financial crisis of S. Korea by Bryan

I read two articles about the economic crisis of South korea from the Economist and MSNBC. South Korea, which suffered from a harsh financial crisis 10 years ago, is almost repeating the same thing now. Therefore, the government released $130 billion in the market in oreder to rescue it.
The Economist, which is a professional economic megazine, discusses about it very thoroughly by giving specific examples and quotes from the governers. On the other hand, MSNBC, did not discuss about the financial crisis deeply. It just gave me brief explanation about it. Still, those two articles were not biased but neutral. They discussed about the topic solely based on the facts.

Links: MSNBC
Economist

There are different ways of transmitting a news. Despite its being the same event, when you read two newspapers, or when you listen to two different news stations, the way they describe the event is not the same. The news i read was Jennifer Hudson's offer of $100.000 for her nephew's release. I read the article of Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago Sun-Times describes the event in a more long and detailed way, and makes it even more sensitive the description they use. They also use more citations, which at the Chicago Tribune article are fewer. Chicago Tribune describes the story in a shorter but more precise way. So, depending on which news source you decide to use, you choose the way of news you wish to take!
Megi Jani

Obama's new tax plan

In the article “Obama calls McCain tax plans ‘Outrageous’” the author stands out the negative effect of the McCain’s tax plans. The article is most about what Obama talked about the plan and he compares it with the tax plan of president, G. Bush. It is almost double reduction than that of president Bush did and, it would come out about $5,700 billion over next decade. He also mentioned the plan would reduce in the U.S corporate tax rate to 25%. Another, Obama said that the $170billion tax rebate produced 49,000 people in unemployment.
Another article talks about the McCain’s tax plan will help to create more jobs. The basic theory of the plan is the new plan will increases wage to keep more of what employees earn; which is opposite view with the above article. It says if the plan reduces the corporation tax rate, it would increase the employment rate. It also covers up the health insurance coverage.
The two articles are talking about same topic, the McCain’s new tax pans, however, they have totally opposite points. The first one more emphasizes on the negative effect of the new plan but the other one tries to explain why it is more effective. Both articles sounds make sense. However, the first article is more reasonable because he uses many reasonable data to prove his point. The other one just tells how the plans theoretically work.

-Min-

Gas prices drop

I read the news of gas prices from both CNN and ABC7. Both articles had mainly told what happened: prices of gas have tumbled nearly 53 cents a gallon in the last two weeks; Tthe Lundberg survey of 5,000 stations across the country finds the average price of a gallon of regular gas is $2.78. But more than that, the CNN also tells the detail history of gas prices in last two weeks. In addition, I also know some other informations from CNN, for example like oil prices have fallen by more than half in July, or Lundberg said that the prices seems like will not rise in a time. I will never know these if I only read the news from the website of ABC7. For this news, the article of CNN is more detail than the article of ABC7.

Lonnie Hu

Ingrid McShan's Blog

I found a website about different blogs. It list several catagories that people can choose from and read about. I read about celebrity entertainment for the blog. Its was suppose to be the latest gossip and news about your favorite celebrity. I read it and went over individuals opinions. I think its kind of cool to read what people have to say. Some people arguements i agree with but then again some things I dont. I think sometimes people are kind of hard on celebrities and they cant believe everything they read. Many people dont understand celebrities have a life too and they are just people. The site I went on is http://topsites.blogflux.com/celebrities/. The site is organized and has several topic to choose from that people can read.

gas prices-glenn foster

the two articlkes that i looked at were from msnbc and http://www.cnn.com. the 2 articles were about the rapid decrease in the gas prices across the nation. this two articles were simalar because they were based on the exact same topic, but cnn had wrote a better article because the wrote in more detail of the great down scale of prices by compairing them to curent prices in major cities. this had enlightened my economical views revolving around our gas prices across the nation.

War

US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria

this is similar to what  I am writing for my synthesis paper. It is on war. This blog was more toward the special attack on Syrian territory which is close to the border with Iraq. This blogger is basically complaining that we killed one of Syria guards on this air raid. Syria is upset and wants to investigate this situation more. Syria doesn't want to be involved in this. There have been estimated 20 a month foreign fighters into Iraq. "Syria president, Bashar Assad, has pursued indirect peace talks with Israel, mediated by Turkey, and says he wants direct talks next year. Syria also has agreed to establish diplomatic ties with Lebanon, a country it used to dominate both politically and militarily, and has worked harder at stemming the flow of militants into Iraq." Trying to make Syria change its image and end years of global seclusion. This relates to my topic by this is the war that we are going through and need more propaganda. Like the photo in text messaging  page 386 to help with the war on IRAQ.

