My favorite movie line..

Favorite quote ever would be from the movie Scarface, starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana. Here is the quote:

Tony Montana: What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!
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A cyborg comes into the classroom and...

the first thing that pops into my mind is the cyborg from the movie West World. The scary Yul Brunner robot that chases Richard Benjamin. So it would be weird to encounter such an android, because you wouldn't know what will happen. Is he going to be a good or bad robot, and what is his motives for coming in the room. He could just zapp you with his lazer gun or even worse, be like the Terminator

to where this evil droid is stalking you because you will bear the unborn child of a future leader that is meant to be destroyed. So alot of things will be racing your mind when a cyborg walks into a room. 

Googling my Name I found....

The blog assignment was to google my name. So what did I find there on google: http://www.authordonnadawson.com/.

Welcome to Donna's Site - Christian Author Donna Dawson

Award winning suspense novels compared by readers to work by Robert Ludlum and Frank Peretti. Writing tips with Duke the chihuahua.
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 Pretty interesting that the first one to pop up was a Christian author who is an award winning novelist. Surprised not to see my Facebook page on there, but that means the privacy setting actually works from Facebook. :) 

What is my favorite commercial?

I don't really watch television at all so I don't really have a favorite commercial that I have watched. But, I did listen to a funny one by the makers or Coca~Cola on the radio. It was in the style of Ethos: The image of Coke.  The audio commercial was funny, using many sounds and voice overs of a guy carpooling with others. He was attempting to reach his Coke to have a drink but it was wedged behind another person that was sleeping. So he was yelling at the driver to roll down the window to wake up the guy, but it didn't work. Then he told him to honk the horn, but that didn't work also so he yells for him to turn on the radio, and the driver does, and he screams LOUDER, and the music is blaring, to which finally the passenger wakes up, thus freeing his arm to drink his soda. It was very amusing and I thought it was funny to get the listener's attention. Coke being a favorite drink of mine, I enjoyed listening to it. :) So that's my favorite commercial on the air on the soda Coke. :) I would consider it Ethos. 
But here is one amusing one I found for DIET COKE :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JjtZlPdLs

Something with Logos commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py8yznIZN94

 And last but not least, here is Pathos commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sslTmbHSJsI&feature=related

 Interesting commercials but I still enjoy the Ethos overall.

What is my favorite Horror Film?

Out of all the horror movies that I seen and watched through my lifetime, and there were many that were unforgettable, the one movie that stood out the most was Return of the Living Dead. I saw it when i was 18 years old and it was funny and scary at the same time! The undead were indestructible and craved for brains! I loved it! The two characters in the beginning, Frank and Freddy who were just supposed to simply close up shop and leave for the night. Instead Frank shows Freddy these capsules with the zombies stuffed in them and were hidden in the bottom of the medical supply basement. Little did they know that one slight hit to the cans would send off a poisonous spray that infected every living or dead thing around it. ( Scary, because, these were developed by the Military ) To have something like this occur in the big city would be total madness. It kind of makes you think of the possibility of what may happen. As the movie continues, they find themselves poisoned and afraid to tell their boss, who apparently knows more of the tanks then they do. The scary part, everything is coming back to life when they were dead, dead animals, split in half, and a dead cadaver in the freezer that is suddenly alive and screaming. As they finally mange to get the dead body chopped in pieces along with their furious boss Bert, yet it's still moving, they figure the only solution is to burn it and dispose of it quickly at a nearby funeral home with caretaker Ernie. But things are not over yet, the two men are sick and poisoned, the smoke blows into the rain which causes an acid burn to the people in it. The graves are awaken by this chemical that has spilled in the ground causing them to crawl out from their graves. Icky dead things....craving brains! Very amusing movie, that has caused 5 teenagers running for their lives and to join with the 4 men to fight off these dead people. Amusing movie and definitely a favorite of mine to this day. :) http://www.flixster.com/movie/the-return-of-the-living-dead#!lsrc:GSR-MOV-Title

If I were to visit a TV show which would it be?

