Thlog #2

Fridays class really helped me with the changes I need to make on my WP1. While working with my group they were giving me great feed back on my paper with things they thought i should change or add to it.  It also helped me more working in groups than alone because being able to see how other people put together their papers gave me a better understanding of what should probably be seen in my paper. All though I did make a couple changes to my paper I'm not so sure that they were the correct changes. I'm still a little iffy with what i should have done in the paper or changed, I don't know if the details that i added were needed or if they just made it even wordier.  I will be honest though on Friday after class I felt a little bit better about what i had written. When i got home i went through the readings from class and i got a little bit more of an understanding. I hope that my argument was correct and that is shown in my writing.

While writing this paper i was a bit confused as to what was right and what was wrong, i felt as if it was a bit too wordy and had too much information about my topic in it. Just hope that after this paper i get a better understanding of what is needed and what the proper way to write about genre is. I made sure that after I wrote my paper i had my mom look over it to check for grammatical errors, she looked it over, highlighted what i needed to fix and i did it. I then proceeded to share it with a classmate and had her reed it over too see if it looked okay. obviously not because my argument was completely wrong, so again i looked over the articles I chose for my paper then took a look at our class reading and put two and two together. All i want is to know that i.m doing everything correctly and if i'm not then get and explanation as too  what i'm doing wrong or what i'm not getting.

i hope that by the time this class is over with i will better understand what the meaning of textual genre is and how to compare the several different ways of reading and writing. 

PB1B

Kalin White is a 21 year old R&B artist from Bay Area who started off in a duo called Kalin and Myles, they went their separate ways in March 2016.  Kalin recently (October 14, 2016) released his first EP alone called Chapter 21, the EP includes songs that are based on the past year of his life and the events that happened in that time. Chapter 21 was number 4 on the charts after only an hour after being released and received 5 star rating from mostly every person who wrote a review on ITunes.

From what I've seen most of the reviews on the EP are good ones Lauren Macdonald wrote her review on Itunes and gave him 5 stars she said "Kalin did THAT! This project honestly has a bit of everything. There's some vibin' type songs, dancing type songs, falsettos, crazy melodies, background vocals, and the production of the whole project is just...WOW."  she also said at the end "R&B is definitely Kalin White's sound".  I agree with her 100 percent, not only because I've been a big supporter for 3/4 years, but because you can definitely hear all of the things she listed in all the songs they aren't all the same sound. (Basically all of my reviews are coming from Itunes) another one of the reviews was given by a person who's screen name is PrettyBoy1107 haha and he says " Okay Kalin I see you bro you keep making dope music."  Others said things such as "quality 10/10" or "super wavy vibes" and i think that's exactly what he was going for with is EP. His style in music even when he was with Myles was always on the more chill side of things and gave the laid back vibes.

If I must say myself Kalin is very talented he says himself that he gets a lot of his inspiration from his life and personal things that have happened such as relationships, family, ect.  Other people such as Jenniferisgee say " You have a great voice so show it off. Stop trying to do too much in one song with the stuff you're adding to the song like extra effects." she also gave him one star. So she isn't telling him he's horrible she just thinks that the songs should be for of his voice and less background effects. Since i have supported Kalin for as long as I have I have made many friends because of him and I'm in a group chat with some of my friends where we talk about anything and i asked them for their opinions they all went crazy for it. There were even polls on twitter asking for everyone's opinions on it. I just found a picture that shows that Chapter 21 was at number 2 on the charts four days ago. All together this EP is a great one and I'm not the only one who thinks so as you can see in the reviews that i quoted above. 

Thlog #1 : SQGFWT:CRA & How to Quick read

Both of these passages were somewhat informative to me. I think that How to quick read will be the most helpful for me only because, at times with reading I become bored and i never finish reading what I'm supposed to in time for classes or anything. It will definitely help me since i get distracted so easily while reading and I'll finish what i need to get done. Shelly's Quick Guides for Writing Teachers: Critical Reading Assignments helped me understand reading assignments carefully is important. Just in the second paragraph i learned that reading slower will help me save time. Although i did learn some bits from these passages I don't have much of an opinion on them, those two things are what stuck out to me, because all this time i read extremely thinking it was getting me finished faster. After reading Shelly's Quick Guide i realized that after i would read fast i didn't really remember any of the information i had just read. 

PB1A: Classic Horror movie reviews

My genre is classic horror movie reviews, i picked this genre because horror movies are very popular especially because it is October. For many people horror terrifies them to the point of them losing sleep or making them believe they're hearing things that are just in their head. Some of the most popular horror movies said by www.ing.com are: Scream, Friday the 13th, Halloween, The Blair witch Project, Nightmare on Elm street, ect. In a review written about A Nightmare On Elm Street by Don Sumner on horrorfreaknews.com say"A Nightmare On Elm Street is, for so many reasons, one of the classics" he also says " this movie breaks so many horror movie rules". A Nightmare On Elm Street is a movie that shows you that your not even safe in your own mind, that's how terrifying it is.

Now when it comes to Friday The 13th i personally thing that it's not the best horror movie out there and everyone says that it's a "classic" because it's old and the main killer in the movie (Jason) is somehow as "scary" as Freddy or Michael Myers. I don't think i'm the only one who thinks that this movie is sucky, a review written by somebody who's name i couldn't find on commonsensemedia.org basically says that the film only got points for the creativity and the special effects. He also says "Friday The 13th is a sick film with virtually no redeeming qualities" and he also says that Jason and the movie are very well know, too bad its not a good movie. Although the nameless reviewer and i don't believe this film is any good, Joe from metacritic.com says "its a great and scary film, it has good acting, good death scenes and unlike most horror movies and games it has good jump scares". And Missdrae from the same website says "it's actually quite enjoyable". 

Halloween, another movie that i don't find scary or entertaining, but others including my cousins highly enjoy. Roger Ebert from rogerebert.com gave the movie 4 stars and he says that "Halloween is an absolute merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that yes, i would compare to Psycho". THR Staff from hollywoodreporter.com "The horror formula doesn’t get much simpler than a masked killer stalking teenagers, but that is all writer-director John Carpenter needed to create a masterpiece with the original Halloween. The film defined many of the tropes we now take for granted, and not even decades of mediocre sequels (or Rob Zombie remakes) can dull its terrifyingly sharp edge."    In all honesty I don't really find any of these masked killer scary movies don't scare me, maybe if they were in front of my face i'd be scared, but I just get so bored with them. When i was younger i found the movie The Ring really scary, when i saw it i couldn't sleep for weeks and my sisters thought it was so funny. I used to think i was seeing things in the dark and had to sleep with the lights on. 

My name is Katia Roberts and i'm 18 years old. I have two older sisters and a younger brother, i also have two nephews and one niece. My freshman year of high school my brother, mother, and i moved to Louisville, Kentucky because my mom got a great job offer out there, but we didn't like it out there so that july we moved back to Philadelphia where i finished my last three years of high school at Abraham Lincoln High School. My favorite movie is Baerfoot in the park, a movie from 1967, its been my favorite for as long as i can remember. I love music, but lately i haven't like just one certain person/group just specific songs, although i have been a huge fan of Justin Bieber since i was 9 or 10 years old. I love going out with my mom or my friends and just talking.