"People [who write novels] just be so wordy." -Kanye West

     Kanye West has proven himself multiple times throughout his career that he isn't the best role model. Although I can see certain parts of what he explained to be particially true; people shouldn't take his advice! Books can take away certain qualities in your social experiences in life, but the reader is the one who should make that decison. If you have to much of anything in your life it will take over yours.
     For example, someone who does read way to much might be very intelligent, but most of the time that's all there known as in real life. Reading is something you need to properly limit yourself with; just like anything else. Too much of a good thing can be bad. Lots of people across the world would still be antisocial if there wasnt books, for the fact that everyone is on the internet! There will always be something that will take people off there path whether its good or bad.
    People like Kanye West, however have to much social time on there hands. By looking at the sentences quoted from him in the article, it looks as if he should start to read. The way he talks projects his image of a low life and others that look up to him feel like that are smart, when they're the ones that sound ignorant. He also doesn't seem like he can really back up that he doesnt read considering he wrote a book. In order to write, you also need to know how to read; unless of course thats how bad the book really is.
    To be perfectly honest, in my opinion you shouldn't listen to someone who is a bookworm, or someone that is like Kanye. You will never get an accurate answer.

Gray

Days Come
Days Go
This isn't good enough for some
While others are at their low

We all are lost
In some shade of gray
Some lives are tossed
While few learn how to walk away

There are no answers for our pain
In this world filled with Gray
We all seek for something to gain
But we are told not to stray away

We don't know what tommorow will bring
Some hope it may be the day
That the answers will begin to ring
That this gray will soon fade away

The English Language: Slowly being DESTROYED!

     Since the beginning of time, people have always had a way of communicating with each other. Through each generation of humans new things are discovered or created, however this isn't the only thing that changes. Many people don't realize that with each generation, comes a decreasing care for their past. A lot of changes that have happened or will happen eventually occur for the best, but people never want to at least recognize where we've come from, and what we've destroyed.
     For example, our language at one point, was very proper. As generations passed it became more easy going. I feel that wasn't the issue, cause people still knew how to be polite when they had to be as a whole. What I'm trying to get to is that in this modern day age, people as a whole don't care. It's not even that they just don't care about speaking properly, it's about every aspect of their lives! It's one thing to talk slang with your friends or at the right times, but most don't seem to have the capability to own two sets of language. As a whole where ever you go, you will find multiple examples of what I'm talking about. It almost sounds crazy, but listen to the people around you in a public place; listen to the way they talk to each other then think of how illiterate they're presenting themselves to be. It's actually kind of sad cause you know that it's always gotten worse, and its bound to continue to do the same.
     Not only do these people present themselves to be illiterate, they are sometimes even seen as being rude! For example, when I was treat or treating this year. You will see how much things have changed as you see the little kids. There were two things I saw, one the little kids either aren't taught how to be polite when going from house to house, or they won't say trick-or-treat, and sometimes they don't even say thank you! Is it that parents don't show kids what is right from wrong, or is like I said originally that the younger generations show less and less care for using polite language or even using it at all.
     The best I can assume is that things will end up changing for the good at some point. The only thing that comes with that statement is the only way to find out, is to wait and see for ourselves.

"To Be Or Not To Be..." Three Ways

     The work "Hamlet,"written by Shakespeare has had different styles of turning it into a movie throughout the years. The main known to people show different ways of looking at the "To Be Or Not To Be" speech. The actors that have the role of Hamlet have a different style that gives the viewer a different idea on the speech. The actors shown in the three clips are Mel Gibson, Lawerence Oliver, and Kenneth Branough.
     In the movie filmed with Mel Gibson, the speech takes place within a chamber. As the speech progresses you notice a tomb with a statue of a person laying across this. You realize that this isn't any old chamber it's his fathers tomb. The viewer will get a sense of pity for Hamlet here. When Hamlet is relaying his famous speech, you can almost assume that he's trying to get his feelings out to his father. His lost his father figure even though hes old enough to function on his own, he doesn't have that sense of guidance in his life anymore. Hamlet is basically asking his father for guidance in this scene; whether he should continue his life, or follow through with his suicidal thoughts.
     The movie with Lawerence Oliver was filmed with a different idea. Instead of being in a chamber, or in an enclosed space, Hamlet was filmed on the side of a cliff. When Hamlet looked down the cliff you saw a long jump ahead with a death of raging water. This film was taped in black and white, and it helped create an eerie atmosphere for the film. As he sits there reciting, he pulls a dagger out ready to stab himself and jump into the watery depths of the ocean. However like the play, his conscience kicks into action and doesn't commit to his suicidal thoughts.
     Lastly, the film that starred Kenneth Branough, the " To Be Or Not To Be" speech took place in a mansion. The room in the mansion looked very fancy and looked more as if it was for a special occasion, instead it was filmed for the purpose of suicidal plotting. As he recites the speech, he is staring into the mirror, his full focus on his thoughts. Then as the speech continues he slowly walks toward the mirror, and pulls out a dagger. This could be symbolising that unlike most people who contemplate suicide, he wanted to face it head on. That's why he starred at himself, he was facing himself, because most people that want to kill themselves can't face themselves. As he approached the mirror this eerie music began playing that made you feel like he was actually going to commit the act. However he is cut short with someone walking into the room.
     No matter how you make the scene work, you are still going to get basically the same theme out of it. Different directs wanted to catch specific idea's in their views heads when they watched it. It all comes down to the fact that many don't want to live, but most are to afraid of the unknown therefore they cannot take full action in doing it.

