Poem Analysis "The Kraken"

The Kraken

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,

His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee

About his shadowy sides: above him swell

Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;

And far away into the sickly light,

From many a wondrous grot and secret cell

Unnumbered and enormous polypi

Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.

There hath he lain for ages and will lie

Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,

Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;

Then once by man and angels to be seen,

In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

T: As we know for stories or movies, the kraken is a mysterious legendary sea creature who has the looks of a giant squid. It was told that this creature used to dwell the seas. In the poem written by Alfred Tennyson, I believe he maybe describe the creature, or an attack of the creature. A description could be indeed a poem, using metaphors or similes to make a relation between the creature and another object or creature in our daily life. Such a description would catch the attention of a specific audience, people who have a real interest in mysterious creatures that are told to be real and scientifically proved to be fake.

P: In the first two verses we have a description of the setting. Far beneath in the deep sea, we get the idea of somewhere dark, somewhere where there is total silence. 

Later on in the third verse we know what this setting really is, and they tell us its where the ancient and dreamless creature sleeps, therefor, the place where the monster lives, his habitat. 

Lord Tennyson Timeline

August 6 1809: Lord Alfred is born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
1820: Alfred is tutored by his own father.
1821: Alfred wrote a 6,000-line epic poem. 
1827: Alfred escapes his home to attend Trinity College, Cambridge. 
1827: Alfred joins the "Apostles"
1830: Alfred and Hallam toured Europe together
1830: Tennyson publishes Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
1832: Again, both friends toured Europe
1832: Tennyson's publishes a second volume entitles simply Poems
1833: Hallam dies, many of Tennyson's poems are trubutes ti Hallam
1836, he became engaged to Emily Sellwood. 
1842 Tennyson’s Poems in two volumes was a tremendous critical and popular success. 
1850, publication of In Memoriam, Tennyson became one of Britain’s most popular poets. He was selected Poet Laureate. In that same year, he married Emily Sellwood.
1859, Tennyson published the first poems of Idylls of the Kings, which sold more than 10,000 copies in one month. 
1884, he accepted a peerage, becoming Alfred Lord Tennyson. 
1892 Alfred Tennyson dies and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Written Task: Jane Eyre New Chapter

The following 100% legit chapter takes place between chapter 10 and chapter 11, when Mr. Brocklehurst leaves Lowood and Jane stays as a teacher.


New Chapter:
The change is marvellous! With Mr. Brocklehurst gone, we don't live in fear, at least not any more. Everything has improved dramatically. In my entire life I haven't spent such a pleasant time, not even those days back in the old Gateshead where I used to read, by myself, with a silent and calmed atmosphere. Not even a single fly bothering me. Not to mention, the only thing that could make this better would be Helen here by my side. I cant think of how she would envy the circumstances we are in now. Who knows, maybe every little thing that is improving is her doing. As a mater of fact she was quite a religious young girl. Thinking about the things I would enjoy right now, I would savour the look on Mrs. Reed face regarding what I am really capable of, show her my grades, how I excel in everything here at Lowood, but that situation will never present itself, for it, I already plighted myself that I would never attribute my time or attention to that disgraceful living soul. Because of what she did, I will never excuse her, and one of my biggest desire in life is that she becomes conscious of her acts. What kind of person does that, who in the world is capable of such a treatment. Just the thought of her made me sick in every possible way.

Too much thinking about the past, I must really concentrate on the future, my future, I know it is a big step but I am already pondering on the choices I have got for when I grow up. Numberless opportunities come to mind but one of them overshadows the rest, the fact of teaching kids, orphan kids, people who are actually similar to me in any possible way truly inspires me, not only be on their lives but improve and make a real change for them the way Miss Temple did with me makes me want to finish school here at Lowood and work my life in the same place, stay as a teacher. Besides, I have good grades and I already know everyone at school. If I leave anywhere else I would be lost, moving somewhere else means adapting to other people and other situations, and I believe that I would have a real problem trying to adapt to somewhere else than Lowood. Thinking about the positive and negative outcomes of staying here at Lowood didn't really help me get to my final decision. I not only accepted the idea of staying here but I was happy of it, but in the other side, staying just in one place would mean few life experience, I would only know Lowood, so I left it to Miss Temple's judgement. It was already late and I had to go to bed, so I thought it was better for both of us to talk the next morning.

