Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Revision)

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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was very humorous to read and had extremely vivid descriptions. ZZ would give a description that sometimes had nothing to do with the object but still described very well. She compared being in the bathroom to being inside the belly of a whale, using an effective metaphor.The scene-setting she wrote engaged me in the book and made it enjoyable.
Packer said the girls admired Octavia’s hair and listened to her every word “as though whatever she had to say would somehow activate their own follicles." I love that line because it shows me how attentive and patient the girls were when it came to listening to Octavia.
The chapter I read did not use many quotes. The quotes were very short and to the point which added to the scene. But for the most part there would be a short quote with a lot of description.
The dialogue between the characters was also short but it gave real sense of who the characters where. The way they called one character “snot”, and that they were going to have their “secret meeting”. If there had not been as much description I would still be able to tell that the characters where children. The strongest part of the chapter I read was the description. It really painted a picture of the characters and the scene.

NPR Analysis

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I listened to a radio interview entitled Hollywood makeovers, Frame by Frame on the website freshair.com. The interviewer knew about Hollywood film makers using digital enhancements for their movies. They do this because it greatly lessens the cost of production. The interviewer gave the example of how digital enhancements can change lighting, instead of using expensive lighting. The interviewer did mostly commentary and was “telling details” about the scene. She described a 40 something year old man working on a program called the “De Vinci”. The man worked in his “lonely” studio digitally changing skin tones, and even the weather in an upcoming movie.

She asked two questions, “You used the Da Vinci to get rid of Tom Cruise’s double chin?” and “Isn’t using this program dishonest, or the magic of movies?” There were no evasive answers they were all pretty straight to the point. The relationship between the interviewer and the interviewee was just that, they apparently had no prior connection to each other. The interviewer at first seemed to have a strategy to say that digital enhancements are a cop out to the real thing. However, toward the middle of the interview she mentioned the many perks to digitally enhancing feature films.

I learned a lot of things that I have always noticed, but have never really thought about before. For example, the films The Pirates of the Caribbean had almost every frame enhanced in some way to make it more believable. Today, about 95 percent of all films are color corrected, and digitally enhanced in some way. Many actors have color correcting written into their contracts. This interview definitely reinforced that old saying, don’t believe everything you see.

Newspaper Opinion Piece (Revision)

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Immigration is here to stay. My opinion on immigration is that it is a part of the United States when it began, and it is a part of the United States today. There are a huge number of people who cannot be accounted for because they illegally enter this country. However, I do not believe that building a fence, or puppy guarding the borders will lessen immigration. I do not know the resolution to the influx of people. People will go where ever there is work, and there is little to no work in Latin American countries.

Latin Americans are the biggest group of immigrants to the U.S especially in California. The United States has extremely questionable activities involving many Latin American businesses, and their government. The many Americans protesting and patrolling the boarders against immigration should first protest the U.S government for leaving their countries in the states they are in today. I think if immigrants lived in places were there was work, they would not want to leave in the first place.

I believe the bigger issue at hand, is that many immigrants provide a non-talk-back, non-pay- roll complaining cheap work force. If many of these people received armistice it would leave many California fields empty. In my opinion the immigration issue is not entirely about overcrowding and the loss of U.S resources. The immigration issue is about U.S corporations making big business, by keeping an entire group of people repressed. The fast food chains can give an immigrant lousy hours, with lower than minimum wage pay. The “illegal” person who does not comply will probably not find work elsewhere, because of their legal status. There is something that we can all agree on, immigration is not something that can be fixed over night. So as of right now immigration is here to stay.

Word of the Week #8

Appellant (noun)

A perosn who appeals.
A person or party who appleas a court's judgments.

I found this word while reading a court descison for Castillo v. State, for my MCOM 101 class.

The appellant walked out of court in hand cuffs because of the other party's complaint against him.

Mystery Character (Revision)

I thought it would be more interesting if I wrote the character as if I was the person.

202 Words

I am probably way too intelligent for you to guess who I am. Since you are college students you were probably up late smoking pot and eating Top Ramen. While if you think you have a shot let me describe my glorious self in great detail.

I live in the East Coast of the United States, with a dreadful family. The only one in my family who has any compatible intelligence to mine is the family pet. I especially loath my mother, and one day she will pay for making me eat broccoli.

I consider myself to be an attractive young lad. I have an elliptical-shaped head, and I have extremely dreamy big eyes. So go eat your heart out Bette Davis! I am of humble stature, but what I lack in legs I make up in my extreme intelligence. I can sing too, I even had my own show on the road, until it got canceled due to my talent-less stage partner.

My most awkward moment was when my father tried to breast feed me. Oh well that is a different story, and you don’t have all day to read this. Good day to you all! Who am I?

Copy Edit the World

Coffee is spelled coffe,












aluminum is spelled "alumium"





Spaghetti is spelled "spagheti"












Trespassing is spelled "tresspassing"

















Jewelery is spelled "Jewellery"

Exchange is spelled "exchang"

Word of the Week #7

Seditious (adjective)

Given to or guilty of engaging in or promoting sedition. In opposition to civil authority or government.

I came across this word while reading a text book entitled Communications Law, for my MCOM 101 class.

The anti-abortion group acted very seditiously while protesting against California's pro abortion laws.

Word of the week #6

Emulsion (noun)
I found this word when I was reading my visual communications text book for MCOM 70

A photo sensitive coating, usually of silver halide grains in a thin gelatin layer, on photographic film, paper or glass.

The photograph was ruined by the bright light, and the emulsion was completely burned off.

Word of the Week #5

Amortization (noun)

An act or instance of amortizing a debt or other obligation. The sums devoted to this purpose. The money set aside for this purpose.

I came across this word from reading a textbook for MCOM 70.

The man had an amortization to go through before he could buy a new car.