Thursday, November 11, 2010

Blog #7

Humor, well I have a very broad view of humor I do not know where to start. For me humor ranges from movies, comedians, and funny daily life thing that happen that make me laugh. First, the movies I consider to be funny are not always the ones that make me laugh out loud, they can be dark comedies as well where you really have to pay attention to the movies or you will miss the jokes. The comedy movies I like range from movies from comedians like, (yes) Jim Carrey, to Dane Cook, to watching movies from stand up comedians like Richard Pryor, George Lopez, amongst others. Also I’m a fan of British comedy movies, like Snatch (with Brad Pitt, Jason Stathom, and others), Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (with Jason Stathom, Vinnie Jones, and others), and some of their shows too like, “Little Britain.” Also, as I stated before humor for me also happens everyday when you catch yourself or others doing funny or stupid things and end up laughing about those retarded things you just did. It does not necessarily has to be about things that just happened but things that you did in the past and you are talking with your friends, family, or coworkers about them and laughing at that. So for me humor is just one giant ball of things that make me smile or laugh and maybe end up making my day.
Now, when I think of style, I think of the personality of a person. For me it is not what you wear or where you buy your clothes or how expensive they are, you can be the nicest dressed person in the room and have a crappy personality. I for instance do like to dress up (when I feel like it or when I need to J ) but I have a good personality to go with it. I am also not one of those trend following people like there are many out there, I usually dress up in what I feel I will look good and what I will feel comfortable wearing, if those two things do not combine then I will not buy that something and wear it. So for me it has to be a combination with those three things comfortness, likelihood of me wearing it, and have a good personality to go with it.

Blog #6

When I heard that we had to do a critical analysis on a movie when we got the assignment I was not that much concerned because if I did not understand the movie or understand the concept or argument that the screen writer was trying to make us see, I have a Netflix account where I could watch the film over and over again. Also, when I saw what movie it was I like “really this old movie?” but I must say I rather enjoyed it and I actually saw it a couple of times at home before typing the paper, I even had my girlfriend watch it with me! One more thing is I’m sure that while watching this movie I as well as some of my other classmates had flashbacks or could relate to what the movie was about, it probably remind them of people the knew, friends, or maybe themselves. I liked the assignment I do not think that it presented a lot of problems so I would not mind doing another critical analysis or another paper on a movie. So in the end I could say that I did end up liking the movie, I would not put with my like top twenty movies but it is definitely one that I would watch again some other time. I did not really dislike anything about this assignment, though I have not received my paper back yet so I do not know what I could have done different. With that in mind I do not think that I would change anything, I did my introduction with my thesis, where I had what the article was going to be about and had very clear what I wanted to write and how I wanted to do it.

Blog #5

Well to start I did it completely wrong, I did not do it in the format that I was supposed to. When I went to OWL I thought that the way that I typed was the way that Kristen wanted it to be but I was wrong. So one of the things that I would change when I rewrite would be to change the format to the correct form. Another, would be to actually analyze it instead, what I did was summarize it and that was not what the assignment was looking for. With that said I could say that I did not effectively discuss whether or not the argument was successful. My opinion was on the paper I wrote a lot about what my opinion was on most of all my paragraphs, but like I stated before, it was not exactly what the assignment was. When I was doing my evaluative summary I wrote my opinions and I believe I did have good transitions from the concrete details to the sentences where my opinion was. I think my choice of words used for the evaluative summary were appropriate so I do not think that I could have used stronger verbs or different ones to help my writing. Overall, I have to rewrite my paper in the correct format, analyze it not summarize it, and now I will have to go back and reread the article and try to analyze it more carefully and rewrite it to get that grade that I want. J