Conflict Analysis Thoughts

The Book of Eli - Street Shootout

When thinking about what I wanted to do my paper on, I decided to go with a video clip because I wanted something that had alot of components to write about.  After reading the guidelines of the paper the first movie that popped into my head was The Book of Eli.  There are so many factors present in this flim that really seem to fit the premise of this paper.  First off you have the main point in the story, Eli (Denzel Washingtion) is on a mission with the last copy of the bible.  As well, you can add in the fact that Eli is blind, the world as everyone once new it is slowly ending, and there are fights breaking out because of it everywhere.  Therefore I believe that this sort clip would probably be a good choice for our next paper.  What do you think?

I'm Just a Little Confused

Alright, Can anyone explain to me why the people were being deported in the movie we have been watching in class this week?  And who were the people that attacked the car when the lead FISH women died.  Other than that I pretty much understood the movie.  For an in class movie it was pretty good.  I do think that the movie could have explained more, instead of leaving you to wonder through out the whole movie.  I am intrested to find out how Mr.Bevill is going to relate that movie to the class?!  Anyways I someone could explain that to me it would be great!

Preaching to the Choir

Is it just me, or did every high school English teacher tell you that in college writing papers was going to be sooo much harder, and that professors were going to tear apart your paper way worse than your current teacher would?  I well I feel that it is quite the opposite!  My teachers in high school tore apart my papers!  I always left my conference feeling like they took way too much joy getting out a brand new red pen and letting it bleed globs or ink all over my paper.  Yet after my conference this week I felt calm, and for a pleasant change, I felt like I actually did something right.  Even though we haven't even turned in the paper yet, and everything could still go south, I have a feeling that the intensity to write the paper in the correct format is lessened.  At college you get this freedom to write how you want, thus giving less room for error.  So far I have enjoyed this, but one will be able to see my true reaction in my later blogs after receiving my paper. 

Does High School English Now Seem Like a Waste?

I left class yesterday kind of mad.  Why would you learn to write one style of paper for seven years and then all of the sudden when it counts the format changes?!  Sure I learned to write other kinds of papers, but for the most part 90% of the were in the five paragraph essay form.  So out of this a bigger question is proposed, is high school really preparing you for college?  I would say in some aspects yes, but in others absolutely not.  The paper formatting is just one example.  Did you get by in high school with out reading a single page out of your text book?  Well the days of that are over!  Did you teachers let you turn in your papers late...Even sometimes a whole quarter late?  You can kiss that goodbye as well!  I think your school systems really need to keep the ultimate goal in focus.  Now that we have the no child left behind program and everyone is on the college bound track, our teaching styles and formats should comply.  Don't you think?

To Add Ethos or Not?

So as I posted in my last blog, I am going with a political cartoon that tries to make light of the ever rising tuition bills that students have to deal with.  To refresh your memory this is what it looked like:

In preparation of this paper I was thinking of some different directions I could take my paper in.  I want to write about how the tuition here at UT affects me, as well as, I would like to write about how it affects college students everywhere as a whole.  I was thinking about also adding my own ethos.  I found some posted information about this years tuition increase UT's website:

-"UT Knoxville students will pay 9 percent more tuition in the 2010-2011 academic year."

-"The Board of Trustees last week approved the increase—which was .5 percent more than the 8.5 increase we had requested."

-"A 9 percent tuition increase equates to $534 per year—or $267 per semester—taking it from $5,918 to $6,452 per year for in-state undergraduates."

-"UT Knoxville’s out-of-state students also will see tuition increase by 9 percent, or by $1,775, a year for undergraduates and $1,857 a year for graduate students. Their annual tuition will increase from $19,714 to $21,489 and from $20,622 to $22,479, respectively. "

I feel like these are some good jumping off points for my paper.  Let me know if you have any good ideas to go along with the quotes & or anything else you think might be a good idea for me to look into for my paper.

Works Cited

The university of Tennessee Knoxville. Tuition Increase to Help Offset Loses. The University of Tennessee, ND. web. 2 September 2010.