Final Presentation

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First Presentation

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What to think about while listening to the auditions:

• Does this person sound familiar?
• Is there natural talent or potential for talent (could they succeed with or without the help of a manger, voice coach, etc.)
• Does this person have anything in common with any other artist (including the others who have 'auditioned')
• Would you consider investing in them

Masterpiece interviews

• What are you working on?
• Working on getting to know other journalists, going to go down to LA to meet up with an upcoming artist to interview her. 
• Why?
• She wants to do entertainment journalism so she's tryin to get a feel for it. 
• What is the significance of this project in your life/career?
• She loves writing and wants to pursue this as her career.
• How do you see this work helping you in life outside of school?
• Preparing her for her actual profession, getting the experience now.
• Has anything surprised you in your work?
• Yes, a famous person talked to her!
• What do you need to successfully complete your project and present it?
• She needs to get her interview questions together.
• What have you learned that's worth teaching someone else?
• Be presistent, don't be a dumbass, have good manners, and reach out to others even when you doubt your confidence.

Connections

I didn't want to post this yesterday because I was hoping for more interactions and moments that would remind me of my masterpiece. 

My first "moment" is when I was watching a vine and I noticed a girl using a book called Everything You Must Know to Suceed in The Music Business. 

Walking in the hallways I heard a group of girls talking about wanting to post covers to YouTube and this reminded me of how a lot of talent scouts find talent! 

I was having a casual conversation with a friend when she started talking about music festivals and wanting to go to a bunch of concerts and this reminded me of my future which sort of relates to my project. I think I heard music and immediately was reminded of my masterpiece. 

Listening to Pandora an Ad came on for 

Online music business schooling. This one obviously relates to my masterpiece. 

Literature Analysis #3



The Night Circus

1.  The Night Circus is about a magical traveling circus that is secretly hosting a competition between two magicians who have to prove who had the better teacher. Their reward? Life. The only way to win is to survive. Celia, a little girl whose mother dies when she is only five years old is taken to live with her father who is also a magician. He is known to be the greatest of his time, when Celia is introduced to him, he immediately doesn't like her. She gets mad at the way he treats her and she uses her 'powers' to break his hot tea cup. This intrigues Prospero, her father. Her father then sets up a meeting with an old friend and it is them that arrange the competition between Celia and Marco (the chosen competetor). The two do not know who they are competing with until Celia catches Marco performing and then everything starts to crumble. The two have fallen in love and now they are refusing to continue the competition knowing one of them will die. The problem with just stopping the competiton? The circus and the people in it will die off and the two lovers won't be the only ones suffering the consequences.Celia figures out a way for the two to live together and keep the circus running without letting anyone else get hurt. Celia and Marco kill themselves, but find a way to stay in spirit and keep the circus alive.
2. The theme of this book is very similar to The Hunger Games themes, anything and everything over love, to die with you would be better to die alone, a competition for survival.
3. The authors tone is bitter and knowing. The author has a lot of sass and you can see that in the main character Celia, the most. She makes it seem as if she were using her story to vent out her hate for someone and her longing for another.
4. Foreshadowing:

In the beginning Marco explains that he loves to love and he loves to be in love and it always happens so quickly, but he doesn't know what being IN LOVE is really like, therefore he'd do anything to be with her. This is setting up his attitude towards how is going to feel about Celia and the situation they get put in having to kill eachother.

Prediction:

Celia grabs the wrong umbrella, but she notices that the umbrella she did grab has some sort of spell on it and this is how she discovers and predicts that Marco is her challenger.

CHARACTERIZATION
1. Direct characterization

Celia: The author directly explains how she looks feels and acts. There is no asuming or guessing on how she felt towards something, the author is very direct with her.

Marco: The author also explains everything Marco feels directly and we know from the very beginning how he looks and what his morals are.

Indirect characterization

An example of this is a teenager named Bailey who is brought up very little and then at the end becomes the protagonist all with one feeling. The author indirectly tells you that Bailey has this passion and dedication towards the circus that will essentially save everyone. The author then refers to two twins who live in the circus and will be helping Bailey save it. This is dropped by hints such as dreams and fortune tellers.

