Blog #4: Rebel Without a Cause Day

Rebel Without a Cause Day

Arrogant and hilarious, Han Solo is one of the Many Iconic heroes within the Star Wars Movies. He provided an inspirational appeal because of his scavenging past to join the Alliance to help play a crucial part, spoiler alert, in the Alliance's victory over the Empire. His inspiration came through helping combat the Empire from being a space pirate. He showed that no matter what your past you can help dispel the evils of the world.

“Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal”(Ford). This is when Han Solo and company were on the Death Star rescuing Princess Lea and in the control room after taking out the Clones that were previously operating it. This is showing his new found courage from joining the Alliance and his humor within the movies.

“Han Solo” by Bob Schneider

“I’m your Chewbacca, you’re my Han Solo...” Han Solo and his companion Chewy have been inseparable since the start of the Movie series. This song about companionship shows how close Chewy and Han Solo were.(Schneider)

This very famous predicament that Han Solo was freezed as a trophy for Jabba the Hut. So I created jello pudding to represent the carbon that Han Solo was freezed in and I have a Lego character to represent Han Solo.

Work Cited:

Breznican, Anthony. "Star Wars Anthology: How Young Will Han Solo Be?" Entertainment Weekly. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2016.

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Perf. Harrison Ford. N.d

Bob Schneider. "Han Solo Lyrics." Genuis. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2016.

Blog #3: The Memoir Prewriting

Scars
A life in injuries
By: David Owens


“When my daughter was ten, a careless boy at the ice rink cut the back of her hand with his skate, and I drove her to the emergency room to be sewn up. She was frightened and in tears, so on our way to the hospital I told her that some of my happiest, most vivid memories involved accidents. I showed her my dimple and told her about the scars on my arms and my big toe, and I ran down most of the rest of my inventory of falls and fractures and stitches and chipped teeth. I suggested that we think of her hurt hand not as a tragedy but as a potentially interesting adventure, which we would both remember with more than ordinary clarity, and by the time we got to the hospital she had cheered up. Just outside the entrance to the emergency room, we saw a middle-aged man in a white hospital coat smoking a cigarette; he turned out to be the doctor. I could see, as he worked on my daughter’s hand, that his nails and the ends of his fingers were stained by tar, but he was gentle. He used a syringe to stream Novocain into the open wound and let a puddle of it sit for a few minutes, to numb her hand before he stuck her to inject the rest. Meanwhile, he chatted with us about one thing and another, and the reek of tobacco reminded me, pleasantly, of my father. My daughter still has the scar, and she remembers that night with contentment.”


          The surface culture component of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is the games and the injuries that our author has experienced.The deep culture components of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is the the hidden message through injuries. Our author views them as memories and some of his happiest memories.This is because of the fun that he was having with friends and doesn’t remember the pain that he was feeling but instead his experiences that he has had with his friends.

          The turning point of this memoir is when our author's daughter was injured.The author shows he/she has changed after this turning point by being able to see what the injuries actually mean to him and what they represent.A paragraph that demonstrates what I like about this writer’s style is the way he described talking to his daughter. That is exactly how I would like to view how i will be as a father and him being so caring and distracting his daughter through his own experience is something I want to do when I am in shoes like that.The devices imagery and  narrated dialogue are used by the writer to create meaning in this about how a negative thing doesn't have to have a negative meaning. We see this through the excerpt, “I told her that some of my happiest, most vivid memories involved accidents”(Owens).

Personal Memoir Topic Approval

My Concussion

• The surface culture component of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is:
• Games
• The deep culture component(s) of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is:
• Tolerance of physical pain
• This is because:
• There is physical pain involved with injuries

• The turning point of my story is when:
• I get back to helping out the team
• I will show how I’ve changed after this turning point by:
• By helping the team the ways that I am able with this new limitation