I talked to Miss Temple of what she thought of me becoming one of Lowood's teacher, I felt great as soon as she knew that she herself was my inspiration, I was astonished the moment she told me that she agreed in every possible way, strange thing, in fact, she seemed more confident of the decision than me. Probably she recognizes a possible teacher when she sees one. I was doubtless that I would make a exceptional teacher for Lowood, so I had no possible doubt on my decision. I was finally convinced, I'm finally inclining to going through with the idea of becoming a teacher, it is my final decision, becoming a teacher at Lowood is what I really want to do, I think I am ready and I would be proud of helping kids, who knows, maybe I will meet someone just like me, someone who is frightened of the world, and somehow, she actually found a place in this huge world where she actually fits in, and maybe make a change on her life. A change that may possible make her remember me through the years like I will with Miss Temple.

Years have simple fly by, being a teacher is tough but results are of great significance. The important thing is that I not only teach kids but I actually learn valuable lessons from them, so its actually in every one's interest to stay day by day here. I'm coming back to my thoughts because I think my clock is ticking here at Lowood. I've learned so much in here but I think its time to go-ahead with my life. As Miss Temple was my inspiration to stay in Lowood as a teacher she is also my inspiration to many other things. Miss Temple is leaving Lowood, but not because she is tired or disappointed, she is actually leaving because something very unique is happening to her, she is getting married. I'm actually looking forward to her joy in life, but as she is making a change on her life after all these years, I think I must also make a change in my life. As she must concern on her wedding I don't want to bother her by telling her what I am planning on doing, so I will just keep it a secret for myself, or at least until I think its the right moment to tell her. I will start as soon as possible searching for somewhere I could go and keep on with my life.


Rationale:
The first thought I had while reading Jane Eyre was, how is it possible that Jane tells us every single detail of something important that happened in her life, her childhood and what happened later on her life, she even describes places, her feelings and emotions, other people surrounding her, but when the time comes that Mr. Brocklehurst leaves Lowood and everything is supposed to be better, its like she skipped all the important content of her life as a student and later teacher, she barely mentions it, she doesn't mention how she felt or something else that could be going on with her. This happens the same time when she lost her dear friend Helen, maybe that made her feel different and didn't know how to express it, but any ways. So I thought, maybe as we have to link it to Text and Context, maybe I can create with my own imagination what happened during these 8 years of Jane's life. Explore aspects like what made her stay as a teacher, or what made her leave. I chose this because until what we have read, its the only blank spot I could find in the book, the only part that I thought should have been filled with more content. No special audience for this invented chapter, just people who read or are reading Jane Eyre and want to have my idea of what could happened in this part of the novel.

Written Task Words: 913
Rationale Words: 243

Jane Eyre Chapters 5 - 6 - 7

The following is a clip about how Victorian children were commonly punished at school. It is presented in a quite comical manner, but it provides truthful information about this period in time. After your reading of chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8, you will have become familiar with Jane’s life at Lowood School, and the treatment she and other girls received as students there. Would it be possible for a school to keep the old Victorian teaching methods in today’s world?

Chapter 5: Jane arrives in her new home, Lowood School for Girls. She learns the daily routine and by passing meets Miss Temple, the superintendent of the school, who is very kind towards her. However, her encounter with the upleasant French teacher Miss Scatcherd is far from agreeable, especially at the sight of her harsh treatment of a young student named Helen Burns.

Chapter 6: Janes discovers that life at Lowood is harsh. Frozen water to wash themselves, lack of proper food to eat, overload in their work assignments, and they’re forced to sit still for what seems an eternity during sermons. She however finds comfort in her friendship with Helen Burns. Jane is astonished at how Helen endures the constant mean treatment from Miss Scatcherd. She tells Jane that she practises a doctrine of Christian endurance (loving her enemies and accepting her privation) which Jane does not approve for thinking it is “such meek tolerance of injustice”

Chapter 7: Mr Brocklehurst returns to the school after a journey. Jane becomes really nervous at his sight, since it reminds her of the promise he made to Mrs. Reed, to warn everyone at the school about her supposed wickedness and habit of lying. She accidentally drops her slate in his presence, and he gets furious. He forces her to stand on a stool while he tells the rest of the school that she is a liar, forbidding the other students to speak to her for the rest of the day and exhorting them to withhold their friendship from her. Helen Burns is Jane’s only comfort. She provides silent consolation by smiling at her every time she walks near.

