Ebbs and Eddies of time-space bring about the recurrence of human events because choices were made without judgment or foreknowledge. The “lessons-of-the-past-not-learned” play a role in this cycle of the rise and fall. Wisdom or mere chance will be at the heart of future debate over freewill or destiny of fate. Social Factors & Ideology plays various roles in our approach to including or excluding beliefs.
From Hollywood pundits, movie critiques, talking head of evening news, to activist journalist: each making observations with an agenda laden articulated stream of jargon aimed at getting your back into their audience and a member of their own ideological camp. Orwellian “New Speak” taken to the next level in every avenue of the new digital domains dedicated to entertaining you until death do you part.
It never ends till you do. The global digital frontier, GDF, has become more than a digital drug dictating your attention 24/7/365. GDF is for some their partner for life and more jealous of your time than any lover. Transactional history exists of every aspect of what you click, if you buy it, did you look twice, and much more…
When in need of great movie fix, I have discovered the best spot on the Net is at Www.IMDb.Com ™ . A simple query dialogue at the top of the page to search for your favorite digital dining pleasure. For my example I selected a series, Harry Potter. The excitement of it … yes even when you are a Grandfather wanting to find a family movie or just some late night reviews this is the singular gateway site. My result selected was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 — Trailer #1. This new computer requires an add-on from Apple called QuickTime®. So there was brief and painless trip to the iMac store. A free version is fine but the Pro has great tool to be sure for any rich media projects. Now back to the action to find the review for this class project.
When viewing the trailer that is just what they want you to see. The real meat of the search is in the special tool at IMDb® navigation bar on the left. Selection from the query results page will take you to a main page for your select film. Again this is on your left, under main details, there is an Awards & Review list. Select external reviews. This the location for the serious review buff to travel too. Any reputable, and recognized review site is listed here. No more rotten tomatoes, just prime ribs and the best of those who try to warn, recommend, or even shame us into watching their most recent film to see if you agree or disagree with their metrics. A great pipeline of traffic for the industry now goes through IMDb’s® portal each day. The industry itself prides this a secret tool for those wanting the learn more about the business of writing, directing, producing, or hiring staff for your own project team. Being an old-guy, I still rely on Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times. And of course, one my first love was the Rolling Stone’s reviews that worked so well for over 35 years. The newcomer to the stage is Rotten Tomatoes … 264 on the list … not top-cut fresh produce for certain gourmet palettes.
Well, the gig for both reviewers seems to be to warn us in an enlightened way: this is a two part story that will force you back to the theatre again to finish the last of 7 books brought to the screen (2d & 3d). Yes, I did try the suggested website but chose a more risky approach to stick closer to what I know best.
Can you tell what criteria the reviewer is using? Yes, Ebert has dedicated most of his long life to telling me and you if the movie sucked. In his book, Your Movie SUCKS, he reveals a bit more than most will want to know about his approach with advice to any who watch, make, or write movies. I trust his opinions.
For this new movie … he encourages me to watch it first but does not say that directly. The blow by blow is given here but Ebert tells you it won’t spoil the plot for you. After all, Harry Potter Plots are the same and ongoing, eternal. I was not as impressed with the Rolling Stones this time. They were more kind than normal for their spirited commentaries of the past about HP (Harry not the PC guys). Moreover, the Stones review seem an echoic replica of Ebert’s Review.
I blame that on the corporate brass and just the shear immense amount of money that is riding on this finale. Like George Forman, these boxers are not over yet. I fear there will be yet another last lost book of Harry Potter. The trailers and the reviews queue me that this is huge tourist trap about to build in EU themed after Harry Potter Series … The full boat of high tech FX and the latest in magical intrigue, one would think the Church of England may expand their curriculum to more mystical arts in the next near future. For my part, I will enjoy the fictional tales of Harry and his team. I will encourage my grandkids to be over 12 before watching these to final movies. What movie reviews did you look at? I reviewed all the old and the newest Harry Potter Movies. Could you tell what the beliefs and values of the reviewer were? Yes… for over 35 years I have trusted Ebert’s commentary. How? I read his book mention above. And yes, many movies suck. The last in the franchise of Star Trek was a great example of a movie that truly was not worth the great expense to make or to experience.
