::Film Critique::
((Forrest Gump))
Jessica Rone 5th Hour
“Momma always says life’s like a box of chocolates, ya never know whatcha gon’ get”. That’s one of the famous quotes from the movie Forrest Gump, it’s a great movie. It was given an 8.5 star rating out of 10 and was ranked 68 out of 250 with over 172,000 votes. It was released on June 6 of 1994. Forrest Gump is a great comedy, drama, and romance between a man who was totally clueless to what was going on in the world but always got caught in the middle of it all and had probably accomplished more than anyone ever could even if that person was to live to be triple his age. He (Forrest) falls in love with a girl who he had known all his life but she keeps running away form him and perusing other people and other things but one night changes it all and he gets the surprise of his life. I think that Forrest Gump was a great movie and was well put together for many reasons.
First, the actors in the movie were Tom Hanks, who plays the main role of Forrest Gump, they show his whole life throughout the movie. He wasn’t a very smart man but he goes through a lot and he accomplishes many different things and he falls in love with a childhood friend played by Robin Wright Penn who plays Jenny, who has known Forrest since she was young and always stood by him when nobody did. They fall in love but she hates to admit it to herself and keeps running away from him. But they have a happy ending. Then, there’s Mykelti Williamson who plays Bubba, Forrest’s good friend when they were in the army together. He was obsessed with shrimp and had a huge dream to open his own shrimp business and asked Forrest if he wasted to be his partner but he later dies, so Forrest makes that dream come true for him and his family.
Second, is the screen play of the movie and basically how they show things that have happened and how they tell the story without using words. For example, when they show Forrest’s dirty running shoes while he was sitting on the bench telling the people his story. Later you see that it was Jenny that bought those shoes for Forrest and all that he has been through and his shoes have been with him like all that running he did and the mud that is on the shoe is showing the viewer that that happened. Another example of screenplay is all the flashbacks that they show of him. That’s basically how they tell the movie, its one big flashback and once in a while they will come back and show Forrest telling the story to the person sitting with him and the new people coming and going just listening to him. Another one is when Forrest went into the army and Lt. Dan was yelling at him and Forrest was also narrating but as he was telling us the story, he was whispering. Last, when they had the news report telling us that there was a hurricane that totally wiped out all the boats except for Forrest’s when there was that great storm after Lt. Dan was yelling at God. There are many different types of screenplays that take place in this movie and they are very creative.
Third, the special effects that were added to the movie. For example, when Jenny and Forrest were young, Jenny used to sneak over some nights and they showed her going to Forrest’s when there was a big storm and she was scared. Another was when Forrest was in the army and they were being attacked, all of the explosions, gunshots and bombs they had were all special effects. Last, when Jenny went away to an all girls school and Forrest was out doing his own thing at his college, he would go and visit Jenny every chance that he got and it was raining one day and he went to go visit her. He had come a long way and he is soaking wet with a box of chocolate and he comes all this way just to find Jenny in the car with another man and the storm changes the whole mood of the scene.
In conclusion, I believe that Forrest Gump is a great movie and is very well thought out and put together. The moral of the movie is to not take what you have for granted and you can do anything that you set your mind to. It also shows that everything will work out to be how it was supposed to because after all, life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
=Internet Saftey=
The internet can be a dangerous place. If you’re not careful a lot of things can happen to you. It’s very important to be careful of what kind of information you put on there for people to see. For example, all of those sites like MySpace, Facebook, and other sites that you have your own page with pictures, blogs and other things can really get you into trouble. You need to be aware of what kind of information that you are putting on because anyone can access it and anybody can get to it to find your information. Here are 6 good tips that I would suggest to any Myspace, Facebook, or any other blog-user:
1) I would suggest that you only give your first name. Giving out our last name, someone can find out information about you that you would not want someone to know.
2) Either use your school name or the city in which you live. Don’t put both because then a person that you might not want them to know where you live, can find out where you live and that cant be a good thing.
3) NEVER put your phone number on there. Remember, anybody can access that information and get your number. Then that person can Google your phone number and find out where EXACTLY you live and a map is even included! So that is a definite never.
4) Keep your password to yourself and change it often! All a person needs is your password and they can then go on your name and change it so you then you wont know the new password they set. So be sure to change it often and make it something random, don’t make it your name, make it something completely out of the blue like your grandmothers’ pet or something.
5) Never go and meet a new friend that you have never met before. You don’t know what that person is really like and if they are lying.
6) Never put a picture on there that you wouldn’t want anyone other than your friends to see. Even of you delete it, somewhere – it’s still on the internet. So be aware and be careful of what you put online.
The internet can be a very good place and an excellent resource but it can also be a dangerous unknown place. Be very careful to what you are doing and make sure that you are keeping some information confidential.