Chapter 8: After her punishment, Jane feels ashamed and depressed. She thinks her reputation has been ruined for good at Lowood. Helen convinces her that it’s all the way round, and that girls feel more pity for her than revulsion. Jane tells Miss Temple that she’s not a liar, and about her horrid childhood at Gateshead. Miss Temple writes to Mr Lloyd (the Reeds’ apothecary) to confirm Jane’s sayings, which are soon corroborated. Miss Temple publicly declares Jane to be innocent. Relieved and contented, Jane devotes herself to her studies, excelling at Drawing and French.

1.- Imagine that you are falsely accused of stealing someone’s wallet at school. Your accuser is a credible witness, believed by your peers. Do you insist on your innocence and try to prove it? Do you confront your accuser? How do you live with the disapproval of your peers? Is the knowledge of your innocence enough to sustain you? Write a reflection statement referring to these questions.
Of course I would insist in my innocence, if I don't then what kind of person am I, and if my friends don't believe me then the are not my true friends. If i don't insist in my innocence I would be left by my friends like the a thief, I would not only be accepting something that is wrong but I would also be lying, and if later on they find who did it, I would be left like a liar, so there are truly no escape of lying about this.

What is your opinion of Mr Brocklehurst’s philosophy of education?
I don't agree with the philosophy he uses to teach. Maybe that was the way he was taught and he thought it was fine. As he was the one running the school everyone obeyed to him. I think that in those times, apart from being Victorian, it was not fine to treat like that, because as soon as they know he was the cause of the diseases and death he was fired.
Compare Jane Eyre to other mistreated heroines from children’s stories (Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White). Knowing that Jane Eyre is the novel that broke many rules about how a mistreated heroine should act, compare and contrast them to Jane.
I think that the only difference is the support they all had. Of course not a heroin but if we compare to the closest example to this treatment in school, we find Matilda, and Matilda was treated the same way in the school with the difference that she had magical powers. Jane has to try and solve her problems in a real way.

The following is the 1944 American film adaptation of Jane Eyre, directed by Robert Stevenson and with Peggy Ann Garner in the role of Jane and a surprisingly young Elizabeth Taylor in the role of Helen Burns. From min 07.44 – 12.00 you can witness how Jane is cruelly exposed in front of the school as a “liar” by Mr Brocklehurst. Based on this part of the story, answer the following questions:

Jane Eyre Chapters 3 - 4 - 5

This is a clip from a 1983 film adaptation of the first events that took place in Jane Eyre’s childhood. 

1.- What liberties do you think the director took in adapting the novel into a film? 

2.- What criticisms can you offer to the portrayal of Victorian Times presented in the film? 

3.- In a contemporary context, how would society manage the constant abuse and bullying against a child within the heart of his/her family?

1.- When we read a novel, something very important is our imagination, how we imagine, as different people each situation, place, or even a character, but if we talk about a film its already there, the actor and what he looks like, same with the setting. Another thing is that if Jane Eyre was adapted into a film just the way the book is, with the same information, descriptions and thoughts of Jane, the movie would be extremely long, therefor the director has the job to choose which scenes he is going to adapt that he thinks are important enough for us to understand it.

2.- The way the kids were treated, she was treated in a different way that the rest of the kids by the Reed's.

3.- Nowadays we not only know how important someones childhood is for their future, and between being good and bad how can it affect their future, there are laws against bullying and most recent cyber bullying. 

Analysis Questions Chapters 3 – 4

 1. How would you describe the relationship between Jane and Mr Lloyd? How do you think this affects her?
For Jane it must be one of the most important people of her childhood, Mr Lloyd was kind with her, and between all the bullying and the way Jane was treated in Gateshead hall, maybe Mr Lloyd was the only one she cared for as a child. 

2. How did Jane’s character changed in her confrontation with both Mr Brocklehurst and Mrs Reed? 
Jane was a very shy child, she had much anger in her but had to hide it because of fear, anger against those who treated her wrong (the Reed's). She finally free's all these feelings and told every evil thing she had been saving for herself about them.

