Sunday, October 31, 2010

How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?


Length 2:18

A satiric short video about the decline of print news.

Chapter 4: Newspapers Chapter 10: Internet

Quiz: Would you say that this news casting is poking fun at the importance of or irrelevancy of print newspapers in todays world? why or why not?

Answer: Subjective answer and would be correct if answered in an analytical manner.


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Movies

My favorite movie of 2009-2010 is titled Shutter Island. I had already read the book and decided to give the movie a shot. I'm usually disappointed when a book is turned into movie but I absolutely loved this film. I would have chose this same movie as my all time favorite because I liked it so much but ill change it up. I like a lot of movies but one of my all time favorite is titled American Me . I like this movie because it depict a sad reality in the Hispanic community.

"Shutter Island" - Official Trailer [HD]

Monday, October 18, 2010

Magazine

Title: Sanguinarios

Concept: This magazine is different because it is specifically for a growing trend. A large amount of the Hispanic community has adopted a certain  "corrido" lifestyle. This trend has been around for three years and it is growing faster than ever. Now is the perfect time to start a magazine and give this audience what they need.

Readers: Age: 16 to 30, Gender: male, Ethnicity: Mexican-American, Income: Wealthy or aspiring to be wealthy, Self Image/ Identification: Bad Ass.

No Competition Whatsoever. No other magazine serves this demographic

Advertisement: Expensive clothing brands (Armani, Dolce&Gabbana,Ed-Hardy,etc..), Hard liquor companies (Buchanan, Remy Martin, Jack Daniels, Patron...) Car companies like Chevy (Silverados specifically), Chrysler, Ford...

Articles: News and updates about drug trafficking here in the U.S but more importantly in Mexico. News updates about the drug war and all the Mexican drug cartels. Updates on the newest albums from all the different artist that sing to this demographic (this is very important and probably the reason for most interest in the magazine because there are so many new and upcoming artist). Articles on clubs and events at those clubs. articles on what is in and out within the lyfestyle. Articles about all the new cars and their reviews.

Front cover: The front cover would read In Spanish but Im going to just post it in English.It would have a picture of him with a headline  Drug-lord (El M1) captured in Sinaloa, Mexico and awaiting trial! Larry Hernandez interviewed! ..... a picture of the artist.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

My Three Books

My first book is titled Holes by Louis Sachar. I first read this book when I was in the fourth grade. I had read before, but this was the book that had me keeping the night light on for the first time. I ended up reading it i think four times! Another book that has had a great influence on me is The Common Good by Noam Chomski. I read this book during high school for fun because my history teacher recommended it. It truly changed my perspective   on how U.S government is run.  I loved it so much that I decided on buying the entire Real Story Series. The last book that I want to talk about is titled The Pale Blue Eye. I Loved this book! I just recently finished it and i recommended it to anyone reading this. Check the link out... definitely a must read type of book..

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Media Impact

For my project I would want to test T.V use and it relationship to the development with young children . I would conduct and experiment of about 80 children all around the age of two. The experiment would be for the duration of about an entire year. I would have a control group which would be children that  had no T.V usage and a mixture of different groups watching different types of media on T.V. The objective would be to see if any of the T.V watching kids by the end of the ear showed any signs of modeling and if so to what extent. My hypothesis is that they most likely would. It would be interesting to also find if "intelligent programing" actually shows modeling as well. I think an experiment of this type probably has been done before but since i have a young two year old cousin that watches T.V like crazy I found it interesting.