Jamie Adishian

I am not one who care much for politics but I guess you can say that I still do have my opinions. I am not completely for or against it but I do support it because it is happening and the soldiers that are over there are fighting for us whether you believe it or not. The thing that I hate the most is the point of view that the media gives to us about the war. I think they are completely one sided and try to make us look like we are these awful people or they make the Middle Easterns these awful people. I hate when people say that all people from over there are bad just because of one group of people and there horrible actions. Not all of the people from over there were apart of what happened and a lot people blame all of them. I have met some people from those countries and they are some of the nicest people I have ever met and they actually don't hate the United States like some media likes to tell us. It depends on which news you decide to look at and how the information is going to be presenting and how they are trying to make you feel. Are they using ethos, pathos, or logos? I noticed from MSNBC they use pathos for the most part. For example they wrote an article about how the Iraqis used someone with Down Syndrome as a Suicide bomber. In my opinion I feel they are trying to make us feel sorry for this person and make us mad at Iraq. On the other hand I feel that NYTIMES is more of a serious news site. Their stories are still compassionate but they give more facts and let you know what is happening and not really trying to get you to feel anything. Both sites are good to look, it just depends on how you want to feel and what information you want about the war.

Maggie Frederick

Hudson offers $100,000 reward for nephew's safe return

The two articles that I read were about the shooting of Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother and the kidnapping of Jennifer's 7 year old nephew. The two articles were from MSNBC.com and CNN.com were basically the same articles. I liked the article from CNN because it seemed more real and sympathetic. It gave more facts and personal quotes. The article from MSMBC just stated what happened and moved on, there was no emotion or compassion in the article. In the CNN article it gave the facts but it also told how the police were trying to help and what progress had been made so far on the case.  It made me have more compassion for Jennifer's family and a quick recovery for her nephew.

Ashley 

Metra engineers suspended for letting teen drive train

The two newspaper articles that I found came from The Chicago Tribune and The Chicago Sun-Times. Basically, the point of these two articles was to say that there were three engineers that are facing disciplinary action because they let a 18 year old drive the Metra train. Even though the articles had the same point they were written extremely different. For one, the article from The Chicago Tribune was extremely longer and the reporter seemed as if she felt some pity for the 18 year old. This was the headline that the reporter from the Chicago Tribune: "teen at center of Metra scandal was aspiring engineer." In her story she gave tons of quotes and almost gave a history about the teenager. She said that as a small boy he used to like see the trains pass by. He used to get lucky when they used to wave at him and he got a chance to talk to the engineers. The reporter probably felt some compassion with the boy or wanted readers to feel something for the boy. Since he had commited a crime against Metra, they said that it would be very unlikely for him to ever have a job with them. As a result, it shattered his dreams. On the other hand, the article from the Chicago Sun-Times said, ""Obviously this is unacceptable. This is a serious matter." That article tried to make it seem like he should be accountable to the fullest extent of the law. This proves how people have different views and they may be telling the same story but throughout their writing they can show how they feel about what their saying.
-Julio M

4 cheerleaders collides with car

I read a news about four high school cheerleaders collide with a car form CNN.com and MSNBC.msn.com. They basically are telling the same story with the same facts. However, CNN reports it in more real way. The title for CNN is “4 high school cheerleaders killed in Tennessee crash”, and the MSNBC’s title is “SUV full of cheerleaders collides with car.” CNN used lots of dialogues to report the news. It seems more reliable; however it’s harder to get the points. MSNBC arranges the story and reports it. While I read it, from the first paragraph, I easily understand what’s going on, with the important details. With the same story, there are so many ways we can present it. Each ways has their advantages and disadvantages. For me I like the MSNBC style more, because I think the reason of reading news is to know what’s going on in the society right now. It should be short, easily read and with the clearly messages. -Michelle Hsu

Obama gets out to vote - Shu Mei

I read a news articles and saw a clip that's more like a broadcast for Obama. The news article I read says that most of the people are voting for Obama as the next president of the United State. The broadcast, I saw is that someone made a 13 foot high monumental of Obama at the state of Ohio. They putted the monumental at the middle of the street. It caught a lot of people's attention and people get to know how Obama really looks like. Some of the interviewer say she remembers who that huge monumental man after she saw a huge 13 foot tall monumental.