3. What is your first perception of Lowood School? What do you predict for Jane’s future at Lowood?
As Jane was so excited of going to Lowood we have the impression that its going the be the best place she could ever be, she also says that anyplace is better than where she is now, but as soon as she goes to Lowood we know things are not going to change that much for her. 

CHARLOTTE BRÖNTE’S LIFE AND TIMES

Listening Comprehension “In Search of the Bröntes”

1. Who is said to have influenced the sister’s lives and WHY? 
Their father Patrick, who shaped their minds and shared their triumphs
2. What tragedy struck the Brönte family?
They were doomed to die ill. (ill Fated)
3. What’s the Brönte father’s background?
He brought his family (his wife and 6 children) to Howarth on a cold February day in 1820. He was a brilliant son of a poor Irish Farmer. He won a scholarship to Cambridge.
4. How is it said that Emily Brönte coped with homesickness?
She pored her feelings into her poetry.
5. What is Haworth described like in the times the Bröntes lived there?
As a Romantic Village. When they arrived the main water supply for the town was so polluted that no one drink it. Almost half of the children died before getting to 6 years old because of the diseases, and the life expectancy was 25.
6. What is a recurrent theme in Charlotte’s writing (based on her experience as a child)?
The loss of their mother, she struggle to recall the image of a mother she had  known so briefly.
7. How did the Brönte father try to salvage the situation with his family after his wife’s death?
As he was with 6 motherless children, he proposed to 3 women, but they all refused him.

Image Analysis: Landscape from Charlotte Brönte’s point of view

These images show where Charlotte lived from a very early age. As we can see from the image, she lived next to a cemetery. Probably for a little girl living next to a cemetery was not the best thing. As she was growing up she had fears like any other child, but the fact of living next to where dead people are buried maybe scared here more, she maybe thought some paranormal stuff was going on. As we see in Jane Eyre some paranormal stuff happens, such as what happens to Jane in the red-room, Jane being also a little girl, maybe this represented something that occurred on Charlotte's childhood.

By reading Jane Eyre we know that one of the tones in the beginning of the novel is a sad and lonely point of view in Jane's life. Jane being part of a family where they didn't like her, they didn't accept her as one of their own. She had a lonely childhood, same as the field in the picture.

Written Task

Presenter: Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the documentary you have been waiting the whole week, the documentary that is going to inform you how it actually started, how it all began and how it ended to be so successful. Not only you know what I am talking about, you also use it every day to either talk to friends or just see what’s up with their life. Today we will go through the history of Facebook, and the big question we have all asked ourselves at least one, how did some college kids manage to create what is now the most accessed website in the internet.

It all started 9 years ago, the night of February 4^th 2004. It was that night when Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website, a website whose membership was limited by the founders to other Harvard students. Within days it was expanded to other colleges near the area, but today anyone who is at least 13 years old can become a member.

Today almost anyone can create a website, with all the tutorials and explanations online it became something very easy to do. So why is it that Facebook is consider so special, well, in my opinion it is the unique idea of creating an online personal profile, where you list everything about you that you want other people to know. You can chat with your friends and family, catch up with them, you can upload pictures so that your friends can see what you are up to, you can comment pictures that your friends uploaded, you can even check who’s birthday it is in case you forgot. Facebook gives us access to an online social life, not only for kids but also adults, who want to contact old friends of their childhood.

Facebook got famous not much a while ago since it was launched; Facebook did not use much money in advertisement by the time, many of the popular pages use some advertisement to get peoples attention, but this is not the case. For one reason, people just accessed the website and created their online profile, and since then, started adding friends and inviting others. It probably has happened to you that sometimes you receive an advertising email, almost like a spam that tells you to visit their page and everything. But this is not what happened with Facebook, you didn’t receive spam emails to join the page, what happened is that you received actual emails from your friends, invitations from them for you to join the site and catch up with them. Someone had a Facebook profile and told their friends, those friends told their friends until a point where almost everyone who has access to a computer and Internet has a Facebook profile. Even the president of the United States has a page, the army, celebrities; all have the same need to share what they are doing, contact their fans for example.

