Fairy Tale (Telling Stories)

 

The Young Slave

 The Young Slave is a fairy tale that was written by the great Italian author Giambattista Basile in 1634, so the story is over 350 years old. The social context of the tale occurred in a family of rather noble ranked people who had respect, and a mansion full of housekeepers. The narrative of the story included a Baron, his baroness, the baron’s sister (Cilia), and the main focus, which will be the daughter she procreated by swallowing a petal of rose. One day, Cilia was playing with her friends by trying to jump up over a huge bouquet of rose without a single leaf falling off. Whoever was able achieve that would win, and Cilia by chance was able to jump over, but unfortunately one leaf fell, but she slickly swallowed the leaf to become the winner, but little did she know it was the beginning of a misadventure.

Cilia got pregnant by the act of swallowing a rose, and could not wrap her head around how to explain this phenomenon to anybody, or being accepted with the child in her social environment where she would be regarded as a disgrace. She was able to hide her state till the day she gave birth to a little girl named Lisa. She brought Lisa to the fairies with whom she played the game and told them the truth, and ask their help to give her a charm and raise her for her. The last fairy in a hurry to see Lisa’s face twisted her foot, and in grave pain cursed Lisa to die at the age of seven as her mother will be combing her hair. Curse at those times were granted without doubt. That’s how Lisa died as cursed; her mother kept her in seven crystal coffins as to save her spirit, having hope she will be saved from the doom one day.

An implied social myth is that in a way or the other Lisa will be given justice to live a happy life from the way events happened, she has not asked to be born, and did not do a warn to nobody, therefore God must save and serve justice for innocents here or in the afterlife.

Another social theme implied is that jealousy, and meanness combine for the sake of degrading a person by using your social class can take a bad turn. What goes around comes back around. The baroness inflicted emotional and physical pain in Lisa, eventually the truth surfaced, and it cost her, her marriage.

The baron did see something intriguing in Lisa’s case specially after he gave her the gift she asked from him, which will lead him to find out what Lisa went through with his wife, and overthrown her misery life into a happy one.

Re-telling the Fairy Tale

In the grandiose garden of a peaceful running fountain, peacocks showing of their wings, and woman breast feeding while cooking in the Kingdom of a rich Indian palace named Arjun, were playing Ashan and her friends as they do every afternoon before dusk. Ashan, a joyous and confident girl, won’t miss an opportunity to be a winner among her friends. She was envied by all of her friends in a good way; however, Ira, the villain friend planned to trap her in a game. Ashan, a typical five feet tall, was among the shortest girls of the group. 

Ira decided that whoever could jump of the little river without falling would win the game they played that day. Knowing Ashan has a competitive mind, she put some rusty pointy pins and cursed the pin to cut her so she could bleed to death, otherwise become a handicapped for the rest of her life.

The first two friends jumped over successfully, but arriving Ira’s turn she got trapped in her own wickedness. Ahsan was able to get help from her brother’s servant in the palace to rush Ira to the care center. She ended up being handicapped for the rest of her life. All of her friends got married, and became mothers’.

Ira’s got pregnant by a black slave of the city who denied the fatherhood, and led Ira to be an outcast until before she died. By then, she had written a letter to Ashan, telling her about the misfortune that she originally initiated for her.

Ashan wanting to meet her and tell her how she forgives her, but she came to find out she had died. Ashan always with a good heart adopted Ira’s child, and raised her to be successful.

The moral of the story is that we should always be good at heart, in our action, and we may face trials, and tribulation in life, but God shall always have our backs.

Superbowl Car Ads

Mini Ad, #DefyLabels

Mini 2016 super bowl advertisement is a strong message that the company wishes to deliver to the public to stop stereotyping, but instead look into what the car is really about. They have attached to it slogan hash tag #DefyLabels. Serena Williams appear in the first shot to talk about her personal story on how some people labeled her in positive and negative ways, and how those critics, and showing her confidence is what counts really She is a Chick. Another American soccer-goalie great Abby Wambach, portrays how strong and good looking the car is as her in my opinion, and there was a little girl who depict how Mini can be cute, strong, and powerful as a brand.