Comparing to the news article and the clip, I think they are trying to sale the same thing. Their purpose is to have the voters vote for Obama as the president of the U.S. The only difference between the article and clip is the article is telling how famous Obama is and he's the winner of the game. The clip/broadcast wants to show the society that Obama is the next president by action.

Real/Fake News

In the fake news story the atmosphere was very informal. The reporter was goofy, had a real personality, the story was just more entertaining to watch. When the reporter talked he his tone of voice changed, he did not talk at a slow calm indoor normal voice. He also incorporated his own personal thoughts and beliefs into the news story. He was all so really witty and made funny jokes, about things relating to the story and about random thing. The set was really different. The lighting changed they incorporated little skit type things in to the broadcast. There were even random prompts used. Even though this story was fake it was probably more interesting and easier to watch then a normal news reporting.

As for the real news story the atmosphere was very uptight. The reporter was serious, tone of voice never really changed too much. The information being told was delivered in a serious way not relaxed. The reporter’s thoughts or beliefs were not in this news report. The reporter also had no real personality, straight faced, no emotion, and never joked around. The news report was meant to be aired as un-bias as possible. This news reporting was slightly boring and hard to stay interested in and pay attention. As much as I like to be informed about what is going on the the huge world around me, I think I might have to watch a few more of these fake news stories. They are really funny to watch.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/187368/october-08-2008/the-second-presidential-debate

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/debates/second-presidential-debate.html?scp=2&sq=second%20presidential%20debate&st=cse

Ashley

the real deal, figadeal me- glenn foster

on the daily on friday, the host made fun of the 2 canidates speeches and each of there different views. he talked about how they differed by meclain being old and how if he collaps that Sara would be running this country. and he also made it seem like these these debates were more like auctions because its seems like when they discuss there plans for the economy they just throw out randomly large numbers.

Real or Fake news?

In Albania, the most watched TV program is a program named "Fiks Fare" which means "Exactly". That is a funny show, which transmits some news in a funny way. When you compare the news they transmit with the news you watch on the serious news program, you notice that it is the same news, the characters are the same, the event is the same, but "Exactly" treats it in a funny way, making it sound a little better than it really is, but it doesn't change anything from the real news, just the way they introduce it. For example when it comes to political issues, they introduce the issue giving some funny comments that make the problem more obvious but sound less tragic than it really is. Whereas the original news program doesn't give any comment at all, they just say the event just the way it is. But many people prefer watching "Exactly" as it is a softer way to learn the bad things that are going on!

Megi Jani

Joe the Plumber

A couple weeks ago, when Barack Obama was canvassing for support in a town, Ohio, one bold guy came to him and suddenly asked about ‘American dream’. Now everyone calls him, Joe the Plumber. His question was about Obama’s tax policy that someone who makes more than $250,000 per year will be more taxed. He said that he had been working very hard for 15 years and now he was about to purchase a company which can earn more than $250,000 every year and he concerned about Democratic would tax him more. This conversation is not funny at all; it is very serious problem and many people who just start earning more than that amount would worry about the tax policy. However, on the Barack Obama and John McCain’s third debate, McCain keep referring Joe the Plumber to criticize his policies. One TV show makes fun of the debating. They act really seriously but it is not serious at all. However, they are still talking about the policy and kind of being sarcastic about the debate, and it seems like they criticize McCain.
-Min-

Compare and Contrast

I have watch the "Daily Show with John Stewart" and "CNN" and they both have qualities that are similar and different. The Daily Show with John Stewart typically has more people interested in it. For example the Daily Show with John Stewart is more interesting because of one the way he talks, second he makes a lot of jokes; which he keeps us entertained. Third the way he approaches each subject. When John Stewart talks its just him you don't see him interviewing boring people. CNN just gives you information after information their tone is more dull. Listeners can be easily bored unless they want to hear specific information. CNN has a lot more of a professional tone. They interview people that are boring for example Ron Paul on CNN. The similarities are that they both give information about the world, but the way they present it is very different. They both have some facts in their news mainly CNN, but John Stewart does have some truth to what he is saying.
Jamie Adishian