Something very peculiar about Facebook is that the creators didn’t look for places to advertise their website, the people who wanted to advertise looked for Facebook, and advertised their stuff on Facebook. The media also had Facebook pages, and as they want to communicate with their audience to hear their opinions, or to answer questions they shared their Facebook page to the audience, and as they shared it even more people knew about the page. It was something that just happened, like a real online social world. Facebook was something special, the need of communication through a much easier way was exactly what everyone wanted. Getting even to a point where Facebook has video calls. It literally propagated like a virus, one person had a Facebook and at the next day 20 friends of him had a Facebook profile.

To have a closer look, we have a short interview with the creator, Mark Zuckerberg.

Presenter: Welcome Mark

Mark: Hello, thank you for having me here.

Presenter: Don’t worry about that. So, Mark, tell us how you started Facebook.

Mark: You could say everything started with facemash

Presenter: What is facemash?

Mark: Facemash is a website I created on night; I was a bit drunk with some friends and we though of an idea. The idea was to put the pictures of two girls and vote for them, to see who is hotter. But why would people join, you can search for hot girls at any part of the Internet, what is special about this one is that it was based on girls we knew, or lived next door. Imagine a community where everyone is someone you know. It attracts more people to it.

Presenter: What happened after creating the website?

Mark: We started sending invitations to friends, and those friends send it to their friends, from there on it wasn’t much work what we had to do. We stop focusing on advertising the page or sending it to people, and started working on what Facebook had, the content of the page, the amount of things you could do, we worked on it almost all day.

Presenter: It was great talking to you mark

Mark: you too

Rationale: I decided to write a documentary screenplay because you can include almost everything in it, as seen in previous documentaries they have a good amount of information about the subject and they also include short interviews with people related to the subject. All this creates in the audience a wide understanding. After knowing what type of text I wanted to write I just needed to know what to write about. I had some ideas, everything related with advertising or media, and then I thought of Facebook. Why Facebook? Well its something we all use every day, we use it to many things, maybe talk to some friends, find something out about them, congratulate them on a special day. And as many people, it catches my attention on how Facebook got so famous, as I, personally never saw any advertisement of Facebook. The audience on this documentary would be any one who has any interest in Facebook, maybe users of Facebook, who like the idea, or as its part history of Facebook, maybe someone who wants to know how it all started, or maybe how it got so famous. The relation with this topic and what we have seen in class is media and advertising, how Facebook used advertisement and how did the media react to Facebook. 

Written Commentary Outline

The text is a non fiction text, its basically an overview about a touristic place, Barbuda & Antigua. The audience is people who are looking for a nice place to spend a vacation, a place where you have many things to do, such as museums and diving or swimming. The text is trying to persuade people who are looking a place for a vacation to go to Barbuda & Antigua.

Media Image Analysis

Provide an analysis for the following image. What is the message being conveyed? Up to what extent does it apply to your own reality as part of this “Global Village”

I believe the message is trying to say that when people watch the news they usually stay with the information that the media is giving them, they only know what the media wants them to know, they don't question if the media is really telling the truth or not, they don't investigate further more. As the text says, they are relaxed by knowing that the information they have is given by the media. The image shows someone locked up in his room, no color in the image, a sad image, and it appears he doesn't feel safe, he has one eye watching away, as if he was being cautious to something that could happen.  

Imrpove Writing & Paper 1

The Basics about Paper 1

• Paper 1 asks students to produce a written commentary on one of two unseen texts within one and a half hour.
• Pasages for analysis may be complete pieces of writing or extracts from larger works. There is also the possibility of commenting on a visual text or extract from a longer piece. Possible text-types for analysis include: advertisements, opinion columns, brochures, extracts from memoirs, or travel writing.
• Each individual text is presented with two guiding questions.
• The official Paper 1 counts for 25% of the final grade. It is assessed externally.

8 Ways to improve your writing"

Clauses at the beginning of a sentence: good idea, but avoid really long ones. 
There is nothing more boring than a series of sentences that all start with the subject of the sentence

Avoid 'it' as the subject of a sentence. 
Sentences that start with 'it' or dummy subjects, such as 'there is...' or 'there are...', are quite weak.

Use the right verb tense. 
This may come more naturally for native speakers of English. Nevertheless, many people make mistakes in the verb tense that they use. Be sure to know when to use each tense, such as the present simple, the present perfect, etc.

