the sense of business even though he calls himself a family man. The baptisim of Danieil was more a busniess decision rather than religion. He used it to get himself ahead of the game. It kind of relates to beginnig with the one man who crawled across the desert and the other who died in the well. Life is all about getting ahead.

Orr’s Review

Orr’s review is written really well, i like the language he uses and how he is so descriptive that it allows me to paint a picture in my head. I did have a problem with how he started to talk about the intro to the movie, he made it sound like the injured man dragged himself across miles, where he passed a man who had died in the hole when the injured man was able to pull himself out. Orr made it sound like the two events had happened around the same time, but in the movie the events were years apart.And he claims violence and blood, there is blood but so far i didn’t see that much violence yet.

If i was to write a reveiw like Orr, i would definately be decriptive; you have to be because if the reveiw isn’t good, and doesn’t catch the reader’s attention, then the reader wouldn’t want to see the movie even though the movie is realy good. I would also include how the acting was; the movie’s actors seem to as to really be back in the early 1900’s, the way they speak and act, the amount of realism is incredible. The movie even includes early automobiles and steam engines, and primary oil drills. All aspects should be included in a review. In comparison to Scott’s reveiw, Orr’s is more entertaining, more descriptive, and the language is easier to comprehend, because it can coincide with the vocabulary of the avergae individual.

RE: Scott’s Article

I think that Scott’s review of “Good Night, Good Luck” was an excellent piece. The only disappointment that I had was with the movie. I know that it is supposed to depict the 50’s and it does that but they were so many things going on with McCarthyism. The review makes the movie sound so much better, but then when you see it your like “EHH”, “it was okay”, but it could have been better. The movie should deal with all aspects from the 50’s, the Soviet Union, the random arrest of people being accused of communism, and the spies and things like that. If i did have something to say about the article by Scott, I would say it needs to be simplified a bit. The language is great, and adds texture, but it might be a little to complicated for the average movie watcher.

Why men and women cant find equal ground according to Simon de Beauvoir

According to Simon de Beauvoir for a woman to become independent she must be economically independent and stable.

Women are faced with greater obstacles of becoming independent because of many reasons; women are now just beginning to develop a life outside of the codes of domesticity set before them, they are the minority of the workforce, and most women aren’t ready to give up living on a man’s income because their wages aren’t high enough to support themselves. If a woman wants to express herself sexually she is considered a whore for having sex with a man she has no relationship with, but if a man does it he is praised. Also in marriage if a woman wants to be married she is predisposed to be a virgin and is stuck with the responsibility of taking careof the children and house. All of these things make it difficult for women to become independent in respect to Simon de Beauvoir.

I think that women are gaining independence. Now more and more, women are breaking out into fields that were once male-oriented; CEOs in big corporations, construction workers, doctors, police officers, firefighters, and etc. The stay-at home parent is not always the mother nowadays, and the gap in the workforce in wages is closer than it was. Even though women are gaining independence, in some areas they have not; if a woman wants to have sex with different men for pleasure she is considered a whore, but a man can do it and will be praised for it.

Unit 3

Friday Night Lights

Run Fatboy Run

Never Back Down

He got game

Deja Vu

Transporter

The Bank job

Bourne Identity

Bourne Suprmacy

Bourne Ultimatum

“He got Game” stars Denzel Washingtion and is about a man who pushes his kid to hard to be the best at basketball, until one night he pushes to hard and gets involved in an alterxation that ends up in the death of his wife. He is convicted on murder charges and locked up. His son Jesus, grows up and is about to graduate High School he is the number recruit in the nation for basketball. The governor of the state that Denzel’s jail is in cuts a deal with Washington. If he can get his son to go to the governor’s alma mater, he will be released early from prison. so he tries to get his son to go to the school at first but in then ed all he wants is forgiveness. This is a good movie for sports fans but doesnt dip too far into the realm of basketball. A good story related to people in the Coney Island area but dips into a sort of fantasy realm. Readers could relate to the evaluation of this film because there will be some time in our lives when all we want is forgiveness