Real and Fake NEWS

The daily show with John Stewart for me it's kind of sarcasm to the reality. They divided the real news and combined to a new one. The new video is still included the real news but makes them more controversial and funny. Sometimes the things came out from like Obama’s mouth, but he never say anything that. It’s a good show that makes people relax. However, when we are watching it, we need to think about it, what is true and what is not. On the opposite, the real news just sends out the information that what is happening in the reality. It’s always boring but we all have to know. -Michelle Hsu

Real v.s. Unreal

After watching the "Daily Show with John Stewart" and "MSNBC" I noticed several different things between the two and i noticed some things that they have alike. One thing that they have alike is that they both are giving you the news that is going on in the world, but the way they give it to you is the difference between the two. When you are watching the news on MSNBC the news casters were talking in a very serious tone of voice and the on the Daily how there is a lot of humor in the ways that they tell the stories. They tell us what is going on in the world but that spic it up a make it more entraining than the regular news.

comparisons - Shu Mei

After watching the show at “The Daily Show” website, and news at “CNN” website; I think “The Daily Show” is more entertaining because Jon Stewart is giving the audience the truth news that’s happening at the real world by telling jokes. The reason I think CNN is not as entertaining is because they are using a more serious tone. In my perspective, I think it’s easily to have the audience understand and stay with the channel by telling something that we like and not being too serious about certain incident.
Even though these two shows are telling the same thing, but I just like “The Daily Show” more. Looking at a face of too serious makes the audience feels boring after a moment. These two shows are giving the audience the same information but by different kind of ways. Some of the audience with gets bored by watching two or three people just sitting there with the desk and papers in front.
I am the kind of person who’s exactly the one whom will get bored after watching too serious conversation that present by strangers. People watch TV because they want to watch something that can interest and entertain them.

the difference between the real and fake news

There are many different options for how and who you get your news by. For example you can watch or read the news from CNN or FOX or in today's world you can even get your news from Comedy Central on The Daily Show. The biggest difference from the news channels is that one is making fun of the news rather than giving you their view on the what is happening. For example, John Stewart will use real footage of something that happened in the news but will make fun of it. He is giving his opinion but he is trying to make light of the subject also. In the real news that you get from CNN and other stations like that, it is all business and they give you their opinion on the topic but there is no joking around about it. The most common thing that you will find in both news industries right now are stories about the Presidential debate. A lot of people are choosing to pick on Palin right now. An example that I saw in The Daily Show was that Stewart decided to show that someone said from the real news that Palin needs to be able to speak in real english sentences and his response to that was that is what they need from a sobriety road side test. From there he points out that she does speak in full sentence about how the government needs to stay out of the way and because of this she "wins" unless she contradicts herself which she ends up doing because she says that we need to demand the government have strict oversight of things. In the real news they criticize what Palin says but they do not make fun of it. It is all serious talk. They do point out that she did go back on her word but they do not laugh about it. In my opinion it is better to watch the real news but I also think in some ways you are still getting the same information. The fake news is using the real news to make the subject a little bit lighter and not as tense of a topic to talk about.

Maggie Frederick

Ingrid McShan's News Blog

For this blog i watched ABC 7 Sports then watched The Daily Show and saw how Jon Stewart talked about sports. There are some similarities with the two. They both tell the outcome of the games and the scores. With ABC 7 News they tend to get straight to the point. They tend tell what happen with important information then the score which everybody wants to know. Jon Stewart in The Daily Show is a little different. He jokes around more with his sense of humor about the players and the game. He talks about what happens in the game. He also tell the outcome of the game but in a kind of joking way. ABC 7 News has a more serious tone when delivering the news to the audience. Jon Stewart is not as serious, he tend to joke around when delivering news to the audience and make them laugh. These are some similarities and differences of the two news shows.

