Jaemin's Literature and Media Thought Bubble

1.      What is your reaction to the text you just read? a.      I was pretty confused because it didn’t seem like the story was written in chronological order. Perhaps it was, but the way that the narrator kept jumping back and forth between topics confused me a lot. I also hard a hard time getting attached to the two characters because they were never given names: it felt like I was staring at two featureless masks the entire time I was reading. I don’t know how to feel about the male character. He seems to be a jerk who gets into fights and is addicted to drugs but doesn’t like his girlfriend getting high. He had his okay moments though. I think the girl was too nice to him. She short of just stood back and let him do his own thing while he got himself in trouble. Maybe she loved him too much. 2.      What connections did you make with the story? Discuss the elements of the work with which you were able to connect. a.      I felt a connection when the narrator talked about th

Legally Blonde is a modern classic about Elle Woods, a preppy blonde beauty who decides to follow her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School and teaches everyone around her that blondes can be smart and successful. It’s musical adaption very closely follows the film’s story except it has a plethora of wonderfully fun and catchy music numbers. The story of Legally Blonde is an important one for this progressive generation. Not only does it teach to stay true to oneself and not judge a book by its cover, it also delivers a powerful message of female empowerment: women can be smart and successful by their own effort without depending on men. Very rarely do you see a film with a female law student as the main character. Here, the women support each other and help bring each other up (there is one character who starts off an unlikeable slob, but she changes and becomes Elle’s loyal friend in the end). Interests in fashion, hair, and other things that women are usually negatively stereotype

My favorite game is an app in the App Store that I found by chance. Called “Love You to Bits,” it has you play as an alien that must travel throughout the galaxy to retrieve his robot girlfriend’s scattered parts and memories.   It is a fantastic game with very stylized, detailed graphics, smooth animation, and unique levels that are each a puzzle very different from each other. I love the level of creativity that went into developing this game, and the variety of puzzles within puzzles really keeps the player stimulated and interested. I think that this game can be considered “literature” because it has a great story, a central character with a goal, and well fleshed-out worlds – one on each level. When you find a piece of the robot girlfriend’s memories, you can watch an animated video clip of the found memory. Each memory is a unique moment that the central character and his girlfriend spent together, and through them you learn more about their personalities. It’s like how one

I think of “binge-watching” as sitting in front of a screen and watching consecutive episodes of a series in one sitting. Sherlock is a difficult show to binge-watch at Ringling because every episode is almost an hour and a half long. I stuck to an episode a day. I know that Sherlock airs one season a year and each season has only about three episodes, to fans who follow it have to wait a lot after cliffhangers to know what happens during the next season. I didn’t have to deal with that wait while I watched from the beginning of season one to halfway through season 3. At the end of season 2, I didn’t have to wait an entire year to learn how Sherlock survived his fall off the building. I know that usually when people binge-watch a show, they have a hard time remembering character names. Sherlock episodes are so long that I really didn’t forget important characters’ names. However, there were aspects of the story that developed seemingly too quickly because I watched the show so