week 2 the O.C. review

season 1 episode 5
So now that you have a brief lay down about the O.C. i can start focusing on more specific details in the story line. In this episode Ryan feels as if he is "mooching" of the Cohen family, and while out to dinner with Seth decides to get a job. He buses tables at the lobster shack that everyone in Newport eats at. He also meets a guy there from the same side of town as him self. This kid is trouble, and it is obvious from a glance. To start he takes Seth to a party and Seth's moms' car gets trashed by some hoodlums. This is ridiculous, why must kids always mess with things that are not theres. The youth these days knows no bounds and thats a shame. anyways Seth and Ryan decide to repay the favor and they take this kid to a Newport party. This kid does not fit in and he knows it. One of the preppy kids Luke gives him a hard time and the kid pulls a gun. Ryan ends up taking the kid down but in the process Luke takes a bullet to the arm. This is also ridiculous, yet another prime example of todays youth at its finest.

week 2 the text

"how advertising informs to our benefit"
I think it is ridiculous that the government does not give enough funding to those who need it for a legitimate purpose. for example the federal trade commission (FTC). the FTC discovered that a higher fiber diet can reduce the risk of some types of cancer. this i feel is a very important message and deserves a significant amount funding to get the message out to the general public. instead they needed to take "advantage" of a cereal that had high fiber content and make a commercial to sell the cereal, but at the same time it served as a public announcement. it's sad that a government program needs to rely on a company to carry there message that i feel is important enough to broadcast throughly and should receive more funding in order to get that message across.

Week 1 the text

In the reading, the artical about closure was not only interesting but captivating as well. Composed of a comic with one or two sentences per box that in some way convey the authors thoughts as well as corresponding images. The author talks about closure and in short he basically says that closure is what happens when our brains complete something that was not shown. He depicts this rather well, he has a picture of a man running/falling in front of another man with an axe saying he's going to kill him. The next picture is of the word EEYAA!! you don't know that the man was killed, but your brain assumes he was. the author also dips into his view of what art is. he starts of by explaining instincts(survival, reproduction, etc...). he then goes on to say that anything that is not directly fueled by an instinct is a form of art. For example a man sitting on a rock making a beat with his hands is bot fueled by an instinct and is therefore a form of art. This art is important to us because these boredom activities can result in useful discoveries, like the example in the book fire.

Week 1 the O.C. Review

My sister got the first two seasons of the O.C. on DVD quite some time ago. We sat down as a family to watch an episode or two. We ended up watching both seasons in two days, needless to say we were all hooked on this quirky television series. Basically it is about this upper class family living in Orange County California. The father Sandy Cohen is a smalltime defense attorney for troubled youths. Kirsten Cohen is the mother and works at a multi million dollar development agency. They have one son named Seth, he has a very sharp and dry sense of humor and uses it often. Sandy gets a case with a kid named Ryan Atwood, and he feels sorry for the kid cause his mother abandons him. Sandy and Kirsten end up taking Ryan in as there own. Ryan then goes and meets Seth who is very self sustaining, basically he has no friends. I can personally identify with Seth. I never had to many friends as a kid, i had basically played video games till mid way through high school i meet one of my closest friends, Chris. He in a way helped me crack my shell, and got me to be more outgoing and just funner to be around.