English Final Exam

Damian Rosales

Janette Laredo

English 1301

November 30, 2010

Final Exam

            In “ The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara a young middle class woman called by the name of Miss Moore in an underprivileged neigborhood is critcized by the young teenagers. These underprivilegd individuals have no proper way of having a serious conversation and lack of general education. Miss Moore was the only black female with a college degree, but her knowledge and great appreciation put her in the position as a “ Teacher” for the underprivileged neighborhood. The young individuals hesistated to learn arithmetic and basic education, but their ignorance made Miss Moore profession untolerant. These young individuals had a really bad attitudes, no respect, bad thoughts, and were always taking Miss Moore as a game rather than a experience in school. In contrast to “ The Growing College Gap” where Tamara Draut describes how African American, Latino, and lower-income students are more likely to attend a two-year commmunity college or other programs that will lead them to get a degree. In “The lesson” the young individuals do not realize the bi picture, but rather whine and criticize everything Miss Moore is acknowleding for them; therefore in “ The Growing College Gap”  the individuals are financial unstable and do not meet the financail requirements because of the income their parents receive. Tamara Draut said “ gaps in enrollment by clas and race, after declining in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, are once again as wide as they were thirty year ago, but are getting wider, even as college has become far more crucial to lifetime fortunes.” Young Individuals like Latinos has less percentage of attending a private university or four year college because of the income their parents receive and the lack of general education. Wealthier young individuals are expected to graduate with a degree and continue the cycle for a higher class family, but if a latino earns a college degree it is more of a completion and success toward their future careers. If first time individuals gradutes with a degree that guarantees him a job security, but puts him/her in the middle class section. The individuals in “ The College Gap” want to go to college, but do not have enough money or are undocumentated. In  “ The lesson” the young individuals do not want to go to college and prefer to stay at home and hang out with their friends. These two different types of view makes us realize that individuals who have the opportunity to get a college degree refuse to, rather than, the individual who can’t. Many African Americans and Latinos are stereotype based on the hard labor and family backgrounds. “ The Lesson” and “ The College Gap” is a perfect example of young individuals who have different views about college and  most of all their needs and want.

Pan's labyrinth

In Pan's labyrinth the character has a magical chalk that leads to a different world. The character is a young girl around her teens, but when she uses this magical chalk she flip over the sand drop container and has that only amount of time to get out of the different magical world. The young girl uses the chalk and ends up in a dungeon. She steps inside the different world and walks until she met up with a monster and a table full of fruits and food. It seemed the monster was having a feast, but he seemed frozen with no eyes and could not move. The little girl had no interest for the monster and was looking for something different like a sword. She had a key but no door to place the key in until she found three little door and one contained the sword. She had three magical fairies which try to tell her where which door was the sword in. She decided to choose her own door and open the right one. The sword was gold and luxrious, but as she got the sword she looked at the table of fruits and food. The little girl was trying to eat a grape from the table, but the fairies tried to tell the girl she shouldnt do it. As she ate the grape the monster woke and up and tried to kill the little girl. This film is dream like!

Pleasantville

In the film Pleasantville the background is totally black and white, but the one of the characters is fully colored. This puts the audience attention to the colored character and fouceses on the genre and mood of the film. Throughout the film a couple are sitting down in the dining area discussing that her wife should go to a meeting and have dinner ready by 6:00 pm everyday! After her husband tell her what she should do, his wife denies and refuses to make dinner and go to the meeting, but instead tells him she put lunch in a brown bag. She also told him how to heat his own dinner by twisiting the knob of the oven and telling when and how long the dessert should be ready. This type of film put a confusion and anrgy mood for the audience, but also it makes it interesting due to the colored character. His wife walks away from the houses and say she leaving but doesnt hell her husband where. It seems she is moving out or running away!

Film Study

Films are tapes that are recorded throughout a movie session. Films keep records and material which can be used for future references or material to look back on. Important material is kept to compare the different aspects and view people had in the past and how that reflects our ideas. We read a film by watching it on a screen. It is a serious of images and sounds moving a really fast paste like a movie. A film is more than just a movie or material, but it is an important piece of information to rely on to make debates, articles, presentations, announcements, and to compare and contrast!!!

Thesis statement for Paper 2

Remember the Name brings out a motivational aspect of life and brings out a message based on the first person indicating the purpose of his life and sharing it among unmotivational individuals.

Paper 2 Prewrite

The topic for my second for formal paper is going to be based on the music video named remember the name by fort minor. The meaning of the music video is based on effort and working hard in order for people to remember your name. In the song it decribes how hard in the first person sense he works without giving up. The song's tempo is a motivation towards my actions and decisions in life.

replacements analysis

In the music video the background was gray and black making the audience believe it was around the 70's or earlier 80's. Music video song gave the audience a sense of life. For example, stressed out, emotionally hurt, desperate, and needs help. The camera concentrates on the speakers and audio system for the majority of the song putting the audience in a different point of view and confused not knowing whats going on. Suddenly a guy comes by and takes a ciggarete and smokes it in his couch. As he does he lays back and puts his feet up against the side of the couch and seems he is relaxing. Suddenly he get up when the tempo of the song has a little bit more excitement and faster rythm making him get up and hit the speaker with his leg and dropping everyhting from the top of the speaker. He then walks out  of the house all mad because the noise he makes with his mouth provide the audience information on what kind of mood and problems he might be facing. He smokes the ciggarette to calm his nervous down, but he eventually bursts.

