What do these videos have to do with escape?
All the videos we watched in class are related to a form of escape. The guy that seeks for the extinct bird is always after a goal that puts him out of life. The prisoners literally try to escape from the prison, although not from a state of mind like the other examples of escape. The man who photographs little dolls also tries to escape from reality. He had a traumatic episode in his life that changed his mind and put him in “other” world where he can do whatever, even revenge the people that beat him up. The kid with disability, Mike, is a life escape by himself. All his issues block him from having a normal life, and he tries to escape to the opposite direction of all the other examples; he tries to escape to the real world where he can have a girlfriend and have a normal life.
What does these videos have to do with writing
Writing itself is a form of escape. To a estate of mind and spirit which allow you to turn your mind off from the reality and travel to your imagination and ideas. Everybody that has read a book that catches your attention for hours or when you are completely concentrated in writing you feel senseless for the real world; blind and deaf to what is happening around you.
quarta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2011
segunda-feira, 14 de novembro de 2011
Ghost Story
The long border between Mexico and the US state of Texas is dotted with little towns. They are towns of adobe walls - towns out of legend, with names such as El Paso, Juarez, Del Rio, Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros.
They line both sides of the Rio Grande, the river that forms the boundary between Texas and the U.S. There was a time, not too long ago, when life could be very good on 'the border. However the illegal immigrants and the drug cartels brought up many problems to this area.
People in the border of the two countries had no fear of drug-related violence; however they were soon to discover how wrong they had been.
A certain day one of those small towns woke up around the fear and horror of a murder. Juan Mario, a 30 years old men had been brutally killed while trying to cross the border. His body was founded without his 2 legs and arms by the main road that connects the town to the next village. But the unusual was the fact that his chest had the phrase written by knife cuts: “ tu eres el proximo” (you are the next).
The mystery covered the small town and all the habitants were wondering who could have done such thing and who the next victim could be. The drug cartel has been actively acting in the border and bringing horror to the habitants and citizens that illegally try to leave Mexico.
Story continues when the next immigrant tries to leave Mexico to cross the American border
End Note: I am not a good storyteller, however I want to add this paper in me research paper to give an example of how the violent the life in the border is and how that could be described as a ghost story. I used information from news websites that show the stories of many people that had their end in the hands of drug cartels.
They line both sides of the Rio Grande, the river that forms the boundary between Texas and the U.S. There was a time, not too long ago, when life could be very good on 'the border. However the illegal immigrants and the drug cartels brought up many problems to this area.
People in the border of the two countries had no fear of drug-related violence; however they were soon to discover how wrong they had been.
A certain day one of those small towns woke up around the fear and horror of a murder. Juan Mario, a 30 years old men had been brutally killed while trying to cross the border. His body was founded without his 2 legs and arms by the main road that connects the town to the next village. But the unusual was the fact that his chest had the phrase written by knife cuts: “ tu eres el proximo” (you are the next).
The mystery covered the small town and all the habitants were wondering who could have done such thing and who the next victim could be. The drug cartel has been actively acting in the border and bringing horror to the habitants and citizens that illegally try to leave Mexico.
Story continues when the next immigrant tries to leave Mexico to cross the American border
End Note: I am not a good storyteller, however I want to add this paper in me research paper to give an example of how the violent the life in the border is and how that could be described as a ghost story. I used information from news websites that show the stories of many people that had their end in the hands of drug cartels.
domingo, 13 de novembro de 2011
Journal 4
That is what I think about my English class:
It has been intensive, hard and instructive. We have been through a process to learn how to write a research paper. In the beginning of the semester when we had to experience different readings and videos in which we were required to give responses to those, creating the bases that we needed to finally begging our research paper.
The process we have been through is not easy, I confess, however it can be fun because it turns the capacity of expressing yourself on, and in my opinion for the advancement of the mankind is very important that individuals research about subjects of their interest and also create conclusions about the subject so future generations can have a more advanced and sophisticated source for their studies. For example if Charles Darwin never made a research on the origin of the species how would be our knowledge today in terms of evolution and understanding ourselves?
That is why this class has been so useful and is building the bases that I need to become an expert expressing and researching in my field, which is finance. Hopefully I will turn into a professional that can to contribute to the future of our society through research and creation of new thoughts.
