SPACE!!!

2001: A Space Odyssey; One of a Kind

2001: A Space Odyssey is a scientific film, one of the first of its kind, produced in 1968 by Stanley Kubrick. Its screenplay was written and based on the book “The Sentinel,” by Arthur C. Clarke. The movie is visually and graphically well crafted, and a movie that serious makes you think. The film stars a variety of cast but has four specific main characters. The first two main characters are the astronauts upon the mission Keir Dullea as (Dr. Dave Bowman), and Gary Lockwood as (Dr. Frank Poole). The second two main characters are the fictional computer (HAL 9000), voice by Douglas Rain, and the man, who authorized the mission (Dr. Heywood R. Floyd) played by William Sylvester. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a very confusing and unpractical type of movie. Kubrick designed the film to be one where the messages isn’t obvious and in your face. It’s a scientific film with little or none conversation in parts of the movie. Kubrick’s idea for the film was to show an overview of what mankind has developed to, through the evolution of apes to humans, from the beginning to the future.

The film begins slowly with a group of apes, the dawn of man, sitting around until one day they found the discovery of a black monolith. Every time this thing is discovered in the film, the same spooky and eerie voices of people cooing appear. The apes go wild and find the object fascinating and scary, and are timid to go up and touch it. Soon after an ape is seen playing with a bunch of bones and discovers he can use these objects as a tool and proceeds to use them on other animals. The film then goes on ahead into the future and it shows Dr. Heywood Floyd being shipped to space to decide what to do with this secret epidemic. He then decides to create a mission to the moon to check out the once again, black monolith, that was buried under ground. The astronauts on the mission react the same way the apes did, being timid and fascinated by the object. This showing that Kubrick was connecting that the dawn of man reacts the same as the future men. In conclusion to that, it leads into the bigger part of the movie where the two main astronauts, Dave and Frank, and introducing the computer HAL 9000, on their Jupiter mission. The astronauts sit and a wait for something to happen until one day HAL 9000 thinks Dave isn’t totally into the mission and is having second doubts. Dave and Frank this very odd and they thought about terminating HAL 9000 all together. Soon afterwards Frank goes out and gets lost in space. Dave soon had to go out and save him, but when he did and tried to get back into the space ship HAL wouldn’t let them back in because it knew they were going against its back. Dave let Frank go to get back into the space ship and even Dave finally gets back he finally terminates HAL. After terminating HAL, Dave goes through a weird, psychedelic time continuum adventure where he ends up in a white bedroom. The scene’s after that are quick and confusing to where Dave becomes older and older as he looks at himself in a mirror, and in a bed. The movie ends with a baby evolving, like Kubrick was reminding us about the evolution of mankind.

I found the film to be very long and slow paced, almost tedious to watch at some points. I’m not a huge scientific fan but I did think that the way Kubrick created those special effects and predicted the future and technology so brilliantly that it left a viewer in a state of amazement. The film itself doesn’t attract to most teens or adolescent groups because it doesn’t grab the attention and gives you a lot time to pounder, making the viewers at an unease or comfortable because you can’t really understand what’s going on. The thing that I didn’t like the most was that there was almost no conversation at all, just a lot of breathing and strange music, and I like to hear people talk about what they feel is going on. The only part that I did find interesting and intriguing was at the end was when Dave terminated HAL and he then went through the time continuum and the effects were very interesting, although very trippy also.

Compiling a Portfolio

As you grow up, things get complicated and competitive. Artists, designers, writers, all have to make portfolio to keep together their work that they may need to show off. It's like a scrapbook of their art and talents. When you start to write, it's kind of like keeping a portfolio. You ask yourself why your writing one, who will read your portfolio, what is your genre, what kind of stance is this project, and how will your portfolio will be published? When writing a portfolio you should include things like free-writing, outlines, drafts, writing assignments, source material, tests and quizzes, responses, lecture notes, and reflections on your work. There is also two types of ways of organizing a portfolio; paper and electronically, such as online ones.