Prodigy Analysis

In the music video "Smack My Bitch Up," the main character was unrevealed, but it showed only the movements and ojbects the character touched or did throughout the day. The beginning of the music video started off when in a restroom where the character was shaving and went to the restroom standing assuming the character was a man. The background of the the place where the music video started seemed as a regular typical guy who would live there. The man put on his jeans, boy shoes, a sip of liquour, and a sniff of cocaine. The character headed out to a dance club, but he was getting drunk and started to go crazy hitting people, destroyed the turning table, hit the DJ, pushing people around, beating up guys, and threw up blood in the men's restroom. By now we assume the its a men who is just drunk with cocaine in his system and has no idea what he is doing. The tempo of the song give it a dark mood to the song and a blurred vision while he was drunk in order to emphasize how crazy he was. After the he left the club he found an erotic girls place where he touched women's private parts and messed around with them, but he was so crazy some started to get mad and eventually he found a women who looked like a stripper. As they were heading back home the girl was licking a bottle of wine emphasizing sexual contact with the guy, but at the end it was a girl!

Music Thesis statement

Lady Gaga intoduces a new version of a love song that labels her love toward men, but violence portrays the song as a "bad romance."

Music Thesis Statement

Lady Gaga-Bad Romance

In Gaga's song Bad Romance she is descrbing the kind of men she wants in order to view themselves as a bad romance, or in other words, unsafe relationship. Lady Gaga describes the men and how she wants her men!

I Got A Women

Ray Charles has woman that gives him money and love just for him when he is in need. In other words, its his lover he is talking about as a house wife that knows her place and give him love day and night! the genre is jazz with a mixture of blues. The beats and sound gives the audience a moving mood or happy to see his lover. The tempo of the music increases the excitement and mood when the sax solo comes in between the song and helps the audience understand why he is so happy with no worries. In many cases some people would takes it as prostitution or as a woman to love and use just for sex. The Melody attracts the audience into the message Ray Charles is trying to say.

Gold Digger

Gold digger has a "pump up" mood, in other words, energetic and good tempo. The lyrics helps us understand why she is a gold digger and how Kanye West can not resist the girl she wants even though she has been messed around with different guys. The genre of Gold digger is hip hop, which is a type of music one would expect to think of Alcohol, drugs, money, sex, women, prostitution, and living the thug life. the tempo of this songs put a moving beat for the audience and keeps them awake, but sometimes the tempo and beat might be annoying if you only like the beat and not include the words with the song.

What is Music?

Music is source of different tunes and beats that include high sound waves or low sound waves. Music is a state of art with valuable and therapetical sounds and motion waves which help you relax and stabalize your mind and body. Music has many different parts such as hip hop, R&B, classic rock, heavy metal, pop, jazz, rap, country, reggeaton, bachata, spanish music, and much more. These types of music in some way helps us motivates ourselves before a game or event and in many cases helps us relieve stress or focus. Music helps me motivate myself and surpass different obstacles in my life. Music also is a part of my life, in other words, without music i would not be able to motivate myself, focus, relax, and think about my goals. Music also contains genres which help distinguish different types and not put under one catergory. A genre might have a different type of music style, for example, hip hop is a mixture of beats and autotunes which makes us move wild and crazy. In the other hand, Jazz is a type of music which helps us relax take a drink with friend or discuss memories among each other. Each different type of genre contains its own  type of sound and beats. One reads music with notes and letters.

Crisitano Ronaldo vs Bugatti Veyron - Nike Ad (pre-write for paper)

Cristiano Ronaldo the best soccer player in the world decides to experiments the new Superlight Supersonic Mercurial Vapor soccer shoes, which weight an amount 8.6 ounces, to the fastest sport car named a Bugatti Veyron. He test the comfort and mobility of the shoes compared to the sports car in order to demonstrate the public what the new soccer shoes are capable of doing. The video is enhanced by the sports car to give it a sense of speed and quickness to all the young and fan soccer player of Cristiano Ronaldo. In the Advertisement Video it shows Cristiano Ronaldo actually beating the Bugatti so the public could be emotionally attached to the shoes. The structure, foundation, appearance, color, weight, and comfort make this shoes be the best seller shoe soccer wise.

