Blog 8: The Concept of Others

     My other would be my father. He is like a person who doesn’t give a dam what happens. Gets my mom knocked up and then, tries to kill her by chasing around to yard. What I can’t understand is why he drinks all the time and so much. Why is he being controlled by his mom, he gives her all the money he works for. He doesn’t give my mom anything. Locks her in the house all day and limits what she can do and what she can’t. I could never understand why old traditions die hard. I could never be like someone like him. I may look like him and have his genes, but never will I do what he has done. It’s like torture, I can see through my mom’s eyes like it was last week, what hell she has gone through her entire life. Growing up all my life, my father was never there for me. He never came to see how I was doing; he never came at all. He was a couple hours away, but he valued money more than his son’s life. Sometimes I wish I was never born. If I ever have kids I will always be there for them, no matter if the marriage doesn’t work out. Bringing a life into this world is easy, but you’re responsible for that child, no matter what the circumstances are. I can’t and will not be like my father. He is one messed up person, that why I will always hate my families traditions.

Blog 7: Outline and Annonated Bibliography

Thesis: Simon Cowell known for influencing, changing and contributing to mass communication throughout the years.

Simon brought a new kind of competition, American Idol. It’s a singing competition in search of the next best singer. American idol is one the most watch Television series according to Nielsen ratings. Simon along with the other judges of American Idol are responsible for finding and making some of the stars which we know today as Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jordan Sparks, Fantasia Burrino, David Cook, Lee DeWyze and Kris Allen.

After the hugely successful hit American Idol he and his business partners developed Got Talent, which for us is known as America Got Talent. It’s a competition that is opened to any one that includes for example, comedians, magicians, dancers, singers, instrumentalists and any other talents there is.

He will also be launching the US version of the hit show The X Factor in September of 2011. It’s also another singing competition. We have to wait to see it.

Through him, fame from American Idol and the X factor franchise, and Wayne Brady fame created a program Celebrity Duets was a game show which combined different stars from different background with professional singers.



Annotated Bibliography

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/arts/television/20idol.html?_r=1

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20090707nbc03

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s103/the-x-factor/news/a282815/itv-signs-new-x-factor-bgt-deals.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4cbcb4e68e741a0f%2C0

Blog # 6: Hero

A hero is someone who puts innocent lives first instead of his own, sacrificing himself to save people from dangerous situations. In the movie Hero, two guys Bernie Laplante and John Bubber, Laplante being the real hero who saved the people and Bubber the homeless guy that pretends to be the hero. In the movie we see they way the media and the masses really made a big deal about this guy who just save the people from the burning plane.

In the movie Bernie Laplante a petty crook who pick pockets at every chance he gets, was on his way to pick up his son when his old car started acting up and a plane crashed right in front of him on the bridge. He went down to plane to open the door, but before he did he took his shoes off. So he open the door to let the people out and he saved them. When he was trying to leave, a little boy begged  him to go back and save his father. So he went into the plane and he didn’t find the boy father, but he found a lady stuck in between seats, so he saved her from the burning plane. So he went back to get his shoes, but only found one side. So he left the seen of the crash. Later he was driving on the high way and his car broke down. Then this homeless guy John Bubber, picked him up, and so he stated telling him his story about what had happed at the crash site and he also gave him his one side shoe since he lost the other side. Later on the lady in the plane Gale Gayley a reporter wanted the to know who save her, so she posted a picture of the hero on television and asked if they would come forward. Soon the whole America wanted to know who this mysterious hero is. So the news channel Gale worked at wanted higher ratings so they offered a one million dollar reward for the hero to come out and give an exclusive interview. Then she later said that they have the other side of the shoe and so many came forward, but John Bubber had one side shoe as well, so he came forward for the money. 

