Wednesday, April 13, 2011
final project idea
The King's Speech is almost unwatchable at times. Not because the movie is bad, actually quite the opposite the movie is amazing and justifiably won the Academy Award for best picture. No the movie is unwatchable because of the painful fits and starts of the king's ability to speek. He suffers a stammer that would be debilitating for any man, but is compounded by his royal bloodlines. I plan to do a rhetorical analysis of the King's Speech, using the ideas we have discussed in this class.
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Lol. Well.......this one is creative. :) These could work--that is, the idea of a creative cartoon like this on a prezi could work. But it'll be challenging. Are you going to draw cartoons? Or are you going to do it all in text? If you do it all in text, that'll be a difficult and complex prezi. Think about it.
ReplyDeleteCome back with a real proposal in the form of an assignment, and we'll talk. Lemme know when you're ready.
Okay, Roger, this is a good idea. But now you need to turn it into an assignment with criteria you'll fulfill. Let me know when it's done.
ReplyDeleteHey Roger!
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about our conversation in class and I absolutely love this idea.
I found a good page where you can learn about Moses and Aaron, if that comparison interests you.
http://www.jewfaq.org/moshe.htm
"Aaron served as Moses' spokesman. As discussed above, Moses was not eloquent and had a speech impediment, so Aaron spoke for him (Ex. 4:10-16). Contrary to popular belief, it was Aaron, not Moses, who cast down the staff that became a snake before Pharaoh (Ex. 7:10-12). It was Aaron, not Moses, who held out his staff to trigger the first three plagues against Egypt (Ex. 7:19-20; Ex. 8:1-2 or 8:5-6; Ex. 8:12-13 or 8:16-17). According to Jewish tradition, it was also Aaron who performed the signs for the elders before they went to Pharaoh (Ex. 4:30).
Aaron's most notable personal quality is that he was a peacemaker. His love of peace is proverbial; Rabbi Hillel said, "Be disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving people and drawing them near the Torah." According to tradition, when Aaron heard that two people were arguing, he would go to each of them and tell them how much the other regretted his actions, until the two people agreed to face each other as friends.
In fact, Aaron loved peace so much that he participated in the incident of the Golden Calf (Ex. 32), constructing the idol in order to prevent dissension among the people. Aaron intended to buy time until Moses returned from Mount Sinai (he was late, and the people were worried), to discourage the people by asking them to give up their precious jewelry in order to make the idol, and to teach them the error of their ways in time (Ex. 32:22)."
And here's a USA today article about the 2004 poll that "found that 57% of undecided voters would rather have a beer with Bush than Kerry."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/benedetto/2004-09-17-benedetto_x.htm