Recap

How I write

Promoting your Blog

Harlem

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How I write

Writing blogs is fun and sometimes it helps people with problems or issues that they may be having, but i think that the biggest problem is too find something to blog about in the first place. When I need to find a topic i search through the latest news, sports, and entertainment but that never works, so eventually I just end up sitting in front of a blank screen waiting for something to click inside of my head. Then boom, we have lift off it could be the stupidest subject, or the most off topic subject that people think off; but i will write about it. When I begin to write and get the creative juices flowing, its as if the dried up grasslands who have been through a harsh drought finally had gotten the rain they so desperately needed. That is another thing when i write, depending on the topic sometimes I will brainstorm, and other times I’ll just write even if it makes no sense because later on I will go in and rearrange some words, delete some sentences and its all good. I like to write about hard cold facts and question those facts. My philosophy professor told me that I would make a pretty good philosophy major, and I didn’t even know i had it in me. I just like to question, and find out why things happen, and approach subjects with different perspectives. So when I have to write paper for a topic, and making a decision on what is given to me, and trying to involve the reader it will be okay but it won’t wow. But if you give a paper that allows me to add my own opinions and let my curiosity flow, you’ll say to yourself that was a good read.

Promoting your Blog

Well there are plenty ways someone can promote a blog, telemarketing, handing out fliers with the web address or throwing blog parties, but no one does any of these things(i hope) because that is a waste of time; time that could be used to promote your blog in a efficient manner. People read blogs because they want to read about something that is interesting and catches their eye, so step one is to pick an appropriate audience. The audience who reads your blog should be able to relate to the type of language you use if your writing on a specific subject like mountain biking, then you should use mountain biking terms. Not everyone is going to have the same interests, so don’t write something to broad because then other people still wont be interested and the people who were interested before lost interest because the article is too vague.

You can also do some crazy things to promote your blog, like when producers want to promote a movie they advertise. The way you can advertise is by putting your blog URL all over the Internet with a flashing picture or something like that people will notice. Or you can write your blog’s URL on your body in body paint and run around NYC naked or interrupt a huge sporting event by streaking, you’ll probably end up in Jail and possibly hurt really bad so i don’t recommend it but if you want some publicity that’s the way to get it done; if Britney Spears can get publicity from a wardrobe malfunction, then so can you.

If u have the cash sponsor a nascar driver and tell him to put the blog’s name on the side of his car. A lot of other companies do it and get millions of new customers, so if you do it you cna get millions of new viewers. Another way you can promote your blog is if you have the cash to spend, hire a plane to skywrite it or to pull a banner with the web address over jones beaches on a nice summer day. These are just a few suggestions and there are more to come in the next installment of Promoting your Blog.

Harlem

If you would have said Harlem, New York about ten years ago located in New York City some of these terms would come to mind; globetrotters, violence, drugs, hookers, crackheads, gangs and many others. But now in 2008 the community of Harlem has done a 180 degree turn in the other direction on the property scales. If you said you lived in Harlem ten years ago you would have been living in a bad neighborhood, a slum in some cases, and you would have been laughed at by people form better neighborhoods; now if you say you live in Harlem your probably living in a million dollar brownstone. The addition of former president Clinton’s office to the neighborhood is one the key components to what i like to call the Harlem revival. This neighborhood has been famous for good things like the globetrotters, jazz, and the Apollo theater as well as the bad things like drugs, dirty cops, and the American Gangster “Frank Lucas”. This historic African-American neighborhood is rich in African-American culture and the black community who has been living there for years through the good times and the bad, feels as if they are being stripped of their rights and being displaced from their neighborhoods.

“This is a takeover,” said Sikhulu Shange, the owner of a 125th Street record store. “This is theft. This is highway robbery. … If we don’t fight to win, this will be the end of an era.” This was said by a Harlem resident and he is right. This happens all over the United States, governing bodies say that they will pay residents for their buildings or for their land. Most of the time they will say yes, but if the people say no they are pretty much forced to sell and move ou. While the city makes a profit and the construction companis renovate or build overthe lan, turn around and sell the land for as much as ten times for than they parid for it. What ever happened to the good old days when your neighborhood was the only place where could go back too? Harlem not so much anymore unless you make some serious dough.

Recap

Unimited Itunes

Nintendo to X-Box

Dave should have kept the gravy train rolling

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