Juno Review Readers Response

Ali Heinkamp’s review over the Juno was very good! I was really surprised that she was from Wright State University. I do not know why I was so surprised that a person who wrote this would be so close.  When I read that she was a student at Wright State College I was struck by the familiarity of it.

Ali Heinkamp’s review will be extremely helpful for me when I write mine. It was laid out perfectly and showed where everything was supposed to go. Her thesis is easy to pick out which makes it easy for her readers to understand what the movie is about. She points out the pros and cons of the movie by displaying how its been criticized by other people.  She says that Juno’s character’s situations that they find themselves in and the dialogue may be criticized as unrealistic. This then allows her readers to understand that these two bad criticisms of her review are going be part of her body. She also writes within her thesis that the movies effectively represents a teenagers emotion if they were put into a situation like that that shoved them into maturity too quickly. Not only is this another part of her body that she explains, but it is also a counter acting criticism to the first two she displayed. Ali Heinkamp shows that your paper should also include direct quotes from criticisms found in her research. Overall I found that this was very well written and will help me very much when writing my own.

Room 1138.. In Class Prompt #4

The hall was quiet until she heard an eerie sound from behind door 1138. It sounded like a woman whimpering and begging for her life. It was late at night and she had to run back to the school to grab a book she had left in her locker. She tiptoed up to the door to make she was not just hear things. She then notices the door was slightly ajar. Before she got a good look in the cracked door she heard a loud SMACK! She hunkered down as if someone had seen her. Then she heard again and this time she heard the woman’s voice. She was begging for someone to not do it. The woman’s voice was high and squeaky similar to her biology teacher, Ms. Brown’s. She finally built up enough courage to take a look through door. There was a tall man about six feet four inches tall. He had a long scruffy beard and was carrying a gun. Ms. Brown was in serious trouble and she knew that. She quickly took her phone out of her bag and called 911. The operator’s voice came on speaker! Oh no! she tries to whispers that her teachers was being hurt by a man at the school when she hears the door’s high shrieking sound of it opening. He grabbed for my hand I screamed! He drags me into the room with Ms. Brown. He pulled me over to sit right next to her and he pointed the gun at my face and said “Boom.” Then she woke up.

In Class Prompt #3

Okay, at first I had no idea what Neil Patrick Harris was doing. The guy across the street seems really concerned with he fact that Neil was walking outside at the exact same time every night and taking his seven paces and smiling. The fact that later in the show he was farting cracks me up! Healthy humans are supposed to fart about fourteen times a day! So now in class as I sit here writing this, I bet my friend is letting her tooters wisp! Haha. 

Every character in this show is uber hilarious. They all seem to think they have their lives figured out but in reality they don't. I'd like to think I have my life planned out but I mostly will deal with a lot of curve balls just like these guys did. The one guy seemed to think he'd be married with kids and l law degree with a thick mustache and accent to go with it. The black haired dude seemed depressed every three years, but it is okay because he eventually got his life figured out considering the show is called How I Met Your Mother and I’m almost positive it is that guy who is somewhat narrating this show to his kids. Does that even make any sense? Moving on the next character… Neil Patrick Harris is probably my favorite character in this show. He seems to be a simple guy with his same like of "Hey guys this is so and so; you'll be seeing a lot more of her...shutting the door...Whazzzz uppp! Ya, funny buds eh?

Twitter Vs. Facebook...Misc 4

Very recently, the Twitterverse has increased its size. Lately, I feel like a lot of people are growing to like Twitter much more than Facebook. My best friends brother, Tony, was pressuring me into getting Twitter and because of him I have an obsession. Not so much an obsession but definitely something that wastes a lot of my time. I know I have other things to be taking care of, but Twitter is always up and I always think, “I’ll just check it for about one minute”. Twenty minutes later I’m punching my face in because I have just misused all that time!

            I always see faithful Facebookers get so upset, salty even, when people say they think Twitter is better than Facebook. Which do you like more? I, personally, like Twitter. When I first had it set up, I did not like it at all. It seemed too confusing for me so I never used it until I got into college and my friend showed me the ropes. Facebook is just filled with irrelevant things anymore that consume my notifications. I get excited when I see I have notifications, but then when I click to look at them my face falls. Why? They are all Farmville or some other ridiculous game that is affiliated with Facebook, that’s why! Facebook has become more of an adult social networking site whereas Twitter is more for young adults. I’m sure there with be more adults getting Twitter in the near future leaving the young adults to move on and find some other social network to be infatuated with. 

In Class Prompt #2

Professor Piro, my COM 111 prof, assigned for the class to bring in something that plays a role in our lives as either a reader or a writer, so, instantly I thought of my Kindle!  The point of assignment was to basically ramble for ten minutes about our little something. We were supposed to use all five senses so bear with me!

