rant

There are many things wrong with the youtube video of the UCLA college student's rant on asian people.  Many of the comments that were posted on the video are yelling at her calling her racist and ignorant.  I don't think the video is racist as much as she is just very close minded.  The reason the video seems to be racist to people is because of the way she goes about saying these things.  Although some of the things she talks about may be true, her attitude and the way she goes about it give off a bad connotation.  What makes the video seem racist is the fact that she sounds like she is making fun of asians, not just complaining.  She also makes general statements about them such as how their families don't teach them good manners.   She should not be getting as much ridicule as she is, so much so that she felt like she needed to drop out of UCLA.  Everyone stereotypes whether we know it and like it or not.  The only thing this girl did wrong was she went beyond thinking it in her head and she actually expressed her thoughts out loud on a video and posting it on youtube.  Everyone leaving comments on her video making fun of her are no better then her.  They are doing the same thing, stereotyping her as a dumb blonde or assuming that she is stupid because her boobs are fake.

Dove commercial

At first you see a girl come in that doesn't look like she would belong on the cover of a magazine or on a billboard.  She is wearing a white tank top and just has her hair lying flat to emphasize that she is a normal person.  Her posture is also very poor making her look like she has low self-esteem.  The first thing they do is put makeup on her cheeks and forehead to cover up her acne.  The next thing we see is them putting various hair styles on her until they find the one that looks the best.  Then we see little touch-ups such as thicker eyebrows, eyeliner, thicker lips and mascara.  After she has makeup and everything else done to her, her posture is much better making her look like more of a model.  The setting then switches from a dark room to a room with flashing lights indicating that pictures are being taken of her.  The company then edits the best photo to make her look perfect. The very last scene we see is two teenage girls walking down the street looking up at the billboard.  This message is coming from the Dove corporation.  As a company it benefits them to put out a campaign that says you don't have to be perfect.

Audio Essays

I liked doing the profile audio essay.  One thing I liked about my profile was that it wasn't on a famous person that everyone knows about, so it was a little different.  Another thing I liked was my music choice.  Even though we didn't get to hear it in class if you would have kept listening the music changes to the mood of the story.  Another reason I think my profile essay was successful was because it was written in the first person instead of third.  I was happy with my choice of subject.  Johnny Truant is my favorite character out of any book.  The most challenging part about my essay was that Johnny Truant is a fictional character.  I couldn't go online and look up information on WikiPedia about who I was writing about. 
The recording process wasn't very difficult for me.  The only thing I found annoying was putting the pieces of the story in order because it took forever.  I chose to put the song "Tubular Bells" into my essay because that song means a lot to me, it has a dark sound to it, and it fits Johnny's personality perfectly.  It was beneficial to hear other's essays in class because it showed how people did things different than me.