Antonio Bullen
3 de Septiembre, 2008
Español 302 Rodriguez
PA 29-30 B
1. El maestro dijo que no puede ayudarnos en este momento.
2. En ese momento decidí hacer mi ensayo sobre mis experiencias en Israel.
3. Mi hermano le contesta a Juan que el siempre quiere seleccionar los programas.
4. Me preguntaron que si puedo enseñar árabe.
5. Le dije que le ayudaría si me deja terminar este ejercicio antes.
6. Mi padre decidió que tenemos suficiente dinero para comprar una casa. No tendremos que pagar más alquiler.
7. Tras pensarlo unos días, les escribí que me gustaría mucho trabajar para ellos y, por lo tanto, acepté su oferta de trabajo.
PA 32-33 A
1. Un hombre y una mujer. La información que se presenta es que el hombre piensa que ama a su mujer al igual que ella a el. La autora crea una imagen de inseguridad de parte de los dos personajes.
2. El hombre piensa que ama a su mujer pero luego descubre que la mujer es superior a el. El hombre no puede aceptar que la mujer sea superior a el y la mujer no puede estar con un hombre que sea inferior a ella.
3. El hombre decide que no puede seguir la relación ya que es una mentira y no puede aceptar la superioridad de su mujer. La mujer decide dejar ir a su hombre y piensa que si en verdad el hombre la ama entonces el regresará.
PA 33 B
1. Puede que Cristina Peri Rossi estaba hablando de una experiencia personal y limita la historia porque quiere que su audiencia pueda relacionarse con la historia al mismo tiempo. Por lo tanto, el propósito de usar los términos “un hombre” y “una mujer” es para que los leyentes puedan usar la historia en forma directa.
2. El argumento del hombre es que necesita tiempo para pensar. La autora usa palabras como “por lo tanto”, “sin embargo” y “en realidad.”
3. Creo que cuando la autora habla de una “muñeca de tamaño natural” se esta refiriendo a una prostituta. Creo que el estado emocional, intelectual y mental del hombre es frágil ya que no puede convivir con una mujer que lo haga sentirse inferior, y su solución no es arreglar sus sentimientos personales , sino el de huir de la situación.
What I like: I noticed her a few days ago on a movie called “Caribe.” She’s got this nice full lips, dark hair, perky tits and beautiful skin. She had a couple of nude scenes in the movie and I’m glad it did ’cause otherwise I would have thought she looked differently naked. I don’t know how old shes is, but it seems she has an ageless smile. It is unfortunate, in a way, that our experiences sometimes shape my thoughts in negative ways so I’m just going to her type of personality is not the one I would imagine her to have.
What I don’t like: I wish her eyes were a different color. I can’t say much ’cause there aren’t enough photos of her out there.
My report: first of all, I have to say that even though it was a good movie, the best part was discovering Maya Zapata. She’s a beautiful woman like the ones I like. There was a nude scene of her and she had me wanting more. As far as the movie goes, it is interesting and full of drama. The main guy is stupid for sleeping with his wife’s half sister… in the same house where all three are living, worst yet, he gets the sister-in-law pregnant. I understand Maya looks good, but at least do it once and when she’s moving out…
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About it: Esteban Ramirez’s melodrama Caribe stars Jorge Perugorria as Vincente a man who has gotten himself into difficult positions in both his personal life and his financial life. He engages in an affair with his sister-in-law, while also fielding offers from large oil companies to buy his land. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
My report: what can I say, another good Asian fighting film. I like the martial arts and the women in these films. Always elegant and graceful. I consider myself so ignorant of the Asian culture that it is something I admire very much. Many things are different about that other Orient, and I like paying attention to the details in the movies. Things like the clothes the people are wearing, the way they look and salute each other, the music, etc.