The Mini agency here wants to sell their car by showing consumer to cut the visual stereotype, and see the cars for its real value. They did that by incorporating story telling of reputable people with real experience, and then have them give their honest opinion on the car, while with each person they showed different style, and great designs of the car. Mini has larger, and quality cars too as depicted by car racers seen in the ad.

The big idea and S.T.A.R moment is that Mini cars has been competing and remain successful in the car industry. Reputable and regular people love the brand personally due to the cars design, capabilities, or whatever. At the end, they telling you how versatile it is because it suits everyone, so take it or leave it if you do not want to think about getting the best car out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNtJoIyAReg

Space Babies 2014 Kia Sorento - Super Bowl 2013

The Kia Sorento 2014 super bowl advertisement was a unique, but clever one that is trying to sell their new model cars to an international, diverse audience. There is a long shot where you sell a White and Black babies to pass a message to parents that all baby colors fits in, and will enjoy the ride. There is a close up shot on the dad’s face that portrays cleverness, and professionalism with his classes and dress code. The shots of the planet spaceships going fast depict speed capabilities, and animals featuring tell that pets are accommodated for a safe ride too.

The advertiser chose the spaceship images to tell us the speed performance of the car, and how the destination or brakes can be controlled easily once arrived at the destination (when the 9 months comes they know exactly where to land). Showing images in the African land, and the ocean show the extended possible market the car could be sold and run smoothly in. it has an international market.

What I would change to appeal to the teenage audience, which is an important one, could be the dad, or mother plug their phone, or other trendy music devices to play a nice music via Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi at the end instead of showing the music board playing a toddler theme song because we all know already that most cars have stereo features for little kid to watch during rides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=598KRhVW69I

                                                                            Initial Essay

Sardar article on the internet, globalization, technology makes me realizes again that we, babies of the 20^th-21^st century continues to be blessed to have the opportunity to live in an age of innovation and luck. Innovation and luck because our grand and great great-grand parents did not have that much chance, and lived life differently. Now, I am blessed to have 1000 plus options to anything with my life. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/20-fun-online-bored-work/. Media industry explicitly change the life of mankind as you can find things to do in your free time. Or if you are as curious as me and get bored easily, thus permanently on the hunt to do something new, it is possible nowadays. There is NO reason to not know what to do in your life unless you are freaking miserable. I just cannot picture how our ancestors did it. What did they have? No Nintendo’s, IPAD, phones, TV shows to watch, none of that?? Facebook at least allows you to stay in touch with friends and family scattered around the continent which is awesome.

The great Einstein predicted it  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2929268/Was-Einstein-right-Physicist-said-feared-technology-surpass-human-interaction-photos-time-not-far-off.html ; that our generation will be a lost cause. However it is a form of art thanks to pages, blogs, or YouTube channels where people help others with DIY (do it yourself) tutorials on pretty much anything that interests you. If you want to make you own toothpaste, learn work out exercises, make the best body oil treatment to name a few of the millions things you can learn to do.

 I admit to like many conservatives ways of life before the media invasion though. We are overcome with simply all the social media offered as time goes by, it elevates the level of dumbness and ignorance by the way many people abuse Facebook for example. No moderation whatsoever. Some demographic of people post about anything. When they are about to use the toilets, or about to wash their hands LOL. How crazy and senseless is that? Or Google is a great thing but when it comes to a point where someone gets too dependable to a point some people prefer not reading books, or study but rely solely searching on Google. it is important to not waste our brain, but cultivate it with real knowledge. Most importantly, the scariest fate of our future generation with self driving car, talking phones, robots, and the list goes on.  http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/future-tech/10-futurist-predictions-in-the-world-of-technology.htm

                                                                  FIRST THOUGHTS


Creating this blog has been refreshing and delightful as I had had the opportunity to start my first blog ever here on Blogger during my TV major days. It is pretty navigable and straight forward. Being par tof that fact is duhhh because it google operated. It is easy to free write, edit, or post as many things you possibly can to make your blog looks fun, fresh and attractive

Syntagm: a linguistic unit consisting of a set of linguistic forms (phonemes, words, or phrases) that are in a sequential relationship to one another.

