Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Vancouver 2010 Olympics protest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHLJ2dp-uEc

This was my second video in response to the Olympics, this video gives us a negative view about the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. In this video people are protesting against the Olympics and saying that they should not be happening. The protesters are breaking windows of shops and throwing mail boxes. In response the Vancouver police are grabbing the protesters, chasing them and arresting them. This gives people a negative view on the Olympics because there is so much violence and the city looks like a mess and it just looks dangerous so some people might not want to go there.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Vancouver 2010

This is a commercial for the 2010 Olympic games which are being held in Vancouver in this commercial they show all sorts of beautiful places in British Columbia this is where the games are being held. They are saying that this is a beautiful place and it cant get any better so you should come and support Canada and that you could have a perfect vacation here and i think that this is a really good commercial to get a lot of people to come and see the Olympics and support their team.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Rebellion video





I chose this as my video because i think this is a perfect example of a video with rebellion in it.They are saying in the video that if you feel bad, your not the only one so get up and refuse and the definition of rebellion is refusing and also they are saying to start a riot and that is also a big example of a rebellion (starting a riot) and i also think the song is good even though its a little emo.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Commercial

I think that this commercial is a perfect example of a brand that is promoting life style. In this commercial they show Sydney Crosby who is a professional hockey player drinking Gatorade and the people who made Gatorade are telling us that we should drink Gatorade too because it will help us become more athletic in our lives they also tell us that it is scientifically proven that Gatorade is good for you. So drink Gatorade because Crosby doesn't stop and nor should you.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

AD's in Schools

I think that advertisement's should be in schools but they should have some limits and some benefit to the students before they are put up. I think that ads aren't that bad for schools but they should benefit the school in some way like in class we talked about having ads in our schools if they provided us stuff like macs for the school or ipods for everyone. Well i think that would be pretty reasonable because we are all getting free stuff by just an ad. Some people would say that having ads are not good and some people would be put down by others but there are already tons of advertisements outside of the school and they are even in our books so it wouldn't make a difference so you cant escape them anyway. I also think there should be a limit for advertisement's they should only be put in the hallways and they shouldn't be put in classes cause that would be a major distraction so overall i don't mind ads in our schools but they should have limits and boundaries.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Capitalism A Love Story Review

Capitalism a love story was a documentary we watched in the theaters. When i first heard that it was a documentary i thought it was gonna be a completely boring movie but it turned out that it wasn't completely boring it had really funny parts but others made you want to go to sleep. Anyway Capitalism A Love Story was a documentary made by Micheal Moore who also had made other documentaries like Sicko which was about health care in America. This Documentary that he made was about root causes of the global economic meltdown, how companies are making money off you, how much money the bank has taken from us and etc.

What is Capitalism? An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations. Micheal Moore shows us alot of scenes where capitalism is used and especially the bad things its causing like for example in the movie homes are being taken away from people, workers are not being payed, companies are making money when people even die and etc. It also has other scenes like the one about the fall of ancient Rome in the beginning of the movie and other funny ones like the cat flushing the toilet and atleast were not like Detroit which i found really funny.

The camera angles used in the film and the music used were really good and made it more interesting and funny without them i think we would all fall asleep. For example when there was a funny scene they would play some funny type of music in the background and when there was a sad scene they would put some depressing music on. The movie overall was edited pretty nicely because the music went great with the scenes. This made a big impact on the audience because if there was no music with the scenes or if the music was like a different type which didn't go well with the scene alot of people wouldn't like it much and find it boring.

I think that most of the facts that Moore used were correct and real like he said that the banks have alot of our money and that is true cause i have read this kind of stuff in the newspapers before so its not the first time that I'm hearing this. He also said that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and a great way he showed us that was the part where people had their houses taken away and they got poorer while the rich made money off that which made them richer. The people interviewed were pretty much credible because they were really emotional and started crying and you could tell that this wasn't just a bunch of fake acting. Moore tried to tell us that capitalism is completely bad and didn't show us any good things about it and he was being bias so we agree with him.

In the movie Moore didn't show us a single part where we could say that capitalism is good and he only showed us the negative effects of it but i think that is not true and capitalism can be used is good ways. I think that capitalism can be perfected because in the movie he shows how greedy the big corporations, companies, banks and the government are. Some rich people are also good and not completely evil so capitalism can be perfected by changing some laws because there are also some good things that the government are doing like free health care and welfare and etc. I think that if they do more kind of things like this it will make big changes in the world of capitalism.

Monday, October 26, 2009

BCI in the news

The other day at Bloor collegiate something really tragic happened something that not alot of us would look back on. The other day after lunch our school went to a lock down because of a stabbing in the parking lot behind the school this involved students from Bloor collegiate. After this incident there were several news articles made about the stabbing and they had different explanations for what had happened. Some articles said that Bloor collegiate was a dangerous school with alot of gang fights which was so untrue so the media was changing up some of the story but i think that Bloor is a safe school and this is the first time something has happened like this but the media is just trying to say the same thing but with a different meaning.