The first time I opened my present and saw my Kindle box sitting at the bottom of the bag my heart nearly dropped. It was my birthday and my boyfriend knew just how much I loved to read, so, he thought of the absolute perfect gift. It was, obviously, a Kindle. As I was jumping up and down with the box, I almost forgot to open it. I cut the sticky inconveniencing tape and opened it. The sleek gray device shows a sense of contemporary modern-ness? I just put to of the same exact words together. Can you say redundant? The screen seems fake, almost exactly like a newspaper. The box smelled of cardboard and new! (Whatever “new” smells like?) It was about as satisfying as sitting in a brand new car and taking a whiff of the leather. My fingers skim along the bottom and I feel a slight bump that I slid over. Oh the power button. I thought I would here a few beeps as if to signal that it is on, but instead I hear peaceful silence! It was much better that way. II just want to kiss it and feel the hard plastic on my lips but I’m sure the taste would be a very unsatisfying nothingness. It is plastic, for goodness sake!
            My favorite color is purple so, of course, he went above and beyond and bought me a pretty purple cover as well. The leather purple protector is going to be extremely useful, considering I’m extremely clumsy.

The Lucky One...Check!...Misc 3

Right now I have a list of movies I'd like to see and the other night I checked on of them off the list! I’m sure you have all heard of it, right? I’m going to give you a little movie review so caution for those of you have not seen it! SPOILER ALERT!

Okay, so, I absolutely loved this movie! I all about the ewwy, gooey, romance stuff! It is about a Marine in the War on Terror, who found a picture of a blonde woman. On the back, it says: Keep Safe X. He looks for the person it belongs to but never seems to find them. Meanwhile, finding this picture has miraculously saved him from many events that he should not have survived. He promised to find this woman if he lived through all three terms and he certainly did! Okay so the weird this about this guy is that he walks…EVERYWHERE.  He walked across states to find her. Yes, I know. Very creepy, but he had good intentions! She works at a Dog Day Care and Training Place that her and her mother own. Instead of telling her right off the bat about the picture, he asks for a job. He gets really close to her family and eventually they fall in love. There is just one problem, the chicks ex-husband is jealous and figures out why he’s really there. So he rats him out and then of course she thinks he some hot creep that walked here to stalk her. So then he tells her his side of the story and they live happily ever… again!

There is definitely a lot more I didn’t mention so I would ruin too much! Highly recommended by me, so, you need to check it off your list too!!

The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death

This story, well, I guess it was more of a comic, was very , for lack of better words, stupid, in my opinion. I have no experience reading comic books, so I was reading all over the page! I found it to be extremely difficult. That probably makes me out to be an idiot but whatever. Not only was I confused with the format of it all, but it was really just a confusing story in itself. First it was about her father’s death, then it was about how he killed himself, and then it was about Beech Creek and the geological location of their family residences. Eventually, it went on to the topic of writing poems and her family being isolated artists?! I must be missing the big picture.

I also noticed some inappropriate, Rated R stuff, which I found to be very surprising in an educational writing book.

It seems like a sad and depressing story, though. I mean, her father did pass away and then she acted like it was a  “not-that-big-of-a-deal-because-my-parents-have-always-avoided-me-anyways” kind of situation. She even called her father a “maniac-depressive closeted fag”.  Those are some pretty harsh words for a little girl to be saying to her suicidal father.  It also seemed like an utterly miserable story because all of the pictures were in a dreary blackish-white animation. And rarely do any of the characters have smiles on their faces. I really do not have much of a feeling towards this weirdly bizarre story other than complete confusion.

In Class Prompt #1:

I believe I am the type of person who leans on embracing reading and writing. One of my all time favorite things to do is read books! I am absolutley in love with romance novels. I also like to write! Not necessarily essays, but expressive works. I like to write stories and create pictures in people minds of how I see things and because of this I believe that this helps my creative urges to write literacy narratives. How so? A literacy narrative allows me to express a personal memory of mine in my own perspective. I can create my world how I once remembered it by showing the people my thoughts, feelings, and what I saw and said. I can go into full detail on how my senses we touched and affected by my surroundings. I like to ramble about how clumsy I am because thats how I show myself. I am not the most confident person but through my writing I feel  I can be whomever I chose. In a literacy narrative, I can show my audience that I am a unconfident and clumsy person by explaining how I use my long brown hair to cover my face so no one can see me and it ends up hurting me in the end because I tripped over the chair that had just happened to appear right in front of me. That in itself is a way of using creativity.

If you're at all interested...Nemat's "Secondhand Bookseller"

Tonight, I had an assignment to read this little literacy narrative for our English class. At first, I thought it was going to be another one of those "How To Write A Literacy Narrative" readings that we have had to read quite a bit of this past week, but as it turns out, it was actually an uber cute story that was very interesting.

In many of our recent assignments, we have had to read many ways to create and edit our own personal, literacy narratives. Within these readings, the authors are trying to drill it in our minds that our audience needs to see and feel the scenes we are trying to create, basically, to emphasize and dramatize the imagery. In Secondhand Bookseller, I could definitely feel how badly Marina Nemat wanted to get her hands on more books. Her descriptions of how much she wanted more money to buy the books seemed like very serious issues for a little girl to have to deal with.  Not only are our recent assignments trying to teach us to  “show, not tell”, but they are also try to teach us to use dialogue. In this assignment, Nemat’s uses dialogue when talking to Albert, the old, mysterious bookkeeper.

Besides all of those lame, English, technical terms, I thought the whole thing was just so darn cute. I, somewhat, feel bad for Marina because I am, currently, reading her foreshadowed thoughts directly from prison; the only reason she was even arrested was because she spoke out against the Ayatollah Khomeini Regime. Google it, my best friends claims it to be quite interesting.

Until next time, folks! J