Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Fame
What I hate most about the famous life, everything becomes the biggest deal in the whole world. Commercials on radio stations make me want to rip my hair out. "Did you hear that she and he went on a date last night and they even left holding hands?!" This is what I hear is: "OMG BECKY THEY ARE LIKE GOING TO GET MARRIED BECAUSE THEY HELD HANDS!!! AHHAHA OHHH EMMM GEEE". Legit, stop. No one cares, and for the people who do actually care, go jump off a bridge please. You really spend all of your time stalking people that you potentially will never meet in your whole intire life. People who may be famous for a few years, but will be forgotten about in the future. No one that matters. I get that it's supposed to happen when your famous, but honestly I'm sure these people don't want everyone knowing everything about their personal life. Oh, and then when you do finally meet your favorite star, don't cry and pass out and flip out and scream in the face......they clearly don't like that. They would like you more and want to hang out with you if you were calm and collected.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Characterization of Mitchell from "Modern Family"
In the TV show “Modern Family”, Jesse Ferugeson plays the role of Mitchell who is sarcastic, can be sometimes very childish, and yet generous, in order to depict his sense of humor in a dry, nonchalant way as an indirect character. He is not straight-up defined. The viewer has to almost get to know him in a way. Seeing him in different situations throughout the TV show, start to open horizons of his personality. He’s somewhat hard to figure out. It takes some thought to figure him out.
Mitchell’s use of sarcasm may take some viewers a second to pick up. Since he has very dry humor, it’s hard to tell when he’s being serious and when he is using sarcasm. He speaks nonchalantly. It’s evident when he’s trying to casually tell Cameron that,”people find stories funnier when they’re true”. At first, they were talking about the story as if it were true, though Mitchell doesn’t like hearing it over and over again. Then, with his use of sarcasm, he tells Cameron how he really feels and he doesn’t even pick up on it at first. Thus leading into how childish he can act.
Mitchell’s sarcasm is apart of how childish he can truly be without even realizing it. Along with being childish, he’s competitive with Cameron. They are foils for each other, definitely. They always seem to find ways of one upping each other. Cameron is a dreamer, while Mitchell is more of a realist. this makes them both act childish towards each other. After Mitchell has won a trophy, and Cameron wanted to display not only Mitchell’s, but is trophy, Mitchell gets offended and defensive. He eventually realizes he’s being ridiculous when he says, “I'm so glad I spoke to Alex because she agreed with every single thing that I was saying...which made me realize that I was acting like a 14-year-old girl”. This then shows that with accepting his childish ways, how he can be very generous.
Though Mitchell’s childish ways blindside his generosity and sometimes goes unnoticed, he tries his hardest to make up for his wrongdoings. Depending on certain situations, he usually ends up feeling bad for the way once acted. He wants his efforts to go noticed, but sometimes they are failed attempts. After his fight with Cameron about the trophies and after he realizes how childish he was being, he was ”was going to make a big display” of all of Cameron’s trophies to make him feel better. His generosity throws off his other traits.
The characterization of Mitchell includes his sense of sarcasm, childishness, and generosity. All of these traits help let the viewer understand who he is, even though it may be tough to do so. It’s tough because he’s such an indirect character. He’s not obviously defined, but more like a realistic person. These traits highlight his comedic attributes.
Mitchell’s use of sarcasm may take some viewers a second to pick up. Since he has very dry humor, it’s hard to tell when he’s being serious and when he is using sarcasm. He speaks nonchalantly. It’s evident when he’s trying to casually tell Cameron that,”people find stories funnier when they’re true”. At first, they were talking about the story as if it were true, though Mitchell doesn’t like hearing it over and over again. Then, with his use of sarcasm, he tells Cameron how he really feels and he doesn’t even pick up on it at first. Thus leading into how childish he can act.
Mitchell’s sarcasm is apart of how childish he can truly be without even realizing it. Along with being childish, he’s competitive with Cameron. They are foils for each other, definitely. They always seem to find ways of one upping each other. Cameron is a dreamer, while Mitchell is more of a realist. this makes them both act childish towards each other. After Mitchell has won a trophy, and Cameron wanted to display not only Mitchell’s, but is trophy, Mitchell gets offended and defensive. He eventually realizes he’s being ridiculous when he says, “I'm so glad I spoke to Alex because she agreed with every single thing that I was saying...which made me realize that I was acting like a 14-year-old girl”. This then shows that with accepting his childish ways, how he can be very generous.