Use (relative) clauses. 
Using clauses in general is a good idea, as we saw in the first tip. Using relative clauses, which expand on ideas further (like this one), are also a good idea. Relative clauses make use of words such as 'which', 'who' and 'where'

Watch out for wordy sentences. 
It is good to read and reread your own work. Often times during self-evaluation, you see sentences that are not clear or 'run on'. Wordy sentences can be cleaned up with punctuation and parallel constructions (Tip 7).
Instead of: "If everyone in the building were to just clean up their own garbage and  if they  just sorted it properly then the recycle man wouldn't have to go through everything, then we wouldn't have to pay extra fees for this service."

Never start a sentence with 'But'. 
Although you may see sentences that start with 'But' in other works, you should avoid starting sentences with it for academic purposes.

Use parallelisms. 
Parallelisms are sentences or phrases that contain parallel syntactical structures. These usually contain lists of noun phrases or clauses with similar structure. For example: "I decided not to (1) use PowerPoint, (2) read notecards or (3) memorize a script." Notice how ideas 1-3 all contain a verb and an object. They all line up nicely in parallel.

Use active verbs.
In persuasive and academic writing and speaking, active verbs sound much stronger than passive verbs. Passive verb phrases use the verb 'to be' and the past participle of another verb. For example "The house was built by me." The active form of this phrase would be: "I built the house."

Written Task Planner

Idea Planner for Written Task 1 on Language and Mass Communication

Idea One:	Text type: Screenplay for a documentary
	Topic: How did the creators of Facebook, some college boys managed to give an appropriate use to the media to get from a simple social network site to the most accessed network site ever.
	Audience: Anyone who is interested in how Facebook started, and how it got from a simple page to the most accessed social network site.
	Why this text type is appropriate to topic: It is going to be based on actual information, therefore it would not be appropriate for it to be an opinion. It could be based on an interview with the creator but as it is going to be a screenplay for a documentary, we can include actual information and a short interview with the creator.

Media Power on Society

1. What is Harold Laswell’s Chain of Communication’s Model? 

Who (speaker) says what (message) on which channel (medium) to whom (audience or listener) with what effect.

2. What does the theorist Marshall McLuhan’s mean by stating that “the Medium is the Message”? 

The media is the one that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action, therefor the media has the power to say whatever they want, either true or false, and make it believable for the audience. It has the ability to manipulate. The news can be real, but the way the media shows us the message is the real trick.

3. Refer to Jurgen Habermas’ “Public Sphere as a Platform for Advertising” 

We are all in the same sphere, media reveals information and many people may get it, and the ones who did not get it will probably get the information by friends of them. Sooner or later we all get the information.

4. What is the connection between Self-Presentation & the Celebrity Image?

Because of the women they use in advertisement, mostly celebrities, women who are thin are consider to be beautiful, and if those beautiful celebrities have talent then it is consider to be successful. 

Are violent video games the main cause leading to real violence?

Many of today's brutal murders and massacres come from very young people, people who are still in high school, students or friends we would never think capable of doing such a thing. So what is it that all these killers have in common? The main answer is that they all played violent video games.

Such is the case of 17 years old Eric Harris and 18 years old Dylan Klebold. On the morning of April 20, 1999, both of these young men walked into Columbine High School and shot to death 12 fellow students and a teacher. Friends who survived the attack said that both of them liked playing video games, and spent a lot of time playing them. Both young men ended killing themselves that same day in the school.

For a more recent case, we have James Holmes, the man who entered a movie theater and killed 12 people. Same as Eric and Dylan, friends of James said that he played a lot of video games.

Studies show that 69% of the American population play video games, and 60% of those play violent video games. So how is it that few of them lead to real violence and others just keep playing the game. If people believe video games are the main cause leading to violence, then why is it that some are killers and others are not?

I believe it is not completely because of the video games, it is the combination of Risk Factors and Violent video games that lead people to real violence. Eric, Dylan and James were having other sort of problems in their life's. Eric and Dylan were bullied during high school. James had girlfriend and money issues. "Not every kid that plays a violent game is going to turn to violence. And that's because they don’t have all of those other risk factors going on"

As I mentioned, Dylan, Eric and James had risk factors going on, and by combining these with violent video games, they increased their aggressive thoughts and emotions. People who turns to real violence often have plenty risk factors and very few protective ones. Risk factors are considered "problems" in someone's life, such as mental disorders, particularly mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and certain personality disorders, alcohol, hopelessness, impulsive or aggressive tendencies, history of trauma or abuse, major physical illnesses, job or financial loss, loss of relationship, lack of social support and sense of isolation.

