Final Vlog, Mama-Jammas!!!!

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Final Blog

I learned a whole lot of stuff in Media Class, which I am currently in my LAST DAY OF!!!! I'm so freaking excited, mama-jammas!!!!!!!! Now that I've gotten that out of my system, we can continue.

I learned a whole bunch of stuff this year in Media Class. Some of the first things I learned how to do was blog, podcast, and Vlog. We stayed on this for a while. Just look through my history to see just what it was I blogged about. I did take my podcasts off of Youtube because I just didn't want them up there anymore, they were only taking up space. My Vlogs are still up, though.

After Vlogging and such, we learned about epic fantasy. We watched The Lord of the Rings for about two months. We also learned about how to upload power points to the internet.

After that, we learned about Media Literacy. Now we have a good idea about how companies promote things to us, and what it is they really think. It's all really just one big conspiracy, and at the heart of it is $. The food industry, the music industry, and movies and television are all trying their hardest to separate the teen from his money.

It was a hell of a year, and one interesting ride. The epics were a little out of place, but overall the class was a good time. This may well be my last blog, so all I have to say is, stay frosty.

Dresden Files: Changes

The latest novel in the Dresden Files series, called Changes, really lives up to it's name. Seeing as how this is book 12 of the series, Butcher decided to make some serious shake-ups to the world he created, which is actually pretty cool. Most authors just tend to leave the world around the protagonist pretty static, which works alright for a trilogy, but a series of 12+ books is only made more interesting by changes to the hero's world.

The first big change comes in the first sentence of the book: I answered the phone, and Susan Rodriguez said, "They've taken our daughter." When I read that line, I was all like, "What the hell!" However, compared to the changes that come around later in the book, this is pretty minor. Yeah, you heard me right, Harry Dresden having a seven year old daughter that he doesn't know about is minor compared to what comes later. I'm not going to spoil anything major, especially since if you haven't read any of the books before this one, you probably wouldn't understand what I was talking about anyway. However, if you've read the series, this book is just going to leave you both speechless and freaked out. The internal conflict comes from what Harry would be willing to do to get his daughter back, while the external comes from him against the ones who took her.

The picture isn't from this book. It's from book 5, Dead Beat, where he made a zombie T-Rex, and then rode it around town.

Food Inc.

Food Inc. is one of the freakiest movies I've seen in years. The way the food companies treat both their animals and their farmers is just reprehensible. The first animal they talk about is chickens, who live in an almost Auschwitz-like atmosphere, crushed in by thousands of other chickens, wallowing in their own filth. And for what? To make them fatter, more plump, so that the companies can grow fatter still, while they drown the farmers in debt.

The farming of grain was just as bad. The most grown, processed, and eaten grain? Corn. Corn starch is in most of our food. Cows are fed corn to make them fatter, which causes their stomachs to produce the E. Coli bacteria. In order to check this, the farmers fistulate the cows, which is a hole they surgically implant to view the inside of their stomach.

Monsanto, a grain company, is tyranical over their patent rights of their seeds. Farmers are not allowed, by law, to clean their own seed, or save it for the next year. Even if you don't use their seed, if some of it contaminates your field, they will still take you to court. And since a lot of government people are food industry workers, they will probably win.

In short, our taste buds are seriously boned.