fake vs real

I watched Saturday Night Live Obama and McCain discuss Joe the Plumber in the final Presidential debate and the CBS News Obama and McCain in the final Presidential debate. Saturday Night Live and CBS News both asked the same questions and both talked about Joe the Plumber and Taxes. Saturday Night Live didn’t talk about health care like CBS News did. On both the CBS News and Saturday Night Live Obama is relaxed but stutters and McCain is jumpy and doesn’t make sense when speaking. In both McCain talks a lot more then Obama. In both Obama has a powerful voice as McCain’s is soft and his mouth looks like its glued shut. I also watched the Sarah Palin rap on Saturday Night Live which was so funny. I also got to vote early today it was so exciting and lasted for such a short amount of time that I wanted to do it again. My mom told me that the people who fought for me to be able to vote would have been proud of me today. So I felt that I also honored them to day for like 2 or less minutes when I voted to day and I did it electronically which was cool!

After watching the today show with Jon Stewart. I watched a recap of the presidential election between the running vice presidents Palin and Biden. During this little fake news broadcast Jon Stewart made fun of the debates and comments made about what Palin and Biden said. There was real footage of these debates he was just making fun of the comments of both of them. This is a way we can get some real news but this news is made fun of. The real news doesn’t really pick a side and it doesn’t make fun of anything or anyone it’s a bit more serious.

Jessica Davis

Don't lose control

In this picture, there is a white fabric, which with blue purfle, a cartoon dog image had printed on the fabric and above the head of the dog, there are two English words, "hug me." More than that, some red liquid looks like blood are on the fabric. However, this is only the right side of the picture; the completely left side just shows a sentence: “Don’t lose control.” Clearly, this picture is talking about the blights about losing control. Sometimes but not often, we may hear some news that talk about children got hurts by their parents. Moreover, we might hear about how many children are die/ hurt by their parents every year, something like that. Nevertheless, do not forget, those probably not the real numbers. We do not know something true. However, we cannot stop the people doing bad things if we do not know what happen; but we can do something for people we know. Do not get mad on people around us just by any small dissension, and try to be nice to mean people.

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Article in an edited collection "Two Metaphors for LEarning and the Novice Writer" by Joseph Williams and Gregory G. Colomb in Composing Knowledge

This picture is a very inspiring picture. This picture is where a bunch of united states soldiers picking up the american flag. This picture became very popular. This picture became a symbol of getting people excited about the war. To recapture the feeling of supporting the troops and why we are in the war. This picture has a very touching emotion, that can give you goose bumps by just looking at it. The way the picture was taken was also a factor in inspiring people. Having a group of soliders working so hard to make this picture. A team effort.
Jamie Adishian

Julio Magdaleno

After looking at some pictures of magazines this picture in particular got my attention because it has elements that most cigarette pictures have. For example, in the background you can see people happy, smiling, screaming, people with their hands in the air. You can automatically tell that there is some type of celebration. The background automatically set the stage for me and gave me a feeling of excitement or happiness. Then in the middle of the picture you see a young nice lady with a guy in much more focus. You can tell because you can see their shiny hair, white teeth, big smiles, and that Newport cigarette in their hand. The couple seem as if they are in perfect health all nice and clean. However, this is the exact opposite result that cigarettes have. They always try to show people that are healthy and having a good time. They even incorporate an element of sex because at the bottom it says Newport Pleasure, FIRE IT UP! Also, there is a picture of the various kinds of Newport packs next to the text. The text connects with the image because they are both smiling and kind of close to each other. Even though the surgeon general's warning is at the top left corner, people still don't realize what it means. The warning means poison. However this works because the people in charge of advertising have wasted tons and tons of money because they know that it works.

Nike by Michelle Hsu

I’ve noticed that Nike ads have always contained exotic contents. I think part of the reason is that they’re saying just buy the shoes, don’t worry about anything, just buy them, or simply because they’re motto is “just do it”. I’ve never really gotten the true meaning to their ads but you can always have many hypothesis and different perspective about them. In this specific ad, the kid is peeing on a wall, which is defined to be uncivil in many ways in today’s society. They’re saying that they promote that kinds of actions where you will do something that you don’t do everyday. They can promote that kind of courage. Many ads by Nike had contained something that you won’t do everyday, some of them as normal and adventurous as bungee jumping, but then there are just the types like these that try to take the message into an extreme level. I think they also used an environment that is in the rural area of a third world country because it gives it more feeling to it as a big picture. I think they’re trying to tell the audience that with their shoes, you can pretty much have the courage to do anything. They’re trying to reach out to the audience that they’re exotic and they sell things that can make you feel the same way.

