Today was one of my favorite days to date in english class. It was a very fun, sort of laid back day, but it was also extremely informal about our upcoming paper we will have to write, which is a contextual analysis. Watching those movie trailers helped me understand the why the director made the trailers that way and how they were effective, whether it was a contrast of the original movie's intent or the way the lighting, sounds, and music played a different role in intriguing the audience to go see their movie. Personally, my favorite one was the Alien one, which the people who made that website also agreed was the best. The effectiveness of the different images going back and forth, the music that made the clip more interesting, the lighting that made everything dark and suspicious feeling, and the transition of the title were all very effective, genius ways to make the movie trailer interesting and make people want to go see that movie. Also I really liked the unbreakable trailer because that definitely caught my attention and made me want to go see the movie because of the cool story plot that the trailer portrayed. I am interested in seeing how my paper turns out because I'm not sure if I have written a contextual analysis before, and if I have, it has been a while, so I'm looking forward to finding my topic and starting my essay.

Alright, well today in class we finished up the movie Children of Men. I would first like to say that I really enjoyed the movie and found it very controversial. The ending left me wanting more and wanting to know what happened with the girl and the baby, but I guess that was the director's intention. This movie had conflicts left and right, beginning with the social and cultural conflict, which was portrayed through out the entire film. It is funny how when things start going downhill, everyone loses their cool and freaks out! Take this recession for example. As soon as the stock market crashed and people started losing their money, they thought the world was coming to an end. Everyone started losing their collectiveness and everything seems kind of chaotic now. Same with this movie. There is no fertility in the world and people started bombing public areas and brought about an uprising. Fertility had the possibility of coming back, just like the economy, but people didn't wait long enough. We all want instant gratification these days and that's unrealistic. Yes, it had been 18 years since the last kid was born, but someone did get pregnant did they not? Okay, so if they had just waited and not shit a brick, people would have realized that this girl was having a baby and that there was hope in the future. This movie correlates to our situation here in America because in both scenarios, when something goes wrong, all hell breaks lose.

Well since we are in football season and I absolutely love football because I was raised watching it and I also was a decent little player back in high school, I will talk about football. I'm not going to lie, this football weekend was a little disappointing for me. The Vols lost, which I wasn't even upset about, because I honestly thought we were going to get beat worse than we did. I was pleasantly surprised by the way they played and that gives us hope for the upcoming weeks and even years. By the way, I love Tebow as a human being, but I absolutely hate him as a football player because he is just straight beast and it's not fair to play against him! Then on Sunday I became very frustrated. I thought we would steam roll over the Texans, but of course they beat us. Nothing new about my luck. Well, I actually won $7 dollars playing the Powerball so I was pretty stoked about that! But back to football... Let's just say I was not too fond of the outcomes that occurred this weekend relating to football. Even worse, I have no cable in my dorm room, so I only get 20 channels, which doesn't even include ESPN, so I can't watch any sports, except for UFC, which is amazing if you haven't seen it before. Basically it's two dudes, trying to kill each other, and doing it in whatever way they can, besides a few rules. The only way the fight can be stopped is by the ref, and the explosiveness of these fights is incredible, so watch it! Alright I'm going to bed so peace.

my dream

Last night, as I said in my first blog, I got 9 hours of sleep. This means, that since I dream every night, that I had some dreams. My first dream was about my ex girlfriend... don't ask me why. I can't control my dreams, so whatever I dream about, it's not technically my fault! So in this dream, I am with my ex at the house I am currently living in, except it is her house, not mine. I really wanted to ask her if she still loved me and still had feelings for me, but I didn't because I didn't want her to think I had feelings for her, which by the way I really don't. All of a sudden she disappeared and my brother showed up and I kept asking him where my ex went. He didn't know, so I walked around trying to find her and she was outside, carrying a weed eater and a lawn mower. She then had 8 dogs follow her in, which she doesn't even have dogs. Then, since I am not too fond of her parents and they are not too fond of me, came in the door, I freaked out. I was so scared that they were going to treat me like they always did, which was basically like shit. Then they suddenly disappeared and my parents were there, bringing in groceries. Then i woke up and was extremely confused. My second dream was about my brother and I watching the UT/Alabama football game at my grandmother's old house. Alabama was winning 45-31 with 2 minutes left in the game. All of a sudden I was playing football for some random high school. Then it transitioned back over to my grandmother's and my best friend's older sister wanted to watch the game with my brother and I so she hopped in bed with us. Then I jumped out of bed and went into another room for some odd reason. Then I woke up for class... Weird huh?

no class

Hey hey! Well, I am sitting in our english class right now with a few people even though class is cancelled. We figured since we are already here that we might as well stay and blog and look up youtube videos. I mean I don't have another class till 3:30 so I pretty much have nothing to do till then. I would go back to sleep, but I was awesome last night and went to bed at 9, so I am actually not tired. I have to go into the studio pretty soon though and work on my architecture work, but that is no big deal because I have already got ahead, so today is going to be a good day. To change the subject, I will talk about the upcoming football game, in which we are going to get slaughtered. I have been a UT fan all my life, but I am a realist, and the reality of the situation is we are going to get blown out. If you can't even beat UCLA because you play awful football, then how in the world are you supposed to beat the #1 team in the nation? Florida is solid in every position, especially their secondary and their quarterback. UT doesn't have a lot of depth in some areas, so to actually beat Florida, we will have to play a basically flawless game, and the Gators will have to play a bad game. Unfortunately, what I am trying to say is that there is seriously no possible way we can pull off an upset win of the Florida Gators.

appeals

Alright I am going to make a blog about the discussion we had in class about the rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos. I'm going to start by saying that the easiest one to accomplish and achieve is pathos. It is by far the easiest way to sway your audience because once you hit the sensitive side of their heart, you will have their attention and support from then on out. I think that ethos is the hardest to achieve because there is not just one set clear cut definition of an ethical argument. It can either be an ethical opinion of a person, what we view in society as ethical, or anything else relating to authority, credibility, and bias. Logos is a little bit tougher than pathos, but it isn't all that hard to appeal to the logical sense and nature of a situation or a person. All you really have to do when using a logical appeal is just have hard evidence and a reason behind your argument. Basically just make sense and get the people to believe and go with what you're saying and you can pull that appeal off with ease. To pull off an ethical appeal, I would personally use rhetorical questions to get the audience thinking and questioning their own beliefs, so they will end up siding with you. And lastly, to pull off an emotional appeal, I would just speak or write from my heart because sincerity and honesty will always win someone over.