Spring Into the Streets!

This Saturday I have been looking forward to all week! This Saturday I will be doing spring into the streets with the CAB team. Spring into the streets is a volunteer based program that allows us to give back to our community by volunteering our Saturday afternoon to fix up Kalamazoo. They give us site projects like painting a fence or picking up trash and we work together to complete it. I’m really excited to know that I get to help Kalamazoo out and work with the people I love to be around. Its my first time doing this type of activity within the Kalamazoo area, but I have done things like this before back at home. And you always get to go home with dirty hands, a big smile and an accomplished feeling.

Horton Hears a Who outline

Michele E Wagner

Analysis Outline

March 27, 2012

Horton Hears A Whobook by Dr. Seuss and Film directed by Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino

Horton Hears a Who is about an Elephant whose name is Horton; during the day he finds this floating speck that has a town of people on it. He goes through this journey to save the speck along the way having conflicts come into his way which he has to over come to help save Who’s-vile. Horton gets a lot of grief about talking to the clover that’s carrying the speck. During all of this the town is getting shaken up and ruined while the journey with Horton happens. The kangaroo tells Horton there isn’t anything on that speck and he’s crazy in the head. The monkeys steal the clover and then the eagle drops it into a field of clovers. Horton spends all day looking until he finds the speck. The kangaroo then see’s that Horton has found the speck again and she has the Wickersham monkeys tie him up. Then they say their going to burn the clover with the speck on it. Horton tells the whole Who-vile to yell as loud as they can. They try and try but then the major learns that his son Jojo isn’t yelling, once he does they finally get the kangaroo to hear the speck. Then she agrees she’s going to help protect the speck too.

The purpose of Horton Hears a Who is mainly entertainment that encloses teaching of the moral of the movie and book. The audience of this book and movie is mainly aimed at children however with the actors of the movie and the fact it’s a Dr. Seuss book I believe it does make it more acceptable for any age to be interested. I loved the book and movie but I don’t think its aimed towards my age group. The tone of this book and movie is more of a caring feeling. Horton always shows the soft side even though everyone finds him crazy. The tone is also energetic and happy. The designs of the two texts are extremely different the book keeps it rather simple only using white, blues and peach. While the movie is bright colors.

The ethos, pathos and logos of Horton Hears a Who book and movie, helps explain the creditability, emotion and logic of the book and movie. The Ethos of the movie is the fact that its Jim Carrey and Steve Carell. The ethos of book is the fact that the author of this book is Dr. Seuss. The emotion of the movie is both about Horton and mainly more focused on the Major and the conflicts and emotions of Who-vile. The Logos of the movie would be the fact that Jojo doesn’t think that he really matters, but once he finally yells at the end its what breaks the sound barrier. The book logos are the moral they show that just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
 

       I.            Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino Horton Hears a Who successfully transforms Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who.

a.        

    II.            The scenes where Horton talks to the major and all of who-ville is the same.

a.       “I know its too small to be seen, but I’m major of a town that’s friendly and clean.” (pg. 21)

b.      The crash due to the drop of the eagle was the same effects.

 III.            Both the book and the movie people thought Horton was crazy

a.       “I think you’re a fool!” laughed the sour kangaroo.(13)

b.      “For almost two days you’ve run wild and insisted on chatting with persons who’ve never existed.”(35)

 IV.            Horton has the strong urge to protect who-ville in both the book and movie

a.       When the eagle dropped the clover into the clover field he spends all day looking for it, yet he never gives up on who-ville.

b.      Even though everyone thinks hes gone crazy he still persists on saving the speck.

    V.            Conclusion.

What happens if the chicken crosses the road?

Blog posts have been harder to write at the semester has went on, more than just hard to write its extremely hard to remember!  However somehow I found myself looking at the dumb facts of other states, In Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal for chicken to cross the road. Every man in Brainerd, Minnesota is required by law to grow a beard and it's illegal to sleep naked. The most entertaining part is that there are people who have to follow these laws.  What would happen if a chicken did cross the road? Does it get a ticket? Or go to jail?

Change is the only Constant

Alvin and the chipmunks used to be called, Alvin, Simon and Theodore. The Three Chipmunks. Comparing the old comic characters to the updated one in the movies there are a lot of differences. Their outfits have all changed; Theodore gained some weight. While Simon apparently had a hard time seeing and needed glasses. The only thing that’s still the same is the A on Alvin’s shirt was carried over into his new character. Personally in the comic its hard to tell the difference between Theodore and Simon by looking at the characters. Now that they’ve changed the features its easier to distinguish.

He doesn't have much of a reputation or so I've heard.

Warm seventy-degree weather only makes me think of one thing, the Detroit Tigers baseball team. I can’t wait until this summer comes so I can attend the Tiger games with friends. For me I’ve never been one big on sports however I adore the Tigers baseball team. My favorite player is Rick Porcello, granted I always get a lot of crap for liking him as a pitcher compared to liking Justin Verlander. Plus who wouldnt root for a guy that looks like Porcello does! There’s something about a warm summer day rooting in the stands of the Tigers.  I hope we go just as far as we did last season. Detroit teams are stepping their game up!

House

Ethos is the credibility. The credibility in house would be the actors such as Dr House. The logos is the logic to the show, is when they actually deal with the patients and diagnose them. Pathos is the emotion appeal, so in the show house it would be the fact it has a sense of mystery or suspense to it when they misdiagnose a patient that’s close to death. It also has a funny sense of humor, Dr. House is extremely sarcastic. I believe with all three of  these components is what really makes it a great show.

Go Broncos!

Being home for spring break wasn’t my idea of a spring break, when most of my college friends were flying to Florida or taking road trips. Granted I would have loved to go somewhere warmer for spring break. After getting back from North Carolina for a week I was glad to be at my own house. I defiantly didn’t get enough homework done that I needed to.  But that’s okay, I seen a few of my best friends and spent some well needed time with my family. I leave tomorrow, however I am excited to get back to Kalamazoo because they have two important hockey games this weekend. So hopefully they win tonight. And then I’ll get to see them kick butt tomorrow too! :D

We take fun seriously

During my national conference in North Carolina I had a blast, I got to meet a lot of people like; Matt Roloff from “Little People Big World”, Raven Symoné from “That’s so Raven”, we also had Bowling for Soup to perform for us. However my favorite was having Andy Grammer preform for us. He sings the song “Gotta Keep Your Head Up” Overall my whole trip to North Carolina was amazing. It was so beautiful there while everyone else had snow in Michigan, it was entertaining to come back to sun at Kalamazoo! Now its spring break and I get to do all of my homework that I’ve missed over the days I was at the conference. I have to say that it was defiantly worth it!