It almost over

Okay so I am really excited for this semester to be over. Finals are kicking my butt right now and I have to register for classes and do everything else. My essay however is still coming along well, I plan on rewatching Land of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead before I finish my essay. Hopefully everything goes smoothly because right now there isnt much time for errors. I expect to describe each movie in detail and make my essay the appropriate lenght, because I need an A on this final to reach my goal grade. So far everything is going as planned I recieved full credit for my proposal and bibliography and now need to focus all my attention on my essay. The paper proposal and bibliography was an awesome idea, it helped save time and worry! Also it made me stop procrstinating about writing my paper and gave me a clear idea of what I needed to do for my essay. In the future Ellen should make the paper proposals and bibliographys for all the essays she assigns. It is a good way for students to prepare for their papers. Although we did the paper proposals and bibliography early enough to write a great paper, I believe that some students wont utilize their time wisely and will slack off while finishing their papers. I hope noone does this but from the way people have been responding in class a few of them seem less then prepared. Good thing I got my head on straight for this paper, because I would of been one of those people. I have a problem with waiting to the last minute to do everything, the only thing that saved me is doing the proposal and bibliography. It is all almost over, thank God. This semester has been hellish for me.

Final Essay

Okay so my final essay as of right now is going very well. I have finished my paper proposal and bibliography early and have began to write out an outline for my final essay. Although I feel confident in my writing I am still feeling a little pressure and anxiety about the length. I have a lot to talk about and a lot of great sources but I havent written a paper this long since my senior year in high school. Even bak then if I cried to my teacher he hand fed me my essay so its frustrating to have to do all the work on my own. I think that I am going to describe the movie in great detail to start out my essay, that way someone who hasnt seen the movie will still be able to understand what I am talking about. Then I would like to talk about race, and roles that minorities play in the film. After all that I will go into detail about gender roles in the film and how women are always the weak followers and never the strong leaders. To end my essay I am going to discuss romance in the film. I will be comparing it to Saun of the Dead. Which actually has "A romantic comedy, with zombies" under the title of the movie on the cover of the DVD. It is kind of ironic since this is a big thing missing in Romero's film. Hopefully after using all 5 sources and comparing and contrasting Saun of the Dead to Romero's film I will be able to complete 8 pages of text. If not I will be visiting Ellen for her help. I still have a lot to do but i am prepared for it. my goal is an A but i dont want to jinx myself, I am shooting for the highest grade possible but expecting the worst, you need to prepare for all possible outcomes. hopefully if all goes as planned i will be done with my rough draft in the next week and will finish my final draft before the due date, maybe even before the 20th so I can talk to Ellen for some feedback.

Hillary Duff's New Show

Ok since The Hills is over I was watching MTV last night and Hillary Duff has a new show out about her life. It is pretty good seeing as how its like a documentary of her tour and new album. I dont personally like her but her music is good so it is interesting to see how much work artist actually have to do. I thought that all they did was sing and record and fly all over but in Hillary Duffs case she really puts her all into her songs. She wrote every one of her albums new songs and she is in control of every aspect of her tour. On the episode I watched her dancers were not prepared for the show that was the next night anf Hillary brang them outfits to wear and they had a practice that night so she knew they were ready. It is kind of funny to see her now as a singer and remember her as Lizzie McGuire. She has grown up so fast it seems, she is a beautiful girl. It was kind of sad though watching the show, she had noone with her. None of her family or anyone and the only way she could keep in touch is with her cell phone. I would go nuts if I was across the world and my mom or my boy friend didnt go with me. Her cell phone by the way was gold, real gold. I guess all that hard work and late nights really pays well. Good for her though, she deserves it cuz she actually works for it.

