Monday, April 26, 2010

Get your Cat Spayed/Neutered or it Will KILL YOU!!!! :O


http://www.kidk.com/news/local/92136594.html?tab=video



"Woman: My cat tried to kill me" defiantly is an interesting and different title that you don't see that often on the CNN news. I picked this video because it pretty much has everything that you need to have a exciting news video. It has an interesting title, the video is affective in getting its message across and keeps your attention while doing so, and it had a lots of cool picture and a interview with the victim.


I think that this video will help me with my jobs in the talon! Even though I do In-Depths and Peoples Pick, watching this video really helped me, it proved to me by having a strange and out there title you'll get attention. Plus it cover a lot of information with voice overs when show the woman's cuts and brusies from her cat. Also I learned that you can tell a sad and serious story with humor.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Finding Forrester Review


Finding Forrester is a film directed by Gus Van Sant, released December 19, 2000, and produced by Columbia Pictures. It starred a young Rob Brown and Anna Paquin, as well as world renowned actor Sean Connery. Although the movies was only limited released to theaters is still made $80,049,764 in the box office. The movie was well liked by critics and viewers alike, it received two thumbs up from Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper. Also it Richard Roeper considered it one of the 10 best films of 2000.

Finding Forrester is about Jamal, a 16 year old black boy who lives in a bad part of the Bronx. Jamal is a very intelligent young man but does not show it because none of his friends care, Jamal is also very good at basketball. One day Jamal is dared by his group of friends to sneak into the apartment of the creepy guy that lives up there, Jamal accepts the dare and sneaks up only to get caught by the man, and runs away but leaves his book bag behind. Jamal always kept his intelligent a secret until one day he is offered a scholarship to a high class private school in Manhattan, Jamal accepts the offer. After Jamal broke in the Apartment he develops a tough love friendship with the man who lives there. Near the end of the movie, Jamal's teachers believe that he copied a story he handed in and it jeopardizes his chances in staying at the Prep School.

Gus Van Sant has directed some of the best movies in the last decade and this one is no exception. Gus had made movies such as Milk and Good Will Hunting, both these movies like Finding Forrester deal with major conflicts and over coming huge obstacles in life to try to succeed.Although the movie doesn't have a lot of main characters the performances from Sean Conney and Rob Brown are outstanding. Plus the lesser characters played by Anna Paquin and Fahrid Murray Abraham really live an imprint on you and really help develop characters and conflicts.

Finding Forrester is pretty much one of those feel good movies where you get to see someone that almost never have a chance succeed in life.So you would think that the Message is "Never Give up" or something like "Everyone needs a Chance" but a I think that the message is more so "The Definition of Family". I believe this because throughout the movie you kind out that Jamal never really ever had a father figure and Forrester hasn't had much of a family since his brother left, and once these to meet up they're basically complete opposites, but as well all know opposites do connect. They form a strong bond because they both need something and they get what they need from each other, Jamal gets a father/mentor and Forrester gets a family. It also directs the message that family doesn't always have to be biological but can just be who is there for you and who you trust, support and love.

Overall Finding Forrester is a pretty good movie with a good message and good acting. It defiantly will be worth your time to watch.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Bonus ! Hospital Tour


So Wednesday basically all the class went to the hospital for a tour! We got to got to the morgue (It was uber creepy....just saying), sound proof room (kinda cool), and lots of other cool places, but my favorite place was to see was the plant. The entire tour they said they we might get to see this "plant", so I was expecting some big cool flowery tree type thing the entire time. So then once we got to where the plant was I was expect the flower tree crossbreed, but then I found out that it wasn't an actual a plant but a place where all the generators and power things are. At first I was slightly disappointed but once we started looking around and stuff, and it was pretty cool to see! Plus there was even a random tree chilling back there so I did get to see a "plant"!!!!! So it all ended up working out pretty well. :)

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

If you never do anything, you never become anyone*

http://blog.spout.com/2009/10/07/an-education-review/

An Education

An Education is a movie that I have wanted to see for a while. Its kind of one of those coming of age movies about being young, making desisions and the relizum of young love. Its set in London, during the 1960's.

Usually this kind of movie would appeal to me but for some reason this one did, I think it first appealed to me becasue I saw both the two main actors getting interveiwed on Jinny Fallon and I really like both of them, so I went and watched the movie trailer and read the review on line and really like it!

Another reason I chose this review is becase it summed up the movie really well, without giving it all away like other reviews did. Also i went in a little more depths about the plot and everything i really wanted to know before watching the movie to understand it a little better.

I Honously dont have a favorite kind of genre, but the movie's I like the most are always the ones that havbe it all like comedy, action, thrills, drama and some romance but not too much just enough. So if I got to chose a movie to do a reveiw on I probably do An Education becasue it has most of those things in it and if I did a reveiw on it that means that I get to see it !

