Romano and Jackson’s review…

Why Romano’s review was “good” ?

-Gives reasons on why the argument is valid and states numerous reasons to prove this thesis. Add’s in quotes directly from essay.

-Gives reasons on why the argument fails because it fails to anticipate the outcomes that the essay might bring, such a questions and objections certain parents might think of. Also fails to include non contact sports.

I also agree with Starskys argument because I’ve seen many girls on my soccer team quit, because

1. It was too competitive

2. Players were favored, and other didn’t get a chance to play because they were not as skilled.

3. Parents push their kids too far:

a. Fighting with the coaches because there child isn’t getting even playing time

            b. Forcing their children to practice far too much.

            c. Screaming at their children when they make a mistake on the field

            d. Scolding them for a loss

            e. Etc.

One argument though that I would bring up would be the idea of “Player’s Only Week”, also known as POW games. I remember playing in Long Island Junior Soccer League, and certain weekends, I think only one weekend a season, would be POW. POW is where only the player’s can talk, no coaching, and parents cannot yell or they will get thrown out. Now this can help argue the fact children are given the chance to just play, and not have parental influence.

 

Jackson’s review- Consider whether balancing the good with the bad in a review like this makes the argument more convincing or less so.

 

Jackson’s review was more than convincing, and if I was a gamer I would be more than interested in picking up this game. She separated all the specifics into categories such as sound, graphics, summary, and such. But I feel if you write a review on something that you need to balance the good with the bad, because a review is suppose to give you the pro’s and con’s to what its reviewing. Your opinion is what the essay is based on, and your’e able to give both ideas to fight the argument on whether what your review is good or bad.

 

 

Reactions to There Will be Blood

Reactions to There Will be Blood

Reactions to Orr’s Review spoiler

 

            I enjoyed the film as a whole, but I think for me to understand it completely I would have to watch it more than once. If it was a choice of mine to watch this movie, I think I wouldn’t have. It wasn’t that interesting, but it was a little gruesome. I didn’t understand who Paul was, was he the twin brother of Eli, or was he Eli pretending to be Paul? Even in the ending of the movie when Eli visits Daniel in the end and asks him for the money he owes him I don’t understand, it’s the same situation as when Paul asked Daniel for money in the beginning for the Sunday Ranch. Another part that seemed confusing was the ending, why does Daniel have such hatred towards his son, when his son is trying to mend there relationship? It was sad in the end though when Daniel told his son that he was an orphan, because he kept it from him for so long. Even though Daniel was baptized by Eli it doesn’t seem that it was genuine, because being baptized removes sins, yet he still kills his brother Henry who really is not his brother, but just trying to gain something from Daniel. In the end when Daniel kills Eli, I don’t understand why, was it because he forced him into saying he abandoned his son in a church full of the people of the area where he was searching for oil. Orr’s review states that one man wins, one man looses, and I think the person who lost was Daniel. He gained all this money, this beautiful house, but lost his son, and didn’t seem too happy being rich.

            When reading Orr’s movies spoiler, I don’t find it was helpful in spoiling anything. If someone has read Orr’s first review and hasn’t seen the movie, I think the movie itself was too confusing for anyone to understand what the second review was stating. I agree with Orr that when H.W returned to mend the relationship with Daniel, the fact that Daniel always needs some sort of family by his side. Some who shares his blood, he can see himself in, even though H.W isn’t his blood, and when this bond is taken away Daniel, has no use for them, but hate.

The excitement of Wiiiiii!

In a previous post I wrote about picking up the infamous Nintendo Wii in the city and how stressful my day was because of that. Well let’s start out by saying it was worth it. I waited till Sunday to give my dad his birthday gift, even though he already knew it was a Wii. He opened his gift and said that it was one of the best gifts he has received in awhile. My dad’s a surgeon, but he also loves electronics, we must have every gaming system that every kid wanted. Even before he knew I was getting him the Wii, he bought accessories for it because he knew eventually he was going to buy it. Now the hassle with the Wii, was you need to put it on a credit card, and mine is linked to my dad’s account so either way he would find out.

