Week 5: Movies

9


My favorite movie of 2009 is a movie called 9. I was able to see it October 20, 2009 in theaters. I like the movie for its story line. Its about this creature that wakes up and finds that humanity has died and the machines that they created took over the world. I like how its a parallel to issues today with the argument that does technology help up or is it hurting us in the long run. I also love the animation it was really good.

Week 4: Magazines

Title: B-A-N-A-N-A-S
Concept:
It will address how it is like to be an Asian American in the U.S. It will also address issues of how Asian are not portrayed in U.S media and the lack of a strong voice.

Readers:
Ages 17 and up,
both male and female Asians,
primarily middle class,
interest in view of other Asian Americans
Competition:
Asian Week Magazine,
Asian in America Magazine,
Hyphen Magazine.
Five advertisers who would like to reach your readers:
Toyota,
Saniro,
Nokia,
Sony,
and Asia Airlines
Five articles you might include in your premier issue:
Lack of roles in U.S media for Asian American actors.
Feeling about the typhoon that has recently hit Asia.
Up and coming Thai graffiti artist; Bundit Puangthong
Old Asian values Vs. new American traditions
Black and White: No room for yellow?
Cover;
A yellow boarder with a black and white background of a city and bananas walking in the city and the only color it has is black, white and yellow. the bananas would be yellow the boarder and the title.

Week 3: Books

1. Harry Potter series, By: J.K. Rowling
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This book really influenced me, as a child it really got me to start reading which has become a real big part of me. Without this book I don't believe that I'd be the casual reader that I am today.

2. Why men love bitches, By: Sherry Argov
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This book really changed the way I though of being in a relationship. It taught me that you deserve the best of life, never put a low value on yourself and settle for less then what you deserve. I would still be a push over if I had never read this book.

3. Into the wild, By: Jon Krakauer
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This book was really influential to me for no other fact then I have always remember it. After reading this book I can still remember how I cried and felt an uplift of happiness at the same time. To me it will be a story I can't forget.

Week 2: Media Impact

How Television effects a society.

I propose to see the effects of television on a society. I will be studying two types of society, one based on television exposure and one that has not been exposed to television. A westernized community vs. an Amish community. I will test for differences mainly in behavioral patterns. Using random sampling from each individual group. I will look at the history to current files of violence in each society and use that as a control. Then expose the westernized society to violent television programming during a period of two years and see with the exposure if violence in that society has increased or decreased or stayed the same. I predict that with violent television exposure there will be a slight increase in violent behavior with in the westernized society versus the Amish society because of the individual difference theory.