WAR!

Platoon is a movie that portrays the vietnam war. This movie starring Charlie Sheen made the war seem like the veterans were out of their mines, the war was for a lost cause, and the veterans were fighting themselves. This move got an award winnning Oscar and bringing the actors of he movie to fame especailly Sheen. Another war movie soon came after that called Hamburger Hill and did not get an Oscar and it was just as good and to some better. aAccordign to Peter Katopes, Vise-President of our school in Laguardia Community College, wrote a paper about these films, of the good and the bad. He wrote that it was unfair for Platoon to get an Oscar because Hamburger Hill was just as good, it portrayed the good side and realistic view of how soldiers acted. Peter Katopes himself was a veteran and said, " I'am a veteran, and platoon portrayed veterans as bad soldiers killing each other who takes drugs and killed the vietnam people for no reason..... and I didn't do any of those things along with my fellow soldiers....Did they do it in real life? Hard to say because the army is a big Military Organization that recruits many so they might of did these acts.
Oliver Stone, Director of Platooon, made a fortune by making this film and none of it was giving to the military for eqipment or other accessories it might need. All of that money went to him and the actors. The film portrays a part of history thats why it is not being prosecuted, but the message is kind of telling us that veterans are crazy and cold hearted people. Bill Gates, creator of microsoft, made a game system called the Xbox 360, which made a game called Call of Duty, a war game, that is the most popular game out there today because of it realistic graphics and levels that make one want to keep on playing the whole day ( I should know). This is about the war between U.S (Marines) and Iraq (Opfor) and the battle to freedom (supposely). The game is ranked 4th place out of 10 of the best games out there. This is one way of getting people not to notice what is really going on the world today, the fact is that war is going on in Iraq and once it starts to get noticable people are going to stop playing games.
Media like movies and games gives us the message that everything is ok, when the fact is they just want the public to buy it to get money out of it and distract us from the reall truth.

Libraries Everywhere!

So I went to the library with me and my group, we met around 1:00 pm. We went inside the first floor and it looked like a museum. The First floor had accessories like audios from back in the day to present day, such as compacts, videos, disks, and DVDs(broadway musicals). They also had library catalogs and resources, listening units for a person who would like to listen to audios that they are interested in. The first floor also consisted music books present time and orchestra collections. It obviously had a source of pc's to look for information with a Gallery of Donald and Mary Oenslager across from it.
The second floor you could see the gallery in a higher view, across from it are music books and sources(closed shelf reference score and books) reference music desk right next to it. There is also a library catalog resource, but with a song index. After thhat there is seating for the public, then music for all types of genres such as classical, jazz, broadway, etc. On the other side there are books on arts, administration, dance, film, drama, and books.
The third floor was really full of security and we had to check in our bags to go inside. This floor had a lot of stuff that was valuable like open shelf reference music books, reference theatre and dance books. They had a viewing of theatre of film and tape, and a room for special collections to read(cornel room). Besides that the room was full of computers to listen or look up information of any subject of the performing arts that you would like to know about. After that we all just went home. My overall experience of going to the library is to me a great discovery because I, as a musician, needed to go buy a peice of music online or something I could just go to that library and copy it. Pretty convenient for me if you ask me!

College!

SO HERE I AM! Writing in my blog and i got nothing to say. So i guess i'll start talking now. So college is fun i guess and totally different from highschool, even though our Film History teacher( cough, cough ) kind of acts like a high school teacher by taking our attendance in the beginning of class ( stupid if you ask me ) like high school, but im not trying to shout anybody out. Besides that Dr. Lucca ( Loui ) and Dr. Smith ( Dr. Smith) are cool teachers and are very interesting but hard at the same time. It was true what people say and college is not like highschool or nowhere near it. More responsible, more work, and no playing around. This is all a challenge to me because if i dont accomplish this i am not going to go anywhere in life. I need to try to pass with flying colors and go do what i want to pursue. And you may ask, what you want to do? And the answer is ............ not going to say it. Trying to make it a mystery, you know? It makes it fun right? Well sorry for you guys who wanted a long blog, but this is all i got people.....when i get a real assignment you will see a good one just for you guys.

P.S. Get ready for the final guys!