Evaluating.

In this text for reading, we are learning about how to evaluate for the movie we will be watching. In the text, it gives an example of a man who evaluated the show Dawson's Creek. Which I found to be very interesting and informing. That was a good example of exactly to evaluate something. The key concepts to first starting your evaluation paper is to a small description of your subject, clarify it, you need to have knowledge of your actual subject, a balanced and fair argument, and well-supported reasons. When choosing something to evaluate, look for something small rather than something broad and vague. Others important things to do would be; exploring what you already know about it, identify the criteria, evaluate the subject, compared it to others, state your judgment as the thesis, anticipate other opinions, and identify and support your reasons. Explore what you know by freewriting stuff, do a lot of research, and compare and contrast related subjects.

Facebook Group Project

Yesterday we worked together in group to try and finish the project. We fixed all the details, changed the format, and we also changed what we had written into more of a list instead of a paragraph. Two people in the group when to the writing center and had someone check our paragraphs. We also talked about the pictures more, and then added two videos to show how employers check people's Facebook's. We are close to being done so we are meeting one more time on Monday to finish up everything.

Facebook Privacy

We started a group project in class and as a group we decided to make a website. We began to make it on Weebly and each of us has a part describing something on or about Facebook. I chose the part explaining the privacy policy. I am going to explain how Facebook keeps part of your page as private as you make it, but your exact profile isn't completely private to the world.

Guide Your Reader to the Beiginning and End.

I know what I go to pick up a book, I judge it by it cover. I know that's wrong, but the visual aid is always appealing to a person, no matter what. But sometimes I give it a second chance, and I'll read the beginning. This attracts me also to the book. The ending though, is what will decide whether I enjoyed the book or not. It may make me mad, because it didn't end the way I wanted it to, or maybe make me happy because it was a perfect ending. I find that usually the ending is the best part because it leaves you satisfied. The beginning fits in the big picture of things. It introduces, explains, and informs your audience about the story you are about to tell. The ending though, can then summerize the whole text itself. It can end in many ways such as, referring to the beginning, tieing up loose ends, giving the audience something to think about, or restating the main point. The beginning and end will determine whether or not the audience things this book is readable.
As a reader, and as many others, I want to be guided through a text I am reading. Ways to guide your reader would have to be throught titles, theses statements, topic sentences, and transitions. A title serves a purpose and names a text. Thesis statements identifies the topic of the text and the claim you are trying to make. Topic sentences are similar to thesis statements, in that they are announcing the topic and purpose, but it states the subject and focus on that certain paragraph. And lastly, a transition help the readers move from each thought to thought, sentence, paragraph, etc.

C&E,C&D,C&C.

Today we all use Cause and Effect. We all want to know why something happened and what will happen next. It's like a human instinct. Useful processes for analyzing causes would have to be outlining, listing, and clustering. Always look for which ones are the most relevant to your purpose and also which ones are most likely to convince your audience. Once you have found what your main purpose is, then you need to argue your claim, organize your analysis of the cause and effect, and then most importantly consider the rhetorical situation.
So when it comes to classifying and dividing, they are somewhat similar and yet different. Classifying is when you organize information into various pieces and put them into different groups But dividing is more as taking one topic and diving into different parts. Classifying is grouping similar things and dividing is breaking down something into parts.
Like the book says, "Comparing things look at their similarities; contrasting them focuses on their differences." In writing we'd compare and contrast poems or pretty much all of them, like in a proposal, you need to compare your solution and maybe other ones. In real life, we would compare and contrast such things like the cell phones we may want to buy, or a version of a book to a film. There are two ways of comparing and contrasting. One would be the block method, which is discussing each item separately, informing all about one, and then the other ones. The second method would be the point-by-point method. This method would obviously be to focus on the specific points of comparison. All of these seem pretty easy to me, except to move on to things like using graphs and images to support comparisons, or using figurative language to make comparisons.