Eternal Sunshine

The story structure in the movie Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind as something that was not usual. The usual movie structure is that there are characters and there is a plot. In Eternal Sunshine there was no clear plot, you never knew where the story was going. It was the development of a character instead of a clear plot that you knew where the story was going and that there was going to be a story to be learned. There was no clear bad guy or good guy in the movie. The beginning of the movie is also the end of the movie. It confuses you in the beginning because you don't know what's going on, you don't realize that Joel and Clemantine were meeting for the fist time a second time.

Pride

There are many things that I am proud of, especially this semester.
One project that I am exceptionally proud of is my H20 Project.
I'm really proud of this because I really put my heart and soul into it. It was more than a grade to me, it was something that I grew to really care about. I know that it is an important thing, it's for our health and it's for our culture. I put in extra hours into the project and I think that you can tell. I did more work than I think I've ever done.
I accomplished all of this by staying after school, making sure that everything was going together smoothly. I did a lot of extra work, I did a lot of research and I went out there and did a lot of the research myself. I got some of the data from our test results in Biology, I went to go do the interviews myself, and I overall did a lot of these things because I wanted to.
Another project I'm really proud of is my Blog. I'm really proud of it because I really like looking into current events and I like keeping myself updated with politics. I'm also really proud of the fact that I go out and try to find new sources and I look for new information. I'm really proud of the fact that I get different kinds of media into my blogs, they all have pictures or videos, or both.
I do all of this by putting everything together and writing about something that I really care about. I really do care about Paulson's Financial Plan. I look on youtube for videos and I look for different kinds of websites or news sites. I try and get the story for different angles, I do that by looking at several different news sources.

Prop 8

Gay Marriage will save the economy.

Paul Watson

Paul Watson is the captain of the Farley. He attempts to stop whaling because he believes whales are more intelligent than humans. He will go to any measures to help stop whaling. When he attacks ships, he will do anything to get them to stop. Many companies and countries are against him because they believe that he is just looking for attention, some even see him as a terrorist. Greenpeace won't have anything to do with him even though he was one of the founders. Paul does a lot to get fame for what he does, he wants a lot of supporters and people to get behind him to support his cause.
While I do agree that if the Japanese are not doing any type of real research, they should be stopped. They have shown no real results and they end up selling the whale meat on the Japanese black market. Because they are whaling endangered species they should be protected by the international whale laws. They should be protected because the people that are whaling are not even showing real results. While I do not agree that it should be treated as a show, I do think that someone has to step up and take charge to stop the whaling. I do believe that someone else could join and make Paul Watson's reputation better.
I think that because no one is taking action against the whaling that some stern step should be taken. It shouldn't have to be such brute steps, but there should be some steps forward.
I agree with Paul Watson that things should be done to help the whales, but there shouldn't be such harsh steps.

Is he black?

Is it OK to be a mutt? While we all have our own views and our own way of thinking, we do share one thing, we all have very different backgrounds. As Marie Arana says, we are all put into subgroups by our skin tone. While we may have a lighter skin tone and be Samoan, we will always be "white" to a new person. While it may be hard to say all of our genetics, we are still that. President Elect Barrack Obama is black, but he is also white, so why is the white part always left out? While he does have a darker skin tone, he was raised with a white mother and a white grandmother, he only knew his father for a month before he left. I believe that our nation's vocabulary has to be updated and it has to be updated now.
While we continue to call people black and put them into those categories, we are leaving out so much. We are leaving out their background. While Barrack Obama being elected the next president of the united states is a major feat, we have to acknowledge that he is a biracial man. We have to see that people are more than what they appear. Arana told a story about a German woman who had a darker skin tone, how people would never think that she was German because of her skin tone. Is it racism or is just the way our brain works?
I agree with Arana's idea about the fact that our language has to develop, because we as people have developed. We have become better, tolerant people and though we are not perfect, we are still improving. We have to show that we are moving just as the times are. As people in this world, we are becoming more and more diverse, there are differnent combinations of just about everything, and just calling them mutts, is not ok. They have to be acknowledged as bicultural people, because we all are.
This world is just moving foward, just as our language should be. We need to be moving foward. This nation has so many diverse people, and we see them as having only the culture that their skin tone represents. Maybe we should all just look at each other with different colors for every culture that we are. Our language should be moving foward fast, because we are.

What are you discovering so far?

So far I've learned a lot, I've learned how water affects the surfers and how many different kinds of diseases or infections they can get. I've learned that the infections happen quite frequently and that if we don't do something now, the water's going to become worse making it impossible to get into the water and it will also lower the amount of money that San Diego gets because it will lower tourist rates. I've learned a lot about how to avoid getting these infections and I've learned what we as people can do to help the ocean.




What surprises you about this project?

Not a lot surprised me while researching my project, except for how severe some of the infections got. I didn't think that because of contaminated water you could get things such as Hepatitis or liver infections.



What are your next steps to have a cool product and a great piece of writing?

I'm going to interview some people at the Break room in pacific beach on Thursday and I'm going to both interview people from Surfrider and film them while filming the part where I'm talking/my written part. By Saturday I'll be done filming and by two weeks I will have all the editing done. So I plan on writing a really good script and having people check over it, I also did a lot of background research, so I hope that it will be enough to get some good questions for the interviewees and for the script.