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Activities from allpoetry.com (Bonus)


The sky is blue...is this really true?

We'll I think we all know that the sky's basic color is blue but the sky changes color all the time!! The sky is sometimes a kind of pinkish, reddish or even purplish mix in the early morning or evening. It is also some
times grey on rainy, gloomy days. And everybody know that the sky is black at night. So saying that the sky is blue isn't always true.


When the Rain Falls

I absolutely love when it rains outside! I love the calm, and the serenity that you feel when its raining out. I love nothing more than to walk around in the rain in a shir
t and shorts and just soak up the water and breath in the smell, which brings me into another thing I love about it the smell. The clean and pure smell that the rain always leaves just I think is one of the best smell ever! After it rains the world always looks so much nicer like it was rejuvenated ! :)

Song lyric Stuck in your head

This song may not be on the top 40 countdown but its what I got stuck in my head is Ive Got A Theory from The Buffy Musical. Here is an extract from the song:

(Anya)
Ive got a theory it could be bunnies!.................
Bunnies aren't just cute like everyone supposes,
They got them hoppy little legs and twitchy little noses,
And whats with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, Bunnies, it must be Bunnies!
.....Or maybe midgets?
I strongly recommend that you YouTube it!!! :D Its kind of funny.
Your world

In my idealistic world would be much like how i picture heaven, it would be vast grassy field surrounded by lush forests, and a big baby blue sky would be up above watching over. In my world everyone would be equal, different races, sexes and even sexual orientation. Everybody would be in a constant state of bliss, because they're would be no wars, diseases, or religions(my people would be spiritual still but just no array of religion). Everyone would have modest little houses, and they would only take what they need. I know this is a pretty unrealistic and surreal world but it would be mine if i could choose. :)

The Christmas Story !!! :D




Once upon a time, in a long and far away place lived a little family. There was the mama she was kind and beautiful, there was the papa and he was strong and brave, and then there was me and my sister Lashawndra we are both little and cute. They were a very loving and caring family but they didn't have much money so when it came to Christmas times were tough.
Every year around Christmas everyone would celebrate and decorate their houses and buy extravagant gifts for their children and family, except us, because we could a ford it so we only could use what we had, and we never had much. We would make everything we could and our parents always said it was nicer than all the other decorations the other families had. But I think they were just being nice.
Then one cold and quite winter our lives changed forever. One year when it was close to Christmas our papa went out in to the forest to get us the most beautiful Christmas tree, and he said he would be gone for about 2 days. So we waited patiently at home for him to get back but he didn't come back after the 2 days were up, so we started to worry. Mama pasted around the house for the next 3 days he was gone, she would go out and look for him in the morning and around dusk. This wasn't the Christmas we've been hoping for.

So as we started to give up hope because he had been gone for over a week, he came back. He arrived home all tired and dirty but he said he had a surprise for us. He told us to go back to the edge of the woods and look what he brought back, so we ran over and saw it. It was an enormous lush evergreen! It would be perfect, but then he said to look under it, so we did. There were bags and bags of gold, too! He said he found it in the forest and decided to bring it home, and that's what took him so long, lugging home all that gold and enormous tree.
We became very rich and moved into an extravagant house before Christmas, and then on Christmas morning after opening all they're presents the entire family realized that they were missing something. They all pondered about this and then they all realized that they didn't need the money they just needed each other. And they lived happily ever after together ! :)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

It's going to be the greatest comeback...since Jesus

What about the bad guy?

Wilhelmina Slater is the conceited, self-absorbed diva and antagonist of the TV series Ugly Betty. For most people on the show Wilhelmina is the evil, soulless botox addict monster that they all want to stay away from and know that they must fear. But for me I see her as a beautiful, strong and clever, career driven woman that is just trying to get her self farther in the world.

I think Wilhelmina is a beautiful person inside and out! Although she seems hard and heartless on the out side there have been a few episodes where it gives you a glimpse of herself. It show us that she is caring, loving and actually does have a heart in episodes where her daughter comes, or when she actually helps Betty, or in just little thinks she says or does.

Wilhelmina is also very strong and clever. She has prove to be very strong on many occasions, such as when she was betrayed, or even more physical story's like when she went through surgery and was back in action an hour after she was done. She also gets mad sometimes and has a habit of destroying and throwing heavy objects such as ice sculptures. She is also very clever, and is always proving it by knowing things about people she works with, just by they way they look and that things/ habits they have.
Wilhelmina is extremely career driven woman. She has always been trying to farther her self in the fashion world, so she had to take some of the competition . In the real world we all know that you some times have to take out some of the competition. So everybody shouldn't think Willamina is a monster and a horrible person for destroying people to get what she wants, because we have all done that on one or more occasions.

Wilhelmina Slater is a beautiful, strong and clever, career driven woman. She may not show it all the time, but everybody should give her the chance because even the bad guys need someone to love them.