The indirect characters are all the smaller characters that we don't get to read about directly.
2. The authors syntax changes when she concentrates on a different part of the story. The novel jumps around from character to character and you can tell whose side of the story it is when the sentences get longer or shorter and the it goes from first person to third person.
3. The protagonist is very round and dynamic, he starts off seeming useless to the storyline, but then their is a plottwist and it all starts to make sense. It is part of his destiny to either save or destroy the circus and it all comes down to one decision; does he chase after a circus or give up on it all together. He chooses to chase after it and that is his first step to saving it. 
4. I did not feel as if I had just met someone after reading this story. I think that because the storyline was something I was not use to and compeletly unrelatable I had trouble connecting to any of the characters due to the whole "I'm a magician fighting for my life against another magician whom I'm in love with and I can't kill him because I love him" theme. However, I understand what it is like to not want to do something because the decision is too hard to make and it might hurt someone else. Overall I didn't make any easy connections with this book, too ficitonal and unrealistic.

Is there an expert in the house

What will my expert look like? 

Someone with determination and patience 

Someone who has delt with and experienced the crazy Hollywood life

Someone who can handle criticism and let downs, who can turn that negative energy into a motivator

Someone who knows what they are talking about and how to turn their words into actions

Someone who is not self centered, but looked upon as a mentor and a giver

Someone who is on top I things

Someone who isn't afraid of being the underdog 

Someone who knows how to achieve their goals 

Someone who does what they do, because they love it, not because they want money

This someone will be admirable 

10 Questions

1. How do you keep up with what's new and who's new and the style people are really into at the moment?
2. When you were just getting started how did you create your network of people needed to help you become what you are today?
3. Who did you seek guidance from to help set you on the correct career oath?

4. What influences you to do all that you do?

5. Where did your passion for music business come from?

6. When did you realize you wanted to work in the music industry? 

8. What about the industry is the most stressful?

9. Would you suggest managing more than one artist?

10. What would be the hardest part of your journey to achieving your career goal? What major obstacle should I prepare mself for? 

HAFTA/WANNA

For a while I just kept repeating the title of this post over and over again until I realized that the answer to your question about differences you see between life during high school and life after high school is in the title itself. In high school everything is a have to (hafta) and we don't do things the way we want to. We do things for a grade which 90% of the time means manipulating the system somehow and figuring out ways to pass that one assignment, but does that information stay for as long as it should? No. We have to learn things to pass a test which eventually won't matter to us. The difference between after high school and life in high school is that we do things we want, take the classes we need and want and sure there's still that sense of 'you have to take and pass this class' but this time it's really for your long term benefit and not just a grade for a class so you can graduate. No, life after high school will be tricky and hard and frustrating and stressful, but that's because we have this new freedom to want things we can actually have. And god doesn't that just amazing? Going from being locked up and forced to go to school everyday to having a choice. No we won't magically transform into adventurous butterflies right after graduation. We may not even discover our wanna part till our second year of college, I think that's why it's common for students to go to college with an undeclared major, they've got to adjust to going from having to, to wanting to.

Launch

Well it's about damn time I got some wifi so I could update this blog. I've been wanting to share my launch for a while now and it gives me goose bumps, hoping you all love what I have to share just as much as I do. What do I want to do? Easy, study the background journey to fame. Sure we all know the story of  "I came from a small town and was found by my manager who helped me share my talent with the world." cool okay so they hit a lucky streak. What I want to learn and get a feel for is how a their manager can find that talent and trust and invest and dedicate their entire life into creating this superstar who came from a small town. I want to know the managers story and I want to create my own. For my project I'm hoping to find locals who I believe can really become something through their talent. It's so obvious that every project is going to need connections, I'm going to need to expand my network and ask and look around for those very talented musicians.  I want to learn about business marketing, promo, advertising, music management and talent scouting. I'm really interested in the behind the scenes action and I already have a lot of experience with that. I'm more than prepared  for my project and I'm totally open to making more connections with the other people in class. Are you musically talented? Let me know, I'd love to manage you.

