Semester 2 Blog 10

While the WW2 was going on, my family was still in the Philippines. My great grandmother told me that when the Japanese invaded the Philippines, many Chinese came to the Philippines to hide. And there was a war between the Chinese and Japanese. While that was going on, my great grandmother had a 

neighbor that was chinese and they were hiding at the time. She told me that since they lived in Orion, Bataan the Japanese people would go through their neighborhood searching every house... she said it was scary and they had no where else to go because back then my family was really poor, they lived in a small wooden house. The japanese would just barge into houses with guns threatening the local filipinos.The chinese's family's son became my great grandmother's husband. Their Chinese last name was Lim but since they migrated from china they chose to change their name to Antonio.  

WW2 imagery

Find images of at least three of the following:

WW2 propaganda
WW2 war photography
The "homefront" during WW2 (America)
The Allied powers
The Axis powers
More?

For each image, post the following:

1. The image itself (not a link to it!)
2. The historical info: date, people, photographer, artist, names, etc. The "true story" of the image.
3. What the image tells you—your reaction.

2.Produced by the General Motors Corporation, 1942

NARA Still Picture Branch (NWDNS-44-PA-2314)

3. This image seems like its trying to scare the people and persuading to keep on fighting if they don't want their lives taken about by their enemies, which in here are the Nazi's and the Japanese.

2.An American soldier killed on Omaha Beach. 6 June 1944.

3. This picture seemed to have alot of emotion, knowing that most soldiers were young about 18+  and it was sad to see that their lives ended this way. Most of the soldiers just graduated from high school when they joined the military.

 

2. CAPTURED FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOYS who were members of the "Air Guard." On 28 March First Army troops were closing up along the upper Lahn River. Infantry divisions quickly followed the armored spearheads to mop up enemy pockets of bypassed troops and to clear the areas which had been taken in the rapid advances. In six days the shallow Remagen foothold had been expanded to a lodgement area sixty-five miles deep. The advance to Kassel continued. 3. Seeing this picture made me realize how young the soldiers were, I never knew that there were Younger boys, younger than 18. It seems like they were forced to be in the army rather than having a choice. Even if they did have a choice, boys wouldn't choose to be in the army at that age because they'd rather play and be rough as little boys usually are.

Semester 2 Blog 8

Choose one of the following (or check them both out):

Listen to the 1986 NPR interview with Kurt Vonnegut.

Read the 1977 Paris Review interview with KV.

1. What stands out to you most in this interview?

How the NPR explained what happened to KV during the WWll. 

2. What experiences led Vonnegut to write Slaughterhouse Five?

The experiences he had during the WWll, because it was such a huge massacre he felt he had to write about it.

3. Prior to reading Slaughterhouse Five, what would you like to ask KV?

Do you think it would've been different if the adults fought in this war?

Semester 2, blog 6

Link to three outstanding Ampersand article pitches that you have seen on other students' blogs.

What makes each one stand out to you? What makes you believe these pitches would lead to great articles? Write a paragraph for each.


http://mconsunji.tumblr.com/
I liked the first pitch because it made me think about how some people actually wear clothes that match their emotion. That article pitch seemed really interesting and it made me want to read that pitch when she is finished with it. I think this will lead to a great article because of her topic/pitch. 


http://louistabalonhumanities.tumblr.com/
For this one, I liked the second because it said that the article pitch will be about the mistreat of asians and cinema, how its about prejudice and discrimination. This stood out to me because I'd to read about asians being discriminated.  This would lead to a great article because of the subject of the pitch. 


http://brandicoley.blogspot.com/
Brandi's first pitch was really interesting and it caught my attention because I was actually thinking bout doing the same thing. She talked about how her first pitch would be communication at your workplace. This will be a good topic to work on because there are many things you could describe about the communication and environment at your internship. A lot of feelings and emotions are able to be described. 

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My three pitches for my article would be to write an article about the environment at work and compare it to the school environment, the next article would be about the people I worked with and how they've treated me differently from what I have expected.And the last would be my mentality before and after my internship.

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http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/travel/13allure.html?ref=travel

I liked this article because the author of this article had their own style in their writing. Sometimes there would be words that are all capitalized to emphasize the meaning. And I also liked how she compared being on the actual cruise to being on land, like as if people forgot that they were actually at sea instead of in the city. She/he (the author) explained the cruise and how it's like in every little detail included. This article inspires me because, for me, descriptive writing always pulls me in. When I read a writing, book, article, etc. I want to see detail about the setting because it gives me an image in my head.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/fashion/13Modern.html?scp=2&sq=modern%20love&st=cset

This article pulled me in because it was just about one subject. But within that one subject comes many examples of it, and different explanations. It amazed me when the author said it took him six years to edit his column. Even in his own column he had questions that made the reader think; Like the writing tip whats your engine? 


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/garden/10cube.html?src=me&ref=style
This was an interesting article because this person lived his life in a feng shui way. But anyways, this article was engaging because the author of this article wrote about the way this person lived, and he also interview him. It reminded me of my mentor interview. This article inspired me because of his way of writing was layed out.

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http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/celebrity_interviews/article/5333/Actor--Kristen-Stewart/

I liked how it first talked or had an intro about the person that was interviewed; which in here was Kristen Stewart. At the same time I also liked how after the introduction, the interviewer went straight to the questions.  And broke the answers down to paragraphs.

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/mary-kate-olsen/
With this interview, it seemed like the person who interviewed her just made her answers into a story? And then at the end added the questions and answers that weren't included into the story... This is what I kind of want to do want to do with my interview. I was thinking about formatting it the way this was formatted. A story with the gathered answers I've received from my mentor. The way this person described it, had a lot of setting and detail.