Video Games Leading to Real Violence

Video Games Violence

Subtopic: Violent Games leading to Violence
Text type: Speech
Other sources of information: 
ScienceDaily - Violent Video Games Are a Risk Factor for Criminal Behavior and Aggression
Can a Video Game lead to Murder?
Video Game leading to real Violence
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/papers/2001-video-games/walsh.html

Advertising

“Advertising is everywhere you look, whether it is in the newspaper you pick up daily or on that billboard you see while driving down the highway. Some people may say that they are not in fact influenced by the advertising that is thrown at them each day, and that they do not fall into it, but everyone does.”

This text is telling us that it doesn't matter where you look, there will always be advertising there, it is always present, and I think this is true. Maybe we don't notice that the advertisements are there, but it's because we are used to seeing them every day, And it's not that we don't notice them because they don't call our attention, it's just that seeing the ad doesn't make it any more special because of we are used to seeing them, but you are still influenced by them in many ways. For example, if you see some red plastic chairs, or a red sunshade or even a red truck, you will probably think its from Coca-Cola, and it is because you are influenced by them, you are used to seeing so many ads of Coca-Cola so that every time you see something red you will think of the product. The advertising may appeal to an emotion and you will be influenced and may not notice it, you may think we are all different, and we think different, but in some cases, a color, a shape, or a phrase, triggers the same emotion in every one of us. Ads can also change how we see people who we don't really know, we may stereotype them from a previous advertisement we saw. 

iPhone 5s Ad

TV commercials Analysis

The ad I chose to analyze is trying to sell the famous "Doritos", the commercial is set a man's house, but it also shows the neighborhood where he lives in, and where he buys something essential to the ad. There are not many people or animals in the commercial, we have the protagonist, a man who sold a Goat to the protagonist, and the Goat. The ad shows the Doritos at all time, it also shows a architectural model which the protagonist is working on, a picture of the protagonist and a Goat 4 Sale sign.

The ad begins with the protagonist taking a walk while eating some Doritos, something got his attention, it is a man sitting on a chair with a sign that says he is selling the goat next to him, which is also eating Doritos. The protagonist seems happy and surprised about this, and decides to buy the goat. The next scene places him and the goat in the kitchen, both eating Doritos. We can see a great difference between the protagonist emotions now and when the ad just started. At the beginning he didn't seem so happy, like something or someone was missing in his life, but when he is eating and spending time with the goat he looks very happy. 

The next scene is when the man is showing the goat where all the Doritos in the house are, for both of them.

Later the protagonist is working, while the goat is chewing the doritos very loud, which seems to annoy the protagonist, we later see the protagonist trying to sleep, but is annoyed again with the constant noise the goat is doing while chewing. We skip to a scene where the goat is yelling, and the reason is because there are no Doritos.
The goat immediately breaks a picture and the architectural model the protagonist was working on. The goat decides to go find the protagonist, and he is with all the Doritos inside a room writing Goat 4 Sale. The commercial ends with the goat closing the door of the room full with Doritos, in a way showing that the protagonist will be punished. With this we go back to the man selling the goat in the first place, which is wearing a orthopaedic neck, and has a pair of crutches next to him. This tries to tell us that the goat doesn't matter who is its owner, it only cares that the owner is feeding him Doritos.

The audience for the ad is almost everyone, as it is a type of food, it can be for anyone, but if i had to pick some age, i would say teenagers, because they are the ones who like eating chips and food like that. I believe the ad is trying to tell you that you must care that you have Doritos. The sound effects of this ad change the meaning, the music is the same, but in one part the music is interrupted  in a way that something is wrong, then a dramatic sound at the ending, to show something bad is going to happen. The ad doesn't have any celebrity, just a regular man who lives by himself. I don't think the ad is breaking any law, in the US, the  Federal Trade Comission is in charge of the policies and laws of advertisement, its very difficult that the ad broke any law because it was the winning ad of the super bowl.