Reading

When I was reading this weeks packet I was surprised to see how people would compare Aristotle and Goerge Romero. I wasn't exactly sure how the two of them were on the same level but Mathew Walker did make really good points to compare the theories of Aristotle and the storyline of Romero's films. walker used a great sentence to describ Romero's films, "The flesh eatin zombies of George A. Romero's Dead films turns stomachs- sometimes by twisting them right out of mangled bodies". Since my paper will mainly be focusing in on gender, race, and lack of romance in Romero's films, that sentence is still a great way to describe the goar of Romero's films. I plan on describing both Shawn of the Dead and Land of the Dead in great detail before I start my essay so that the reader can understand what I am talking about. I would like to use this quote in my description of the film. Also, walker states, "they are mindless Undead, living corpses who'll surround you en masse in search of a warm meal", this relating again to the zombies. This sentences made it apparent how scarry the zombies were made to be. Also Romero's film was compared to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book V, Chapter 1, to describe the zombies motivation to eat as being pleonexia. Pleonexia is describ as being the ovverreaching desire for the goods of fortune. It is ironic that a zombie movie woulod ever be compared to a person as influencial as Aristotle.

The Hills

Okay so it's sad to say but I am sooo glad that this season of the Hills is over. The final episode was awful, of course it was all about Heidi and Spencer and how freakin stupid Hiedi is. The whole season was filled with the drama of Lauren's life and how her friends betray her and they end the season with Hiedi leaving Lauren once again for Spencer. I think it was ironic that after all Heidi did to Lauren with the whole Brody incedent, that Heidi would betray her friendship again and move out. Not only did she move out but she told Lauren that she would give her some time to find a new roommate and when Lauren got home from work or school that day Heidi had all of her stuff moved out. That was shallow, Heidi obviously wasn't thinking about Lauren's feelings at all. It just goes to show Lauren what kind of friend she really was. On the afterparty thing they showed follwing the show, not once did they talk about Heidi and Spencer, they did however talk about Lauren and Heidi and what Lauren learned from the experience. It is just sad to see a friendship ruined by a guy. Audrina ended up moving in with Lauren and it seems to be going pretty well from the way they were acting on the after show but things won't be the same without Lauren's best friends... from the first season. Im glad that she did learn her leason and gave up on the people that betrayed her and that her new roomate seems to respect her a lot more than Heidi ever did. Thank GOD it's over I dont think I could take another episode of Heidi and her "friendship" with Lauren.

The hills

Just a little overview of what happened on this weeks episode. Whitney is a 5 year intern who is about to graduate, and would like more responsiblity and a real job. So she and Lauren are sent on a show and Whitney is spotted for modeling. While she was modeling a dress on live TV she falls and is morbidly embarrassed. After the drama everyone is trying to console her and she seems to be upset. The next day at work she is given a little pep talk by the bss lady and she was given a note from the big lady at Teen vogue. This episode was one of the best, in my opinion. Mainly due to the fact that it had nothing to do with Heidi or Spencer. This pisode showed a girl trying to move up and the struggle of doing so. I liked this episode so much because it wasn't filled with all the normal drama of The Hills, it was what the show was supposed to be about, Lauren and her life now after high school, it finally showed a true day of work and someone trying to go somewhere. It wasnt all about people cheting or drinking and it was still a good show. The more I watch the more I want to change the channel just because it has gotten so "reality TVish" with the drama and acting and what seems to be typecasting. The show seemed to only play the god footage and not the actual footage of Lauren and her new life on her own. This episode was more realitic than "Reality TV". The season is almost over I hopw it ends as well as it started and has little to nothing to do with Spencer, he ruins the freakin show.

land of the dead

In the movie we watched this week I was a little dissappointed. I thought that it was going to be more realistic i guess. It seemed to put on. For a zombie movie however it was one of the btter ones that I have seen. I still think that it is going to be really hard to write about this movie in my paprer. Im not too sure how I want to write it or what exactly I want to write about. There isnt a big interest in zombie movies, in my life so writing baout it is deffinatly a challenge. I would much rather write about romance movies rather than a zombie film but I guess I have to deal. Im just nervous about the lenght and what topics to write about. I think I may write about the spoof movie Shawn of the Dead and compare and contrast the two films but who knows right now. I thought that the ending of the movie was pretty shabby. I was anticipating a better ending but its okay. It is ironic how the people who were money huingry and in control both lost their lives in the end. It goes to show a moral point kind of, like what the main character said "money burns". The characters more interested in living made it and the money hungry ones both died a horrible death, ironic. All in all it wasnt too bad, but I wouldn't choose to watch this movie in my free time. I dont think that after I write my paper I will ever watch another zombie movie again but its good to experience different forms of writing.