I decided to play an improvisation of Yiruma's "River Flows In You" piano piece.
This song is really pretty and it was the first song that I actually enjoy playing everyday. It will never get tiring to me ever! There are a couple mistakes so I'll upload a new edited version tomorrow or something :D
The song should be on the player on the left hand side :D
Friday, May 2, 2008
Free Choice: Air Show
My dad and I did not go on the Air Base to watch the Air Expo. Traffic was way too bad to even get down to Cross Country Road. So we went somewhere else. It was a great view. I took some great shots! I only wish it would not have stormed so the sky would have been prettier!
Free Choice: Bird Encounter!
Yes, this was taken on my porch. Okay, let me tell you what happened. My dad went to go answer the door and after he finished talking to whoever was at the door, he told me to come downstairs. So I did. I went to the door and my dad told me to walk onto the porch and look to my right. So I did. And I promise you, my heart jumped out of me and I screamed so loud. This humongous bird was on my porch! O___O!!!!! I was surprised and scared at the same time. So while I was catching my breath, I told my dad to go get my digital camera. So he went to go get it and once he got back I started taking thousands of pictures. These were the three best ones. This was such an amazing experience :)
Free Choice: Light Pole
I took this at school during photography class. The class was doing bookwork, so I just asked the teacher if I could leave and go take some pictures. Luckily, she said yes!
I actually have no idea how I came around to taking this photograph. It was almost accidental. I was holding my digital camera near the bleachers and looked up to see the tall pole. And then I had a thought. Let’s take a picture of this pole and make it seem gigantic! Alas, this picture was born. At first I thought it did not look that good on the camera, but once I uploaded it onto the computer, I was shocked. It was so clear and I love the shining clouds in the top left corner of the picture. So beautiful!
Persuasive Analysis: Juicy Fruit
Persuasive Analysis #3
Juicy Fruit Gum Advertisement
This advertisement for Juicy Fruit Gum was found in a GamePro magazine. The ad is very funny. The gum displayed is Juicy Fruit’s Grapermelon and an odd looking fruit was created by putting grapes and a melon together. On the bottom of the advertisement is friend of Godzilla, Lambzilla, who is reaching for the Grapermelon gum through the border line.
This advertisement shows an example of the Appeal to Authority fallacy. The advertisement is basically saying, the gum is so wickedly good that even beasts—like Lambzilla—would reach over their page borders just to get their hands on the gum. Because Lambzilla is known to the people who often read this magazine, it would most definitely be an example of Appeal to Authority.
This is also an example of the fallacy Straw Man. The advertisement is very exaggerated with the Lambzilla jumping through borders to reach the goodness. It just shows how desperate the creature is to get their hands on the chewing gum. Even though animals do not chew gum, this is exactly why this ad is a Straw Man.
Juicy Fruit Gum Advertisement
This advertisement for Juicy Fruit Gum was found in a GamePro magazine. The ad is very funny. The gum displayed is Juicy Fruit’s Grapermelon and an odd looking fruit was created by putting grapes and a melon together. On the bottom of the advertisement is friend of Godzilla, Lambzilla, who is reaching for the Grapermelon gum through the border line.
This advertisement shows an example of the Appeal to Authority fallacy. The advertisement is basically saying, the gum is so wickedly good that even beasts—like Lambzilla—would reach over their page borders just to get their hands on the gum. Because Lambzilla is known to the people who often read this magazine, it would most definitely be an example of Appeal to Authority.
This is also an example of the fallacy Straw Man. The advertisement is very exaggerated with the Lambzilla jumping through borders to reach the goodness. It just shows how desperate the creature is to get their hands on the chewing gum. Even though animals do not chew gum, this is exactly why this ad is a Straw Man.
Cultural Event: As Seen On TV!