Though Mitchell’s childish ways blindside his generosity and sometimes goes unnoticed, he tries his hardest to make up for his wrongdoings. Depending on certain situations, he usually ends up feeling bad for the way once acted. He wants his efforts to go noticed, but sometimes they are failed attempts. After his fight with Cameron about the trophies and after he realizes how childish he was being, he was ”was going to make a big display” of all of Cameron’s trophies to make him feel better. His generosity throws off his other traits.
The characterization of Mitchell includes his sense of sarcasm, childishness, and generosity. All of these traits help let the viewer understand who he is, even though it may be tough to do so. It’s tough because he’s such an indirect character. He’s not obviously defined, but more like a realistic person. These traits highlight his comedic attributes.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Global Warming Modest Proposal
Global warming has been an issue for a few decades, now. When it first started being an issue, some people tried to reach out to others. Unfortunately, no one listened. People throw trash on the side of the road like it’s no big deal. They also pollute our water systems. There’s much more that comes along with global warming, but I’m sure you get the idea.
Anywho, our ozone layer has gotten destroyed from all the chemicals that were released into the air by us humans. The o-zone layer protects us from the sun’s hot rays. Without the o-zone layer we would end up looking like Venus(filled with carbon dioxide and no atmosphere), and that is not a pretty sight, let me tell you. Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees farenheight around the world since 1880. You know what that means? That even giant ice caps and glaciers are melting.
We are practically killing ourselves and all living creatures. Polar bears are getting stranded and have no homes. They’re drowning because they can’t find solid land to live on. It’s the same with the adorable little penguins. If temperatures keeps rising, and polar caps keep melting, parts of the world that are on the coast, will sink. That will leave millions of people homeless......or dead.
In order to prevent all of this from continuing any further, I have come up with a proposal to stop it all. We all should convert to transcendentalism. We would all shut down any sort of energy, abandon houses, destroy any money, and head for the woods. We would have nothing to do with society. All for one, and one for all. We would raise our children to learn how to fend for themselves and hunt.
Every family would build their houses out of supplies from nature and live without electricity and plumbing. Each family would have their own farms and livestock so they could produce their own food. There may be mass murders because people will be fighting for supplies to stay alive. But hey, the world is over populated anyways. Besides, the most of the reason why the world is so polluted and experiencing global warming in the first place. So, screw it let’s just roll with the punches.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Modest Proposal Analysis
Shifting from a serious situation to a ridiculous suggestion in “A Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift uses extreme hyperbole, odd sarcasm, and disturbing imagery in order to use comic relief within a serious problem, so that it seems less stressful. Over population is a huge cause of poverty in Ireland, especially around that time period. Women were uneducated about how to prevent pregnancy and then couldn’t provide for them. It’s a hard thing to deal with and it’s something that should not be joked about. Jonathan understood this, but he took it to a level of where he used slight humor in order to make the situation lighter.
Hyperbole plays a big role throughout the proposal. Without it, the proposal would have no humor and would simply be a statement of truth of the poverty in Ireland. There is a shift in the proposal from serious to humorous, and that’s where the hyperbole plays in. This is obvious when he says, “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food”. There are two reasons why this would be a hyperbole. The first, because no one would really acually suggest, out of their right minds, to eat a child. The second, because the reader is unsure if Swift has actually met someone who had told him this statement. It seems unrealistic when he says that his acquaintance is an American from London.
Swift uses sarcasm lightly. Although, it is easy to tell that there is sarcasm, Swift uses it naturally in order to make it sound serious. Swift uses sarcasm when he says, “That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune, though the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat, for a good table. Though the reader knows how ridiculous the suggestion sounds, Swift speaks as though he is having a casual conversation. It’s almost as though he means it and isn’t joking.
The imagery throughout the proposal is disturbing in two different ways. The first way is in a sad way. He explains the troubles Ireland faces and how it affects the people. It’s sad to see the people, “who walk through this great town, or travel in the country; when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags”. Swift is trying to make the reader feel bad for the people of Ireland by using pathos. The next was is in a creepy, gross way. It’s not pretty picturing a baby being, “”stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled”.
