Essay 2

If I was deserted on an island I would most likely take a movie that can make me feel every emotion in one. I would want to laugh, cry, yell etc. I can’t exactly figure out which movie would make it for me right now, except for maybe the Lion King. I know it’s a cartoon and is directed for little kids, but my heart is set on a little kids level. I love the emotional attachment you get to Simba, the lion that we follow throughout the story. You watch him grow up and take the place of his father. The story is about a lion whose uncle wants to kill the boys father and take over the land. The little lion gets into trouble and the uncle takes this into affect as he makes the little lion believe he killed his father. The movie then picks up to more of a comedy when you meet Timon and Pumba, a warthog and a meerkat.


I prefer to watch a movie both in the theater and at my house. I like to watch it in theaters because you have a big screen and a big chair that forces you to sit up and watch the screen in front of you. There are no distractions such as a break for food or a messy bed, just you and the big screen. Yet I also like to watch movies from my home. I don’t have noisy children and small LCD lights shining all over the dark room which makes it feel as if the lights hadn’t even turned off.


I watched a bit of the Academy Awards. I found that they did a good job with the video editing of the opening for the different sections. As I talked about in class, I liked how they included Wall-e which won an academy award for best animated picture. The opening of the animated picture was Wall-e holding an academy award and the ballot for the winner. He looks at it as if he has no idea what it is. We later come to find that he is the winner for this section. I didn’t finish watching the entire thing due to the fact that it was very long and I was very tired. But from what I saw it seemed to be very good.

Essay 1

Prior to the Wall Street Journal I honestly haven’t read the newspaper that often. I did however take journalism and newspaper class in high school. I read the Sun Sentinel and the Miami Herald at least once every day of the week. I do like the layout and the setup of the Sun Sentinel the best. I feel like the stories are stories that are interesting for a wide range of an audience.

I honestly love newspapers. I love the way you can quickly skim through articles without having to click through millions of stupid tabs and back spaces. I like the stories I read to be printed and in my hand. I like them to be there for me to be able to pick and choose what I want to read. I don’t think anyone in the world could live without them because if we didn’t have newspapers and the power shut off for the entire world we would be in complete chaos. I mean technically these newspapers wouldn’t be able to print. But they would have the current news before the power shut off. Anyway, a newspaper is more reliable than a power outlet.

I think my learning experience would be greatly influenced by a new teaching method. It’s more up to date than a text book that is printed a few years or year before the class starts. The WSJ is up to date and current with the latest news on everything related to communications and more. I do think the WSJ will meet my expectations. It will open a new leaf in my chapter and help me to understand the world of newspaper writing and the styles of different writers. I will be able to incorporate what I read into my own writing.