In class writing assignment #6

I actually like to see them up because many young people today are on Facebook, Twitter YouTube etc. This is a good way to keep us informed on what is going on in the world. I think it is cool to see the different ads up because it is easy to access and you do not have to sit down and read a boring newspaper. Many young people don’t read newspapers because it boring and it is not entertaining. Newspapers seem to be more targeted toward an older audience. There are many ads up that attack each candidate on different subjects. I think it’s a good way to keep us informed. YouTube is an excellent way to see the candidates speeches if you miss them the first time they are presented. I was able to see the Democratic national convention speech, because someone uploaded the whole thing to YouTube. I was also able to watch Vice presidents speech when facing his opponent Paul Ryan. The speeches for who would be representing the Republican Party were also up. If we didn’t have sources like these to use many people would have no clue on what is going on in the debates. The propaganda used is hilarious and it is good to see Politian’s viewed in a funnier way rather than them being so serious all the time. Not only do you see the ads up representing the Politian, you get to see the comments regular people post. You get to see someone else’s point of view on things.

In Class Assignment #5 (body 1)

This was my first time seeing the show Smash. It wasn’t that interesting to me. They started the beginning from a flashback that happened 12 hours previous. I didn’t really understand why they did that because it didn’t add anything to the show but confusion. The scene show two of the cast arguing about what song fit the musical and how they tried to rush the material to the set before the play was supposed to happen. The girls in the play were telling the leading lady to break a leg and that she would do great right before she went on stage. It was a rocky road to get to that point because there was so much drama going on before that.

3 Miscellaneous

So I woke up this morning not feeling very well. I felt very weak, my body was tired and my head was hurting. I thought maybe if I sit up I’ll feel better and walk around, so I got out of bed and walked around for a little while. After about 2 minutes I felt better so I proceeded on with my day. I called my BF to wake him up because we had plans of going out shopping today. I then got dressed. The phone rang and I answered and it was my BF and he told me that he wouldn’t be able to make it today because something came up. I was a little disappointed but I decided that I would still go anyways. My mom then asked me if I could take my sister to work because my dad wasn’t home to take her, I agreed. As I was driving her to work a car in the other lane swerves over into my lane I immediately hit my brakes. The other driver looks up and gets back into her lane once she realizes what she had done. When I got back home my mom decides that she wants to go shopping with me. I got a little impatient because I had a specific time limit I wanted to shop. She then asks me to do her makeup, and I agreed. When she’s ready we head out for shopping. I got a couple items and my mother was able to return her unwanted items. We stop to get something to eat because we were both hungry. After all of this my day was still productive and I had a fun shopping day with my mom.

Readers Response to Juno

 I’ve seen Juno once before, but it didn’t really catch my attention. It was just one of those movies that you just watch to watch. By reading what the critic wrote on it, it made me think a little bit more about it and try to think from her perspective. I agree with her when she says that Juno wasn’t a good role model, because getting pregnant while still in high school is not a good thing. Things usually don’t get better for you and you have to struggle a little harder in life. I wouldn’t want my little sister to think that it would be cool to get pregnant at such a young age, but face it its reality. Things happen and people just have to deal with the consequences. I also agreed with her when she was talking about how she sort of kept cool during all this. Juno could be considered a role model in a sense of her maturity and how she handled the situation. She was going to give the baby up to a much more stable family that could provide for the baby in ways that she just couldn’t. She also showed her vulnerability when she honestly thought that the baby’s father would still want her to be his date to the dance. This was a key feature in the story because it was relatable to many teen moms who have boyfriends that leave them only because they are pregnant, which is very sad. Overall I liked the review on this movie because it gave some good and bad and it wasn’t just based on opinions alone.

 

In class writing assignment #3

“How I Met Your Mother”

I actually liked the show at first. I was kind of skeptical but it was kind of good. It showed basically how as time goes on how your outlook on life starts to change or doesn’t change at all. Two of the characters on the show went to college for their career choice, but they couldn’t understand one of the assigned subjects in school. Instead of study or at least trying comprehend, they decided to watch star wars to escape the problems they were having in school and to pass time. From that day on they made a pact within themselves that they would watch Star Wars every three years. As the years came and went, they noticed that what they wanted to be in life changed. One guy wanted to be married and pregnant with a child on the way. The other wanted a family he could call his own. Another guy remained the same he wanted to continue on with what he was doing, which was having sex with women then never seeing them again. By 2015, they all realized that they had really gotten what they wanted, so they became happy with their lives. It took fifteen years for them to really get out of life what they wanted and mature. The womanizer even settled down and found one girl he pledged to spend the rest of his life with, and refrain from any other women that would come into his life. Overall it was a lesson learner for all of them.

Writing Assignment #4

The hall was quiet until she heard the baby cry. She was a little startled at first but she calmed down once she knew what it was. She began to creep towards the room the baby was in, to see if something was wrong. She poked her head around the corner and she saw the baby just crying away. She really didn’t feel like being bothered but she knew she was going to have to do something; or the noise would continue. She decided that she would go make the baby a bottle because that always worked before. Once the bottle was complete she rushed in the room to give the baby the bottle, but she rejected it. The mother didn’t know what to do because the bottle trick usually always worked. The baby continued to holler until her mother picked up her favorite toy and handed it to her. The mother was pleased because now she could relax, but little did she know once she would walk out the room the baby would start the screaming up again. This time the mother was fed up, she didn’t know what to do, so she tried handing the toy back to the baby, it didn’t work. This time she screamed even louder than before and it seemed as if nothing was going to stop it. So she decided to give up and just walk out the room for good. She went in the front room and sat on the couch. She’d tried masking the noise with the television but that didn’t help. She’d tried turning on some really loud music but that didn’t help. She actually decided to leave the house to escape the noise, but her conscience started to set in. She began to second guess herself as a mother by asking questions like, “Why can’t I help my baby?,”  “Why aren’t I a good mother?” She then decided to go back to the room the baby was in and pick her up. The baby immediately stopped crying, she was amazed. She came to realize that all the baby really wanted was her love and attention.

2 Miscellaneous

Hands down my favorite food is corn. I have loved corn ever since I was a little girl. My dad would make fried corn which was amazing. I would butter it down, (this was before I knew butter was bad for you of course) I mean I would drench it in butter and I would put a pile of salt and pepper on a plate and roll the corn around in it. Now it would be ready to eat. Placing both hands at both ends of the corn I would bring it close to my mouth and take the biggest bite I could. Soaking up the butter with my tongue I would just chew on it until the little corn specks were gone. I would do this until it was just a bare cob and there were no pieces of corn in sight. I would then just suck on the cob potion trying to get all the juice out. My dad would look at me like what are you doing, but I would continue on. As I grew I noticed there were different types of ways you can cook corn. Cream style, whole kettle corn, fried corn, baked corn, and my all-time favorite corn on the cob. I also learned that a lot of things are made from corn. Corn flour, which makes the tortilla shells, it’s even in tooth paste. I heard people are even trying to make fuel out of it. This goes to show that we will forever need corn so it will remain #1 in my book.