"I believe I can fly"

In the music video of  “I believe I can fly”, R Kelly is singing in a few different scenes. He starts of in a wide-open cornfield and then moves into a big forest. These scenes highlight on the gigantic amount of space between the earth and the sky. R Kelly uses the scenes in his music video to show the everlasting possibilities of the things he could do. The beat of the song is very constant and persistent showing the qualities you need in order to achieve one’s goals. In R Kelly's lyrics he repeats "If I can see it, then I can do it. If I just believe it, there's nothing to it" a few times which tells everyone that this is a very important part of the song. This part of this song, like the rest, is inspirational, letting all the people who listen to it that they could do whatever they set their mind to as long as they believe in them selves.

"The Great Gatsby" soundtrack

“The Great Gatsby” soundtrack was an amazing twist of jazz from the 1920’s and more modern music from 2013. They used a blend of both of these because back in the 1920’s jazz was considered a racy kind of music and they wanted to mirror this with the now a days racy kind of music. “The Great Gatsby” used the old jazz music from 1922 to inspire the music in the movie. They wanted their music to be unique and even help tell the story that was happening in the movie.

Some songs like “young and beautiful” by Lana Del Rey portrayed what the character where feeling in that scene. Some of the music helped actually set the scenes. The song “A little party never killed nobody” by Fergie presented a playful, upbeat rhythm that was perfect for one of the many party scenes.

I think the music was a perfect rhetorical choice for the movie it added a rebellious feel to it and even made it more relatable with the modernists of the music. The feel of “The Great Gatsby” was risqué and gangster-esque , but with a hit of lust and deceit. Which was strengthened by the songs that paralleled the scene.

"discover what you want to say"

My invention and arrangement process was pretty good considering it was the first time I had used it with analyzing an advertisement. The invention took some time and many steps to come out with the right arrangement. At first I just typed all of my ideas out and then eventually set it into an order where it flowed and made sense. I went back over and over again adding and expanding to my paragraphs and their ideas. Once I got to my third draft I was at a roadblock where I didn’t know what else I could add or do to make it better. That’s where the peer workshop came in handy.

I got a lot of good feed back from the people in my group that really helped and reassured me. This way of writing didn’t just help me but also my writing. I learned ways I could elaborate without repeating myself over and over. It also helped me understand things and explain them better. Having a timeline of drafts and workshops also helped.

I don’t procrastinate things until the day before they are due, but the required drafts helped me stay on top of my essay. If we didn’t have mandatory drafts, blog post, or workshops I probably would of started the essay the day we got it but then wouldn’t pick it back up until the week before it was due. The mandatory drafts and workshops defiantly made my essay better than it would have been if I had started it a week before.

At first I was really scared but at the end I really liked the way we did things in the unit one essay. All the mandatory drafts and workshops showed me I wasn’t writing this essay alone and there was others probably going threw the same struggles.