Later that day I came home after work and to my surprise the Wii was already set up and my brother said “the first baseball game I played, I hit a home run on this thing”. My dad said “Wow what a workout!” I laughed. But when I began to play it I realize that it really is a workout and does get tiring because it’s a hand’s on video game. I gave my dad his card at dinner, and he was in shock, because there was the same amount of cash I charged on my credit card in the envelope. He didn’t expect me to actually give him the money because I always say I’ll pay him back, but barely ever do. He was happy and said to take it back, but I said keep it, it’s your birthday gift. My brother’s gift was hilarious; he drew a fake coupon and wrote “Free House Cleaning”, and put it in the birthday card. That sure gave me a laugh!

All in all I think that game was worth the hassle of the city because it so far seems like a fun game to play when I’m facing boredom!

Orr’s Review Part 1

So the question you ask yourself after reading a review now a days seems to be, “Does this movie seem interesting enough to spend $10? Or just wait till is in blockbuster.” Well Orr’s review was quite intriguing to me, and I know most people like myself questioned clicking the movie spoiler. The opening scenes description sparks an interesting plot. One man wins, one man looses, leaves me wanting to know more about what the prize, and what was lost or who was lost. This review though isn’t the first review of the movie that I’ve heard. I know it received great reviews, and was a recommended film to see, but I just haven’t gotten that chance to watch it yet. After reading Orr’s review though, I’m interested in watching this film about one’s success and damnation.

 

 

Movie Review “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns” … (Scott’s Review)

One thing I like to do on a rainy night or a weekday if I have time is catch a flick at the movies. But lately I haven’t had as much time to go out to the movies. The last movie I saw was Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns. Initially I was going to go see Stop Loss, because to me that movie looked interesting and had to deal with something going on in the world at the moment. I ended up getting stuck seeing Meet the Brown’s, but honestly it was a cute movie.

The movie was based on the average story of a single mother raising three children, all with different fathers, in the projects. Angela Basset played Brenda, the mother of the three children. Her and her friend lost their jobs recently and Brenda had barely any money to put food on the table, let alone pay for the day care, which was running illegally out of an old ladies apartment. Her son was an amazing basketball player, who was offered to play at a camp, and prepare for college ball. She got a notice to go to Georgia for her father’s funeral, who she never met. To make a long story short, when in Georgia, she met her family, brother and sister, who had no idea she was related to them when she first came. She inherited a house from her father. Now I don’t want to ruin the ending for everyone so that part will get left out.

If I had to relate this movie to other movies, it reminded me of the movie Soul Food, and This Christmas. Both movies had to do with black families, who through hardships, work through by love and family. I would recommend seeing Meet the Browns, because it was a funny, yet cute movie. The whole idea behind it was so show the power of love and how it can really bring a family together, even through the worst financial times. Some may argue that this movie is just another movie about the hardships of poor families, and the love of black families, like the two movies I mentioned before. But I enjoyed the film even though it was similar to the others, because it was cute and interesting, as well as suspenseful. Suspense to me was waiting for that ending kiss!

 

What a stressful friday!

            My dads birthday is coming up so I felt like being a nice daughter and buying him the Nintendo Wii, which he’s been trying to get for the longest time. Some of you make think that it’s easy to get a Wii now that the whole commotion about it is over. But to order it online it takes awhile, such as sites like Best Buy, who are out of stock and when you call they don’t know when they will receive more in the store. Some stores sell it for prices higher than usual, which isn’t that fair. So I decided  to go to the Nintendo World Store in the city because if you get there early enough, they will have a limited amount of Wii’s.  I called them before hand and found out that they get 100 Wii’s every morning and it’s a first come first serve basis. I didn’t want to wake up at 7 am and drive into the city because of the massive traffic.

