Outside Blog 5

Today I was read a magazine I really don't read magazines I'm the one who looks at them while standing in a grocery store line just looking at the pictures until its my turn to get waited on and the only reason I woudl picked it up if they have an interesting front page I like how they try to sell their magazines by putting celebs pictures on their worst days and really mean topics about them or a sexy male star that seem to always catch my attention but today I decided to actually sit down and read one a co worker gave me a Cosmo magazine to read I don't think it is a good magazine for woman exspecially for young females because I think it give bad sex advice that doesn't need to be in a public magazine the front page had a beautiful girl on it but the topics were about how to please men and all about sex I had to get another magazine to check and see if this was that type of magazine and yes there it was the same type of topics I was starting to think this is why this magazine is so popular because woman read about it to get tips but as I started to read some of the articles they had some really good fashion advice and I even tore out the page with the workout exercises on it but majority of the articles were about pleasing men I really wonder what would Cosmo be like without it. Would it be as popular as it is now.

In Class Blog 5

This week class reading was the Intro of Poetry. Since we been doing this type of readings I'm starting to get the concept of the sections. In this reading it had a lot of terminology then the previous sections. The text really broke down the fundamentals of poetry out of all the reading we did this is my least favorite because we are getting into the poetry mode I think poetry is the best way to express yourself but it is hard to read; when I read a poem I can never comprehend what I read I think I actually go through all the steps on how to read a poem I can probably get some of them but without direction I wouldn't get it at all. When we got the assignment to pick a poem of our choice I really didn't think I would find one because of my background of reading poems so I was glad that the book put them in categories because it gave me ideas of what kind of poem I was interested in. When we got into our groups and everyone read their poem they picked I still didn't get them until we started to discuss them. After being in this class I realized that having discussions is the key to understanding anything you do not know. I'm really skeptical of the writing my own poem hopefully the exercises will really help me come up with something creative maybe better then my flash fiction story.

Outside Blog 4

For my outside blog this week I'm going to talk about myspace, facebook, and twitter all the Internet social networks that are very popular these days. I frequent these sites a lot, almost everyday to be exact, reading other people blogs and comments to even what they ate today, I sometimes wonder why am I so intrigued by these sites what are they doing to make me want to go on everyday? I realize after browsing through is that they have little ways of getting us to log on and that it letting us post our statues and moods for day letting us upload videos and photos all of these thing help get our attention. Also on these sites there is no language restriction so your comfortable reading the text. There also aren't any gender restrictions either it a social network for all ages these sites are updated a modernized to keep entertained and staying connected to these type of sites it not hard to figure out, every time I go on there is always some new feature added to get my attention. I think basically when it comes down to these site after awhile it does get boring but instead of picking up a really good book we rather go on the Internet click on one of these sites and read about other people day and life but I can say, it is very interesting stuff I think I learn about a different character everyday. : )

In Class Blog 4 (Star Wars)

In class we watched the movie "Star Wars A New Hope." To start off, I have never watched the movie before in my life and I never thought I would see it but I found the the movie to be quite interesting. In the movie, there was a western setting in the scene it was dusty and dirty in the bar it was all males they were having a beer, and listening to music, the bar fights, and also disagreements over money and somebody gets shot all of these thing are what you would see in a western film. I think this Star Wars reached a high level of popularity because it had a great storyline and plot it was the most amazing and advanced Sci-Fi movie of its time. They industry weren't making movies like that and it took the industry into another level of movie producing and I also think because of there mast collection of merchandises also help plus the movie captured the fantasy for both the young and the old. A symbol that i recognized in the movie was a private symbol was the light saber that was used by Ben. He used to fight Darth Vader and also Luke used it to practice. Character motivation I'm going to use Han Solo for an example because through the movie his character reckless guy who was the in debt and needed money to pay it off he was all about self until he realized the importance of helping the good. I can't really match one of the theme for drama in for this movie but we already know it has action, adventure, fantasy and Sci-Fi.

In Class Blog 3

My in class for this week I'm going to talk about the story that I had to facilitate for our mini book club and that was "The girl With The Blackened Eye." I thought it was a great story when read the title I thought the story would be about a girl getting beaten up, you know, something comical but that certainly was not the case. After reading the story i started to question why it seemed as if she taking up for the abductor it gave me mixed emotions as I started to think she was crazy exspecially when i read the part in the story when the narrator said her kidnapping was real and her life now wasn't and her keeping the map that the abductor drew before he died I thought she wasn't strong enough and was vulnerable but when I had the mini book club someone brought up the a syndrome I forgot the name of it but its when a person been beaten and tortured so bad they start to feel sorry for the person that harming them. That made me understand the narrator situation more. Also in my mini book club was the "Woman Hollering Creek" I thought it was interesting because both stories were about women that been abused and was having that type of syndrome.

Outside Blog 3

Today became a sad day after I came home from work and was told Michael Jackson the "king of pop" suddenly passed away from a heart attack. When I checked the Internet to see if it was breaking news it absolutely was but to me the Internet cant be your only source just because all the false stuff you can but on it. When I turned on the television it was plastered all over the TV from CNN, Showbiz Tonight, and VH1. You couldn't help but to get interested even if you didn't care for him. I watched them talk about him all night just because they kept luring me in saying stay tune on more information about his death then they would come back on the air and repeat the same thing they said moments before. I started to think they wouldn't give up anymore information I was switching back and forth from different news channels because they were procrastinating the new information to me but from the info I did get watching the press talk about what happened to him and showing images of him lying on the stretcher was really heartbreaking and surreal. When they but the fans on the TV and I seen them crying with posters displayed saying how much they loved him made me even sad but once I seen the cheerful and rejoicing fans it made me feel a little better. As I was thinking about Michael's death it made me think about a family member who died this year and how he got the same type of supporter that Mike did. After thinking about that I started to think positive and turn my sadness into happiness.

In Class Blog 2

My in class blog reading would be on the story that really intrigued me the most for some reason and that was Nipple Jesus. I like the narrator he had a voice that I can understand the text was written on a level that I felt comfortable reading. After reading the story and having the mini book discussion I realized the story was tackling judgemental issues as the narrator was judged, the art was judged and also the artist herself. It made me realize that people are really quick to judge a book by its cover. In the story the culture of the text was religious people and their issue with the painting thinking it was pornographic I couldn't relate to how they were feeling I understood the narrator more than anything but I guess because I was reading from his perspective. The strangest part of this story to me was someone who had came into the art gallery and riped the painting down and stomped it where is your religion now but also the character of the artist after someone destroyed her art? The theme of the story was judging people then it became religious. It was also funny how this one piece of art became controversy to the town just for it to be all for nothing and I understood how the narrator felt.