Cultural Event Three: “As Seen On TV” Play
About:
The “As Seen On TV” production was entirely written, produced and acted out by the students in the Patriot Players. The play was performed Thursday, May 1st, 2008. Basically, it was a bunch of popular TV program and commercials—that you love or hate—that were made into parodies. There were twenty three programs or commercials that the Patriot Players performed. It lasted for about an hour so it was not that long. A couple of teachers were performing in the play as well.
Analysis:
I loved this performance so much! Almost every television show and commercial they put in the play I knew and a lot of them were hilariously funny. However, there were a few that I thought could have been portrayed better and a few that I did not understand at all.
The Verizon Wireless skit was hilarious. They actually performed two of these. The first one was about a guy asking a girl out to prom and after he does the called gets dropped so the girl is freaking out screaming “Yes, I’ll go with you!” but the guy thinks she does not like him because he cannot hear a word she was saying so he just says, “Okay, well nevermind. I’ll see you on Monday.” And you can see the girl start to cry about it. That was funny. The other one was a call to a suicide hotline. A kid was standing on a box—pretending it was a cliff—and told the girl on the phone that all he needed was someone to say they needed him and that they cared for him. Of course the call gets dropped so he could not hear the reply. So the kid gets angry and shouts, “I knew no one would care. Okay, I’m going to jump then!” And the kid rolls of the box. That was also funny but sad also.
The Scrubs skit was not memorable at all. I didn’t even know what was going on the whole time. So sadly, this is one that I really disliked. Also, the Unsolved Mysteries scene is a blur to my mind. I cannot even remember what was happening.
The Geico Commercial was hilarious. It was the one with the “real person” and then a “hired celebrity.” I could not figure out who the celebrity was but he had an English accent. But he ends up interrupting her when she explains her situation asking if she’s seen his dog.
The Survivor skit was funny, really funny. There were two teams—four wore red bandanas, the other four wore green—and one host on the stage. What was funny about it was the last immunity challenge was so long. He spent two minutes explaining the humongous task they had to perform. And once he finished, everyone completely forgot. Then it comes back to this skit and apparently everyone voted themselves off the island to free them from their misery. I found that hilarious.
The ESPN SportsCenter Commercial was alright. It was not as funny as I thought it would be. Two people in the office were talking—one of them apparently Sharapova—and the guy offered her a can of tennis balls. Believing they were what he said they were, she opened the can and out came a canned worm thing. She gets angry and throws the can at him and storms off.
The next few were really good. You had America’s Next Top Model, a Master Card parody—“with some teacher singing the entire country song,--and a weight loss infomercial featuring a girl who lost ninety three pounds but also lost a lot of her vital organs but does not care about it!
The CSI, Cash Cab, Blue’s Clues, and the Hannah Montana parodies were not memorable at all. They were dull and sometimes very stupid. You could not hear the people talking in a couple but the other ones were just not funny.
My favorite scenes were the Flirting Skit and the Movie: The Ring act. The Flirting Skit was a reenactment of a hilarious scene filmed on MadTV and the Movie: The Ring parody had white light flashing a girl with black hair reappearing under a screen crawling towards the audience. It was kind of creepy but it was awesome!
Overall, I loved this performance very much! It was really entertaining and kept me wishing it was much longer!
About:
The “As Seen On TV” production was entirely written, produced and acted out by the students in the Patriot Players. The play was performed Thursday, May 1st, 2008. Basically, it was a bunch of popular TV program and commercials—that you love or hate—that were made into parodies. There were twenty three programs or commercials that the Patriot Players performed. It lasted for about an hour so it was not that long. A couple of teachers were performing in the play as well.
Analysis:
I loved this performance so much! Almost every television show and commercial they put in the play I knew and a lot of them were hilariously funny. However, there were a few that I thought could have been portrayed better and a few that I did not understand at all.
