Photo Analysis

The picture is of the Invisible Man in his basement of the all white complex with all his light bulbs hanging everywhere. For living in there for free, it seems to be a pretty decent room. He is living in there for free because he is invisible and basically no one even knows that he is existing let alone living down there. I believe that he has all those light bulbs because it is his way of feeling alive. The electric company knows that the power is being used but doesn't even know whom t charge it to. So far he is truly invisible to society.

IR Blog Post 1 - Unemployment Benefits Do Not Extend

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/18/news/economy/unemployment_benefits_extension/

This past Thursday, the house was trying to extend unemployment benefits to an extended 12 weeks from the original 73 weeks. The last time there was an extension, which lasted 6 months cost $34 billion. It is pretty ridiculous how much money is given out through the benefits. In the past 3 years $319 billion were given out as jobless benefits. Even though the House thinks that an extension will be more detrimental than helpful, the tone of the article says other wise. This article would like to see an extension. It is saying that by not extending, it will devastate families and the entire economy.

Does an extension really help families? I mean, if they can't find a job in 6-8 months, what makes people think that an extra 3-6 months and $34 billion dollars will help those same people go out and get jobs. I think it is just more incentive to stay out of work and wait it out.

Where does the government even have the money to spend so much money on one thing? They have so many other payments to worry about like education, health care, military, it is hard enough just to pay those.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/18/unemployment-extension-de_n_785566.html

This article has the same opinion but not as strong as the first. Such as saying "I think and I believe". But it still believes that the extension should be approved.

Advocates - People who speak in favor of a matter

Filibustered - To impede by irregular tactics

IR BLog Post 1 - Michael Vick and The Eagles

http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation (So how would Dan Reeved defend Vick?)

Eagles had a huge win over the Redskins last Monday with a score of 59-28. He had a record-breaking performance and almost broke the record for most points in the first half coming 7 points short of 49. Many teams find it very difficult, and on some occasions impossible, to defend Vick's play style. Since is probably the fastest quarterback in the league, and from that night's performance, one of the greatest arm in the league, he has a versatile arsenal that have teams spinning. Head Coach Reid has made sure that Vick intensively worked on his passing game. The hard work payed off during the Redskins team when he was threading the needle with his passes. He used to rely on his running game a lot and now he makes sure to scan the field for multiple targets before taking off on his lightning feet. But Vick says that he is working harder than ever. He felt like his was slacking off with the Falcons and now wants to redeem himself, not just from his past games but from his past dog felony.

I watched the game myself and it was one hell of a game. I was watching that and a different show and every time I flipped back to the game (in the first half) the Eagles would score again. It was unbelievable.

Will Vick be able to perform the same way he did against the Redskins for the rest of the season?Hopefully.

With no Superbowl Rings under his belt, will Vick be able to pull one out this year or the upcoming years?

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/11/16/vick-makes-history-eagles-crush-redskins/

Pretty hard to disagree with the fact that the Eagles crushed the Redskins on Monday night. This article actually goes a little farther in saying that Vick is just getting started. Hopefully he is and will show his real game when it matters the most.

Brouhaha - Excited public interest, discussion or a like

IR Blog Post 1 - Harry Potter

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/detail.jsp?contentId=212058

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 came out on November 19, and many people made plans for the midnight showing. If you are a fan of the series and/or the books, you will love this book. If not, this movie isn't the greatest to get started with. Since this movie had a huge budget to play around with, the effects and crazy scenes were much crazier in this movie. It is definitely a bummer that it the movie has 2 parts to it. This is the producers way of making more money on a series that is about to be over.

My first question is to see how much money this movie will actually make opening night. I believe it will break some records, at least previous Harry Potter movies.

Will this movie live up to the others? I am an avid Harry Potter fan and I thought each movie just got better and better. Just got to wait and see for myself and for viewer reviews.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-part-44623

This site agrees with the first one stating that this finale opens the door for the next to years to Box Office gold.

Albeit - Even though

Presumably - Probably

IM Introduction, Ellison Bio, and UbD Post

Ellison lived a life of poverty when he was growing up, hopping train after train to make it where he wanted to go. As he is going through his tough life, he as treated as an underclassman and was not treated the way other races were treated. He was black and therefore ignored, like an invisible man. Even though he wrote this book as a fiction book, he wanted to bring in true ideas and events in real life into this book to mirror society. This book pretty much answers the essential question, "How does fiction mirror society?"

The book started off when he was ill and impulsively wrote down, "I am an invisible man." He went on with that one sentence over seven years and made it a 600 page novel. After seven years, he was able to put in a bunch of experience and situations into this book to make it as detailed and powerful as it can be.

Theme #1 & #2 Reflection

1. Theme #1, I did really getting a 92%. It was a really easy essay to write since it was very personal and was able to show more than tell. But apparently I did not show as much. The grade was really weird. I never had a 10 point difference in grades, so that through me off. I, unfortunately got the short end of the stick and received a 92. Since one reader gave me a 99, I thought that the essay was good enough and therefore didn't do a re-write. The best part of my paper was my style. Like I said, since this was such a personal essay, it was easy to put in "voice" into the paper.
Theme #2, I got a much worse grade. I thought I did well on this theme, at least a mid B worthy paper. I didn't do really well on one area but if I had to pick one, it would be style. This is the same as last time, so I guess my expertise is in this area. Obviously disappointed, but hopefully can do as well as my 1st theme on future themes.

2. For theme #1, more showing and not telling. That got me a few points off. I have always struggled on focus, and for this essay, focus is huge since it is less than 500 words. Focus and "showing" are the places I could most improve on.
Theme #2, I got hammered by conventions. Usually I do a pretty good job with conventions, getting As on this part. This time I did terrible and it is shocking. Overall I did a much worse job than the first time.

3. I could have taken advantage of the re-write for the first theme since that would have probably kept my 99.
For theme #2, I tried to focus on detail and put in as much book references as I could into the paper. I guess I focused on that too much and suffered on conventions. Next time I will have to balance everything and make sure all parts are up to par.

The Great Gatsby Final Project

1. http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/the-great-gatsby-final-project-4920758

2. It is better to live the "Good Life" than not live at all.

3. We wanted to convey that it was much better to live a good life through the contexts of the Gatsby and the 1920s than to not live the good life.

4. Mixbook.com is a very easy tool to use. 2 of our group members used it for the IRB project and since it worked so well, we chose to use it for this one. Therefore I would use it again and again. I already used this web tool before a couple years ago so I have already had past experiences with it.

5. The overall explanation of the thesis was good. We used both the evidence of the book and evidence of the 1920s society in order to answer our thesis. We could have a much easier thesis to work with. I thought that this thesis was a little challenging to work with.