Saturday, March 27, 2010
Research Paper
The topic of my research paper is the movie Jaws and how it used fear in the movie industry to make it a blockbuster hit, and how it just simply scared people from wanting to go into the water. My topic was the first blockbuster summer movie, and now it seems almost all of the best movies come out during the summer. It also shows why zombie movies are failing in society today. Lastly it shows why people are still scared of sharks and why people still kill them for no reason. My topic differs from other because it was truly the first. The first scary movie that was good, the first summer blockbuster movie, and it used something really, not a zombie or a nightmarish figure to scare people. The cultural issues I will be dealing with in my paper are how greatly the use of fear was used in the movie. The scariest things in life are those that are real, just like Sharks. I will also touch on this effected the film industry. However this will mostly deal with sharks and how at the time Little was known of sharks and this movie opened many peoples eye to the way sharks work, and it's not until now that we realize that all sharks are not Jaws, and that they are smart and don't usually attack humans. The author of the book JAWS is now an active shark savior and educates people on how good sharks are and how non scary they actually are. I'm excited to use fear and scare tactics in this paper, and hopefully why there has not been a good horror movie in a long time.
Friday, March 12, 2010
"show don't tell"
Show don't tell is a very old writing technique that was used to guide writers. Patrica disagrees with this and says to show and tell. Like with the te cup in her essay. My writing in school mostly show about what is going on, and in doing this the person can tell what the larger picture is. If it would to subtract away from the credibility of the writing it was not done properly. If you can't show and tell something and then take away it's credibility there is quiet a problem with your writing.
The object in my room is my television. It's a Black JVC 42' LCD television, in HD. It was more unique then the other tv's because it has a IPOD dock on the bottom of it. IT flips down and a blue light lines the ipod dock section whenever the TV is on.It sits on a unique stand that is 2 and a half feet above the ground. I bought this tv while I was in Japan. It was 350 dollars off the original sale price. When I left Japan it was shipped backed to the U.S.A and somehow in transit it got a tiny scratch on it in the upper left hand corner on the top of the TV.
One thing I don't like about her article is she talked about her Grandmother mostly with a little bit of a tea cup. YOu can do that with anything, a pencil and talk about the store you bought it in, or the company that made it. The tea cup had no relevance to the story except where it came from.
The object in my room is my television. It's a Black JVC 42' LCD television, in HD. It was more unique then the other tv's because it has a IPOD dock on the bottom of it. IT flips down and a blue light lines the ipod dock section whenever the TV is on.It sits on a unique stand that is 2 and a half feet above the ground. I bought this tv while I was in Japan. It was 350 dollars off the original sale price. When I left Japan it was shipped backed to the U.S.A and somehow in transit it got a tiny scratch on it in the upper left hand corner on the top of the TV.
One thing I don't like about her article is she talked about her Grandmother mostly with a little bit of a tea cup. YOu can do that with anything, a pencil and talk about the store you bought it in, or the company that made it. The tea cup had no relevance to the story except where it came from.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Chris lived in the wild, trying to imitate his hereos(Jack London, John Haies). His heores toook very dangerous steps in the wild. Chris's heroes did live more succesfully in the wild then Chris did because they survived. The big diffference between these people is, that the knowleged they possed before living in the wild. CHris read books on it, while these people lived by it daily, until they took a huge leap into the wild. To say that they the heores stayed away from the dangerous side of the wild, is just obsered. That would be saying that there is a safe side in the wild. I do not think however the heroes would of stayed out there till they died of starvastion like Chris did. They could of been killed other ways, or got hurt not been able to travel out like Chris. I honestly do not know enough on this subject to say any other claims.
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