Monday, June 6, 2011

pixton remix

http://www.pixton.com/comic/1erc9saw

college lit experience

Overall college lit was a great experience. The experience will help me in the future with college classes at Iowa. I am not a big fan of english classes and I actually enjoyed this class. I liked reading all of the different books and I found that it was very enjoyable. I would not change anything about this class because it was perfect the way it was. Mr. Kunkle always kept it interesting and I kept wanting to learn. Although, I didn't always see connections that he made to some books. I can't wait to take the skills that Mr. Kunkle taught me out and to the next level.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Persepolis

While after the first two readings of persepolis, I find myself very bored. I am not a big fan of graphic novels. Frankly I think the whole first revolution of iran reminds me of the dirty war in Argentina. Where they killed and tortured everyone who went againts the government. I am not a fan of persepolis as of right now. I hope it will get better. Now it seems very emo and sad. I hate sad books and emo books. The only find interesting is how the daughter will believe what anyone says to her. She is so gulable and doesnt have any personal beliefs.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Momento CD

I believe momento is a large story of Cognitive Dissonance. He has this motivation to kill John G at any stakes. He will rationalize his behavior over and over agian. He can forget about his wrong doings and then rationalize his behaviors again. For example he is not content in the end by killing jimmy. He is told the truth by teddy and rationalizes in his truck to forget about it. So he burns the pictures so he can start a new hunt over. Also is the story with his wife. He possibly makes up the story about how sammy jenkins killed his wife, while it was his in reality he just rationalized that to not remember and move on. So there will be no end to this movie if it kept going on. He would just keep rationalizing his behavior for killing other John G's.

War Movies

Saving Private Ryan is just about the only war movie I have seen. In this movie, a group of men set out to get Private Ryan while they fight against a foriegn country. It was the battle of Normandy in world war 2.I think this is saying that war is very grusome and unforgiving. Like the scene where the sniper shoots one of their men and makes him suffer to get others.The filmakers are trying to say that war is not as glorified as usual. This movie is similar in its intensions but different in the story lines. Many of the troops get killed like in SH5. But it is not trying to glorify war. That is why marry would like this film. It shows how young the kids are fighting and all the people lost in war.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Group

There are many times I have felt that I have been apart of a group. I think the most memorable is when I played football my senior year. We did everything together: Get up in the mornings to lift, practice, Play tough games, and even go swimming together. Football was a great bonding experience with the group of guys. When we got mad at eachother, we never yelled. And when we won, we celebrated together and not just celebrate an individual. We got to know eachother emensly. Not only did we have fun playing, but we also won. On my senior year we went to the third round of the playoffs and beat Mt. Horeb. Previously we lost to them the last to years in the first round. Football was a great experience and it was nice to be apart of such a great group. I hope that the group doesnt break up in the future.