Blog 8

a) give a description of your "other."

My other is people who say “Sports doesn’t build character”

b) explain what it is about it that makes you feel such opposition to it

The reason I feel opposite to it is because most of the people who say or believe that probably never played a sport in they life and if they did they it was probably like 1 year which probably didn’t go well for them. I feel as if more kids get involved in sports it will help them develop basic common curtsies.

c) discuss what has happened or would happen in situations where you have to interact with someone who belongs to "the other" as you define it. You should make sure that you do not write something offensive to members of that group, but at the same time if you keep good manners you should express your ideas openly.

A situation where I had to interact with someone who belong to my other was when I had to deal with my uncle who believes that sports are a waist of time. It was about 4 years ago when my uncle tried to talk my father out of letting me play so many sports and let me get a job. My father didn’t listen and then he tried to talk to me and see if I would do it and I told him I like playing sports so I would not quit any of the teams I was on. My uncle still disagrees with me and my father but that is just his opinion.

Blog 9

Irony. In the  movie “Hero” irony  plays a big part in the way the movie is seen. There many instances in  the movie where ironic situations come up. In the movie “Hero” the main character Bernie Laplante is really a not so pleasant person, he has a criminal record, he has many legal problems, he lies a lot and does many illegal things, even when he’s in court with his attorney he steals money out of her purse to pay her back money he owes her. While on the other hand John Bubber is a under privileged man who yet is a good Samaritan who is a very honorable and trust worthy person. But even though Bernie wouldn’t even give back a lost wallet who went into a plane and saved 54 people and even though John is a very honest person he lies and says that he saved the people, the irony being that these to characters are polar opposites but yet they still do the thing that the other one would do. That’s just one of the ironies this movie portrays, here’s some more examples of this pattern.

Another example of irony in the movie is after Bernie saves the people from the plane and goes to see he’s son and then gets kicked out the house trying to explain why he was late(saving the people) and the only reason he saved the people in the first place was when his son told him that his ex-wife’s boyfriend who was a fireman saved a man from a fire and he said he was hero. Then when his ex-wife’s boyfriend came home from the plane accident he called the guy who went into the burning plane crazy and when his ex-wife said you sound like the my ex-husband the boyfriend said he “I should probably meet this guy he sounds like he has his head on straight”.  The irony in that being that the only reason Bernie went in there in the first place was to impress his kid because he heard about the fireman but then the fireman calls the guy that went in the burning plane crazy and says that Bernie was a smart guy for not being the type of guy to do that.

The biggest ironic moment that comes up to me is when Bernie and John are on the side of the building and they’re talking about the whole situation with Bubber lying to the everyone and taking credit for saving the people, and Bernie talks him into staying with the story. It’s ironic because Bernie was being accused of buying the purse off of Bubber and black mailing him, but yet when Bubber’s on the ledge he goes out and basically saves him by talking him out of jumping and then Bernie slips on the ledge and Bubber saves him from falling. The ironies are that Bubber saves Bernie from falling, The fake hero who lied saved the real hero.

The purpose of irony in the movie is to show how a person like Bernie Laplante  who’s a crook and a somewhat rotten person can still have another side to him, same thing goes for John Bubber who also show he has another side to him.  Irony is also used to show how the media sometimes are wrong in what they report, seeing that in this case what they reported was the total opposite of what happen. Irony is the theme of this movie because it is the best way for the viewer to understand the concept of what the movie is trying to get across.

Many things in life are ironic. There are ironic situations that happen everyday and with that being said still no one usually sees these things coming. I guess irony just works funny that way and the movie “Hero” portrays it very well.

Follow up Blog 8

One time when I was seen as the other was when I was coming back from my cousins house and before I left my cousin asked me to help him take up parts of his computer because he had just came back from college. While doing so then finishing I proceeded to walk down the stairs of his building when I saw him having trouble with the boxes so I ran up back the stairs to help and then saw he got helped from a man inside the lobby. After seeing that I lightly jogged back down the stairs into my other cousins car. Then out of no where the guy from the lobby comes to the car and flashes a police badge telling me and my other cousin to get out of the car. The dude thought I was like a drug dealer because I ran up to the door and then he thought I saw him and that’s why I left back the stairs knowing in his words he was a cop(but he was an undercover cop not in uniform with nothing showing he was) and then when I told him was just helping my cousin the guy you just helped in the lobby he didn’t believe me because my cousin looks white although his not and I look black so the cop automatically thought of me as the other and thought I was lying because of our different skin tones. Finally when I called my cousin to come back downstairs and tell him that I wasn’t lying, the cop apologized(knowing he was a jackass) and let me and my other cousin go.