The Verizon Wireless skit was hilarious. They actually performed two of these. The first one was about a guy asking a girl out to prom and after he does the called gets dropped so the girl is freaking out screaming “Yes, I’ll go with you!” but the guy thinks she does not like him because he cannot hear a word she was saying so he just says, “Okay, well nevermind. I’ll see you on Monday.” And you can see the girl start to cry about it. That was funny. The other one was a call to a suicide hotline. A kid was standing on a box—pretending it was a cliff—and told the girl on the phone that all he needed was someone to say they needed him and that they cared for him. Of course the call gets dropped so he could not hear the reply. So the kid gets angry and shouts, “I knew no one would care. Okay, I’m going to jump then!” And the kid rolls of the box. That was also funny but sad also.
The Scrubs skit was not memorable at all. I didn’t even know what was going on the whole time. So sadly, this is one that I really disliked. Also, the Unsolved Mysteries scene is a blur to my mind. I cannot even remember what was happening.
The Geico Commercial was hilarious. It was the one with the “real person” and then a “hired celebrity.” I could not figure out who the celebrity was but he had an English accent. But he ends up interrupting her when she explains her situation asking if she’s seen his dog.
The Survivor skit was funny, really funny. There were two teams—four wore red bandanas, the other four wore green—and one host on the stage. What was funny about it was the last immunity challenge was so long. He spent two minutes explaining the humongous task they had to perform. And once he finished, everyone completely forgot. Then it comes back to this skit and apparently everyone voted themselves off the island to free them from their misery. I found that hilarious.
The ESPN SportsCenter Commercial was alright. It was not as funny as I thought it would be. Two people in the office were talking—one of them apparently Sharapova—and the guy offered her a can of tennis balls. Believing they were what he said they were, she opened the can and out came a canned worm thing. She gets angry and throws the can at him and storms off.
The next few were really good. You had America’s Next Top Model, a Master Card parody—“with some teacher singing the entire country song,--and a weight loss infomercial featuring a girl who lost ninety three pounds but also lost a lot of her vital organs but does not care about it!
The CSI, Cash Cab, Blue’s Clues, and the Hannah Montana parodies were not memorable at all. They were dull and sometimes very stupid. You could not hear the people talking in a couple but the other ones were just not funny.
My favorite scenes were the Flirting Skit and the Movie: The Ring act. The Flirting Skit was a reenactment of a hilarious scene filmed on MadTV and the Movie: The Ring parody had white light flashing a girl with black hair reappearing under a screen crawling towards the audience. It was kind of creepy but it was awesome!
Overall, I loved this performance very much! It was really entertaining and kept me wishing it was much longer!
Persuasive Analysis: Gun Control
Persuasive Analysis #2
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=743808
This editorial written by Edward A. Flynn is about gun control policies in Milwaukee. He is arguing that the current criminals who have a gun in their possession are not worried about getting caught because if they do, they would only be in custody for a brief amount of time. The number of criminals who were caught with the firearms do not pose any real threat to those who have not been caught yet because so many of them disregard that fact of getting caught. They just have that mental side note that if they were to get caught it would not be that big of a deal because soon you would be free from police and can roam around again.
This editorial appeals to the reader’s emotions because of the number of references of young children being in possession of lethal weapons or even thinking about getting one. Flynn wants to change the influence that is being put onto kids to carry weapons. Many of them, if they have a gun in possession, often do not know why they do and often react to certain situations differently if they did not have a firearm on them.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=743808
This editorial written by Edward A. Flynn is about gun control policies in Milwaukee. He is arguing that the current criminals who have a gun in their possession are not worried about getting caught because if they do, they would only be in custody for a brief amount of time. The number of criminals who were caught with the firearms do not pose any real threat to those who have not been caught yet because so many of them disregard that fact of getting caught. They just have that mental side note that if they were to get caught it would not be that big of a deal because soon you would be free from police and can roam around again.
This editorial appeals to the reader’s emotions because of the number of references of young children being in possession of lethal weapons or even thinking about getting one. Flynn wants to change the influence that is being put onto kids to carry weapons. Many of them, if they have a gun in possession, often do not know why they do and often react to certain situations differently if they did not have a firearm on them.
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