Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Topic?

Hi.. I was reading "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser in the train today and I realized I could of used this book as my topic for the issues related to the fast food industry. I been reading this book all semester long but I didn't realized I should of use this book instead. I will like to change my topic. I already research on Twilight and I did find sources but I am much more interested in this topic. Im already searching for sources and I found a few. I know is a little late for changing my topic but I know a lot more about this topic. I will have atleast part of my essay by Sunday so you can take a look at it.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

My work of art

I read just finished reading Twilight and found it very interesting and it related a lot to my topic. Thank you. Twilight Los Angeles, 1992 is a playwright written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. It is based on her interviews after the riots in Los Angeles following the Rodney King Case. Rodney King is a African American man that was caught on tape being seriously beaten by four police officers. After the four police officers were found not guilty the city of Los Angeles goes crazy and shootings, fires, beatings, and robberies start everywhere. In the playwright, Anna Smith’s manages to capture the speaker’s voice and emotions through her own body as if she was a live human tape recorder. I was interesting reading her playwright because I was able to read the views and opinions of many people and get their own perspective on what was going on during the days of the riots. I was also able to come to my own conclusions about the Rodney incident and the riots after reading all the different points of views. My conclusions are that after years of being abused by the police and watching how unfair the system was about the Rodney King trails, many people where angry and thought that the only way they would be heard is if they resort to violence to make a difference.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Topic for essay 3

I want to write my essay on Police Brutality. I plan to use a documentary I watched a few years back entitled "Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots" but I cannot find the documentary online or any info on the documentary. I was wondering if I could use the video that was caught of the police officers beating Rodney king as the topic instead of the whole documentary and take about how this video and the case lead to all the riots in Los Angeles. A problem with this is that the video has no title since if was taken by someone from their own video camera who witness the beating.