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About it: A Wuxia adventure out of South Korea, The Legend of the Shadowless Sword is a handsome martial arts epic by Kim Yung-jun (Flying Warriors). The film’s simple story allows for exceptionally creative action sequences about every three to four minutes, while simultaneously building a noble tale full of faith, love, and sacrifice. A beautiful female warrior named Yeonsoha (Yoon So-yi) goes in search of the last, living prince of the Balhae dynasty and its kingdom, overrun years before by the Geordan empire. The prince, Jeong Hyeon (Seo Jin Lee), has been in hiding 14 years as a black market trader, concerned primarily for his own safety and deeply cynical about any thought of going back to retrieve his family’s throne. Yeonsoha, however, proves persuasive, especially in light of the many attempts on Jeong’s life by a gang of assassins. The shady killers are led by a vengeance-seeking Kun (Hyeong Jun-Shin) and his assistant, (Ki-Yong Lee), another sword-wielding babe who gets into plenty of wild skirmishes with Yeonsoha.
The story essentially follows Jeong and Yeonsoha’s efforts to get back to a waiting army of Balhae exiles awaiting a king’s leadership. As the hours and days pass, Jeong gets in touch with the man he once was, a fearless warrior whose exploits on the battlefield are well-known to Yeonsoha, whose connection to the prince seems mysteriously personal. The film’s numerous fight scenes are never redundant, employing all manner of props and ideas for exciting fights. But it’s the performances that really hold everything together, the deep if understated emotions and the excitement of watching two mismatched lead characters slowly realize how important they are to one another. –Tom Keogh
Part of the homework I was working on today for my Spanish class was reading an article by Cristina Peri Rossi and she believes that menlovewomen that are superior to them and women also love men that they see as superior. It got me to thinking about it ’cause it just doesn’t sound right. No one with enough self esteem will actually admit that the reason she is with his or her partner is because they are superior. In fact, I think we all prefer to believe that we fall in love with people we see as our equal.
It’s not that we look at someone and feel they are superior, what we see is a person that can bring something to the table. Nobody likes having a partner they feel they are carrying or babysitting. We all want someone we can depend on and will have some qualities we either lack or are not as strong. This is the reason why men and women with money and fame prefer to marry someone like them. It is also the reason why men who have money, but are not very handsome will most likely marry a trophy wife and good looking women with no money are looking for men with deep pockets.
Like I said, it’s not superiority that makes a person fall in love. It’s that feeling of completion the other person brings. I think Cristina has some issues she might need to work on… she never used any names in her story, but she was way off about my feelings as a man.
I didn’t take any notes on chapters 7 and 8 so I must have considered them stories with nothing too important that I could apply as a teaching. At this point in the book Malcolm went to jail on burglary and received a sentence of 10 years instead of the usual 2 years Malcolm saw other inmates receive. Malcolm says it had to do with him having white girls as partners in crime.
It was in jail when he first learned about the religion of Islam and that’s when his life started changing for the better.
In chapter 10 the following note caught my attention:
… your number in prison became part of you. You never heard your name, only your number. On all of your clothing, every item, was your number, stenciled. It grew stenciled on your brain.
I’ve never been to jail, but this reminded me of when I used to be in boarding school. How everything piece of clothing had to be marked with a number. Although I was only in a boarding school for about three months before I got my chance to move back to the city, I still remember that number from thirteen years ago: 133. The same way I still remember my social security number from Panama and the U.S. and my driver’s license number. Is that what we’ve become? A number? I see the importance of having one; it would be almost impossible to differentiate millions of people without giving each one a unique identifier. It is also important that we not forget we are still humans with personalities that can’t be defined by a number or any other sort of generalized classification.
I like what Will says starting on 4:43 when Charlie asked Will how he decided to do the roll of Muhammad Ali. Will says he had doubts at first because he couldn’t see the road from doing the T.V. show “Fresh Prince of Belair” to becoming a legendary and world renowned boxing champion on the big screen. That was until he was given the blueprint, or the step-by-step guide to how he was going to reach that goal.
Having a plan is very important. To me, there’s nothing great about going from point A to point B if you can’t do it again and again. If that happens, it means there’s a great amount of luck involved, and how many times can one person get lucky?
