In table tennis, two players pass a ball from one to the other, and back again, until someone misses the ball. Then, it is picked up again and used in another game. Continue reading
Ladder of Feedback
Political Cartoon Analysis
At first glance, this cartoon seems to be illustrating a cartoon MacDonald version of the American government, along with three humorous lines to create irony against the political system’s fat stomach. The audience first notice the clown, then realize Continue reading
Never Lose Your Connection (Advert Creation and Analysis)
What product doesn’t come with a price? In this advertisement, a “personal” hotspot with a “never-ending connection” is promoted. A combination of graphics, font and Continue reading
Gil’s Furniture Bought and Sold Analysis
Is there anything you own that even if somebody offered to pay a million dollars for it, you wouldn’t let it go? What does that specific object mean to you and how does it express how you feel? In the vignette Gil’s Furniture Bought and Sold from Cisneros’s novella The House on Mango Street, a simple, ordinary music box means the world to Gil, and he does not agree to sell it for anything. Through analyzing this vignette and especially how this music box makes an impact on the characters in the story, we can see that both Esperanza and Gil feel a need to express their cultural identities fully and to find their rightful place in the society. Continue reading
Ice-cold Inferno
I clutch my phone with both hands and hold it against my chest, where my heart races at a million miles per minute. Cold, the bitter cold winds wrap around me, forcing me to stay rooted on the spot, unable to move. Continue reading
Ewe
Hi. Since you’re new here, you’d probably want to know who I am, and where I come from.
No, actually, I don’t think you’d want to know. Because you’re just here to look around, then get straight on with your business, and anticipate the occasional distraction by the gossiping student or two.
But you saunter into the room, arrange your lesson materials, and start conversing with Continue reading
Gandhi Filmic Analysis
A picture is worth a thousand words. In films, twenty-four frames per second are shown, making any film worth more than a hundred million. Despite this, teenagers often find historical films dull and uninformative, and turn to literature and the Internet instead. However, historical films are irreplaceable by books due to their filming techniques, which provide multiple perspectives about the past that may otherwise be lost between pages of thick history books. Thus films often provide a richer view of history. Richard Attenborough illustrates this in the 1982 film “Gandhi”, where a plethora of Continue reading
Multiple Intelligence Project
Escape From Alcatraz board game based on the book Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Description (w/MI focus):
My group’s product is a board game on escaping Alcatraz. It’s not a strategy game in a prisoner’s perspective. On the contrary, it is a board game where each player is Moose, and competes by completing tasks and answering trivia questions regarding Al Capone Does My Shirts to earn the only exit pass in order to win.