assignment 1-3 Journal Article analysis

David Wilson

                                  

                                                Assignment 1-3

                                      HUMN341-E1WW (WI11)

                                         Journal Article Analysis

                                                              Professor

                                                           Jessica Price

           

                                                                02/10/2011

                                   

                 

                The article that I have chosen to analyze is Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Written by Neal Gabler, of the New York: Knorpf, 2006

            This article talks about one of the most successful men American business. The writer attempts to talk about the business of movie production than write about the art of animation. He quotes out the Walt`s biography from one of Walt`s employees `` Walt is not an artist as much as he is as great producer. `` (476). This is the way the article addresses one of the most successful companies in Hollywood ever. The article or writer wants to address the way that Walt was able to keep his dream together and how he was able to finance it. According to the article one would have never known that Walt`s world might not have been if it wasn’t for Walt’s also creative genius ways to help find the capital to start it and also keep it going. It`s a true Disney ending when it came down to all the pieces falling into place that allowed Disney to keep from bankruptcy, and allow it to grow into the most durable brand of entertainment.

             The article goes on to talk about how Walt used all the dreams and myths he had growing up as a child of Missouri, and how he turned them in to the utopia of Disney`s magic kingdom. He writes about how Walt was fixated upon total control over the world of imagination. Walt is portrayed as a sometimes cruel and impatient man, that had to have total control over his dream, but it soon became an ugly battle once unionization started attacking his parks. The more money that Walt made, the more intense he became. He became a man totally focused upon business and one would never know it from the great entertainment he provided. He talks about how lonely of man Walt must have been, as he grew more intense on his business maters and Walt once stated that `` He loved Mickey Mouse more than any women he`d have ever known`` (550).

           

                One would be hard to find anyone that hasn’t been touched by the magic of Walt. From the baby boomers to the present day spoiled kids, we all enjoy the magic of Walter Disney`s dreams.

References

Gabler (2006).Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination:

The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 40, issue 5 p. 895-896 Auther: Neal Gabler, New York: knorpf (2006)

               

assignment 5-2 formula analysis

ARTIFACT	Movie:  Avatar
BELIEFS	That the white Christian way was the correct way and that the native`s with different beliefs and religion was hostile
MYTH	Mono-myth: the myth of an American success, that the American way of life is the true way and that all can be only thru our belief
HERO	Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, who is recruited to gain the entrance and secrets of the natives, and then he finds that his beliefs and understanding of the natives our totaling incorrect.
SETTING	On a planet, far from earth: this movie is a mirror of our beginnings in early years of freedom from the British, what we did to the native Americans we tried to do on the planet of Pandora, destroy them because they had something we as white Americans wanted in this case a mineral, in the native Americans case-land.
RITUAL	The right to practice their own religion.
STERETYPE	We see the stereotyping here of white Americans coming to save the day of another race
FORMULAS	Action adventure: convention; just like in a lot of action adventure, movie such as Indiana  Jones and the temple of doom,  we see the same thing, that the producers always cast a white male as the hero to another race

assignment 5-1

                                    Weekly Written Analysis 5

                                               David Wilson

                                                   HUMN341-E1WW (WI11)

                                             Jessica Price

                                                02/5/2011

                 BAD VERSIONS OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM

How many times have we watched a sports event and our national anthem become the main headlines in the news over the sporting event itself? In another major sporting event, the Super Bowl, another major singing artist made the headlines due to their lack of knowing the words to the national anthem. You will think that the NFL would test these singers knowledge of the anthem, since it is our national anthem. With all the issues that have risen over the years, with the Michael Jackson taking minutes to start his routine, to his sister wardrobe issues. The NFL has had issues with singers. So why don’t they have the at least rehearse. Maybe Christina Aguilera earned herself some unwanted attention Sunday night and Monday after flubbing some lines and omitting others in her rendition of the National Anthem prior to Super Bowl XLV, or maybe this is just a way for these so-called stars to get more publicity. Good or bad, it was her name that was all over the internet on Sunday night and all day Monday, and not the Green Bay Packers.

The NFL isn’t the only league that has issues with offering their version of the Anthem. Major league baseball has the worst version of all. Who can ever forget Roseanne Barr`s screaming of Anthem in 1990, at a Reds and Padres game. She was booed and she than spit at the response. This version remains as the most pitiful of all attempts by anyone to sing our Anthem.

The NBA decided that it didn’t want to be left of this list of poor attempts, so they hired Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis to sing the Anthem in 1993. He stopped in the middle; after he realized how bad he was and promised the crowd that his second attempt would be better. He failed twice. He should have just finished and walked off the first time. He was booed, and this is his only memory that we as sports fans will remember of him, and not his gold medals. Not even NASCAR or the NHL has been able to escape this list.

Maybe the pro sports world should use our National Anthem as a way for people that want to get on American idle; maybe this should be a contest. It shouldn’t get any worse than they have presented.

Reference:  Brian Biggane , Palm Beach Post, Bad versions of 'The Star-Spangled Banner?' Roseanne surely tops the list, (02,2011) retrieved at:

            http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/bad-versions-of-the-star-spangled-banner-roseanne-1238540.html?cxtype=ynews_rss