It would have to be DEXTER. I just recently started watching the show and was intrigued with the first episode. I didn't know what the show was about until a friend of mine described Dexter's character to me: a serial killer that went after the bad guys. Sounded pretty cool, so to visit this show would be interesting and exciting. I have worked with some type of law enforcement so I am interested in all that goes on with police activities. Forensics and Private investigations were the one part that was very exciting and doing when I used to work for Gaming Inspector so this is something I'd love to do. Meeting Dexter would be something although he does seem quite the distant type that is very secretive only because of what he truly is. And last but not least, Miami would be very humid to be at so it would be a stretch to tolerate the hot and humid weather, but also nice to be along the sandy beaches and warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean. :D

Are you following your Passion?

From the moment I stepped into this school, I knew this would be a huge step toward my lifetime passion of my dreams. I always loved movies, ever since I was growing up and remembering dad taking us to the theaters. I remember the very first movie that I recalled that scared me to death, Magic with Anthony Hopkins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx7smh7YHKg That is where my dislike for ventriloquist dolls became an obsession of what to avoid. But this alone also made me realize that my love for movies increased each year. From the beloved movies of Star Wars, E.T the extraterrestrial to Superman, Raider's of the Lost Ark, Jaws, I knew more and more that I was hooked. During high school, my collection began with the first movie I bought on VHS, which was Platoon. From then on, my video library increased and I owned all my beloved movies that I adored from childhood years to the newly released features. This continued to the next stage of DVD's. In my dreams, I always wanted to make my own movies, in my own style and characters, which I constantly imagined of. When I lost Brian 3 years ago, I felt I lost everything but in order to get through my grief, I purchased more movies, that increased my DVD library by 300. I saw it as a comfort to me for going through my dark hours and the movies uplifted me. When Brian was alive he always told me that I should go to school and make my own features...that didn't dawn on me until last year....around this time that I finally decided to take this step of going back to school and following my heart and passion. So there I was, signed in and starting classes in May...a bit intimidating since most of my classmates were all guys and so few women. But I made it through the 3 terms and now here I am a sophomore in the 2nd term of this year. It's amazing how much I have learned and what I was taught in these classes. With each step that I come to school is a moving progress towards my passions of which I am following. :)

Sister Flowers

The dominant impression I think is found in sentence 5, where Maya quotes Sister Flowers was one of the few gentlewomen that she ever had known, and has remained throughout her life the measure of what a human being can be.

     Maya admired Mrs. Flowers for her appealing manner, a person that she never met personally, like a woman in the English novels, her refined behavior as white folks in movies and books, that she felt was so beautiful. A person that showed Maya to be proud of whom she was.

       The relationship between Maya’s mother and Mrs. Flowers embarrassed her because of the idea that she felt her mother’s behavior. She felt that her mother was ignorant towards the gracious of Mrs. Flowers and felt that she deserved better then to be called Sister. But little did she know that their relationship was far closer than what Maya expected.

       Mrs. Flowers tells Maya to always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. Some people, unable to attend school, were more educated and even more intelligent then college professors. She also encourages her to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit, and those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. Through these clever words of advice, I felt she encouraged Maya to value the gift of words spoken, written and enchanted her to which gave her the biggest influence of becoming a well known writer.