After going to the museum i came across a funny picture. It looked like it was taken or drew in about the late 1700's. They were dressed in these big poofy shirts. It's a picture of two men and a women. The one on the left of the girl looks as if she's trying to win the women with his money. He looks kind of desperate. Really it looks as if the women loves the one on the right.

Jessica Davis

Homecoming from high school to college.

Over the weekend I went home on Friday to my high school’s (Woodruff) homecoming football game and they were playing against Peoria Notre Dame. It was not a close game at all Woodruff beat Notre Dame by 40 points the score was Woodruff 47, Notre Dame 7. I met tons of my high school and middle school friends and surprisingly lots of the graduating class of ‘08 came back to support the football team. It was a crazy crowd of friends, family, and fans full of energy to cheer the football team on to victory. After the game the next day was the homecoming dance. My brother and my cousin and their date’s were served by me, my best friend, my mother, my grandmother, and one of my older cousin’s at our house for dinner with slow music and candles like as if they were in a restaurant. Then we took them to the movies to see Eagle Eye and we tried to see a different movie but we ended up going to see that movie too. Which it is a great action packed movie and was very interesting to watch. We tried not to be seen by them and their dates so we set in the back and ended up sitting straight across from them, but they weren’t paying any attention.

There is one kind of distance call "age"

Someone must be took this photo a long time ago, from the clothes people wearing we can know. However, I believe this is not a story that can only happen in the past. As we can see, those two old people are wearing so plainly, not like the current clothes in the show window, at less, current clothes at that time. That makes a big different between the inside and the outside of the show winder, not matter the wearing, or the color. The guess has separated them in two different worlds. Moreover, they do not understand each other’s mind. This makes me think about those parents who always yell at their children because their children are wearing like a clown. They may feel unhappy of their children’s whimsy, they may cry. At the same time, these parent maybe the real whimsy person in their kids’ mind. Maybe this is the distance of age, or different mind in different time. In the picture, those two old people were looking at the model’s clothes, but the model was not “looking” at them.

-Lonnie Hu

Shu Mei's Blog

The color of this image makes me think of romance. But at the same time, it also can be lonely too. From the way this person stands, I prefer he’s old man. He’s standing alone at the edge and watching the sunset with his pet. People usually go to such a wonderful place with their love one instead of going by themselves. This old man probably lost his love one and only leaves himself and the pet. The place where he stands represent how hopeless he thinks this world is. It’s easy to fall by standing at such a thin road, but he’s not afraid of anything even death.

Standing at the edge and watching the sunset is relaxing. When I first look at this picture, I think it’s romantic, but at the same time I think this old man is lonely. Sunset always gives me a feeling of romance. What sunset means to me is something comes to the end. The moment of sunset is beautiful but what come after sunset is dark. Sunset is just like the happiest moment. Happiest moment goes especially fast. It’s memorable and enjoyable, but sometimes sad and lost follows it in some incidents. Looking at this picture makes me think always catch the prettiest moment and that will be a most memorable memory in your life.

Bryan's blog

A few days ago, I had to write a paper about the gap between haves and have-nots. I looked up some pictures about the topic. The first picture I saw was this. It is Sanpaulo, Brazil. There is a luxurious apartment, a tennis court and a big swimming pool. The other side is poor village. The houses are almost collapsing down. Moreover, the swimming pool is even larger than the five or six shacks.

Why did the photographer pictured this image? In my opinion, the photographer wanted to tell what is happening in the developing third countries. As many third countries develop very rapidly, rich people get richier and poor people get poorer, and this is a serious social problem in such countries now. In Shanghai, the city where I live, has many such places all around the city. The government just kick resisdents in such poor places out of their house and keep developing and constructing skyscrappers. It seems like this problem would not be solved soon, because most of the third countries are solely focusing on development.