The Medium and the Message

      In Mamatas interview, you really begin to understand him as a person, just through listening to his tone, diction, and voice. Throughout the interview, his tone is full of sarcasm. You see how he perceives his customers just by listening to him talk. Constantly you could hear him laughing when mentioning the "DUMB CLIENTS." Not only did he laugh about them, he repetitively would insult them, calling them stupid, and other negative descriptions. Something else that you could pick up is how while receiving these random questions about his article, he would almost hesitate before answering throughout the interview. Once he knew what he would say to the interviewer, he would quickly answer the questions as fast as possible. This to me made me feel as if he was uncomfortable talking about this subject now that it's in the past. If that's the case, then you can interpret that he feels quite guilty about his "whoreish" ways. Even though he seems to be an intellectual man, he has no morals. He doesn't care if he's promoting laziness, because it was benefiting him, which shows he's also very self centered.
       My opinion of Mamatas hasn't changed much at all. The only difference is that now I see how he is a selfish man that finds humor in others stupidity. However, even though it's a shady type of job, I still see no reason to object to it. First of all, he was giving them MODEL papers. They weren't supposed to hand in that work, they were supposed to make it there own. They signed a contract saying how they wouldn't plagiarise his work, and if they did that is there fault not his. You must also look at it like this; Mamatas used this as an entrance of his writing occupation. Everyone most start somewhere and this was the only opportunity he had. If he hadn't done this, then he may have never been able to pursue his writing career. Since writing truly is his passion anyone should be able to understand that when you strive for something you may do anything in order to achieve it.
       I think that this gave the audience a surprised reaction. When you read the written story, you have a different way of looking at it then when you listen to the media instead. Different types of people must have had different view on it. The audience could either look at him as a corrupt man or they could view the situation as its survival of the fittest.
       It is very important to figure out what kind of media you feel is best for that situation. When you want to make yourself look impressive and more formal, you have a better chance at succeeding through paper. That way you have time to write, and fix what is on your mind , When using audio though, its probably better just to listen. Not only will you get a a feeling of your speaker, but also you will also get a better opinion on how the author is trying to get there point across. Considering you can usually take things more than one way, its easier to decide which way the author is trying to lead you.

http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2008/11/28/segments/116673

The Term Paper Artist

In this article, Nick Mamatas, the author explains his path to becoming a writer. "I always wanted to be writer, but was told from an early age that such a dream was futile." Nick felt that his dream would never come true, but eventually things began to slow work out for him. He states how one day he was looking through a newspaper add and happened to come across an advertisement, this opened his opportunities to fulfilling his passion to become a writer. He soon began working at this term paper mill, which he describes in his article.
      Nick has written many model papers while working there, he said they were "Virtually any subject, almost any length, all levels of education." These models he wrote were "perfectly legal," "Thanks to the first amendment, it's freedom of speech" The business has been run by brokers who will take financial risks by accepting credit card payments by the clients who are in need of their work.  When the brokers write for the clients they have to know the type of person their client is. As the author said, "One of my brokers would even mark assignments with the code words DUMB CLIENT." In other words, if they were writing for a non-educated writer then they would have to use simpler words in their writing. If they didn't, then they always had the problem where a client would call them back asking what specific words meant. This was to much of a nuisance, so they tried to eliminate the issue before it happened.
      The author categorizes the clients into three groups; DUMB CLIENTS, one timers, and lastly as he says the "most tragic," those who are educated highly but came from a different country, therefore their English is not strong. The first group simply should just not even be enrolled in college, they don't know how to even construct an essay so they must buy the models to even hand in anything decent. The second group is described as people who are just thrown in a class simply cause it's required they take it, even though they don't need it. These people for example could be trying to become a chemist and are required to take a poetry class, therefore their stuck with subjects they don't excel in. Lastly, the third group, where they aren't native to the U.S aren't very fluent in the English language. As the author states about these people "in their home countries they were engineers, medical professionals, and scientists. In the United States, they drive cabs and have to pretend to care about "Gothicism" in "A Rose For Emily" for the sake of another degree. "
Terms papers aren't the way to make lots of money all the time, however they are easy and fast cash for some people. He would charge college students $100 per page on an essay. Although this seems outrageous to some, it seems like a better route to some. The reason for that is if you end up failing the class you wasted your money paying for the class, and you'll have to pay more to retake it, so in the end it can be an easy escape to some.
      Nick Mamatas even gave some us hints on how to overcome writing term papers when telling us how he completes them. He compares writing them to remembering dance routines that are built in your muscle memory. Once you get the idea of how to do it, you will find them less aggravating to complete. He said "You have to make your own fun."
      What he does should not looked at negatively. Everyone has their own strengths and weakness'. The fact that everyone isn't a writer is clear, but everyone who wants an education is still required to complete various writing assignments. Some people just aren't cut out for it, and they should still be considered educated people because of there own special talent. Since that's not how it goes though, people are lucky to be able to find these skilled writers that will use their talents to not only benefit others but also support themselves, while  doing something that they're passionate about. Everyone has to support themselves some way and this is a perfect way for writers to get that fast cash they might need. Some believe that this is a "shady" job, however every job has it's shady parts to them. Not all of the jobs out there are as visibly shady, but in some way everyone has their skeletons that they hide in the closet, just so they can support themselves. So why should you point out a writer for supporting themselves the best way that they can?