SMU Men's Soccer 2010

The freshman class of 2010 for SMU soccer is having a great impact and chemistry with the team, but overall the freshmans are the dominant class in history. What is it about the class of 2010 that makes it so over rated? Every single one of the fresheman have been recruited from MLS youth teams for example: FC Dallas, Colorado Rapids, Chicago Rebulls, etc. The programs MLS obtain give the young player a taste of the professional enviroment and are treating like one. In order to feel like a professional one has to be out of the ordinary and surpass many obsctacles, but most of all discipline and confidence take you there. Every single one of these freshman played against great teams internationally and locally. The class of 2010 know what it takes to start for the SMU soccer team and the level they play.

Sienfeld: The busboy, Part 2

Three main characters in Seinfeld are three friends who gather together to eat dinner, but as they converse with one another they are actually talking about other people and criticism them in bad ways. It seemed all they attended dinner was to play around with peoples emotions. As they conversed with one another one of the busboys accidentally left a food menu near a candle and the food menu lit on fire causing a dramatic scene within the restuarant.

They Say Exercises

Exercise 1

1)      WAI has determine that there are dangerous levels of Chemical X in the banks of the Ohio ground water, but the community has been affected from these harsh chemicals.

2)      The public views the novel of Romeo and Juliet as if it had certain flaws.

3)      Despite the NFL putting so much money on stadium and public sales on shirts and tickets it makes football more boring because of all the same advertisement they previem and never go outside the box.

4)      In our english one class in SMU the most dominant between male and female ratio is 3:1

5)      In Romeo and Juliet the purpose of this tragic story is to emphazise love to the public and romantic relationship which CBS News covered.

6)      Word created new and professional templated for overall students in college, highschool, and middle school in order for them to have better ideas and not mess up their creativit.

Paper 1 pre-write

The "educated person," has several important factors such as, wide range of study time, experience, organized, and most of all discipline. Education is key to a better future, but education is a long determine learning process. Many undergraduate students attend college to improve thier learning skill based on thier major or career, but sometimes lack of motivation or self-control puts them on the line between a college dropout. Hundred and thousands of students want to have a good future and able to succeed without a problem.

Immigration within the United States

Immigration has been a huge arugument issue within the United states for many years and decades, but especially the Latinos. Immigration has affected our society and the individuals around us because many U.S. citizens claim that immigrants take away jobs, change the american enviroment, schools, neighborhoods, and over populate different home areas. Many of these people come to the U.S. for a better opportunity in life in order to feed thier families and give thier children a better life. These Immigrants work what is called the "dirty work," which means they take minimum wage jobs, risk thier health through hot and cold conditions, hard labor, excessive hours of labor, are set to be viewed as workers and not as educational immigrants. A high percentage of immigrants work in most hard labor companies and are able to build schools, buildings, houses, streets, highways, and stores. Many U.S. citizens work in better conditions, but argue that immigrants should not have an opportunity to go to college, become part of the United States (US citizen), and grow in America. I wonder if we did not have any immigrants in the United states it would financially decrease to a high percentage because most of immigrants spend alot of money, taxes, rent, bill, and insurance like everyone else. Why shouldn't immigrants have an opportunity? A great example of over exagerration immigration law is the 1070 from Arizona! What i do agree on the immigration is even though the United States know thier are hundred of illegal immigrants living in the United States they have to pay for everything and be treated the same way as a US citizen. IF any illegal immigrants commits a crime they should be deported because of thier mistakes an action they took. For boths side of immigration topics is illegal immigrants should have the same opportunity any other US citizen, but illegal immigrants should follow all the rules to stay in this counntry!!!

250,000 minimum credit card!

American express black card heard of it? I recently met a Southern Methodist University student who obtained the most exclusive expensive credit car i know so far!!! The minimum expense for this card is 250,000 dollars a year calculating an expense of 21,000 a month which made me realize how people spend so much money on unnecessary items. The American Express Card represents power, control, and authority in my eyes! Students in SMU are unbelievably rich which lead them to make inaccurate decisions with one card containing millions and billions of dollars. It is unbelievable how young adult men obtain this card leading them to give them a sense of over power among others. One thing factor that the card contains is a cause and effect!!!

Don't tread on me

A local patriot from Laveen, Arizona decided to put a flag that was based on the by the Tea party movement and debates the First Amendment. The local owner has a three foot by five foot yellow flay with a picture of a serpent and a phrase saying "don't tread on me." Is this man obeying the first amendment or pushing the HOA to the limit?

Milk advertisement

Milk advertisement


The milk advertisement tries to persuade young teenagers to drink milk to grow up like Mark Kay and Ashley. The advertisement demonstrate how milk can make you have the feeling of a grown teenager and physical appearance based on the facts that milk contains a mineral named calcium which bones observes and help them grow in a strong fashion way. The ad is simply sending out a message regarding on the teenagers life style growth and adaption to this dairy product. Also Mary Kay and Ashley help influence milk is a safety product to young teenagers, but a misleading attraction to the commercial is the banana which is a potassium food item rather than a calcium item. The sexual model positions attract teenagers to buy the milk!!!