Poetry Reading

Last week I attended the poetry reading located in Brown hall. The man reading the poetry actually had some interesting inspirations for his poetry, including having one poem about his elderly neighbours who he said never left the house. He also had an interesting poem about ice fishing and all of its aspects. He then related ice fishing to life in general which I thought was quite interesting. His next poem had to do with being out on the lake, which he also related to many other things in life. Overall I enjoyed the reading and will definatly be attending the next one.

Child hood stories

After reading the stories, I gathered a few things that were different than the versions I had heard. First off, the story text itself was translated from German. Second, they were a lot more gruesome with their details, especially because these were meant for young children. For example at the end of Rumpelstiltskin he ripped himself in half and pulled off his let foot. This detail was a little too much for young children. Also, they use religious terms, like in Hansel and Gretel where they said that god would guide them back to their fathers house.In the versions I heard, the stories had been a bit simpler, and contained less detail about events that weren't appropriate for younger children.

research

So far, research for my Literary analysis paper has been pretty difficult. My analysis is going to be on a character from the film The Shawshank Redemption named Red. I will be looking into why the director chose Andy as the main character, yet also showed Red as almost more of a main character. It is hard to find information on this because I don't think anyone else has noticed this in the film, or if they have they haven't published that information. I have been able to find some information on the character that is relevant, but a lot of the substance for this essay I feel will have to come from me.

Glen Frostic reading

I attended the reading last week, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with the experience. When I arrived, there was food and refreshments available for free, not a bad start. I didn't really know what to expect before going there. I thought maybe it was a poetic reading of some kind but it turned out to be a pretty well known author from Florida reading the first chapter or so of his book. I listened attentively to the story, and I have to admit it seemed like quite a good book. It was about a high school football hazing incident gone wrong. Overall I enjoyed the experience, it was interesting and I am considering attending another one.

myspace

Not many people today use myspace like they used to. The people in the story we read called the Friend game: Behind the Online Hoax that Led to a Girl's Suicide. The use of myspace was kind of significant seeing as today many people use facebook, which is safer and harder to make fake profiles. Also, Facebook allows most of the things you say to people to be public, other than of course private messages and such. Also, in order to make a profile you need more info, and a more realistic amount of pictures for people to believe you are and actual person. Another thing is the fact that it shows your mutual friends. If you do not have mutual friends with a person you are less likely to accept them as a friend.

movie analysis

The assignment we have just received seems to be interesting. I feel that after watching Carrie and discussing different aspects in class I am fully prepared to write the paper. I feel I will enjoy the paper because it allows us to pick any sort of media we want and analyze it. I also feel that because I can do that verbally pretty well, putting it down on paper shouldn't be too difficult. The analysis itself will require some work, and writing it all down will be as well, but I don’t think I will have any shortage of ideas. 

Carrie

The movie Carrie was quite an interesting film. It showed how different film making was in the 70s, and how it has evolved today.In those days, that film was actually considered a horror film. By today's standards, that would barely touch the genre of horror. For starters, it wasn't scary in the slightest. Nothing popped out at you. Nothing was gruesome enough to make you cringe even the slightest bit. In order for a film to be considered horror in this day and age it must have both of those things, along with it being more realistic.It just goes to show how horror movies have developed over time.

writing a narrative

I actually quite enjoyed writing my narrative. It allowed me to tell the story in which most influenced my writing. I also was very grateful for the comments that were given back to me after I turned my rough draft in. These comments allowed me to better edit my paper, and it also helped to know that I was on the right track as far as substance went. Just some grammatical errors needed correcting and that was really it. The only thing I really had trouble with was the length of the story. The story itself wasn't a long one so stretching it out to make it 5 pages was kind of hard at times. There were certain details I wanted to put in the paper to bulk it out, but I felt they were a bit too off topic and would distract from the story itself. Other than this, the paper went quite smoothly.