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The Devil Wears Prada

This movie seems extremely uninteresting to me. By only watching 10 minutes i don't feel like i saw enough of it to give it a fair review. From what i did see it looks like your run of the mill 90 minute melo-dramatic chick flick. Maybe it is actually a good movie, or maybe not i have no idea cause i only watched 10 minutes of it, however if those next 10 minutes were anything like the first 10 i would probably turn it off. The good thing i can say about it, is that it had a few decently humorous parts in the beginning, and were funny because of the characters personalities, which means there were probably a few more decent jokes throughout the rest of the movie. I would give it 1 star from what i saw.

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A Twisted World

I enjoyed reading this persuasive essay, it was not only unique but it was also well written and interesting. The way he used reducto ad absurdum (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reductio+ad+absurdum) was extremely intelligent. Writing persuasive essays in this format can be really risky but if they are done right like in this essay, "A Twisted World" in the book Embracing Writing, it can be a really good essay. Writing about serious (and usually boring) topics such as politics can get old, and dull really quickly. However in this piece James uses humor, by writing about the notion of putting celebrities in charge of the United States. He did this to prove that even though we may be facing hard times it could most definitely be worse, and instead of being serious he had fun with the topic. This made reading the essay and writing about it a lot more fun, than if it was just a typical persuasive essay about politics.

September 24th

I am choosing to write about the visual narrative movie (3rd on the list). I really enjoyed this video for a few reasons. One I liked how he incorporated comedy into his personal narrative for example when he started dancing after he got 100%. This told me a good deal about his personality, that he had fun making this serious assignment. He was also a fairly dramatic actor, and seemed like he knew what he was doing when he made the movie, he bored look on his face as he turned the pages. He also did a good job incorporating music into his presentation making it an overall enjoyable movie.

Topic for my Narrative

I'm not sure if I should use Tae Kwon Do and talk about things I learned from that I can relate to Literacy, or if I should talk about my love for football, and how it has helped me in my writing. Or my other choice is Quentin Tarantino movies, and how I have learned to write better stories from watching his movies.