I’ve been thinking about the “wall” metaphor Will uses to answer the question on 22:25. He says his parents thought him not to build a wall, but instead to concentrate on laying out one brick at a time the best way possible. Soon enough there will be a wall. I learned about concentrating on the small picture a while ago, but I still think it’s important to know where I’m going. I like to dream first and then lay the first brick. I feel that without well-thought goals there might be a problem later on in terms of self-motivation. Suddenly we lose interest in something or we just stop because we don’t know how far we actually want to go. My problem, as I see it right now, is getting into the habit of following my plan without interruptions. I’m always working, but I’m always dreaming too. It’s hard for me to continue working on something all the way to the end because I get excited about new ideas and I can’t wait to start working on those too.
Right now, for example, I’m reading the scriptures of John from The Bible, Malcolm X, Pablo Neruda Poems, I’m working on the design of antoniobullen.com, I write poetry and music, I am trying to market geecho.com and I write about all these things. I want to do every single one of them and I also have the responsibility of going to my classes and soon I will be working again. I do spend most of my days on my music so that’s a good thing.
To me dreaming is important because that’s how I have set the standards to be not just number one, but also the first to do something never done before.
Will says something really good around 30:04 when he says that he hates the feeling of fearing something. The fear to pitch an idea or meeting with someone for the first time; and that he didn’t want to even take that meeting because of that fear. So he developed an attitude of attacking things that he was scared of. I admire him for that and I wish I had that at my age. I realize that’s a problem in my life and I’m working on it. In my case I feel like I will only attack things when there is no other route to take. In Spanish there is a phrase: “entre la espada y la pared,” it translates to “between the sword and the wall,” and that’s when I usually start pushing back.
My report: It’s the best Bonds movie I’ve seen. This one is more real. He’s not the pretty boy that always wins and gets the pretty women. Well… he did get both, but not without suffering. The story was also good.
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About it: Actor Daniel Craig assumes the role formerly occupied by such screen greats as Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton to set out on the character’s very first 007 mission. James Bond has earned his “00″ status by masterfully executing a pair of death-defying professional assassinations. Now assigned the task of traveling to Madagascar to spy on notorious terrorist Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan) for his maiden voyage as a 007 agent, Bond boldly goes against MI6 policy to launch an independent investigation that finds him traversing the Bahamas in search of Mollaka’s notoriously elusive terror cell. Subsequently led into the company of the mysterious Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) and his exotic girlfriend, Solange (Caterina Murino), Bond soon realizes that he is closer than ever to locating well-guarded terrorist financier Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), the man who has personally bankrolled some of the most prevalent terrorist organizations on the planet. When Bond learns that Le Chiffre is planning to partake in an upcoming high-stakes poker game to be played at Montenegro’s Le Casino Royale and use the winnings to establish his financial grip on the globe, M (Judi Dench) assigns beguiling agent Vesper (Eva Green) the task of watching over the fledgling agent as he plays against Le Chiffre in a covert attempt to destroy the nefarious gambler’s well-established monetary stronghold in the underworld once and for all. Bond will need more than his legendary gambling skills in order to win this dangerous game, though, and after allying himself with local MI6 field agent Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) and CIA operative Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), the endlessly suave super-spy puts on his poker face for a high-stakes game of cards in which the stakes are not measured in dollars, but human lives. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Something I’ve been learning lately is to always stick to what I believe. To not let anyone ever make me doubt myself in public. It’s OK to do the thinking when I’m alone, but if I start doubting everything I do and say every time somebody confronts me I’ll end up looking dumb and without confidence. But before I get into a “stick to what I believe” situation I need to be ready for it.
The past few days I’ve been thinking about my personality changes in the last three years, because I’m seeing how I’m starting to be the way I was before I started dating Katie. There were good and bad things about my personality then, just like when we were together. I was a much confident person before her. I trusted my instincts and my decisions, once made, they were unquestioned, simply acted upon. I was also arrogant. I thought everyone else was beneath me and I would make that clear by the way I talked to people. When I got with Katie I started changing my attitude towards other people. From the beginning, she would always tell me how I didn’t need encouragement from her for me to believe I was God in the flesh.