 E.g: "No matter how strictly a case is argued - scientifically, philosophically, or legally - it will always be a story, an interpretation of some aspect of the world that is historically and culturally grounded and shaped by human personality". - Walter Fisher

 

Metonymy: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.

E.g:
The Oval Office was busy in work. (“The Oval Office” is a metonymy as it stands for people at work in the office.)

 

Decoded: a text that the receiver must interpret.

E.g:
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." MLK

meaning setting goal, and working toward them if you need to decode it.

Ignorance is Bliss, but Knowledge Matters (Race, Media)

When people are unaware of some facts, it is usually tolerable to let it slide when their act was a mistake of ignorance. Those mistakes can sometimes be little, or grave, but often offensive when it comes to race. I remember to be strike in shock by the diversity that exist in the United States when I first came here. It was amazing for Hispanics, Africans, Caucasian, and Asians to leave peaceful all in the same community, but maybe I should not have been so much in shock because this is why it is called the land of opportunities.

However who says diversity, must speak of advantages, and disadvantages too. I have come to also be aware of the real problem of segregation between minority and majority groups. A middle class, and upper class differentiation of classes. The fact that one race fits in more than another one, depending if you are Caucasian or Black, or  if you are part of the minority group, but is lucky enough and to live among people of your kind; then there are chances of fitting in, and solidarity among those that identifies as the same as you.

In the same light, I have come to realize that there are other categories that individual can be placed in in the United States. It could be one that defines a person as a U.S citizen, a permanent resident, a business visa holder, a diplomate, a student, which I am, or an illegal immigrant, some of the last two categories referred to sometimes as alien. Really? From which space?? As time goes by I came to realize how this so called melting pot comes with a rainbow of serious divergence. The direction I’m leading to is the level of negligence American could be when it comes to ethnicity, cultural, and geography differences. It might not be a big deal, but it is offensive for some people if everyone decides to throw them all in one category.

It is fair to denounce this act as a lack of education, close mindedness, but until I had to experience a similar shock, it has never crossed my mind that such small classification was a serious hasty generalization. The matter I’m addressing is the fact that in the U.S (we may all be guilty of this at one point) people tend to refer to all Central or South American as Hispanics, or Latino.

Latino and Hispanic are not interchangeable. Latino is a term that is telling you about geography, whereas Hispanic is a term that is telling you about Language. Latino means those people that descend front Latin America including the Caribbean. Hispanic means a group of country or people whose primary language is Spanish.

Central America has countries such as Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador just to name the most popular, and South America is compose of countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, just to name a few. It is important to note that some of these countries do not even speak Spanish; some of them speak Portuguese, or other dialect. This is offensive of many people that identify as a specific group instead of referring to them as Spanish. “I feel like knocking the sense right into people with a fist punch when they assume that I’m Spanish, or call me plain Hey Amigo.” Confessed Felix Garcia, my former classmate.

Terry Blas, a writer/cartoonist wrote numbers of series about the confusion people make by referring to all tanned skin, fair hair texture individuals as Spanish or Latino, or Hispanic, while among Spanish speaker there is a variety of dialects. His writings depict perfectly how to correct people, and recognize how easily people can fall into this hasty generalization.

 Blas says that “The views expressed in this comic are mine and come from an American perspective. While I'm Latino and Hispanic, I'm American as well and my experiences in respect to my ancestry and culture have been seen through that lens."

One of the main reason why I find the offensive, and is careful to not fall in the same ignorance act is when people would assume that Africa is a country too. This statement, which is a complete shock for me to know that some American do believe that African, who belong to the second biggest continent of the world with 54 countries in totals, and an estimated 1500-2000 languages according to Nations Online, all speak the same language. http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/african_languages.htm. Consequently, ignorance might be bliss, but in a world of globalization, and full of information, it is precious that people gets their facts right by informing themselves, and stop certain madness such as fixing a salad full of ingredients of ignorance. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-data-future-knowledge-internet-age/

 http://www.latinone.com/articles/22204/20150820/latino-vs-hispanic-cartoonist-terry-blas-explains-difference-in-mini-comic.htm