       Definitions of some words used: taut; disciplined or efficient, an expression used for Mrs. Flowers appearance. Voile; a thin, plain-weave, semitransparent fabric of cotton, wool or silk, the description of Mrs. Flowers printed dresses. Benign: gentle and kindly, the termed used for Mrs. Flowers face. Unceremonious; having or showing lack of formality, to which Maya thought her mother showed to Mrs. Flowers. Gait; a person’s manner of walking, word, which describes Mrs. Flowers walk up the hill. Moors: a tract of open uncultivated upland; a health. Incessantly; (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption, scones: a small unsweetened or lightly sweetened biscuit like cake made from flour, fat, and milk and sometimes having added fruit, crumpets: a thick, flat, savory cake with a soft, porous texture, made from a yeast mixture cooked on a griddle and eaten toasted and buttered. Heath: a dwarf shrub with small leathery leaves and small pink or purple bell-shaped flowers, characteristic of heath land and moorland. Chifforobe: a piece of furniture with drawers on one side and hanging space on the other. Sacrilegious: violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred. Infuse: fill, pervade. Couched: express (something) in language of a specified style. Aura: an invisible emanation, esp. a scent or odor.

        The figures of speech used from paragraph 1 – 11, all support the dominant expression of how “Sister Flowers” appealed to the admiration of Maya. Her sense of style, the way she carried herself, her mannerism, and quiet charmed that made Maya proud of whom she was. A woman that had her own unique charisma that inspired Maya to come out of her dark shell.

        Maya is ashamed of the way her mother spoke to Mrs. Flowers with her poor grammar and quietly tries to chastise her for her improper use of words. But as she is with Mrs. Flowers, she explains to Maya that although the language is to be tolerated for illiteracy because most of the people that have not gone to school are quite intelligent then college professors. So she tells Maya to listen to the wit of their ways of talk for it is a collection of mother wit of wisdom of generations.

What is real poverty?

Real poverty...that is something that is with us every day here everyday in all parts of the world. You see begger's on the streets asking for money, food or any kind of handouts they can receive. Occasionally you see kind people hand them money for their hardships, and sympathize with them. Being on the reservation, I seen several poverty stricken and homeless individuals that were walking along the roadsides, or knocking on doors all over the neighborhoods hoping to sell what they can, or ask for something to eat. As I come to realize the conditions of these people through Movies, Television, Media, I realized that it was a part of life for individuals all over the world. The first time I had seen the worst ever of poverty was the African people where children were suffering with starvation, lack of food and water, medication, school and diseases that it hit me. This was something that I realized that needed immediate attention worldwide. It is heartbreaking to see people like this, in reality and on the media. Many televised public service announcements that request for donations to send out to the countries are one way of reaching out and recognizing these conditions. Poverty also comes to those that have are down and out due to financial situations that have occured with either their employment or loss of benefits. It will continue each day, and will not end unfortunately for things happen every day, from natural disasters which caused many people to lose their lives, homes, security and more like New Orleans, Haiti and now Japan.

Perfect Day

Describing a perfect day for me, is waking up with a perfectly good nights rest and seeing' that the room is at a cool temperature. Next would be getting up, then checking my emails to find a nice message from a favorite friend of mine on either email or Facebook. Next is checking to see the comments from friends that enjoy looking at my photography of some images I had taken over the weekend. Next best thing is a phone call from my parents telling me that they have some great news for me. It's always cherishing to hear dad's voice and mom's as they tell me of their day and such. Always cherish your parents. Continuing on this perfect day is getting on a brand new bus on the way to school, striking up a random conversation with a passenger then arriving at my destination. That's how a perfect day will be, finishing it off with a favorite cool drink to go with a favorite snack. Yes, that is heaven for me at that one moment. :)

Strong writing skills can make or brak

The thesis for this is short essay is learning that strong writing skills are invaluable when advocating outstanding ideas and issues. I have to agree with what the person states in this essay regarding strong writing skills. In order to make a statement, a good strong presentation is able to be delivered that can be rewarding to both the writer and speaker. It gives them a sense of power, knowing that they have given such valuable information and also has given the writer a chance to express their ideas. A writer must put their point across strongly and clearly for the recipients to gain the information that they are requiring through this statement. If a person does not require such tools to make an effective and impressive report or speech, they will not be able to give their presentation effectively and will possibly suffer the consequences of their poor writing skills. It's all about practice and effort.