Watching TV Makes You Smarter: Critical Analysis A lazy man’s fantasy is to do nothing and get something out of it. This is precisely what Steven Johnson preaches in his article “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”. And no, he is not talking about the knowledge gained from educational TV. He is saying that after watching The Sopranos, you will have gained intelligence from following a complicated plotline. Although Johnson and fellow couch potatoes would truly love to believe that watching TV works wonders on your brain, it is surely a fantasy with no relation to real life Johnsons’ main argument is that TV has gotten more complicated over the years and our brains have to compensate for that.
Room 101 Speech (edited) 1. Are you tired of cheesy adverts that make you cringe to the bone? Have you had enough of Barry Scott showing you how to clean your old pennies? Do you think it’s time to put an end to those irritating slogans constantly throbbing in your brain? If so, we can all agree that the world would be a better place without them.
In this movie there are a lot of quotes which I love, but when Augustus said with an unlit cigarette hanging from his lips, “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” Augustus shows that when his health is surely not the best, he associates the unlit cigarette with taking control over his health, which often feels out of his control. This novel, one of the many things it taught me is that everyone dies. Well that is command sense, but never really thought about it because of the fear of dying. There is nothing we can do to stop the process of dying, or all the side-effects of dying. Cancer and depression are just side-effects of dying.
I will never get those two hours back, and I actually feel dumber for sitting through that whole thing." you say to yourself. Well, Nicholas Carr's essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is the printed version of that exact film. In his soap box style essay, Carr attempts to antagonize the reader with the negative effects that result from internet use,” [The] detrimental effects on cognition that diminish the capacity for concentration and contemplation.
Be Kind Rewind Homer Yen states, that the film Be Kind Rewind has realistic tendencies but at the same time can never happen. The set up is too done up with the actors energy trying too hard to actually be funny. The film introduces the audience to a new type of film called “sweded”. Trying to make a customer happy, the two main actors are forced to make a “sweded” version of Ghostbuster which becomes a local hit. Making their own Hollywood versions of movies, both actors redo the movies and they do it less skillfully.
With 1998 came 'The Truman Show', a thought provoking but highly exaggerated film that highlights the negatives of this genre of television. Though true in some aspects, The Truman Show is an absolute extreme when it comes to the dark side of reality TV. Thinking about it, who would, in this day and age, watch something like that? We would find it too boring and predictable. Also, I think we are intelligent and moral enough to realise how creepy and wrong it is to watch everything someone does 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
How Does Carol Ann Duffy Present Women in Mrs Aesop and Litany? In both Mrs Aesop and Litany Duffy presents women at quite different angles. In Mrs Aesop Duffy makes reference to women as blunt and constantly criticising, a trait that is very unusual for a feminist. Because of her jealousy she makes fun of his masculinity and insults him the sex was diabolical. Showing a stronger side to Mrs Aesop, but also a rather childish one.
Putting aside the differences they have a trait in common; they are true life stories that happen to women on a daily basis. The poem “Barbie Doll” is very different from the poem “La Migra.” It is a very discouraging poem because the destructiveness of the standards of female beauty led to the girl’s death. The young girl classmates used to make fun of her big nose and fat legs. “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.”(line 6). She got to the point that she was not strong enough to take all the pressure, so she cut herself up and offered her legs and nose up.
What is it that girls see in Justin Bieber? He creates music that can only be described in one word rubbish! I myself cannot understand, why people are obsessed with someone who produces music, which sounds like a strangled cat dying a very slow and painful death! In fact how can what Justin Bieber produces be called music??? It can’t it’s just a very high pitched annoying noise, which many girls enjoy listening to, how they put up with this infernal noise which is as irritating as … on the other hand I don’t think anything could be more irritating than Justin Bieber.
Or a pillow? Why is Browning making us think of alternative ways to kill Porphyria? That's really messed up. * Line 13: After entering soundlessly from the storm, Porphyria takes off her wet coat and hat, and lets her "damp hair fall." It's no accident that Browning uses the word "fall": that word has some pretty negative connotations.