Blog 6

Irony. In the  movie “Hero” irony  plays a big part in the way the movie is seen. There many instances in  the movie where ironic situations come up. In the movie “Hero” the main character Bernie Laplante is really a not so pleasant person, he has a criminal record, he has many legal problems, he lies a lot and does many illegal things, even when he’s in court with his attorney he steals money out of her purse to pay her back money he owes her. While on the other hand John Bubber is a under privileged man who yet is a good Samaritan who is a very honorable and trust worthy person. But even though Bernie wouldn’t even give back a lost wallet who went into a plane and saved 54 people and even though John is a very honest person he lies and says that he saved the people, the irony being that these to characters are polar opposites but yet they still do the thing that the other one would do. That’s just one of the ironies this movie portrays, here’s some more examples of this pattern.

Another example of irony in the movie is after Bernie saves the people from the plane and goes to see he’s son and then gets kicked out the house trying to explain why he was late(saving the people) and the only reason he saved the people in the first place was when his son told him that his ex-wife’s boyfriend who was a fireman saved a man from a fire and he said he was hero. Then when his ex-wife’s boyfriend came home from the plane accident he called the guy who went into the burning plane crazy and when his ex-wife said you sound like the my ex-husband the boyfriend said he “I should probably meet this guy he sounds like he has his head on straight”.  The irony in that being that the only reason Bernie went in there in the first place was to impress his kid because he heard about the fireman but then the fireman calls the guy that went in the burning plane crazy and says that Bernie was a smart guy for not being the type of guy to do that.

The biggest ironic moment that comes up to me is when Bernie and John are on the side of the building and they’re talking about the whole situation with Bubber lying to the everyone and taking credit for saving the people, and Bernie talks into staying with the story. It’s ironic because Bernie was being accused of buying the purse off of Bubber and black mailing him, but yet when Bubber’s on the ledge he goes out and basically saves him by talking him out of jumping and then Bernie slips on the ledge and Bubber saves him from falling. The ironies are that Bubber saves Bernie from falling, The fake hero who lied saved the real hero.

Many things in life are ironic. There are ironic situations that happen everyday and with that being said still no one usually sees these things coming. I guess irony just works funny that way and the movie “Hero” portrays it very well.

Blog 5

George W. Bush and his censorship of the media. The importance of this topic is how the former president stifled the media and basically put an extra short leash on them and what they could report and how it effected the 4^th amendment in this country which is freddom of the press. I will develop the position of that this event really set the U.S. back in media freedom.The sources that will be availible to me will be youtube.com,google.com and my media and culture book, the best source out of all 3 being my media google where i can find alot of information.

Blog 4

In this class so far I’ve learned some new things but for the most part I knew most the things that were being taught. Some of the things I did learn were, how to right a correct thesis statement, how to free write to brainstorm idea’s and to warm up your brain to start writing. The thesis statement definitely connects with something I already knew because in high school I had to do thesis statement essay’s to get ready for the regents. The brainstorm warm up with the free writing was something that was unusual to me, but I approached it with an open mind and it worked out to be a good thing to know. Nothing is confusing about when it come to any writing concepts.

I thought the interaction with the other class was fun to do just for the fact that we were getting to interact with other people in the school. Writing to the other class definitely made the blog more meaning  full because now your effecting somebody else class. It made different because you could maybe comment to in the class and you will be able to talk to them in class if anything was taking of context but with the other class you had to be really diligent and understandable because you can’t talk to them to clear anything up. Critiquing there summaries did make me more confident in that I was able to see they’re mistakes and that means I wouldn’t make the same ones on my summary.

I would like to share with the rest of you that I really like the class and that I feel like I’m surrounded by really smart people and I hope that I will be able to learn more things to improve my writing skills.

Blog 3

In the " The Matrix " women and mens roles have been reversed.In the " The Matrix " there are some instances were Trinity has to save Neo whichin essence is a role reversal with how usually the man will always save a woman. That being said they is definitely an illusion that women can't save men from certain situtations.