Moving on to the blog posts. Each week were asked to write on our blogs over any type of reading we did during the course of the week, or the teacher would give us a topic for us to write about. The great thing about blogs is that is allowed us to interact with our classmates and comment on each other blogs to give and provide our insights of what they had to say. These 4 blogs posts are my strongest blog entries this year.
Blog Link: http://bchoe58.blogspot.com/
Blog Link: http://bchoe58.blogspot.com/
11/13/09 Practice Movie Review (final)
The Devil Wears Prada
Upon watching the first ten minutes of "The Devil Wears Prada" it is obvious that this film is intended for people, mainly women who have an interest in fashion, as judging by the importance fashion takes within the opening scene. Anne Hathaway plays a women who is applying for a position for a top magazine called "Runway," whos editor in chief is played by an indifferent, brute, and blunt Meryl Streep. As Hathaway approaches Streep for the interview, Streep mearly brushes her off and doesn't give her a chance. A lighthearted, witty film with two big name stars, this film is for anyone who has a knack for fashion
Upon watching the first ten minutes of "The Devil Wears Prada" it is obvious that this film is intended for people, mainly women who have an interest in fashion, as judging by the importance fashion takes within the opening scene. Anne Hathaway plays a women who is applying for a position for a top magazine called "Runway," whos editor in chief is played by an indifferent, brute, and blunt Meryl Streep. As Hathaway approaches Streep for the interview, Streep mearly brushes her off and doesn't give her a chance. A lighthearted, witty film with two big name stars, this film is for anyone who has a knack for fashion
10/30/09 My Advertisement (final)
My advertisement is basically marketing a deadly virus. While most of the ads you see on tv market products such as deodorant, make-up, beer, etc. This ad markets something that will destroy your life. In the ad is wonder woman, a superhero of great power, lying helpless and sickly on a hospital bed with a look of apathy on her face. She is in her trademark uniform, attached to an IV, and the words "AIDS makes us equal" as a caption on the bottom of the ad. I suppose the argument of this ad is saying that, while everyone is different, AIDS is the common thing that makes us equal. We are all vulnerable to it, and once diagnosed, its a fight you can't win that saps your strength and life. The intertextuality of this ad uses wonder woman as an AIDS victim because it projects the image of a mighty heroine with super powers and seemingly no weaknesses as a normal human being. If it had just an average joe in the ad, no one would think much of it. Having wonder woman there is more powerful just because of the reputation she has throughout popular culture.
9/30/09 Reading entry p 153-162 (midterm)
For this week's blog, I decided to read From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle, by Min-Zhan Lu. p153-162. What I found most interesting about this reading was how much the English language was condescended upon during the Anti-Rightist movement. Just speaking the language itself was considered an anti-revolutionary act and for the author, made life much more difficult in the midst of the two conflicting worlds. Transitioning between the "home" and "school" languages could not have been done without contradicting one or the other. The same concept also surprised me in the sense that once she became fluent in the voice of the Working-Class student, the English meaning of the word "class" began to lose its meaning to her, after much exposure to her "home" life. I agreed with pretty much everything she wrote in her piece, because it was an autobiography to some extent and. Overall, I thought this real-life experience of the author was a very enlightening story to read and really depicted how the struggle between her "home" and "school" life caused her to go through the hardships and confusion at such a young age. It really makes us think about how far the education system progressed from that time to the day today.
9/03/09 Visual Narrative Topic (midterm)
For my visual narrative, I will discuss and present my experience with music during my life and how it helped me communicate in a different way then with the words you speak. From my childhood experiences with the piano and saxophone, to my teen years playing and teaching guitar, I learned that with music, you are able to express emotions with diversity, creativity, and passion.