1) I would suggest that you only give your first name. Giving out our last name, someone can find out information about you that you would not want someone to know.
2) Either use your school name or the city in which you live. Don’t put both because then a person that you might not want them to know where you live, can find out where you live and that cant be a good thing.
3) NEVER put your phone number on there. Remember, anybody can access that information and get your number. Then that person can Google your phone number and find out where EXACTLY you live and a map is even included! So that is a definite never.
4) Keep your password to yourself and change it often! All a person needs is your password and they can then go on your name and change it so you then you wont know the new password they set. So be sure to change it often and make it something random, don’t make it your name, make it something completely out of the blue like your grandmothers’ pet or something.
5) Never go and meet a new friend that you have never met before. You don’t know what that person is really like and if they are lying.
6) Never put a picture on there that you wouldn’t want anyone other than your friends to see. Even of you delete it, somewhere – it’s still on the internet. So be aware and be careful of what you put online.
The internet can be a very good place and an excellent resource but it can also be a dangerous unknown place. Be very careful to what you are doing and make sure that you are keeping some information confidential.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
+Media Violence+
Violence in the media is everywhere. It’s on the T.V, it’s on the internet, it’s the videogames, and it’s even in the magazines. Here are 3 facts about children and violence:
1) Children, that are ages 8-18, spend more time ((44 1/2 hours per week, 6 1/2 hours daily)) in front of computer, T.V, and video game screens than any other activity in their whole lives other than sleeping ((Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005))
2) Children are affected at any age, but young children have the greatest chance to the effects of media violence ((Bushman, 2001)). Young children are more easily impressionable, cannot easily discern motives for violence and learn by imitating.
3) By the time a child is 18 years old, he or she will see on T.V 200,000 acts of violence including 40,000 murders. And that’s an average time that a person watches T.V. ((Huston, et al, 1992)).
Obviously, children see way too much media violence and that affects them in a huge way. There are many different things that you can do to avoid media violence. For example, you can find different types of videogames to buy. Now-a-days, they have many different kinds of video games that can help with a child’s reading, writing, math, and many other things that will help them learn rather than them robbing a bank or shooting people. Second, you can block channels on the T.V or websites on the computer that you would not want your child to see, that way he or she would not have any access to them. And one last thing that you can to do prevent your child from seeing too much media violence is that you can get them into a sport, a club, or anything that will take away their time from sitting at home watching television or sitting on the computer. That will get them out of the house, and getting exercise and meeting new friends. That can teach your child teamwork, sportsmanship and other lessons that a video game won’t teach them. Getting a child away from media violence is really important. Too much media violence for your child could be that your child may become more anti-social, or you child being less sensitive to violence and those who are victims of violence and your child figuring that violence is an acceptable way to settle a conflict. A situation that I hear was one day I was watching Judge Judy, and it was a case with 2 typical High School girls. One of the girls, Kelly, who was 17 years old, was stabbed, by the other girl in court’s friend. The girl in court she was 13 at the time that her friend stabbed the 17 year old girl. Apparently, they were in an argument over a boy and one day the 13 year old girl stayed home from school sick and she had gotten a phone call from her friend (Shelly, the girl who stabbed Kelly) about getting into a fight (with Kelly) at the park and that she wanted her to come along and to meet her at the corner to walk to the park together. So of course she did. Now it took the judge quite a while to get the real story out of the 13 year old girl because she wouldn’t tell the truth but eventually, she got most of it out. So as she tells the story about what happened at the park about how she didn’t know that her friend had had a switch blade with her and that she had first seen it when they began to fight and she just stood back and watched. Well, Kelly had gotten stabbed 5 times once in each arm, her stomach, and her leg. When the 13 year old girl seen that one of her best friends had stabbed a girl she claimed to have left the scene. Leaving the girl to bleed to death. Violence is very serious and can affect a child in a huge way so it really important to protect your child from media violence.
1) Children, that are ages 8-18, spend more time ((44 1/2 hours per week, 6 1/2 hours daily)) in front of computer, T.V, and video game screens than any other activity in their whole lives other than sleeping ((Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005))
2) Children are affected at any age, but young children have the greatest chance to the effects of media violence ((Bushman, 2001)). Young children are more easily impressionable, cannot easily discern motives for violence and learn by imitating.
3) By the time a child is 18 years old, he or she will see on T.V 200,000 acts of violence including 40,000 murders. And that’s an average time that a person watches T.V. ((Huston, et al, 1992)).
