Movie Review

I went to see Mama, starring Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau. Without giving anything away, Mama is about a dead lady ("Mama"), who connects with her surrogate children via vagina-shaped holes in the wall. "Mama" is a venegful female spirit who jealously hounds the couple Annabelle (Jessica Chastain) and Luke (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) who adopts a couple of young girls (his nieces) who had been found living wildly in an abandoned cabin in the woods. Throughout this movie, in the way of disturbing dreams and jarring apparitions, we join Annabelle try to discover what exactly "Mama" wants that she cannot seem to get. Although I am not one for horror movies I went and saw it. To my dismay I talked through the entire movie. Not on shhhh! Or “Be quite!” was said to me in a packed theater. So you tell me how good you think the movie was?

Multiple Perspectives

Looking from Multiple Perspectives

 

STEP ONE: IDENTIFYING STAKEHOLDERS: In order to write a successful proposal, you need to you need to examine multiple perspectives: you’ll want to represent as many people’s interests as possible as you describe your problem and solution, and you’ll want to understand your resisting audience’s inclinations as you pitch your solution.

 

For the following arguments, identify different people who are involved in the issue, people who are directly impacted by the problem posed, people who officiate the policies involved, people who have legitimate concerns or investments in the conversation, or other kinds of stakeholders. 

 

  McKemy Junior High must reconsider its decision to cut music programs.

 

a.       The music teacher

 

b.      Current/perspective students in the music programs

 

c.       Parents of students

 

* ASU’s dry campus policy is injurious to the students and should be amended.

 

a.       Underage students

 

b.      Students of age

 

c.       ASU police

 

* I propose that the ASU adopts a stricter campus security in order to keep vagrants and other potentially dangerous individuals off the school grounds.

 

a.       Rent-a-cops (ASUPD)

 

b.      Students increase in tuition

 

c.       Michael Crow  

 

STEP TWO: Develop Context: how do these stakeholders interact with one another? Do they have the same interests, attitudes, or ideas? What do they agree on and what do they disagree on? Pick one of the debates from the first page and develop a profile for each stakeholder: what are their commonly held values, objectives, or beliefs? What kinds of information or experiences get factored into their decisions?

 

 

#1: Music Teacher

            This is their job they are trying to take away. How else are they supposed to find income? Also I think their beliefs are the same as the student and the parent. If I had the opportunity to add someone else I would add the board of education committee. I could see where they would say his/her job is useless. I think that their experiences would have no effect on the decisions because it probably ultimately comes down to budget.

 

 

 

#2: Student

            I think the students would be the saving grace for the music program. They could share how it has made them a better student. And also how they used what they learned to make them a better person. Also they could say how it is a place to meet new people. Most of the students or the students that want to be there would have the same beliefs as the teacher and say don’t cut the music.

 

 

 

 

#3: Parent

            A parent is also another good voice. They probably have seen improvements in their child as a student. Also it is an outlet for stress and anger. Most of the time the parent just wants what is best for the child. I think that all three of these perspectives coincide with each other. In all most of the people on the board have probably had children go there music programs and saw how wonderful it is first hand and only present this option to save money.

 

 

 

 

 

STEP THREE: Research: What would be the best method to represent or address these perspectives in a proposal essay?

 

#1: Music Teacher

·         State her salary

·         Give examples of her day to day life as a music teacher

·         Present the negatives of having a music teacher (if any)

 

 

#2: Student

·         Personal stories where music has helped them overcome a problem

·         Students opinion if they think music should be a part of their day or not

·         Why they think music is or isn’t a good program

#3: Parent

·         How has music affected your child

·         What was music program like as you were growing up

·         Is the music program a good use of their money

·         If there was no music program where should the money be spent

 

 

*As I said earlier I would have added board members to my perspectives. But I was only given three but these would be my 3 to help prove a point and get it across affectively.

 

Homework but don't really know what number it is! :)

I chose to talk about the essay proposed to Michael Crow about electronic textbooks. I agree to the first proposal of this paper saying that ASU should offer an electronic option for books. But I disagree with the giving every student an iPad or tablet at the cost of raising tuition or charging the student. Seeing that this article was written in March of 2012 you can tell a lot can happen in a summer.  As of August 2012 ASU offered an electronic version of textbook. I am not sure if this is true for everyone but it was true for all 5 of my classes.  For his first argument there was enough support and evidence but for his second I don’t think I could offer any help on the account of I was not a student when this was written. But for his second proposal I would suggest researching why Arizona Christian University can offer free iPad.  I can think of one good reason; they are a private school and ASU is public and private schools receive more money to offset some of their cost to running an institution.  He does appeal to the audience which is the president of ASU. I think he was trying to use sympathy to appeal to Dr. Crow and how he should want every student to succeed.  I would rate this author’s ethos pretty poorly on the mere fact that the essay seemed to lack emotion and appeal it was basically words flowing out of his mouth.  I think he started strong but then went off into a tangent on how to get iPads for everyone. This leads me to say this essay is not a good model for a proposal essay. A proposal is supposed to fix a problem. In his paper the problem is cost. He offered two solutions; one offer electronic textbooks and two give everybody iPads or tablet.  But with that second solution because it is not possibly attainable he state to either raise tuition or to charge student’s accounts. This is defeating the purpose of his first solution to lower cost but now he want to charge for something ASU should be giving. A gift is a gift and it should impose no fee to the receiver but in this case it does.  This essay uses some research but not much I think most of the examples are from opinion and do not offer much evidence. I think since this proposal has to do with cost he could use more statistical examples to help the reader understand where he is coming from.