Final Essay

The first day of class I expect that every assignment was going to be type just like Eng 101. However, it was totally different because the professor used a new method which I did not know and never used in any other classes. I thought that using only a blog was going to make it hard. But I was wrong because is easier than typing in Microsoft word and printing our work. I think that the way that the professor teaches is really interesting because he came up with the theme of supernatural. As we went further more we came up with different topics. Such as symbols in a poem and what they meant in a poem or song.  Another interesting topic is when he covered the different types of archetypes that are in every person which tell you whether you are an orphan or an innocent. I found out that my strongest archetype was innocent and I am sure I am. Because I believe that everyone is a good person and I trust then and at the end I found out that I was wrong.  Finally, I believe that I put all effort in the final Project because I had to do many things to come up with my video. Also because our final project show what we learned in this semester and we search new things to finish our last blog.  

I think that the best blog entry was from the group lost boy’s I really like it because it just take like 3 minutes to do a trailer and there video had many effects that made it interesting. The part that I liked the most is when one of them shoots his grandmother I think that was funny.      

4.3 Final Project

For my final project I made a  short story about a children who is an orphan and her parents passwed away. The name of the story is "Hope" because she has faith on finding a new family that can give her love. I wrote the story from my mom experience because my grandmother died when she was 18 years old. My grandmother had an accident when she was crossing the street, and she was ran over by a man.

 My parents where looking for my grandmother for more than a week. My mom felt gulty because she let her go alone.  After the lost of my grandmother, now my grandfather just passed a way three months ago. My mom stop eating and got sick so continuously. So I used some parts of her own experience and put it into a short one but changing some parts.

Here is my story for those people who prefer to read it and I just remove the conversation between the girl and the boy.
 
                                                                      "Hope"

         When I was five years old my mother passed away. My dad was the most affected of all this. He started to drink and stop taking me to the school. He would constantly forget things, such as, go to work and completely forgot that he had a daughter to take care of. I do not blame him because I also felt the same way, but I tried to be strong and cheer him up. Once when we were going back home, we passed by a small restaurant that was located at the next corner. The restaurant had the same name as my mother; Esperanza, which means hope. The same day when we were walking down the street, suddenly my dad stopped walking and looked at the woman who was playing piano inside the restaurant. He kept looking at her and did not say a word. But I could imagine what he was thinking, he was thinking about my mom. That very first day, when my parents met each other in that same restaurant and when she used to play piano. He loved the way she played the piano and every single day at the same time he would sit in front of everyone and listen to my mother.  After few days my dad decided to talk to her and asked her to go for a walk. From that day on, they kept seeing each other and one day, in the middle of the night he asked her to marry him. My mom accepted and the ceremony took place at Esperanza Restaurant because the owner was my grandfather.

            Two years later my dad died of sadness. The rest of my family lived far away and the only person I had in my life was my aunt Kathy. She was my dad’s sister; she was the only one who decided to take care of me. She had no children and took custody of me, but soon she got a letter where it said that she could not take care of me. She felt powerless and the government decided to send me to an orphanage. It’s been six years since my aunt died and I have no family who can give me love. My aunt was the only one who used to visit me every single day, until one day she stopped doing it. That day I thought that she no longer wanted to see me. A week later, without knowing anything about her, a nun told me that someone was on the phone and she wanted to talk to me. I asked her who was it? She replied that it was my aunt. I was very upset because she never came to see me again. I told the nun that I was not going to answer the phone but she insisted.  Ever since that day I regret for not having answered the call. She was calling to tell me how much she loved me and what I meant to her. Once she told me that where ever she goes, she will always be there for me. She just wanted to hear my voice for the last time, but I was selfish for not taking that call. I’m going to regret for the rest of my life. Now, I have neither my aunt nor my parents. That’s why I cry, every time I remember about it, the people that I love are no longer here and I am here all alone.  

To watch better the video click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcc6AHrfTks

It was kind of hard to make the video because this is the first time that I make a video with pictures and captions. I had trouble making the video and find a song for my story because I could not find the appropiate song for my story. I also had trouble uploading my video to youtube but finally I know how to do it.



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4.2

I was using xtranormal for my final project but some how it doesnt let me sign in to my account. So, I tried to make another account and is the same problem. Now, am going to use Power Point  or other program to make my story.

3.5 Coraline

Lucero Vazquez

Eng 102

                                                      Archetypes

       According to Carol Pearson, who is a psychologist she identifies that all of us have an archetype that is original to our personality. This helps us to interact with the real world and interpret it. Such as when we see children with out a home or parents we are looking at the orphan archetype.

        One of many archetypes is the explorer archetype; it’s the type of person who has the tenacity and spirit of having freedom. For example, in the book called Coraline by Neil Gaiman, the protagonist named Coraline goes through many events such as her curiosity to explore the new house cause her to find a new world and gets trapped into a drawing room or known as the other side. Now she has to find the way to go back home and find her real parents that were trapped in a mirror. To give a more detail of what happens in the story is when her parents decide to move to a new house. But there is something strange with the house because they are mysterious sounds and shadows. The first day Coraline meets her neighbors who live in the same house and finds them quite strange. Her neighbors prevent her from danger, such as Miss Forcible and Miss Spink who read her the tea leaves both told her that she was in danger. Also, the old man told her that the mice had a message for her, “Don’t go through the door” (Gaiman 16). Caroline does not pay attention to them and keeps exploring the house and finds a door that was made of brick. Her parents had told her that she is not suppose to entry to the door, the door is known as the other side. From this point she keeps exploring because her parents are so busy working in the computer that they do not pay attention to her.

       Another example is the orphan archetype, it’s the type of person who independent and finds the way to survive in the real world.  One day, Coraline mother goes to the supermarket and she decides to keep exploring and finds the other side. Where she discovers her other parents and her other neighbors but with the exception that they have button eyes.

      Finally, she experienced the innocent archetype which is my archetype. We are the type of person who has trust, faith and optimism. The negative side is that we tend to believe that everybody is good and we can trust them. Just like Coraline trust her other parents at the beginning of the story where they made Coraline believe that they care about her and they want her as a daughter.

       As I said we all have an archetype and we might have a strong one. If we get to know about our archetype it gives us knowledge of who we are and try to understand others. Also, we understand better what the authors are tying to expressed in their writing such as Neil Gaiman is trying to express in his writing.  

4.1 Project

I found a website to make my movie and is called  Xtranormal. I tryed other websites but it didnt work so i decide to stay with Xtranormal.  Last days I was looking at the effects that the program has and I think am fine with it. I just need to edit to some parts of my story and paste it to my video.

3.4 Final Project

Now am sure about the theme of my movie, so its going to be about an innocent person that is going to tell her story to one of her friends of how she becomes an orphan. I still have to find out a website or a devise to make my video .

3.3 Ideas about the Final Project

Right now I am thinking to do a video film for my final project. My topic would be a scary story or at least try to make it scary and detail. I have an idea of how to make it  but I am not sure how to put certain things that i want in the video. so i have to think how am going to do it. Because on sunday I saw a show during the night that was about myths and people who dissapear without leaving paws so that gives me alittle bit of an idea of what i want in my video. But also am thinking to do a movie about an innocent person which is also my archetype that tells her story and how she becomes an orphan due to many events that happened to her.