Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Journal #4 Revised: Challenges to Overcome

            
          The human population has managed to create a continuous green house gas warming cycle in our atmosphere that is literally suffocating our Earth. We have currently reached a disastrous level almost to the point of no return. We chose a fuel system that is very unhealthy, which has grown to the spending of trillions of dollars for oil, coal and unsustainable natural gases to be extracted from the Earth. In the article I read from the NY Times Magazine, Bryan Walsh presents some really interesting points on the barriers we face ahead in this energy revolution. He notes “abundance brings its own perils.” However, even though we have the resources, we also know the grave repercussions of these actions if continue along without changing. I believe the animal kingdom would rather adapt to the newly made human construction just like they have done for millions of years than to not have a home anymore. We cannot argue that building windmills might affect the migratory patterns of birds as we are constructing new sky scrappers everyday and using carbon fuel to do so.  We have built cities, roads and national parks all around previously uninhabited lands, and we drive around in cars polluting our earth to visit all of these wonderful sites.

Journal #5 Revised: The Harvey Milk Way


            Milk is a wonderful film depicting one of America’s most challenging and monumental moments of human rights. Harvey milk, portrayed perfectly by Sean Penn, is such a wonderfully amazing American hero, and this film captured his wit and personality perfectly. Sean Penn does great justice to the wonderful politician of the people, and he makes it clear that he appreciates the wonderful character Milk presented to everybody he met. This movie has a stellar cast that all blend perfectly together to really depict the sense of urgency, courage and perseverance these openly gay activists exhibited to a world that hated them. I do not know how they had the courage to face police brutality, constant public harassment and to hear respected individuals across the nation calling them sick and un-human. Cleve Jones, Emile Hirsch, exhibits this courage by his transformation from a small town homosexual looking for a wealthy man in California, to one of Harvey Milk’s most trusted friends and spectacular political activists. There are so many wonderfully complex aspects to this film and each scene after another was equally enchanting to the very complex life story of Harvey Milk.

Journal #3 Revised: Tony Mendez File


The film Argo is truly an amazing American underdog story. The sloppy and unorganized CIA agent, Tony Mendez, really transforms into an awesome American hero that all people should strive to be like.  Mendez, played by Ben Affleck, is sent to Iran in a last ditch elaborate scheme to rescue six American diplomats that are being hunted down by the Iranian extremists. The elaborate plan was to sneak the group of American diplomats out of the country by acting like a Canadian film crew on the hunt for the perfect site for their new science fiction movie Argo.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Brief Screening Report: Milk

            Milk is a wonderful film depicting one of America’s most challenging and monumental moments of human rights. Harvey milk, portrayed perfectly by Sean Penn, is such a wonderfully amazing American hero and this film captured his wit and personality perfectly. Sean Penn does great justice to the wonderful politician of the people, and makes it clear that he appreciates the wonderful character Milk presented to everybody he met. This movie has a stellar cast that all blend perfectly together to really depict the sense of urgency, courage and perseverance these openly gay activists exhibited to a world that hated them. I do not know how they had the courage to face police brutality, constant public harassment and respected individuals calling them sick and un-human. Cleve Jones, Emile Hirsch, exhibits this courage by his transformation from a small town homosexual looking for a wealthy man in California to one of Harvey Milk’s trusted friends and spectacular political activists. There are so many wonderfully complex aspects to this film and each scene after another was equally enchanting to the very crazy life story of Harvey Milk.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Post 3 Brief Screening Report: "Argo"


    “Argo” is truly an amazing American underdog story. The sloppy and unorganized CIA agent, Tony Mendez, really transforms into an awesome American hero that all people should strive to be like.  Mendez, played by Ben Affleck, is sent to Iran in a last ditch elaborate scheme to rescue six American diplomats that are being hunted down by the extremists. They planned to be a Canadian film crew on the hunt for the perfect site for their new movie “Argo.” 


Monday, September 30, 2013

Eastbound and Down's Last Glance

       Eastbound and Down is one of the most creative and incredibly ridiculous shows on the air today. The epic saga is about the all-star southern pitcher, Kenny Powers, who loses everything and has to start over. He moves back to his home town living with his brother, leaving his million dollar ace closer career to be a washed up substitute gym teacher. 

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Harry Potter Free Write

Harry Potter is a fascinating phenomena that characterized my child hood and gave us all something to look forward to growing up. Although, I never read any of the books, I was an avid fan of the beautiful cinematography of this mystical land J.K. Rolling portrayed.
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