Obviously, children see way too much media violence and that affects them in a huge way. There are many different things that you can do to avoid media violence. For example, you can find different types of videogames to buy. Now-a-days, they have many different kinds of video games that can help with a child’s reading, writing, math, and many other things that will help them learn rather than them robbing a bank or shooting people. Second, you can block channels on the T.V or websites on the computer that you would not want your child to see, that way he or she would not have any access to them. And one last thing that you can to do prevent your child from seeing too much media violence is that you can get them into a sport, a club, or anything that will take away their time from sitting at home watching television or sitting on the computer. That will get them out of the house, and getting exercise and meeting new friends. That can teach your child teamwork, sportsmanship and other lessons that a video game won’t teach them. Getting a child away from media violence is really important. Too much media violence for your child could be that your child may become more anti-social, or you child being less sensitive to violence and those who are victims of violence and your child figuring that violence is an acceptable way to settle a conflict. A situation that I hear was one day I was watching Judge Judy, and it was a case with 2 typical High School girls. One of the girls, Kelly, who was 17 years old, was stabbed, by the other girl in court’s friend. The girl in court she was 13 at the time that her friend stabbed the 17 year old girl. Apparently, they were in an argument over a boy and one day the 13 year old girl stayed home from school sick and she had gotten a phone call from her friend (Shelly, the girl who stabbed Kelly) about getting into a fight (with Kelly) at the park and that she wanted her to come along and to meet her at the corner to walk to the park together. So of course she did. Now it took the judge quite a while to get the real story out of the 13 year old girl because she wouldn’t tell the truth but eventually, she got most of it out. So as she tells the story about what happened at the park about how she didn’t know that her friend had had a switch blade with her and that she had first seen it when they began to fight and she just stood back and watched. Well, Kelly had gotten stabbed 5 times once in each arm, her stomach, and her leg. When the 13 year old girl seen that one of her best friends had stabbed a girl she claimed to have left the scene. Leaving the girl to bleed to death. Violence is very serious and can affect a child in a huge way so it really important to protect your child from media violence.
Monday, November 5, 2007
((Body Images in the Media))
I think that the way women are looked at in the media is that we are all perfect- perfect face, perfect body, perfect everything! In the media, women are often and usually used to sell a product and if someone is going to be used to sell a product- typically a woman, they have to be absolutely perfect and nothing less. But guess what, were not and no one is. No company or business is going to want an overweight, old, or an ugly woman or person in their ad, that is selling their product. No fat, no wrinkles, nothing but perfection. I think that women are being targeted in the ‘media world’ the worst. The woman in the ad is supposed to look good so she makes the product look good and attract attention to it. A woman has to be perfect because that’s what everybody wants to think that’s what women are. For example, when you look at an ad- it can be for anything, an alcohol ad, perfume and always with clothing ads with women, they always look perfect; no bags under their eyes, no body fat, tan, pretty, young, everything. But, HELLO?!? It’s called Photoshop!! Nobody looks like that! All of those ads are retouched so that the person selling their product looks perfect. Even Barbie, it is said that if Barbie were to be a real live person, she would be 6 foot, 100 lbs., she would wear a size 4 in jeans, she wouldn’t be able to stand up because her top is so heavy! Barbie’s measurements would be 39"/19"/33". The average woman is 5' 4", weighs 145 lbs., and wears between sizes 11-14. An average woman’s measurements are about 36"/30"/41". Compared to Barbie, that’s a 7 inch difference in height, 45 pound difference in weight, and about 8 sizes difference in jeans! So I’d hope that you would never plan on borrowing her clothes. But that just goes to show how media and the world today wants women to be.
Friday, November 2, 2007
::Autobiography::
Hey, my name is Jessica, I am 15 years old and I go to THS. I like it for the most part, my favorite subjects are English, Spanish, and Gym. I have two older sisters. Shianne is 20 years old and she is always there for me no matter what and always has the right thing to say. Even though I don’t see her all the time because she works a lot and goes to school at night, she’s always there for me. My other sister Ashley is 16. Ashley and I always have the best times together and we laugh about everything. We work together too so it’s always fun. Me and my sisters, we do a lot together like go shopping, mostly our Target trips. We have had some crazy times. I am really close with my family. I have five younger cousins that I love to death. Johnny, he’s 13 Kayla, she’s 9 Jacob he’s going to turn 7 soon and the twins Katleyn and Lauren who just turned 5. We are really close and they mean the world to me. I play soccer and volleyball I have played soccer for 8 years and volleyball for 3. I play both for school and Ashley plays volleyball too but they season just ended. I also like to hang out with my friends a lot. We have the best times, my best friends are Amanda I just started talking to her over the summer but she is really fun. Breanna I’ve known her since kindergarten and we always have a good time especially at volleyball. Nick he is my boyfriend and I’ve known him since 7th grade and I can tell him everything and he is the best and, of course my sisters who I don’t even know where I would be without them and wouldn’t trade them for anything. When I get older I want to be a Teacher, a Clothing Designer, or a Criminal Investigator.
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