Yet Avatar was something fresh and yet old. If it’s a movie you’ve seen, do you agree with the assessment? I will have to say most of the time I do agree with Ebert. Why or why not? I will leave that mystery until you read his book about movies.
On to the more serious stuff… or not so serious… perspectives must be open minded before assuming how serious is serious. I worked at several large corporations and spent several decades involved with so called mandatory equality with opportunity hiring eras. For the most part the transition worked. Many who fought for and demanded equality in the work place forgot the aspects of privileges they may abandon for this level playing field.
With almost half century of perspective to review, I found the article written by the author well formatted but out of tune with the real issues of working men and of working women in America’s office place or in the industry of their choice. I hope to have a copy of this report that is both magnified and in audio so I can further exam and respond to a peer’s query to clarify my statements about :
Informal Review of–
This study presents an experimental evaluation of a model that describes the constraining effect of cultural beliefs about gender on the emerging career-relevant aspirations of men and women. The model specifies the conditions under which gender status beliefs evoke a gender-differentiated double standard for attributing performance to ability, which differentially biases the way men and women assess their own competence at tasks that are career relevant, controlling for actual ability. The model implies that, if men and women make different assessments of their own competence at career-relevant tasks, they will also form different aspirations for career paths and activities believed to require competence at these tasks. Data from the experiment support this model. In one condition, male and female undergraduate participants completed an experimental task after being exposed to a belief that men are better at this task. In this condition, male participants assessed their task ability higher than female participants did even though all were given the same scores. Males in this condition also had higher aspirations for career-relevant activities described as requiring competence at the task. No gender differences were found in either assessments or aspirations in a second condition where participants were instead exposed to a belief that men and women have equal task ability. To illustrate the utility of the model in a “real world”
“Constraints into Preferences: Gender, Status, and Emerging Career Aspirations”
~Shelley J Correll
American Sociological Review; Feb 2004; 69: 93– 113; textbook pg. 392
I would agree with this author that both men and women are influenced by an oligarchy of outside patterns of assessment to make evaluations that do herd them into career paths. Such agencies of society include the academic environment of K-12 and our modern University College Systems found in all fifty states. I do not see where she addresses the sources of such influence. She does show the conflicts in how not only men and women make gender decision but how she also is influenced in her choice of language with stereotypical uses of gender labels.
I do not agree with her arguments about segregation as she misses the issue of the mechanism of segregation is a social bias used by controlling agencies to herd the masses into job supply system. Segregation has for all of history been used with a selection of markers as to what constitutes the class being segregated to be many. Race, Creed, skin color, religion, nationality, ancestry, sexual preference, or gender selection are meant to polarized and to manipulate large and small groups using peer pressure, community pressure, and global pressures to limit choice by individuals.
Due to the lack of time afforded me in this task assignment, I was forced to access this document online and to use extraordinary means to convert it to audio and visual display at 200%. My apologies aside for any access not intended; I chose to do so for academic purposes and plan not reproduction of this source document referenced above.
I further state the use of such publicly funded research projects should be freely available and not subject to purchase. The choice of this article for this course I would argue as a poor one for several reasons, the document is not readily available in a real way for all students and this document is also limited from those who cannot afford to purchase it.
The editorialized version in the Texas Tech First Year Writing Textbook is altered in such as manner to obstruct accommodation for those who require OCR to further convert to audible or visual expansion to high contrast display. This leads to inequalities to access and to participations in this class task. I would refer the reader to the comments by Shelley J. Correll own arguments about gender would also apply beyond gender status to those with learning disabilities and other access handicaps. This can create predicted behaviors into how such student clients are treated by evaluators who would then grade or weight the content in this online blog. I believe Correll could find her a better area of research but would hope she in the future will make publically funded research to be available free to the public and academic researchers.
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