Lit Analysis #2

The Fault in Our Stars

1. This story starts off by introducing you to the narrator and other main characters. There is Hazel, who is telling the story and there is her mother who is overprotective and there is Augustus, who changes Hazel's entire life. Hazel is a sixteen year old girl with thyroid cancer and has mets in her lungs. Augustus is seventeen who had recovered from osteosarcoma. They meet at support group and Augustus finds her to be very beautiful. Hazel isn't use to boys complimenting her and she immediately befriends him. They eventually become really good friends who know each others likes and dislikes more than their own parents. Augustus falls in love with Hazel and works on getting Hazel to say it back. Hazel doesn't let herself love anyone because she looks at herself as a ticking bomb. A grenade that is going to explode someday and she wants to minimize the casualties. Never did she think she would love a grenade, and never did she think she would be the casualty.  The purpose of the narrative is to make you feel as if you are reading a true story, like Hazel is their in support group telling you all about her hard times. 
2. One theme is the fear of oblivion. Augustus has this fear of oblivion which helps you distinguish just how scared of dying he really is. He is obsessed with wanting to do things heroic before he dies, he wants to matter even after he is dead.  
3. Hazel is very straight up, she tells it like it is in a very snarky way. An example of this is when she says " That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU! Thinking you won't die is yet another side effect of dying."  She is also very funny when what she is saying shouldn't be something you laugh at because in reality it's just so true and upsetting. An example of this is "I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die."   This also makes her cautious and considerate. She never wants to make people pity or worry for her. "I'm like a grenade, Mom. I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay? I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you; you're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? I'm not depressed. I don't need to get out more. And I can't be a regular teenager, because I am a grenade."
4. Irony
Isaac who is a friend to both Gus and Hazel has a girlfriend who he thinks is the one "Always is their thing. They'll always love each other or whatever." eventually though, his eye sight goes and his girlfriend claims she can't be with him because of it. So their 'Always' doesn't last forever like they claimed it would. " Always was a promise. Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, but you keep them anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway." She promised him always, but couldn't keep it. 
Foreshadowing
Referring to the quote above, Augustus tells Hazel their 'Always' should be the word 'okay' because they always say that to each other when they have nothing else to say. Of course this implies that Augustus will always love Hazel. 
Foreshadowing
"I'm a grenade..." Hazel refers to her I'm a grenade quote throughout the entire book, but as soon as she lets her guard down and accepts one more 'casualty' she realizes that she is the one loving a grenade. "I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove August Waters. And I didn't want to." She keeps her promise and always loves him. 
The author creates this giant plot twist by making it seem like Hazel is going to die and we will have to watch Augustus suffer from another girlfriend death, but instead he dies and we watch Hazel love him always. 

CHARACTERIZATION 
1. Isaac is an example of direct characterization. We don't know what he's thinking nor do we get any serious story line for him, we just know what we are told. Hazel's mom is also a good example of direct characterization. All we know is what we are told by Hazel, there are not multiple characters telling us any information about her mom, it's just the narrator, Hazel. Hazel and Augustus are examples of indirect characterization. Hazel, who is the narrator is not the same person she was at the beginning of the book, so her analysis of her character changes. She goes from being really sheltered and careful to living and lovely openly and freely. We get to read her thoughts and almost feel her emotions. Augustus' actions are what define him. He says nothing, but sweet things to Hazel.  I think the author uses both approaches so you make a better emotional connection with both Hazel and Augustus. 
2. The authors syntax changes when in conversation with another character, but other wise both the syntax and diction don't change or vary. 
3. The protagonists in this story are all the people and they're very dynamic. The antagonist would be the cancer and everyone it effects, even the people who don't have the cancer are still effected by it.
4. After reading this book I found that I had attached myself to the characters as a person who knew their love story, but didn't know them personally. They didn't like to friend people mostly because people would always pity them and they didn't like being around those types of people. I did however fall in love with their love story and felt as if I understood completely how she felt. She would always love him even long after they both die, she would still love him. She promised him always in beginning of the book and ended the book the same way a marriage, a promise begins with an 'I do' and that line affected me the most. "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have get to have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers." and she follows that quote by Augustus with an "I do, Augustus. I do." 

My Vocabulary #1

Pincer: A maneuver in which an enemy force is attacked from two flanks and the front.
Market Cannibalization: Market cannibalization refers to a situation where a new product "eats" up the sales and demand of an existing product.
Incontrovertible: not able to be denied or disputed.
Curation: The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts; The act of curing or healing; The manual updating of information in a database
inherently: in an inherent manner; "the subject matter is sexual activity of any overt kind, which is depicted as inherently desirable and exciting"
entrenched: (of an attitude, habit, or belief) firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained.
"an entrenched resistance to change"monetizing: convert into or express in the form of currency.Jettisoning: throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship."six aircraft jettisoned their loads in the sea"permutations: a way, esp. one of several possible variations, in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged."his thoughts raced ahead to fifty different permutations of what he must do"Novelty: the quality of being new, original, or unusual."the novelty of being a married woman wore off"trajectory: the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.anomaly: something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected."there are a number of anomalies in the present system"inconceivable: not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable."it seemed inconceivable that the president had been unaware of what was going on"paradoxically: in a paradoxical manner; "paradoxically, ice ages seem to occur when the sun gets hotter"discrepancies: a lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts."there's a discrepancy between your account and his"extricating: free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty."he was trying to extricate himself from official duties"paradigm: a typical example or pattern of something; a model.
"there is a new paradigm for public art in this country"
Niche: a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment.