Ingrid McShan's blog

The picture is interesting because it's in black and white but then again it has many details. The advertisement is for Ford car company. The advertisement looks as if it was for back in the for the reason that it is in black and white. Plus the car is an old car they use to drive many years ago and the people dress with a different style. This was probably when Ford first started and the company was trying to get people to buy their cars. The young man looks confident and happy while he is showing the young lady an image in the newspaper. Im guessing he's telling her something about the car. She seems to be paying attention and interested to what he is saying as he is trying to persuade her. The text also says alot about the image. For The Young Business Man is in kind of big letters and noticeable so people can see its a key part of the picture. There's also an explanation after the noticeable words to explain why people should buy there car and what the car can do. The price is on the ad as well to let individuals know how much the car would be. This image is persuasive because it is gets the message across and point of the ad. The advertisement is trying to get more people to buy the company's car.

It is telling me...

About three years ago, I got bored and searched for some funny pictures on a web site. I was just clicking random pictures or photos (that the titles sounded goofy) from many different sites, and I clicked one photo by mistake. The title was Brotherhood (if I remember correctly) and at first, I was not interested the title at all, because, I do not have any brothers (but I have a nice sister) and second, I did not feel like to see any serious picture on the day. Anyhow, I clicked the link, and I saw one of the most beautiful photos in my life.

What a word pops up in your head (or mind) when you see this picture? Brotherhood?, Poverty? Famiy? Home?, or Hunger? For me, it was not the title (I am not sure the picture titled Brotherhood or not, but I know the word in my head did not match with the title). It was Waiting. Of course, it was not exactly that word because it was a Korean word.

Many other people probably have a different word for this photo, or several words. Some people can also say it is impossible to express the picture with a couple words; it should be sentences, paragraphs, or essays. (That is the reason I am gonna write a paper about the picture.) I do respect all the other points of their views, but for me I just want to say it is Waiting.

Do you see the eyes of baby? He is not staring at something. Those are not eyes of when you are looking at something or when you find something interesting. He does not have a focus. It seems like, he is thinking about someone, something, or nothing. I will stop talking about this photo here, because I gotta write more about the photo in my paper and I do not want to interrupt your points of view of this picture.

-Min-

When we were at the museum on Wednesday the picture that I decided to practice writing about was called the "Freshening Gale". It was a huge ship with big white sails and was crossing over very rocky waters. I love this picture because it reminds me of my favorite movie "Pirates of the Caribbean". The colors in the ocean were dark blues and greens and the sky was a light baby blue but was covered with clouds. The ship to me looked a little like the Black Pearl because it had this thing on the fron of the ship that looked like the mouth that is on the front of the Black Pearl. The scene that the picture reminded me of is the one where Jack is sailing through the storm and tells Mr. Gibbs that he is catching up to Barbosa and his crew. In the movie, the storm is worse than the one depicted in the painting but that is still the image that I can relate it to. The ship is a more modern than the Black pearl and instead of black sails, it has white. I would its a more peaceful Black Pearl. Both ships represent power to me because they look so strong and they seem to take over the ocean when it is trying to take it down in its white tip waves crashing against it. I do not get to go out of the ocean very much but I love to sit on the beach and just listen to the waves crashing agains the shore line and when I see this picture I can hear the sound of the waves which is probably my favorite sound ever. I love this picture because it makes me think of the beach and of my favorite movie.

Maggie Frederick

Museum Trip

The piece of artwork that really caught my eye while I was at the Art Museum was Lady in the Park by Childe Hassam (1859-1935).  I really liked this painting because it was relaxing and had an arrangement of beautiful pastel colors. The Setting of the painting was in a park, but the picture was focused on the ivory brick-walking path that went through the park. On either side of the path were perfectly matching trees that were leafless.  This painting was set in the fall on what looks like a beautiful afternoon. The people in the painting were wearing what looked like their Sunday best. All the people in the painting looked clam and relaxed.

This painting really reminded me of the quad and how it is such a beautiful “park.” I can just imaging the quad once the leaves start to fall will resemble the painting of the Lady in the Park. I can see student laying, sitting, and enjoying the beautiful fall weather and the beautiful landscape of the quad. The only difference in the painting and the quad really is the clothing.  On the quad students were much more modern clothing were as in the painting the people were wearing huge European dresses and wardrobe from the nineteen hundreds.

This painting made me want to skip class and just go and lay in the sun and enjoy the fresh, crisp fall air.

Ashley Hummel