Kindred Posters

1. "Seconds count when something is trying to kill you. Oh, but I'm talking about suicide. To survive, my ancestors had to put up with more than I ever could." I liked this poem because it's very expository and gives a good view as to how Dana perceives slavery and shows how she respects that they truly did do more than she could ever hope to del with.

2. Christine's group had my favorite picture because it was the most meticulous and had some interesting ideas with the depiction of Dana and the hourglass representing time travel.

3. "I had a new, slowly growing fear." What it tells me about the character of Dana is that she will encounter some predicaments in her travels and that she will need time to adjust to her time traveling.

4. I think the conflict that will present itself among Dana, Kevin and Rufus will be that Kevin will turn out to know more about what's going on than he claims to know, and he will reveal to Dana some kind of profundity.

Slavery Today

Slavery changed America drastically as it left a lasting effect on the country, leaving behind stereotypes and racism that exist today. True that if it weren't for slavery, we might not have become the country we are today. Slavery itself was such an appalling thing and even thinking of it leaves people with a tempestuous feeling after remembering that such a thing actually existed.

Method Acting

Method Acting is a type of acting style where actors delve deep into their emotions and act as if they are the role that they're playing. Stanislavski was a director at the Moscow Art Theater who wrote a number of acting books and innovated his own variation of acting which came to be known as Method Acting. Marlon Brando used a lot of the emotion and taking on the character aspects of the technique in his role.

Favorite Actors

Edward Norton- His acting is collected and dramatic, and can get to the point where he can become his character. I liked his roles in Fight Club and American History X.

Samuel L. Jackson- He is an overall great actor, has great humor and is really dramatic when he acts. I liked his roles in Pulp Fiction and Coach Carter.

Gael García- He really gets into his roles and is expressive and tempestuous when he acts. I liked his roles in Amores Perros and The Motorcycle Diaries.

Satire

A satire uses humor, irony, or exaggeration on people or their actions in order to ridicule them, usually it's used to make fun of what's seen to be serious, such as politics. In other words, one could say a satire is a parody. An example of satire from Family Guy is when Rush Limbaugh is portrayed in a way that he wouldn't be seen in real life and make him self aware of what people see to be his flaws and also of what's wrong in his own beliefs.

Note to a Critical Friend

Dear ______Katarina________,

I would like to persuade _____readers______ to ____recognize the severity of addiction____.

The greatest obstacles to this happening seem to be _______lack of restraint_______.

I am also worried about ______lack of concern toward this topic_________.

What do you think of ______this topic________?

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

_____Sebastian Valenzuela______

Survey

1. How do you feel about the environmental situation of the world today?

_I don't care X_Sort of concerned _Very concerned.

1. What do you do when you see someone littering?
   

_Pick it up _Say something to the person X_Do Nothing.

1. What do you do when you have a used paper napkin in your hand on the street?
   

_Throw it on the ground X_Wait until I find a trashcan.

1. Do you use biodegradable products?
   _I don't know what they are _Never _Always X_Sometimes
   

1. Are you conscious of the world's environmental problems today?
   _Yes X_More or less _No, not at all
   

1. Do you think that your habits or way of living negatively affect the environment?
   _Yes _A little X_No
   

1. Have you ever helped in an environmental program?
   _Yes _No, because I didn't want to. X_No, because I never had the chance.
   

1. Which of these do you usually do?
   X_Turn off the lights when I leave a room.

_Take a shower for less than five minutes.

X_Don't leave the water running when I am brushing my teeth

_None of them.

1. Which of these activities would you like to do to help nature?
   _Plant trees

X_Be involved in a recycling project

X_conserve water

X_conserve electricity

X_walk, public transit, or bike to places

_nothing at all

1. What is your stance on Prop 21? (Should the state levy an additional annual $18 vehicle license surcharge to provide funds to operate and maintain California's state parks and wildlife protection programs?)

_yes X_no

1. What is your stance on Prop 23?(SUSPENDS IMPLEMENTATION OF AIR POLLUTION CONTROL LAW (AB 32) REQUIRING MAJOR SOURCES OF EMISSIONS TO REPORT AND REDUCE GREENHOUSE GASEMISSIONS THAT CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING, UNTIL UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS TO 5.5 PERCENT OR LESS FOR FULL YEAR. INITIATIVE STATUTE.)

X_yes _no

1. Do you think that global warming will have a negative impact on you in the near future?

X_yes _no

1. Do you think further destruction of global warming can be stopped by humans?

X_yes _no

1. Are you willing to pay extra in taxes to halt global warming?

X_yes _no

1. Are you willing to give up some of your leisures(activities you enjoy in your free time) to reduce global warming?

X_yes _no

1. Do you believe that global warming is a natural phase that occurs in the cycle of earth?

_yes X_no

1. Do you believe that we, humans are the primary cause of global warming?

X_yes _no

1. Do you think that we should utilize nuclear energy?

Advantage:Nuclear power generation does emit relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide (CO₂). The emissions of green house gases and therefore the contribution of nuclear power plants to global warming is therefore relatively little.

Disadvantage:The problem of radioactive waste is still an unsolved one. The waste from nuclear energy is extremely dangerous and it has to be carefully looked after for several thousand years (10'000 years according to United States Environmental Protection Agency standards).

_yes X_no

Thoreau & Walden

1. He moved there to live in a peaceful environment away from city life so he could write a book about his deceased brother.

2. He was living there solitarily, and experienced the industrial revolution taking place everyday since the railroad was in close proximity of his cabin.

3. What Thoreau criticized about modern life was that people were living lives filled with difficulty and complexity, believing that people should live modest, simple lives, keeping modern technology to a minimum.

4. I have to politely disagree with Thoreau's critique because technology exists to facilitate people's lives, not make them even harder, even though technology does have it's good affects and it's bad ones. He did make a good argument in that people should lead simple lives, but simplicity can result in monotony, aside from increased effort in living.