Lit Analysis Spring #1

FICTION ANALYSIS #1

1. In Looking For Alaska, Miles who is going to be starting as a junior in a new private school called Culver Creek, has an obsession with remembering people’s last words before they die. He becomes great friends with his new roommate and finds himself hanging out with whoever his roommate hangs out with. His newly made friend helps me understand how the school works. The school is known for its risqué students, prank pulling teens and its evil swan who swims in the lake. Never smoke near the lake. Miles is introduced to Chip’s (his roommate) group of friends. This is where Miles meets Alaska. Alaska’s power over Miles is strong the minute he lays eyes on her. Imagine finding a person who is everything you’ve ever wanted, but she isn’t interested in you the way you’d like for her to be. That’s Miles relationship with Alaska. He chases her, she giggles and flirts, but she has a boyfriend and he ends up heartbroken. Alaska is complicated and Pudge (Miles nickname) well Pudge is that adorable, naïve nerd who falls in love with a lost soul. Alaska, Pudge, Chip and Takumi all get themselves into huge trouble one night by drinking away all their problems. This same night Alaska calls her boyfriend and when she returns back to Pudge she is distraught and not herself. She asks everyone to help her pack because she needs to go. The group doesn’t know what’s going, and them being so intoxicated didn’t realize how unsafe it was for her to drive in the night drunk. She leaves and the next day Pudge and Chip are informed of the terrible accident. Alaska died in a car crash. Pudge takes it hard and can’t seem to move on. In the end the group decides to pull off one last prank in memory of Alaska. The Alaska Memoir Prank. This book was split up in befores and afters. Before meaning before the accident and after meaning after the accident. Before the accident Pudge knew everyones last words, after he wished he didn’t.

2. The themes in this novel are the concept of death, understanding life and death, more to someone’s life than what we see, loving someone endlessly, friendship and regret.

3. The author’s tone is always thoughtful, unsure and regretful. The tone is thoughtful because Pudge is always over analyzing everything, never wanting to get into too much trouble. The tone is unsure because Pudge never knows what choices to make, a lot of the time the choices he makes are because Chip or Alaska have told him to. The tone is regretful because a lot of the time Pudge regrets the things he does, one of those things being that he helped Alaska leave the night of her crash essentially leading to her death.

4.

·         Foreshadowing: When Alaska and Pudge first meet Alaska makes a comment about Pudge and Chip smoking, she says “You guys smoke to live, I smoke to die.” She makes a statement about not wanting to live and for the first month of Alaska’s death people had assumed she committed suicide because her boyfriend had dumped her, but she had actually just crashed and was on her way to visit her mother’s grave.

·         Foreshadowing: Alaska says “from a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond” and this foreshadows the way she dies.

·         Metaphors: The swan and Alaska are similar in the sense that they both have had troubled pasts and have both hurt Pudge.

·         Figurative language: “If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane’”

CHARACTERIZATION

1.       Pudge is an example of direct characterization. The author tells us what we need to know about him as soon as the book starts. His roommate is another example of direct characterization because Pudge has all these thoughts on his roommates appearance and attitude. Alaska is an example of indirect characterization because she is so mysterious and you have to take the time to communicate with her to get a sense of what she is like. Even after the story ends there is still so much unknown about Alaska. The author does this to show how unfair it is for Pudge and the rest of Alaska’s friends to have lost her before they could fully understand and know her.

2. The author’s syntax and diction never change based on a character. He uses long detailed sentences to explain Pudge’s thoughts on everyone and everything.

3. The protagonist is very dynamic. He has an epiphany at least twice in this book and this has created the character to be very round. Pudge may seem average, but you can see him change as the story progresses, he matures and becomes more aware and less naïve.                                                                                            

4. After reading this book I felt like I walked away from meeting Pudge and the rest of his friends. I felt a personal connection with Alaska and when she passed away I almost had myself convinced I was dealing with a real death in my life. The ending of the story ends with a quote that had me feeling almost every emotion possible, the quote is “So I know she forgives me just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison’s last words were: ‘It’s beautiful over there’ I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful” 

Vocabulary #1 Performance Review

I think I did decent, but I could have gotten a hundred percent for sure. I have trouble putting the words into sentences, but I know the words. 

Vocabulary #1

adumbrate- to foreshadow vaguely.

apotheosis-  elevate to divine status

ascetic- practicing strict as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline

bauble- a small ornament (trinket)

beguile- to lead by deception

burgeon-  to send forth new growth

complement-  something that fills up, completes, or makes perfect 

contumacious-  stubbornly disobedient

curmudgeon- a , ill-tempered, and usually old man

didactic- designed or intended to teach