Though Swift is speaking as though he is being serious, the proposal is humorous. It is humorous in disturbing ways. Weather it’s using hyperbole, sarcasm, or imagery to do so. Swift makes the reader think of how sad it is to be poverty stricken in Ireland and then suggests a way to handle it. The suggestion is silly, but it is told in a casual way. It brings a smile to the faces in need in the 1700’s.
Hyperbole plays a big role throughout the proposal. Without it, the proposal would have no humor and would simply be a statement of truth of the poverty in Ireland. There is a shift in the proposal from serious to humorous, and that’s where the hyperbole plays in. This is obvious when he says, “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food”. There are two reasons why this would be a hyperbole. The first, because no one would really acually suggest, out of their right minds, to eat a child. The second, because the reader is unsure if Swift has actually met someone who had told him this statement. It seems unrealistic when he says that his acquaintance is an American from London.
Swift uses sarcasm lightly. Although, it is easy to tell that there is sarcasm, Swift uses it naturally in order to make it sound serious. Swift uses sarcasm when he says, “That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune, though the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat, for a good table. Though the reader knows how ridiculous the suggestion sounds, Swift speaks as though he is having a casual conversation. It’s almost as though he means it and isn’t joking.
The imagery throughout the proposal is disturbing in two different ways. The first way is in a sad way. He explains the troubles Ireland faces and how it affects the people. It’s sad to see the people, “who walk through this great town, or travel in the country; when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags”. Swift is trying to make the reader feel bad for the people of Ireland by using pathos. The next was is in a creepy, gross way. It’s not pretty picturing a baby being, “”stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled”.
Though Swift is speaking as though he is being serious, the proposal is humorous. It is humorous in disturbing ways. Weather it’s using hyperbole, sarcasm, or imagery to do so. Swift makes the reader think of how sad it is to be poverty stricken in Ireland and then suggests a way to handle it. The suggestion is silly, but it is told in a casual way. It brings a smile to the faces in need in the 1700’s.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thesis and Paragraph on Kiss and Tell
Balancing point of view of one character to describe another in "Kiss and Tell", Alain de Botton utilizes comparative characterization in order to display to the reader that even if the moment seems extreme at that moment in time, it happens to almost every young adult in life.
Both the girl on the date and her parents are characterized through the eyes of the boy on the date. The girl is clearly upset that he parents are in the same theatre as her at the same time. She doesn't get along with her mother and it's evident when she insults her by saying, "'And what's that dress? It looks like a willow tree.'" Her mother is then characterized very well. She almost alludes to the fact that she thinks that other people don't enjoy her daughter's company. She automatically assumes that the boy will not like her daughter and won't think that "'she's a lovely girl really'". The dad is characterized as a clumsy nerd who doesn't pay much mind to his daughter's love life and his wife's bickering. This is clear when he isn't paying attention to his daughter's date, but the "'new tungsten bulbs'". All of the characters are fixaded on how different they are from eachother, that they don't realize the similarity they share of wanting to see the same play on the same night.
Both the girl on the date and her parents are characterized through the eyes of the boy on the date. The girl is clearly upset that he parents are in the same theatre as her at the same time. She doesn't get along with her mother and it's evident when she insults her by saying, "'And what's that dress? It looks like a willow tree.'" Her mother is then characterized very well. She almost alludes to the fact that she thinks that other people don't enjoy her daughter's company. She automatically assumes that the boy will not like her daughter and won't think that "'she's a lovely girl really'". The dad is characterized as a clumsy nerd who doesn't pay much mind to his daughter's love life and his wife's bickering. This is clear when he isn't paying attention to his daughter's date, but the "'new tungsten bulbs'". All of the characters are fixaded on how different they are from eachother, that they don't realize the similarity they share of wanting to see the same play on the same night.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Suburban Thesis Statement
Balancing a rude and sarcastic tone in "Suburban", John Ciardi uses superficial characterization, clear imagery, and hyporcritical humor in order to show the reader that in certain situations, people will walk all over one another because it's just not worth having an arguement about.
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