MAKE UP BLOG

Well I cannot believe how fast this semester flew by. I feel like it was just yesterday when Mr. Stone was yelling at Jamie and I. I was freezing in the back and I told him that and he was like "You could move up to the front but there isn't a seat for your lil friend!" LOL. HAHA Mr. Stone did not like us that day. Anyways here is a picture or my roomates and I studying it up for finals. In this picture Jamie and I are working on our rhet papers!  Kind of stressful lol. Well I just wanted to say thank you Mr. Stone for this semester I've learned a lot! I also enjoyed the class :)

Jessica Davis

The End of this Semester.....

I cannot believe that this semester is almost over and I’m writing the last blog for rhetoric class now. It feels like that school just started a few weeks ago. Actually, this whole semester was too busy for me. There was too much work to do for my chemistry and ceramics classes, but, fortunately, I have never stressed out to any writing assignment of this class. I like all the topics that Jon gave us; it was so much fun! Especially, I really really love the second writing assignment, analyzing the picture or drawing.
Through this class, I have improved my writing style. In high school, I always had to write 5 paragraphs essay. They forced me to write one introduction paragraph with thesis and three body paragraphs with three different topics with three supporting ideas and the last concluding paragraph. There is no “I”, no “you”, no “we”, and no passive voice and etc. They restricted my essay in a certain frame and it seemed like I was filling in the blank. However, in this class, I did not have to put my writing in a certain frame. I wrote what I want to write and what I think about the topic on a piece of paper.
I still need to improve many things. The first one is my grammar and my sentence structure. Even though I have been here about 4 years now, I still use many Korean likely sentences. Second, I need to improve my reading skill. I could not put much effort on reading this semester, because I was so busy to doing my awesome 20pages lab report every single fr***ing week but I really need to improve it.
Anyway, this class was one of my most favorite classes ever!!!!!!!

Min

Reflection

At the very beginning of the semester, I went into the class with a little bit nervous, because I did not know what I would have to do in this class. However, time by time, I found that this class is so much fun, because it is not like other hidebound classes, which make people fall asleep, and I will not hate this class although it is my earliest class in a day.
My family moved to the US couple of years ago, so the thing that I always want to do, is improve my English, and this is what I expected to get from this class. Nevertheless, the first paper had made me so desponded. When everyone got an A, I was only B. It seemed like I do not fit in this class. However, from that frustration, I learned that I should use more information that we got in the class and from the tutor. I became more and more comfortable for sending e-mail to teachers and talk to them like friends, by what Jon asked us to answer his e-mail every time. I tried to catch up in this class.
Now, when I am reading the diary that I wrote at the first day of school, I can easily see the what I have improved, I can fix so much grammar problems that I did not know how to use in correct before. I can see how dumb I was.

Lonnie

This Halloween - Lonnie

I did go out for the Halloween on the last two years, but I had done nothing for this year. It was so mash up. First, I have to thank for the high technology right now, because of that, my mom had known the threatening note of Halloween from the newspaper at Chicago before I heard about it. And the last thing she told me was: “Stay in your dorm, and I will call to check you. If you want to lose the mom, then you just go out.” These words must be some kinds of word that parents used for scaring their children, but sadly, I trusted. My mom did not call me until the next day. At Friday evening, after dinner at outside very early, I went back to my dorm with my friends. Fortunately, they did not want to go out, also because of that threatening note. So, we just stayed at the lounge of the dorm, and play the wii for the whole night, and watching people kept going around.

The Dark American Psycho Knight

A couple months ago, a movie Batman the Dark Knight hit the box office. I was in Korean when the movie first came out and I went to watch it with my friends. The movie was great. Everyone applauds about Joker’s(Heath Ledger) acting. Batman was acted same actor as the first series, Christian Bale and his acting was great, too. Today I was searching movie trailer of Batman and I found someone made a mash up the original Dark Knight trailer with American Psycho. I didn’t watch the American Psycho but I heard that Christian Bale acted in the movie. He tilted the video The Dark American Psycho Knight. It seems like the author put some scenes of American Psycho into the Dark Knight trailer but it seems like just one perfect trailer. In the video, the Batman, or Christian Bale of American Psycho, is crazy; such as he curses out to a girl, kills people, instead of saving people. It was not funny video but the producer made really good connection between the two movies. For instance, in the Dark Knight, Batman is not a hero anymore, many people blames him because many innocent get harmed because of Batman. So he is more likely portrayed as an evil. In the American Psycho, Christian Bale seems a murderer, so it is really good connection between the evil hero and the murderer.
-Min-

mash-up

I watched one mash—up about the High School Musical 2 and heard some music about mash—up. The editor of the film, High School Musical 2, changed the purpose of the whole movie. The movie still has it original characters in it but it replaces the movie with music. It’s a four minutes place at YouTube I had found; it’s totally a different story from the original to the mash—up. The sound it played is more like a hip—hop music.

The song I listened to is a song from Britney Spear. The editor mixes two songs into one. It’s more like a remix, adding two songs into one created a new song. I think mash—up isn’t a bad thing but sometimes when some features added into the original, it makes the whole thing goes wrong. I watched High School Musical 1, 2, and 3, it watches enjoyable to watch it. Everyone in these movies sings pretty well but the mash—up of the High School Musical it wasn’t enjoyable at all. The two songs I listened for the mash—up of Britney Spear’s song were great. Putting two songs into one created a new song. The most important is the new song sounds not bad at all. I think it’s important to have the same of the original.

By: Shu Mei

McCain vs. Obama

Obama

Barack Obama wants to "spread the wealth around" and is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than he is in growing the pie.

Barack Obama's plan will harm employer coverage, continues the push toward government-run health care and will damage private coverage.

Barack Obama opposed the new strategy and predicted wrongly that it would fail. He voted to deny critical funds to our men and women fighting in Iraq.

McCain has served his country since he was 17 years old!

John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan that will create millions of good American jobs, ensure our nation's energy security, get the government's budget and spending practices in order, and bring relief to American consumers

John McCain will make health care more available, affordable and responsive to patients and he will give families more choices over their care.

John McCain had the judgment to understand that America's strategy in Iraq was failing and the courage to call for a dramatic change. That strategy is now working, and America is succeeding in Iraq

I think that Obama should not be the President of the United States of America!!!!!

Someone that claims to be an america, and goes to a church that actually believes that we deserved to get bombed by terrorist!! This is outrages!!

Barack Obama's Racist Church If Sen. Obama rejects the Rev. Wright’s warped view of this country, why does he continue to attend his church? http://www.johnmccain.com/Undecided/WhyMcCain.htm Jamie Adishian