Semester Duex, Blog Seven

Honors

World War Two (WWII) was a global war as the name implies, that lasted from 1939 to 1945. There were two sides to this war; the Allies and the Axis.  The main members Allies consisted of the United States, Soviet Union, British Empire and more. The main members of the Axis consisted of Germany, Japan, and Italy.

D-Day or the Normandy Landings was one of the most significant days in the entire war. The Allies invaded Normandy Tuesday, 6 June 1944. It was a huge attack —"The operation was the largest amphibious invasion in world history, with over 160,000 troops landing on 6 June 1944. 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships were involved."


It was an incredibly devastating assault, many allies were killed during the invasion. im falling asleep, sorry 

Semester Dos, Blog Six

http://mmhmblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-03-01T19%3A46%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=1
Marlene's pitches were pretty interesting. I though that the last one, where she says that she would talk about all the awkward moments sounds like it would be a funny and interesting article to read. Her first pitch was also pretty unique, she says that she would compare questions that she had before the internship to questions she now has after going through the internship experience. It's a pretty unique idea and I'd be interested to see how it would turn out.

http://heberling-coffman.blogspot.com/2011/02/pitches-for-blog-5.html
Dylan's ideas were also pretty unique. I liked his pitch where he wanted to write his article about golf. He says that he talked about golf a lot with his mentor and that he would dedicate his article to talking about that. It might turn out to be an interesting and unique article about his relationship with his mentor and fellow employees. He could then go on to talk about work relationships in general and it could make for a pretty good article.


http://mairavierheller11.blogspot.com/2011/02/semester-two-blog-five.html
Maira's third pitch was definitely an interesting one. She wants to talk about what she did at her internship, but through the perspective of her camera or laptop. It sounds like it could really be a cool article, I've never really read anything like that. I'm assuming that she took pictures for the majority of the internship so it could be really cool, just telling her internship story through the lens of a camera.

Semester Due, Blog Five

Three Ampersand Pitches

IDEA ONE:

A day in my shoes. My internship was really strange in my opinion so just writing a an article on a typical day would be interesting. I came to internship at around 1:00-3:00pm did a whole lot of cleaning and trying to entertain myself, etc.

IDEA TWO:

I could write about the project I did. I made a commercial so that's pretty interesting. I would also want to talk about how the project only took like a week so I had the rest of the time to be an intern slave.

IDEA THREE

The last idea I have would be to focus more on what I learned during the internship. Although I had a really boring internship, I did learn quite a bit from it.


idea 4 is all of these combined.

Semester Hai, Blog Four

A Day in the Life of an Intern

By Luke Hatschbach

This article will probably be similar to my own. I had an extremely similar internship experience, so I think I will benefit from using this article as a reference. He talks about how boring his internship was and how he managed to entertain himself doing random things. I pretty much did the exact same thing.

Semester Dvě, Blog Three

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/mickey-rourke/

This was a pretty interesting interview on Mickey Rourke, mainly on his role on The Wrestler. Christopher Walken interviewed him so that was pretty cool, but it was the editing that stands out. The editor took out parts that probably didn't need to be in the interview and added things in [brackets] when it was needed. They also had a nice layout where some powerful quotes from Rourke were at the top of the page.

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/graffiti/hunter.htm
This was another interesting interview on another very interesting person–Hunter S. Thompson. This interview starts out with a pretty lengthy intro which I haven't seen much in interviews. I liked this interview, from the very beginning you know what kind of person Thompson is. This interview shows how interesting of a person he is, and it makes me want to read his books (I've only seen the movie on his Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas)

Semester Duo, Blog Two

Recently (Well, the last book I read that wasn't for this class) I read Trainspotting and afterwards saw the movie. Both were truly well made and written. If you don't know what Trainspotting is, it's a novel by Irvine Welsh set in the late 80's where these crazy kids addicted to drugs try overcome their addiction (Not all of them) and they end up still getting in other forms of trouble. This book was really interesting–not only because of it's plot–but also because of the way it was written.The narrator changes almost every chapter. It was confusing at times, but it really made it a good book to read.

I thought it was really interesting because it wasn't your standard book. Like we learned in class today, Welsh has her own distinctive style. The book is essentially a bunch of short stories put together usually with different narrators for each one. I enjoyed this originality and I really liked reading it.

Semester Zwei, Blog One

What are the big ideas that you are taking from internship into the next steps in your life?

Well, one big idea I'm taking from internship is that I really hate doing your average intern work. Filing papers, organizing, setting everything up, etc is not something I want to do. This gives me motivation because I want to be successful and get a job where I could so something that's interesting and that I enjoy. I think that my internship was really helpful in a really boring way.

What are your plans for the coming semester?

I'm planning on keeping up the good work and basically just improving all of my skills. My plan is to not procrastinate as much as I usually do (I put the pro in procrastinate) and I think all of my work will benefit from it. If I just do all my work, on time, and have it be quality work, I will get great grades no problem.