            Now why did this add to the stress of my day? Well the traffic to the city was still outrageous. I left my house at 8:30ish, and hopped on the L.I.E. It was bumper to bumper traffic and I was so worried I wouldn’t make it on time to get a Wii. The traffic subsided when I got closer to the Midtown Tunnel, but once in the city the traffic was even worse. It took me till about 10:30 to find a parking garage close to Rockefeller Center where the store was located. It only took 15 mintues for me to walk, get the Wii, and leave back to my car. Than my navigation wouldn’t work right so I couldn’t figure out how to get home, till I asked my friend, and I found my way. I finally arrived home at 11:30 because there was no traffic heading east on the highway, figures! I had to rush to get to work on time and get a jersey for the Ranger game that I was going to that night. And the game was fun even though the rangers lost to the islanders.

Stupid laptops!

I wake up this morning so sick after a long weekend, to my SJU laptop being broken! This weekend I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday, went out Friday and Saturday night, and somehow did my homework. The outcome of this weekend, a fever, vomiting, and drowsiness! I call that the overworking yourself sickness, HAH!Now back to this laptop issue…the screen was frozen, so I decided to restart it. Well that didn’t work and I didn’t have time to try and fix it because I was running late for class. I still ended up missing my lecture this morning, but I knew I had to attend my chemistry lab no matter how sick I felt. I went through the whole day without my laptop; than I remembered I had to post my essay tonight for my teacher review draft. I panicked! I called my dad immediately, since he is good with computers and knows how to build them. He said he probably could recover the file and try to fix my laptop. Well I got home and to my surprise he couldn’t fix it because he couldn’t get into the program. These laptops can only be fixed by a supervisor, which means I have to drop my laptop of at the repair shop in Sullivan Hall. Hopefully they can fix the laptop within the next few days rather than months. Two of my friends told me that they took their laptops to the repair shop and it took months to fix it, but luckily they got a temporary laptop.So since I had to post my essay today, I remember that I posted my peer review draft online, so I opened it up on my dads laptop and revised it from that essay, so hopefully it resembles the already revised essay on my SJU laptop.Moral of this post: Electronics always break when you need them the most! 

Teacher draft

Missing: Written Response from members of my group.

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evaluation-of-the-peer-group-process.doc

Peer Review Draft

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AHH another way to promote that blog of yours!

Every time I decide to print something I tend to have to run upstairs to the upstairs computer because I broke my last printer. While I was upstairs I decided hey why not write a blog post? Before I even got the chance to think of an idea for my blog, my dad started to talk to me about buying a new puppy for his birthday. So I quickly interrupted him when I noticed that I got my first comment on one of my posts from a random person. The comment pretty much was on no meaning, but this was my first comment, which shows that at least one person was interested in what I had to say about laptops in class. He goes “What are you using a blog for?”, “Isn’t that a thing where random people can learn about you?” I told him that for English class our teacher decided to use blog’s as a way to post assignments and such. He wondered how a normal person would get started on such a live journal type site and how people could come across my site.

First off the only reason I knew about Word Press was because of English class assignment. Therefore finding a way to form a blog to me would have to be either through a friend who tells you about it, or searching the internet for cool new blog sites. I didn’t really quite know the answer to how people could randomly come across my site. I thought of like when you sign on to the Word Press homepage, you can click links that will lead you to some sites, but the chances of your  blog post getting on the main page is probably slim to none.

So I decided to search the web, and than I realized HEY! I could find another way to PROMOTE my blog to people.

1.      Submit Your Blog and RSS Feed To Directories

a.       Now submitting your blog entries to big directories and search engines will allow people who are searching for something in relation to your blog to have access to it. Sites like Yahoo could help in getting people on such directories, who are doing there daily web browsing, to click your blog and maybe be interested.

2.      Ping The Blog Services

a.       This service can help connect blogs, and send a “ping” to each service letting them know that you have updated your blog.

3.      Build Links To Your Blog

a.       Now to me this would answer my father’s question. Adding links to your blog or to another site enabling the two to connect can help you connect with people who are just one click away.