End note: I want to include this genre in my paper because I can explain people why I made a research paper and demonstrate the importance that a research paper has.
It has been intensive, hard and instructive. We have been through a process to learn how to write a research paper. In the beginning of the semester when we had to experience different readings and videos in which we were required to give responses to those, creating the bases that we needed to finally begging our research paper.
The process we have been through is not easy, I confess, however it can be fun because it turns the capacity of expressing yourself on, and in my opinion for the advancement of the mankind is very important that individuals research about subjects of their interest and also create conclusions about the subject so future generations can have a more advanced and sophisticated source for their studies. For example if Charles Darwin never made a research on the origin of the species how would be our knowledge today in terms of evolution and understanding ourselves?
That is why this class has been so useful and is building the bases that I need to become an expert expressing and researching in my field, which is finance. Hopefully I will turn into a professional that can to contribute to the future of our society through research and creation of new thoughts.
End note: I want to include this genre in my paper because I can explain people why I made a research paper and demonstrate the importance that a research paper has.
Commercial Script 3
Song - (Adagio in G minor, Albioni)
(First Scene)
An elder Asian man is waiting in an airport. He hears the announcement that the flight with his daughter and his grandkids coming from china has arrived, he smiles and goes buy some flowers in an airport store. Then, through the window he sees his family in the immigration but something is wrong. They get their entrance to the country denied and a federal officer aggressively takes them away while the elder watches everything desperately.
(Second Scene)
Two kids, a Palestine boy and a Jewish girl meet every day to watch the sunset in a beautiful field somewhere outside of Jerusalem. They smile and put their arms on each other shoulders while watching the sunset with the city of Jerusalem in the back. However, one day at the same time and same spot they were there again to meet, but there is a huge wall separating them now, and the smile has disappeared from their faces.
The screen becomes black with the phrase in white: “Break down the borders”. The screen becomes black again and a new phrase appears: “The world is yours”
Lastly, the commercial ends with the phrase: “Contribute to the end of borders and differences in our society” and below that phrase we conclude with the website of the entity “World Unification Organization – www.WUO.com”
End Note: The organization created is fictional but the commercial represents the anguish and sadness that borders can bring to the citizens of our world. In the first scene the elder has the right to see his family deprived. He has been gracefully waiting for them and because of some apparent bureaucratic issue he has this right denied. It is incredible the number of people that have their entrance in a foreign country denied. For example, if you want to acquire an U.S Visa the chance of you being denied to receive it is around 50% or even higher in some cases (Guru Immigration Law Blog). I understand that the individual might not have good antecedent in his/her home country; however in many of the occasions the visa applier has not criminal records or anything that can actually corrupt his image. And I say that by my own experience with friends that have their visas refused in the process of trying to travel for tourism to certain countries.
The second scene represents the innocence of two children living in a society where the religion indifference is big but it does not affect the friendship and purity of them. However the ignorance and lack of love between adults build an obstacle between the friendship of those kids. And the message that the fictional WUO organization wants to show is that borders bring suffering for people and they should be ended.
(First Scene)
An elder Asian man is waiting in an airport. He hears the announcement that the flight with his daughter and his grandkids coming from china has arrived, he smiles and goes buy some flowers in an airport store. Then, through the window he sees his family in the immigration but something is wrong. They get their entrance to the country denied and a federal officer aggressively takes them away while the elder watches everything desperately.
(Second Scene)
Two kids, a Palestine boy and a Jewish girl meet every day to watch the sunset in a beautiful field somewhere outside of Jerusalem. They smile and put their arms on each other shoulders while watching the sunset with the city of Jerusalem in the back. However, one day at the same time and same spot they were there again to meet, but there is a huge wall separating them now, and the smile has disappeared from their faces.
The screen becomes black with the phrase in white: “Break down the borders”. The screen becomes black again and a new phrase appears: “The world is yours”
Lastly, the commercial ends with the phrase: “Contribute to the end of borders and differences in our society” and below that phrase we conclude with the website of the entity “World Unification Organization – www.WUO.com”
End Note: The organization created is fictional but the commercial represents the anguish and sadness that borders can bring to the citizens of our world. In the first scene the elder has the right to see his family deprived. He has been gracefully waiting for them and because of some apparent bureaucratic issue he has this right denied. It is incredible the number of people that have their entrance in a foreign country denied. For example, if you want to acquire an U.S Visa the chance of you being denied to receive it is around 50% or even higher in some cases (Guru Immigration Law Blog). I understand that the individual might not have good antecedent in his/her home country; however in many of the occasions the visa applier has not criminal records or anything that can actually corrupt his image. And I say that by my own experience with friends that have their visas refused in the process of trying to travel for tourism to certain countries.