I became less abrasive towards people, but I also lost my confidence. I think it was a combination of not knowing how to treat people the right way and also not knowing how to treat my girlfriend. By the latter I mean knowing when to listen and when not to. In trying to be a better boyfriend I listened to all the… all the…. well… I’m going to call it bullshit. Why was I thinking everything she said was correct? I don’t know, but I took it all in and end up just as confused as she was. This is how I ended up being:
Stranger: Hi, how are you?
Me: I’m doing great thanks.
Thoughts just a minute later: I didn’t ask him how he was. I was rude. I probably offended him…. blah blah blah.
STOP THAT!
I started doubting my every move. It wasn’t me and I didn’t know how to fix it. I needed to understand why I felt better about myself before Katie and how I could get back to that same place minus the arrogance. I have figured out that it’s all about confidence. It’s a lot easier for me to make a decision and stick with it. I just have to make sure I’m making the right decisions. If I can’t stick to my decisions then it means I wasn’t ready to make the decision in the first place, so I need to be 100% confident in what I decide and, when necessary, know how to make those decisions fast.
One thing I know girls always liked about me, even though I was arrogant, was my confidence. When I changed that about myself, I took away one of the main pillars of my personality; and although I remained highly attractive, a big part of me was missing.
My girlfriend/wife opinions should act the way councilors do to a president. Not everything she has to say is good or may influence my final decision, but two heads are better than one.
What I like: her eyebrows, the dark long hair with the light colored eyes. She’s seems very girly, knows how to dress good and has a nice smile. Still she doesn’t seem to be one of those girls that would spend way too much time getting ready to go out. From the pictures that I’ve seen she doesn’t dress for people to look at her, I would say it’s always about what she wants to wear. Her dresses are not usually tight or very short and I like that she can switch it up like that.
What I don’t like: I don’t know anything about her. I know her father was a football player for the Jets, but about her I know nothing, except she has/had a t.v. show with her mom.
If I’m right about the way she dresses and her personality, I wouldn’t mind getting to know her better.
I’m still reading “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” I haven’t been writing because I wanted to finish reading and then get to writing, but in my readings today I came across a statement Malcolm made that got me thinking about the true nature of men and women. This is what it says:
…being that the true nature of man is to be strong, and a woman’s true nature is to be weak, and while a man must at all times respect his woman, at the same time he needs to understand that he must control her if he expects to get her respect.
I disagree with the first part of that statement. I don’t think being weak or strong has much to do with the sexes. I think it has to do with the personality of the individual. To say that this is the true nature is generalizing a bit too much. I do think that a stronger woman might prefer to have a stronger man and that has to do with a feeling of protection. Not because a woman can’t protect herself, but because she’d rather have a man that can protect her better than she can.
As for the second part, well… every person must respect and control others who try to disrespect. When a person is disrespected and fails to control the offender, things start slipping eternally out of control. It doesn’t matter if it’s a man or a woman. Of course I will put my girlfriend in place if she disrespects, and I expect her to do the same to me. I don’t want someone I can control, I want someone I consider my equal and I can respect as such.
Comparing one’s self/kind to others and feeling superior is not hard. Being strong enough to compare and praise others for their good qualities while still being able to maintain a good self esteem is what I consider dignifying.
What I like: she’s got a beautiful smile. It comes out as very honest and her skin is always shining. Looking very healthy. I didn’t know this until today, but she was born in Zambia and her full name is Thandiwe Adjewa Newton, I like that she’s African, kept her African name and has an English accent. I like it ’cause I find it all exotic. I find her brown eyes very attractive also.
What I don’t like: I wish her thighs had a little more meat on them and calves a little more definition.
The way I’ve seen her on screen it makes me think she has a great personality, but maybe she’s just a really good actress… I hope it’s not just that.
Just came up with it about five minutes ago. Like the title of this post says, this topic will have posts of celebrities I would like to fuck. I’ll include things I like about them and also things that I don’t, some pictures and whatever else comes to mind.
One thing that I always do without thinking whenever I meet people or just looking at them, is that I’m trying to read their minds. I pay more attention to their body language than what they are actually saying. It usually doesn’t fail me. I learn a lot from it. So if I have seen any of the women I have in here in film or something then I may also comment about their personalities as I read their bodies. I could be wrong, so what?
