Why We Crave Horror Movies - Question

Horror films have never been my preferred genre of movie. I’m more into the sappy love movies or pee your pants funny ones. Getting nightmares is no ones favorite thing to go through, while your trying to get some sleep. Usually after watching a scary movie, you dream about the same psycho killer coming into your room and ripping you to shreds. But for me, after watching a horror movie, I don’t usually get nightmares. When I’m lying in bed at night, I feel like there’s monsters in my closet. Coming home late, I run to my porch so no one can snatch me from the shadows.  Even sitting in a chair I pull my feet up so no one can grab my legs. Living in Skagway, all of this is highly unlikely to happen, but you never know.

            Even though I get paranoid after watching scary movies, every once in a while I like to give in and watch one. Reading this essay made me realize, maybe we all do have a little crazy in us. Why would I like to watch someone getting sliced by a chainsaw? Or watch demons in the dark mess with people in their homes?

            The movie “Paranormal Activity” has a demon that is haunting a families home. It is there because there is a curse on the boy, that the first born son, has to be killed. 

Why We Crave Horror Movies

Stephen King's, "Why We Crave Horror Movies" (1982), suggests that we are all mentally ill. He gives examples of the subtle ways people are crazy, "...to talk to your self when you are under stress or to pick your nose when you are on the morning bus, then you are left alone to go about your business...though it is doubtful that you will never be invited to the best parties." He uses humor and comedic writing to point out the odd characteristic in people in order to convince the general public we all have a little psychopath in us.

The Language of Composition - Ch. 2

Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis

• Close Reading
• Analysis of text
• When you read closely, you develop an understudying of a text that is based first on the words  themselves and then on larger the ideas those words suggest
• You can analyze a passage through the rhetorical triangle
• Analyzing Style
• Tone, sentence structure, and vocabulary make up the style
• Choice of words : Diction
• Trope : Artful diction
• Talking with the text
• Pay attention to the choices the writer makes in the way he or she connects subject, speaker, and audience
• Remember that style is a subset or rhetoric, it is a means of persuasion
• Annotation
• Requires reading with a pen or pencil in hand
• Identify main ideas, topic sentences, thesis statements
• Dialectical Journals
• Use columns to represent visually the conversation between the text and the reader
• Break text into small sections to notice details
• Graphic Organizer
• Use the paragraph division in the text as natural breaking points, or perhaps consider smaller sections that reveal interesting stylistic choices
• Analyzing a Visual Text
• Many of the same tools of rhetorical analysis and close reading are also useful for detecting the underlying message in visual text.
• From Analysis to Essay: Writing about Close Reading
• We have to reach the deeper understanding when we write about rhetoric and style, or we will end up merely summarizing rather then analyzing the strategies a writer uses to achieve a particular purpose
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Question 3

3) Kincaid writes that "the idea of something and its reality are often two completely different things...and so when they meet and find that they are not compatible, the weaker of the two, idea or reality, dies."  Can you recall instances in your own life when your idea of something collided with its reality?  In an essay explore the validity of Kincaid's statement.

Having a mom is something most everyone in the world knows. They are there from the beginning and stay till the end, through thick and thin. Moms are supposed to be the rock in your life that keep you on your feet.  

When you think of a mom you picture someone to get you up in the morning and make you breakfast. The person to do your hair then take you to school every morning, and make you a snack when you get home. A mom is supposed to help you with you boy problems, and help you pick out your prom dress. They are supposed to tell you to clean your room then cave-in when you ask them to help you. Mothers are supposed to juggle all their responsibilities for you and still be able to have time for themselves. Be able to go through the day , and in the end with a smile on their face, be ready to start the next day with their children.

From the age of 1 to 9 that’s exactly what I thought about my mom. She was my best friend, the one person I could talk to, would help me with my homework, lay with me at night until I fell asleep. But to write this… I had to look up what a “mothers duties” are. All my life I thought that my mom would always take care of me, not the other way around.

Alcoholism is a disease, one that was unfortunately passed on to my mom, from my grandpa. It controlled my moms life, and made my childhood, not as I expected. Taking care of someone that was supposed to take car of you wears you out. I had to go through the day, and in the end with hurt and anger, be ready for the next day. This time in my life made me learn life doesn’t always give you what you want or imagine. 

News Article 1

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/08/ford-building-sixth-auto-plant-in-china/1#.UDxKiELR3dk

http://live.wsj.com/video/ford-bets-5-billion-on-made-in-china/23D2C17E-DBFF-4781-8E79-7E6442062D24.html


       Ford is planning on building its sixth plant in china, to try and increase sales into the world's largest auto market. It will be able to make 250,000 vehicles per year, when it's finished in 2014. Ford plans to double its production capacity to 1.2 million vehicles. It will be suited to make seven different models, and planning on introducing fifteen new vehicles by 2015. With 30 million cars on the road in China, they still have just 28 vehicles for every 1,000 people, and the U.S. 800 for every thousand. Ford's hope is trying to out sell GM, which controls 14% of the chinese market, and Ford only controls  3%.
     
      I am against Ford trying to move to China because of its sales in the U.S. slowing down. The unemployment rate in the U.S. is still at a low. If they built a new plant here, it would bring thousands of new jobs to Americans. There is a chance Ford will build cars in China because it is cheaper to make them them there. Then they can sell them over here, if Chinas auto market doesn't increase. Ford is trying to save themselves by going to China. But if they stay here, maybe they will open up more jobs, and maybe more workers and people will by more Ford vehicles.
 

Shooting an Elephant

In the essay, "Shooting an Elephant"(1936) author George Orwell claims he was forced into shooting an Elephant because he didn't want to let down the people of Burma. They thought of this as fun and they just wanted the meat. Orwell stated "As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with prefect certainty that i ought not to shoot him." But with the two thousand people surrounding him, he could see on the "sea of yellow faces above the garish clothes - faces happy and excited over this bit of fun, all certain that the elephant was going to be shot." In order to please the people, he had to shoot it, they expected it of him. With a tone of regret, he is addressing the audience of people who might be in this position, with a hope that people wont fall into this trap.