The second scene represents the innocence of two children living in a society where the religion indifference is big but it does not affect the friendship and purity of them. However the ignorance and lack of love between adults build an obstacle between the friendship of those kids. And the message that the fictional WUO organization wants to show is that borders bring suffering for people and they should be ended.
Poem 2
What is my Crime?
What is my crime?
Where one becomes not more pure
The blindness is in you
And for the whole world, this is fine
I know you are not mine
And I wish I had the words
To explain for you, and everybody
that without you my sun is not longer shining
But we write our own life line,
For what is left, we keep the specials
Out of yours I know I am
And I will be away with my rhyme
End Note:
I wrote this poem to express the feelings of an immigrant being denied to have citizenship in a particular country. I tried to show the lack of interest which the world presents about an immigrant. In addition it is stated the immigrant's sadness for having the right to be in a land that he/she loves deprived, and lastly the poetry ends with the immigrant's inevitable exit from the foreign country
The immigrant in my poetry actually symbolizes any immigrant being in a situation in which he/she does not have the legal right to be in a country that is not originally his/her. The closest example is the situation of many Mexicans that immigrate to the United States and after having built a family in this country they are sometimes obligate to return to Mexico because of the bureaucracy that manages the entrance of foreign people to the USA or any other country with a similar system.
What is my crime?
Where one becomes not more pure
The blindness is in you
And for the whole world, this is fine
I know you are not mine
And I wish I had the words
To explain for you, and everybody
that without you my sun is not longer shining
But we write our own life line,
For what is left, we keep the specials
Out of yours I know I am
And I will be away with my rhyme
End Note:
I wrote this poem to express the feelings of an immigrant being denied to have citizenship in a particular country. I tried to show the lack of interest which the world presents about an immigrant. In addition it is stated the immigrant's sadness for having the right to be in a land that he/she loves deprived, and lastly the poetry ends with the immigrant's inevitable exit from the foreign country
The immigrant in my poetry actually symbolizes any immigrant being in a situation in which he/she does not have the legal right to be in a country that is not originally his/her. The closest example is the situation of many Mexicans that immigrate to the United States and after having built a family in this country they are sometimes obligate to return to Mexico because of the bureaucracy that manages the entrance of foreign people to the USA or any other country with a similar system.
sábado, 5 de novembro de 2011
World Citizenship Menu
Appetizer
Freedom Appetizer – Taste the flavor of liberty and feel free to do whatever is in your mind
Pizzas
Unification Pizza – Mix of well known ingredients that will give you autonomy, freedom, and civil rights.
Side Dish
Old Views Toasted – Combination of things that nobody wants anymore toasted and almost burnt exclusively to our clients not to feel the original flavor.
Salads
Salad “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s” – Delicious salad that increases self-esteem against the powerful ones that rule all world.
Desserts
The Fall of the Cake – Inspired by the Germans, this cake knocks down any indifference.
I just wanted to make a satire against the not unification of the world.Through the insertion of vocabulary related to the world citizenship; both words that are associated to the unification of the word and words that go against it.
Appetizer
Freedom Appetizer – Taste the flavor of liberty and feel free to do whatever is in your mind
Pizzas
Unification Pizza – Mix of well known ingredients that will give you autonomy, freedom, and civil rights.
Side Dish
Old Views Toasted – Combination of things that nobody wants anymore toasted and almost burnt exclusively to our clients not to feel the original flavor.
Salads
Salad “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s” – Delicious salad that increases self-esteem against the powerful ones that rule all world.
Desserts
The Fall of the Cake – Inspired by the Germans, this cake knocks down any indifference.
I just wanted to make a satire against the not unification of the world.Through the insertion of vocabulary related to the world citizenship; both words that are associated to the unification of the word and words that go against it.
terça-feira, 1 de novembro de 2011
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