 
The media instantly makes a big deal out of him by turning into a celebrity who saved people in Vietnam and they boy in the hospital. Soon John Bubber was idealistic hero, because people saw him as well dressed, good looking person who had great hair. In today’s society we would look at the news and believe every thing they say. Just like this movie made it very believable, although we knew that Bernie Laplante was the real hero, and John wasn’t, people wouldn’t accept Laplante because he wasn’t this good looking, in shape and strong guy that looks like he could save people. The media made John into this guy who could do anything. I don’t think it was fair for John to get the credit for been a hero, but in the movie we see that Laplante didn’t want to be in the spot lights. He wanted to be left alone, but he wanted the money so he could help his family, his son. 

We all want a hero that can save us from this world we live in. Full of violent killing, cursing, lies and betrayal. In the end of the movie John Bubber couldn’t handle lying to people anymore so he wanted to jump off the building to his doom. Then Laplante comes to talk him and save him from jumping off, but then it becomes clear to Gale who’s emotionally attach to Bubber that he isn’t the guy who save her. Then she talks to Laplante who confesses that he was the one who did. But she went along with the story and never told the people who the real hero was, because she knew that people out there wouldn’t accept a person like Laplante and if she had said anything then the rating would of drop significantly.

Blog 5: Media Paper Draft

My  topic will be based on Simon Cowell. British producer

What did he do to change media lives?

What did he bring to America?

TO BE.....continued

Blog 4: Reflection

Writing blogs are not so fun for me, but I think that writing it helped me to get a deeper understanding of how to analyze the texts better. At first I had a hard time with it but then as I started to write more and more I got better at it. Some of the things I did, I already knew, but freestyle writing I didn’t have a clear idea of what it meant. I was thought to be critical about every little detail I wrote, kind of what I’m doing now. I was told that writing an essay, you can’t through anything in there, only address what the topic is asking you and include a lot of details and get to the point. Many things I did in this class was so different from what I have learned, that it made it difficult for me, so I wrote how I knew. Free style writing meant writing what’s on your mind but I overlooked it so much I didn’t really get much done. Writing can be tricky if you don’t know what you’re doing, which for me was difficult.

I thought that the interaction with the ENA 099 class was fun. It definitely help me to look at someone else writing, and there view of things, and be critical of their work. Interaction with blogging does make it meaningful. Writing to someone else in a different class makes it fun because it’s something different from that person’s point of view. Yes trying to critique on someone else’s summary makes me a lot confident.

I think that this class is the most annoying class I ever had. I didn’t like the idea of blogging.

Blog 3: The Matrix Analysis

In the movie “The Matrix”, we’re exposed to an alternate illusionary world called the matrix, which is a computer system. Its an illusion that humans live in, but fail to realize its not real. Its created so the machines would feed off of the humans as an energy source.

In Plato allegory of the cave, the prisoner was forced to go out to see what’s beyond the cave and he ran back because he refused to believe what he had seen or what he was told was a real.
In the movie, Neo is freed from the illusionary world by Morpheus. He who lives in the real world where there’s a war going on between humans and machines. Morpheus said that “most of them(humans) are so inured, so hopeless depending on the system, that they would fight to protect it”, because they refuse to accept reality. They only accepted what was in front of them. Morpheus said that “real is electrical signals interpreted by the brain”. Which brings us to Plato allegory of the cave where its says “if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away and take refuge in the objects of visions which he can see, and which he will conceive to be a reality clearer than the things which are now shown to him”.

In Today’s world people do all sorts of crazy things. Some overworked people would play video games to escape reality. Live in a world of shooting, killings and magic. Some would watch movies just to get away from things they don’t want to see. Just like the movie depicting how the matrix is fake, for example when Cypher in the matrix was having the steak, but he knew he couldn’t be satisfied with it because it wasn’t real.

The Allegory of the Cave

People these days believe in anything. Of course people have their very own believes, but they refuse to accept the truth and prefer to live in the illusion that everything  good. Plato uses the allegory of the cave to discuss the situations in life where people live in an illusion or refuse to accept the truth.